Okay here is chapter 2.

I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters.

"Oh, come on, Moony. It's been five years. How do you know it's the girl your soooo in love with anyway?" Sirius Black asked as he stared at the passing valley outside the train window. He finally looked at the boy sitting across from him.

Remus Lupin glared at his friend. "I am not in love with her. I don't even know her name, what house she's in, and I didn't even know what she looked like until the end of last year. Beside, I know it was her because she smelled like…"

"…a forest after it rains. Yeah, yeah, we know, Moony." James Potter interrupted. He was sitting next to Sirius, trying to do last minute homework. "Why are you so attracted to this scent anyway? Why are you so curious to know who smells like your favorite smell?" He asked almost sarcastically. "I can't believe this is all over a smell anyway." He murmured under his breath.

Peter Pettigrew nodded in agreement. "Why do you want to know, Moony?" He asked much more gently then James did. Peter sat next to him just listening to the conversation around him.

Remus shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. I really don't know. Curiosity I guess. But I'm attracted, as you so kindly said, to it because…" He shrugged his shoulders. "…because that's the first thing I remember after my very first transformation. I took it as a sign of relief, a sign that the worst has ended until next month."

"So, you didn't really answer this the last time, but is she pretty?" Sirius asked.

Remus rolled his eyes. "I don't think I'll answer that."

"Why not?" Sirius asked innocently.

"Because if I said she was beautiful then you would want to shag her. If I said she was plain then you would just say I shouldn't even look her direction. If I said she was ugly then that would be lying." He answered.

"Fine, fine." Sirius said slouching back in his seat.

"Do you see her anywhere?" Peter asked him once they were seated on the Gryffindor table, getting ready for the new first years to arrive.

He shook his head as he looked over the Hufflepuff table. "No, not yet." Not finding her there, Remus started looking up and down the Ravenclaw table. He suddenly perked up when he saw her. "There she is." He said quietly, though the other three heard him anyway.

"Where?" James asked looking over at the Ravenclaw table.

"That girl at the end of the table, sitting by herself. The straight brown haired girl." Remus said softly, still staring at her.

"The one reading the book?" Sirius asked. Remus nodded keeping his eye on her. "Really, Remus, you could have said she was a beauty." Remus finally turned away from her and glared at Sirius. "I wonder why we never seen her before. You said she is in our year?" Sirius asked not realizing Remus glaring at him.

Remus turned his gaze back to the brown hair beauty. His eyes dazed. "I don't know why. I don't remember seeing her at all before. And yes…" He looked back at Sirius. "…she is in our year. As I said a million times before, the first time I noticed her scent was on the boat ride to Hogwarts in our first year."

"What are you boys staring at?" a redhead beauty asked glaring at James and Sirius.

The boys quickly took their eyes off of the Ravenclaw girl. "Nothing." Remus said with a blush on his face.

"Nothing." James said with a mischievous grin as he stared at Lily Even, his future wife, even if she doesn't know it yet.

"Nothing." Peter said nervously.

"Nothing. Just talking about Remus' love." Sirius said calmly. Lily raised an eyebrow and Remus groaned.

"I'm not in love with her." Remus stressed out. "I don't know her and please don't spread that around the freakin' school."

"Who are you guys talking about?" Lily asked sending Remus a curious look.

"No one." Remus said quickly at the same time Sirius said, "Some Raven—"

"SIRIUS!" Remus shouted, grabbing everyone's attention at the Sorting.

"—claw chick Remus is in love with." Sirius finished saying like Remus didn't say anything.

"SIRIUS! I'M NOT IN LOVE WITH ANYONE!" Remus once again shouted again grabbing everyone's attention again.

"MR. LUPIN!" Professor Minerva McGonagall shouted from the front of the room where she was reading off the names of the new first years. "WILL YOU KEEP IT DOWN?!"

Remus threw his arms in the air. "Everyone is against me!" He stood up and stormed out of the room.

