Disclaimer:These are not my characters. They belong to J.K. Rowling.

Chapter 1

"Okay we've got the cake and everything else, right?" Ginny asked, consulting her list to make sure they did. Her, Lupin and Sirius had been working on Harry's birthday party plans. The colors, they had decided, would be the Gryffindor colors. They all knew how much Harry missed his life at Hogwarts. After Voldomort had been defeated and the Ministry of Magic restored, Harry forgave them and decided to work in the Department of Mysteries. He enjoyed what he did, but the work load was immense.

"Yeah we've got everything done. About time too. One more day of this and I would have just said give him a cake and a good time." Sirius said, getting up from the table to stretch his legs a bit.

Mrs. Weasly was walking out just as they were finishing. "Well now that y'all are finished with that, maybe we can get some cleaning done." After much grumbling they shuffled into the house to help Molly with the cleaning. While Mrs. Weasley was cleaning the kitchen, she had Sirius cleaning the den and Lupin and Ginny cleaning upstairs.

"Oh. It'll be so much fun having you back at Hogwarts Lupin. We've had very boring defense classed. First Umbridge, then Snape. It's enough to drive any person insane. The year that Umbridge taught was terrible. She was the most unpleasant professor I've ever met." Ginny was ranting on as they cleaned the upstairs rooms. "I mean of all the stupidest things. How were we supposed to learn anything without being able to use our wands? Utter nonsense. But that's all in the past now, thank God. Now you're going to be teaching again, and Sirius is going to be teaching Charms. Ha. That'll be interesting to see."

As she was going on Lupin was there beside her smiling as they cleaned. "Yes, it will be an interesting year. I have missed teaching very much. I think Sirius will be a great charms teacher. You might not believe it but Sirius's best subject in school was Charms. He doesn't like people knowing that so keep it to yourself."

"Oh really? Now I know how to blackmail him into giving me better grades." Ginny laughed as she said this.

Lupin loved the sound of her laugh. It was like a soft tinkle to the ears. It wasn't to long ago that he had become aware of the fact that Ginny was no longer a little girl. She had grown up and matured nicely. The years had been very kind to Ginny. She was now a beautiful budding young lady on the verge of becoming a woman and you can bet that it didn't escape Lupin's notice. He was a man after all. He had especially been looking forward to going back to Hogwarts because he knew that Ginny was going to be there. But he knew nothing could happen between them. She was a student, plus he was 21 years older than she was. Not to mention the fact she use to have a thing with Harry and is Molly's daughter. Still a man could have dreams. And dreams he did have. Every night, but sometimes you just can't help what you dream. When he wakes up in the morning, he sees flashes of what they were and they're always so vivid. Images of Ginny as she slowly trailed hot kisses across his body, making him come close to climax. He pulled himself back into reality just in time to hear Ginny say, "Lupin? Are you listening to me?"

"What? Oh I must have zoned out there for a minute. What were you saying?"

"Nothing of importance. I was just rambling on about the up coming year and how fun it'll be. It will be a little weird not having Harry, Hermione, and Ron there."

"Yes, well let's go down with the others. Everything up here is as clean as it's going to get. Anyway I'm hungry and I'm sure Molly has dinner ready by now."

They walked back downstairs together and found that Hermione had come from work and so had Ron. Hermione had gotten a job as a Healer at St. Mungo's, while Ron was working as a weather engineer in the Ministry of Magic.

"When did y'all get home?" Ginny asked as she and Lupin came into the kitchen. Molly gave them both some stew and they all sat down to eat.

"Where is Harry?" Sirius asked.

"As always he had to stay late to finish his work. I just hope that he won't have to work late tomorrow. We wouldn't want him to miss his birthday party." Hermione said. "Did you guys finish all the details and make sure all the little things are taken care of?"

"Of course we did Hermione. Do you think we don't know how to plan a party? It's all ready. We've decided to have gold and red napkins also to go along with the décor." Ginny said in explanation to Hermione's question. They talked through dinner and after, Ginny helped clean dishes as the others gravitated to the den.

This is my first story. I hope you like it. Please give me your opinions on it. They will be very welcome.