Sirius and I were in the middle of dinner when Dumbledore came sweeping in.

"Lily, Sirius," he greeted with a nod of his head.

"Hi Albus, I didn't know you were going to drop by," I greeted.

"Is something wrong?" Sirius asked.

"No, but it is important I speak with you," Albus replied. "I've been thinking and, Lily, having you trapped in this house is a waist. The Ministry is refusing to believe he's back and one of our biggest pieces of evidence is hiding instead of warning people of what's coming, of what's here." He paused for a second.

"So what do you have in mind?" I asked, interested.

"I think you should come teach at Hogwarts. It would help keep the school from Umbridge, and the children would tell their parents. Professor Grubbly-Plank has agreed to take a job at Beaubatons as her excuse for leaving, and Hagrid won't be back for a while," Albus finished.

"Of course, I'd love to teach at Hogwarts," I jumped at the offer.

"This enthusiasm wouldn't have anything to do with seeing Harry, now would it?" Sirius asked. I rolled my eyes at him. It had everything to do with seeing Harry again. He still didn't know I was alive and I was dying to see him.

"Obviously we will need to inform Harry as soon as possible. I wouldn't want him to find out with everybody else, and then I'll have to inform the staff. So you start Monday."

"Monday," I agreed.

I walked up the path to Dumbledore's office a bit quicker than normal, he had hardly talked to me all year. Actually he hadn't talked to me at all. The letter he sent said it was important that I be at his office at eight o'clock on Saturday, so that's were I was headed at 7: 50.

"Harry," Dumbledore greeted shortly and didn't give me time to respond. As if he wanted me out of his office as soon as possible. "I wouldn't be bothering you but I think this is rather important."

"It's no bother, sir," I replied.

"I'm not sure how to say this so I'm going to cut straight to the point," he paused. "Harry, your mother's alive."

I paused, that wasn't at all what I was expecting. I'm not a hundred percent sure what I was expecting, but that wasn't it. "I'm sorry, sir, but what did you say? I can't have heard you right."

"I'm afraid you heard me correctly, Lily Potter is alive," Dumbledore was now grinning. "She's going to be teaching at Hogwarts, but we wanted to tell you first, and she so greatly wanted to see you."

"You mean she's here?" I asked.

"Waiting outside that door, but she wanted me to tell you first. She didn't know what your reaction would be."

"This isn't possible," I said in disbelief, "my mum's dead. Are you sure it's really her?"

"Completely, we used veritasurim. It's her," Dumbledore was smiling still.

I jumped out of my chair and ran to swing the door open. It felt like I had been hit by a brick wall. My mum was in front of me.

I had been pacing the room in anticipation. "Lily, it will be fine," Sev said from where he stood.

"I'm just so nervous," I crossed the room back to him.

"What is there to be nervous about?" he raised one eyebrow.

"What if he's mad at me? What if he already has expectations that I don't meet? What if he doesn't like me?" I questioned pathetically.

"Lily," he grabbed my right hand, stopping my pacing. "It will be alright."

"How do you know?"

"Because if he doesn't like you I'll give him detention for the rest of the year," I assumed he was joking as he squeezed my hand in reassurance.

At that moment the door swooshed open and my breath caught. There was my son. I had imagined this moment countless times, but they couldn't hold a candle to the real thing. I ran to him, gathered him into a tight embrace and did the only thing I could at the moment. I cried.

I was grateful I didn't have to get up early the next morning as I made my way up to Gryffindor tower. My mum and I had talked deep into the night and still weren't even close to finished. I was ecstatic that my mum was alive, but I hated to think of where she had been all these years, and how she got out. But there was one thing that kept bugging me, why was Snape there? I had been too happy to ask, or really even care, but as I made my way up the stair cases it kept nagging at me. I yawned and decided to think about it tomorrow, tonight I just wanted to sleep.

"Hi Harry," Ron said as I sat down for lunch, "slept a wile didn't you?"

"Yeah, I stayed up pretty late," I admitted.

"How late that you sleep until lunch?" Hermione asked.

"About five a.m. I think," I answered.

"Why did you stay up that late?" Ron asked the same moment Hermione said, "What were you and Dumbledore talking about?"

I smiled, "I wasn't talking to Dumbledore."

"Who then?" Ron looked puzzled.

"Didn't he call you up to his office?" Hermione's face mirrored Ron's.

I paused, "My mum."

This took them aback. "Harry, that's impossible," Hermione said slowly, having recovered first.

I retold them the whole story, about how she was trapped in Malfoy Manor and no one but Mrs. Malfoy knew, how she got out, and finally that she would be teaching at Hogwarts.

"Harry…that-that's great!" Ron exclaimed after I was done.

"Just you and your mum talking? After all this time that must have been wonderful!" Hermione was smiling too.

"No, Dumbledore was there at first, and- never mind, it's not important," I finished.

Hermione looked concerned, "Who? Who was with you?"

"Well, Snape was there too…" I trailed off.

"What? Why was Snape there?" Ron wondered, saying his name with distain.

"I don't know exactly. I didn't think to ask while I was there. I hardly paid attention to him really," I admitted.

"Understandable, with your mum there that probably seemed unimportant," Hermione nodded.

"Yeah, but now it's bugging me."

"He was probably just there to hear the story. I mean who wouldn't be curious?" Ron said.

"That's probably it. She might not have wanted to tell the story over and over, probably pretty painful," Hermione concurred.

A/N: I really hope you guys like it. I do realize that it switches point of views a lot, but I tried to make it a bit longer. Thank you to CrunchyMunchers, Crissy Grigori, and edwardsoneandonlylove. Their reviews are why this chapter was up so quick, they really do inspire me. Thank you.