"I wonder where Mr. Lupin is going." Dumbledore mused out loud.

"MR. LUPIN!" Professor McGonagall shouted, ignoring the Headmaster. There was a wave of giggles from the students.

Sirius stood up on his seat and faced the professor. "Don't worry, Minne. Remus is just going through so many new emotions he has never felt before. He's at the age where he discovers new feelings and different emotions for the opposite sex. He is finally growing up into adulthood. And I am proud to be here to see it happen." He faked wiping a tear from his eye. "My little boy is growing up." He said loudly over the giggles of the students.

"Mr. Black! Sit down this instant! And don't you dare call me that ever again. That's Professor McGonagall to you."

"Oh, come on Minnie, don't be like that." Sirius said with his corky smile.

Before McGonagall could yell at Sirius the door burst open and Remus stormed back in. "SIRIUS BLACK, I HEARD THAT!" Remus grabbed Sirius' arm and pulled him towards the door. "I don't want the whole school to know about my love life."

"Ah, so you are in love."

"NO, I'M NOT IN LOVE," was the last thing people heard before the door closed.

James was laughing so hard and it echoed throughout the room.

"I must say, never in my 140 years have I ever seen someone walk out of the Opening Feast, much less drag someone else out." Dumbledore said out loud, before the Sorting started again.

A few weeks later found Verna sitting down at the far table in the library doing some homework. A Quidditch game was going on outside. Ravenclaw vs. Hufflepuff. She has never been interested in Quidditch like Kat is. She made the team as a chaser. Verna had always gone to the games to cheer Kat on, but not today. She had too much homework to do. She's been straggling in DADA. She can't seem to find anything on the 'Pervigilo Insomnium' spell. She doesn't even know if it is a Dark Art curse or a 'light' spell.

Suddenly she felt someone standing behind her, looking over her shoulder. "Need any help?" Her heart seemed to have skipped a beat at the sound of his voice.

With a deer-caught-in-the-headlights look on her face, Verna slowly turned around and looked at Remus Lupin's golden eyes. She nervously pushed her hair behind her ears and looked away. She blushed when she realized he was still waiting for an answer. "Umm…" She started to slowly nod her head. "…yeah. I...ahh…guess so." She said nervously, feeling like an idiot.

She glanced down at her paper as Remus grabbed a chair a brought it over beside her. "Do you mind if I sit here?" He said with a grin.

Verna felt her insides burn and she smiled nervously. "I…I don't mind." She stumbled over her words. She felt like killing herself because of her stupid grin and her burning cheeks. She must look like a complete idiot to him.

He didn't say anything though, just sat down with the same heart throbbing grin on his face. He held out his hand. "I'm Remus Lupin."

Verna placed her hand into his and smiled shyly. "I know. Well, I mean…I…ahh…I know." She said chuckling nervously. "Verna Peck." They shook hands.

"Verna." He said with the smile on his face. "So, by the looks of it, you need help with the DADA homework." Remus said looking down at her paper.

"DADA is my weakest…weakest class." She said meekly, feeling foolish. DADA is Remus' strong point. He must think she's stupid not getting it like he can.

Instead of laughing at her, though, Remus nodded his head. "DADA is a tough class to get. Not only do you have to know the defenses to all the curses and hexes out there, but you would also need to learn the curses and hexes. You can't learn one without the other. Many people can't seem to grasp that. You also need to know magical creatures and how to defend yourself against them." He looked uncomfortable and quickly changed the subject. "So, what spell did Professor Hawker give you?"

"Pervigilo Insomnium" Verna answered. "I don't even know if it's a dark curse or a light. I don't know if it's a counter-curse and a curse. I don't know anything about it." She started rambling.

Remus chuckled. "That's why I'm here. I'm here to help." Verna blushed and looked down at the tabletop to hide it from Remus. It would be embarrassing if he saw her blush.

