Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns the wonderful world of Harry Potter, duh!

Authors Note: Story takes place during PoA. Came up with this while watching a Spanish Music Video called 'La Confusion' by a Spanish band called Lu. I suppose it's about bad relationships. Rated M for later chapters I suppose. Her thoughts are in Italics, although some might just be flashbacks, but I trust your intelligence will tell you the difference.

Summary: Jadis had already embarked down that path, gotten too close to a teacher, loved him and got burned. But with her seventh year and a new Dart Arts Professor, she feels like she didn't learn her lesson the first time around. Lupin/OC.

Dagger Collector

Chapter 1: Narnia Fanatic

Jadis made her way towards Kings Cross alone. She wasn't an independent person by choice, she would have liked her parents to be there for her, but they never were. Often times it made her feel very lonely. Actually, she always felt lonely. She overcompensated for this by surrounding herself with people, however, that never helped. At least she figured it was better to feel lonely when surrounded by people than to feel lonely and be by alone.

She figured that would be crippling, as was now the point as she made her way down to Platform Nine and three-quarters. Well she had her cat Neji, but like was often the case he was sleeping in his cage. Lazy thing! Should be awake keeping me company! It's not as if he hasn't spent the whole day sleeping so far, and it's not like he won't be sleeping for the rest of it!

Her parents had dropped her off over an hour and a half early, so when she stepped onto the platform she wasn't exactly surprised to see that no one was really there. However, she was mortified when she came through on the other side that she'd rammed someone with her trunk. "Ouch!" she heard a rather mild mannered voice say.

Jadis chewed down on her lower lip. "I'm sorry," she said to the man as he turned around. He was holding a hand to his lower back; his already pallid, tired and jaded face looked like it was under more stress than it previously had. Jadis watched the man, who had a handsome and mostly youthful face turned around to fix her a stern look. "You really shouldn't just be standing here, you know."

"I didn't think anyone would be here so early," he said, his brow still furrowed as he rubbed his back. "It's quite early, why are you here?"

Jadis looked into the man's amber colored eyes and his brown hair; small amounts of grey hairs were making their ways into his silky locks. She looked at the man in his tattered robes and thought how she would rather not have to answer that question. "Don't mean to be rude but what are you doing here?"

Remus stared at the girl that stood before him. She had black, silky hair that was tied up in a sloppy bun that he thought that she might have fixed rather a half-hazard or in a lazy manner. On either side of her very pretty face, strands of short hair that escaped the bun fell to her chin. However, he noted that the strand on the right was a rather deep shade of red. Almost looked like wine.

The girl had a very striking pair of black eyes that looked like they were smoldering with something beneath their surface that did not reach her calm and serene façade. Black, sleek brows arched over her large, almond shaped eyes and over long, thick, curly black lashes that only enhanced the beauty of her eyes. Remus almost wondered if she was of Spanish descent.

She was clothed in a long pair of blue jeans that had rips at the knees and were frayed at the bottom. She wore a black pair of canvas sneakers that he knew were very popular amongst muggles, which were called 'Chucks'. She also wore a plain black t-shirt that was almost form fitting, but a slightly bigger than her petite form. However, he guessed by her height, which was up to his nose, that she was a seventh year.

"I'm the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Professor Lupin," he said, reaching out a hand to shake with hers. She smiled at him slightly, though clearly still slightly embarrassed by the fact that she'd rammed into him.

Remus looked down as he saw that the girl had her right hand bandaged with a white ribbon, covering her palm, knuckles and part of her wrist. He furrowed a brow, wondering if she were injured, but did not ask. He also noted that her fingers were rather long, just like her arms, legs and neck, and that the tips of her nails were black.

"Well I hope you're much better than who Professor Dumbledore hired last year, Lockheart was a joke," Jadis replied, rolling her eyes. Remus had to smile at this. Jadis soon turned her gaze back to him and smiled. "My name is Jadis Luna and this is my cat Neji," she said, pointing to the cage with her left hand.

Remus looked at her other arm and noted that her right arm was bandaged with a white, silk ribbon as well, however from wrist to halfway down her forearm. "Jadis Luna?" Remus asked, turning his gaze away from her arm and feeling very rude for staring, however, he wondered if the girl was injured or if it was just part of her wardrobe.

Jadis looked a little sheepish. "My mother loved C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles, and she named me after the White Witch," Jadis said with a shrug. I would be okay with her constant abandonment if she'd have named me after someone who wasn't evil, Jadis inwardly groaned to herself, feeling the child within her petulantly stomping her foot. She snapped her head out of her thoughts and realized that Lupin was still looking at her questioningly. "Umm… She was an evil character…"

"OH, no, I know what you're talking about but I've never heard of the name Luna as a last name," Remus said as he looked at her.

"Oh… well my father is from Spain and that isn't a very uncommon last name," Jadis replied. Lupin smiled at her.

"So do you know how to speak Spanish?" he asked mildly.

Jadis blushed. Did he have to ask? "Umm… well yes, but it sounds kind of funny," she replied. "I suppose I have a bit of an accent as well…" He's hardly ever around, her mind growled the rest of the sentence. "We primarily speak English at home." If by we I mean me and the walls of my room!

"I see… so will you be taking my class, Jadis?" Remus asked. Jadis smiled brightly up at him, thankful for the change in subject. Normally, she didn't speak about her life at home to anyone at all. The most she had ever told her friends about her parents was that she had them and that her father came from an old Pureblood family in Spain. However, as a Slytherin she never mentioned that her mother was a muggle born witch.

"Yes! I received an 'O' in my OWLs, actually in most of them," she replied as she looked at him. Remus smiled at her.

"That's great. You must be in Ravenclaw than," he said as he looked at her. Jadis frowned slightly.

"Ravenclaws aren't the only bright students, their just nerds," Jadis said, feeling offended. She sighed as she forced herself to calm down before she had another slightly angry outburst. "I'm too lazy to be a Ravenclaw and my attention tends to wander… I'm actually in Slytherin."

"Ah," Remus said, not wanting to be too disappointed. He tried to smile when he noted that she seemed to be slightly offended by his reply. "I see, for the cunning and ambitious."

"I'm neither, I'm very lazy," Jadis said as she scratched her neck nervously with her left hand. Remus furrowed his brow as he noted that her fingernails on the left hand did not have black nail-polish. Jadis seemed to realize this and she smiled. "I fell asleep before I had the chance to finish, see my point."

Remus chuckled lightly at this. He surely hoped that Jadis would be of great entertainment in his class. "Well, out of interest Jadis, what other classes are you taking?"

"Herbology, Charms, Transfigurations, Defense Against the Dark Arts, obviously, History of Magic, Astronomy and…" Jadis felt herself faltering and her heart begin to thud very hard so that she could hardly think. STOP IT, YOU STUPID SILLY THING! OH GOD, I'm TEARING UP! NO, I'm OVER IT! "Potions," she ended up mumbling.

"I see, quite the heavy course load. How did you do last year?" Remus asked.

"Fine… I have to go. It was very nice meeting you Professor Lupin and I can't wait for our first class," Jadis said, smiling up briefly at him before heading away and nearly running onto the train, her things following behind her. She darted into one of the first compartments she found on the other side of the train and wondered how in the word she would manage to make it through his class when she'd hardly been able to survive the summer.

TBC…