"The first thing we would need to is figure out what Pervigilo Insomnium means in English." He reached into his bag and pulled out a Latin to English dictionary. "This is always useful to have around. I don't know why they don't give this to muggleborns and half bloods. Even some purebloods could use it once and a while." He said thinking of James and Sirius. "I had to buy this after my first year." Remus explained as he flipped through the pages. "Pervigilo I know means to look over, survey, inspect, discern stuff like that. Insomnium, though I need to look up." He said flipping over the 'I' section.

Verna took the time to watch him. His eyebrows were narrow in concentration and his eyes were focused intensely on the dictionary in front of him. His fingers flipped through the pages almost gracefully and ever so gently. She couldn't help but think of the girl Remus is 'in love with'. Her heart seemed to brake with the very thought of the possibility that Remus loves someone else.

"What spell did Professor Hawker give you?" Verna suddenly asked, shocking herself. She blushed when Remus looked at her with those same blueish-gray eyes that were focused so intensely on the dictionary.

"Exuro in Abyssus. Burn in hell." He translated when he saw the confused look on her face.

She grimaced. "That's nice."

He shrugged his shoulders and went back to the dictionary. "Its Dark Arts. So, I had to explain what it does and then what the counter-curse is and how to do use the counter-curse."

"What's the counter-curse?" Verna asked, eager to learn more and eager to hear him talking.

"Uranicus Lux Lucis. Heavenly Light. It's more of a shield then a counter-curse. There is no real counter-curse for Exuro in Abyssus." Remus explained. "I don't see Insomnium anywhere. Professor Hawker must have gave you something that wasn't even a spell. He did say he was going to do that. That means all you have to do is…"

"…explain why it isn't a spell and what needs change to make it a spell." Verna interrupted. She blushed when she realized she had interrupted him.

Remus chuckled. "I guess that does sound hard."

Just then Verna heard the sounds of cheers from the Quidditch game. "Why aren't you at the game?" She asked. As far as she knows, Remus was always at the game with his three friends.

Remus rolled his eyes. "I have homework to do and I know the game isn't going to end any time soon."

"How do you know that?" Verna pushed a strand of hair behind her ears.

"The seekers won't find the snitch." Verna gave him a confused look. "James has it." He answered. "It was floating above Peters head and since, in his words, 'he can do it' James snatched the snitch. It so happens a red head beauty name Lily Evans is sitting next to him. She promised her friend, Mina, she'd stay and watch the whole game."

"So, the longer the game the longer James Potter gets to sit next to Lily Evans." Verna said. Remus nodded and rolled his eyes at his friend.

A silence fell over them. Verna stared down at her paper and Remus, unknown to Verna, was staring at her. "Anything else you need help with?" Remus asked, hoping she did.

Verna thought hard. There must be something he can help her with. She didn't want him to go. But for the life of her, she couldn't think of anything. 'I have homework to do and I know the game isn't going to end any time soon' Remus' words floated to her memory. She should let him do his own homework.

She knew he wouldn't talk to her after this. He was just being his usual kind self and helping someone in need. Swallowing her disappoint, she put a fake smile and shook her head. "No, thank you, Remus." It felt so good having his name pass through her lips.

Remus nodded. "All right. I hope you don't mind if I do my homework here then. Since I'm already at a table and I have all my stuff with me."

Verna smiled, secretly pleased. "No, I don't mind. It's nice having a bit of company."

Remus nodded and pulled out his homework and set it on the table in front of him. The rest of the time was spent quietly working on their own homework. Remus would once and in while would get up to look for a book to help with, the same goes for Verna.

An hour later, Verna was almost done with her DADA report. She glanced over to look at what Remus was doing. She eyes widened. Charm suppressers, her specialty. And it looks like Remus is having a hard time with them. Gathering up any courage she had, Verna asked Remus softly, "Need any help?" She asked, repeating exactly what Remus had asked her earlier.

Remus cracked a smile. "Ummm…Yeah, I…ahh…guess so." He responded exactly the way she did. They both chuckled.

Verna looked over at Remus' homework. "Charm suppressers are used to suppress the amount of power one person has. No one has ever been powerful enough to suppress someone's magic so they're like a muggle. It's believed that's not even possible." She started to explain. Remus knew all of this, but he listened anyway. Liking the way her voice spoke more confidently as she spoke of something she was passionate about. She went on talking about many things concerning charm suppressers…some things he didn't even know.

"You certainly know a lot about this subject." Remus said, asking an unasked question.

Verna blushed and looked down. "I'm studying it. I'm trying to find a way to modify it. To suppress traits of someone and not only magic. If you're a veela and don't want to be a veela you may suppress it in you."

"Does that include vampires, werewolves and stuff like that?" Remus asked with an emotion in his voice that Verna couldn't decipher.

She looked curiously at Remus. "Yes, I guess that would. To suppress the wolf inside you if you're a werewolf or to take away the blood lust if you're a vampire. I can imagine it would hurt though."

"I can imagine some werewolves won't care or vampires." Remus said sadly before standing up. "Thanks for you help, Verna. I think I'll head to the Quidditch game. See you around." He walked out of the library before Verna can question him.

"Was it something I said?" She asked herself nervously.

Verna ran to the Hufflepuff common room after the game ended. Apparently, according to what she overheard Sirius Black say to his girlfriend of the week, Lily Evans got so sick of James that she moved to a different seat. Heartbroken, James released the snitch into the air. Letting Ravenclaw win the match.

She hopes to catch Kat. Verna needs to tell her what happened in the library. She still can't believe it herself.

Verna saw Kat just about to enter her common room and called out to her. "Kat! Kat, wait!"

Kat stopped and smiled at Verna. "Hello, Verna. You seem happy and jolly today." She said when Verna caught up to her.

"Guess what happened to me today!" Verna said ignoring what Kat just said to her.

"Ahh…Remus Lupin kissed you?" She guessed

Verna sighed. "I wish, but that's not it."

"Remus Lupin asked you out?"

Verna sighed and rolled her eyes again. "What makes you think it has something to do with Remus?"

Kat rolled her eyes. "It always something to do with him."

Verna folded her arms. "Maybe this time it has nothing to do with him."

"Tell me what it is then."

Verna undid her arms and looked nervously at the floor. "Remus talked to me."

"Really? What happened? You have to tell me everything." Kat said dragging Verna to a bench outside the Hufflepuff common room.

They sat down. "Well, he came up to me and asked if I needed help on my homework." Verna began getting excited all over again.

"And? What happened next?"

Verna smiled. "He sat down next to me and helped me with my homework. And when I didn't need help anymore, he stayed and I helped him with his homework." The smiled left her face. "But I think I said or did something to offend him. He left rather quickly and with no warning. And it's not like he'll talk to me again anyway. He was just being his normal self and helping someone he saw needed help."

Kat rolled her eyes. "You should go up to him and not wait for him to come to you. You should thank him for helping you. That would get him to talk to you and notice you again."

Verna frowned. "But I felt like an idiot. He must think I'm a girly girl or a total nerd."

Kit laughed. "Why would he think that?"

"I couldn't stop blushing!" She almost shouted. "Every time he looked at me or said something I feel like I'm blushed and, when I was helping with his homework on Charm suppressers, I couldn't shut up."

Kat laughed. "I bet you he didn't even noticed, Verna and even if he did, who knows? Maybe he thought it made you look cute, blushing like you were. Plus, Verna, Remus Lupin is a nerd too. He might like someone sounding as nerdy as he." Verna glared at her and Kat chuckled. "It's almost curfew, Verna. You should get to your common room before a professor catches you out of bed. Even though you're the Headmasters great-grand daughter, you can still get in trouble."

Verna chuckled and got up. "Yeah, your right. See you tomorrow, Kat."

"Bye."