Authors Note:God I know that it has been an eternity since I have updated this story. I've had this chapter for quite sometime, but I never finished it so I hadn't posted it. However, I do very much like this story and I would really like to get back to it, but I am afraid my writing style won't be the same and I might ruin it. But I suppose I should make the attempt anyway. I just hope that you will all continue to like it.

Dagger Collector

Chapter 12: Mind Control

Wednesday and Thursday, as was usual passed by without event. Once more before Potions, Jadis sneaked out of the lake to smoke the second half of her Mellow Stick. Potions luckily passed without too much incident. Except for at the end of class where Jadis and Matt had to help Pam to the Hospital wing because some Hufflepuff had exploded his cauldron next to hers. It was the reason that now she and Matt were making their way from the Hospital Wing to Lupin's class on the first floor.

"So Lupin's testing our will against the imperious curse today, how do you think you'll do?" Matt asked as he casually flicked his wand at a hurrying Hufflepuff first year, causing his bag to split open. Jadis smiled at this, reminded of their years before he'd started to date Pam, when they were probably the Slytherin terrors. Not that Jadis minded that Pam was kind of a good influence on Matt, but from time to time she missed the kind of havoc he could reek.

"I'll probably suck," Jadis replied as she flicked her wand for a Gryffindor third year that was walking by causing her to slip and fall down. She was walking with one of her friends who shouted out 'Hey' quite angrily. However, with a wave of his wand, Matt caused her to shut up as tape was magically strapped over her mouth. "Thanks Matt. Honestly, kids now-a-days can be so rude," Jadis said as she and Matt broke into light laughter as they descended the stairs. God if only all Fridays could be like today, except for Pam getting hurt that is.

It didn't take too long for Jadis and Matt to get into Defense Against the Dark Arts, where most of their classmates were already sitting. "How's Velma treating you?" Matt asked as they walked over to their seats, sneering while his voice dripped with its usual gleeful, mocking tone. Jadis made a point to ignore her friend as she took a seat. Velma didn't look over at her. Ever since Velma let out her secret, she was being strange around Jadis. Almost like she was avoiding her.

Well thats good too, Jadis thought as the bell rang and Lupin started to talk to them, reviewing the Imperious Curse, an what they would be doing. At least now she's having me alone. Though, who knows how long that will last, Jadis thought. "Now will everyone please stand and form a line?" Lupin finished up. Jadis, along with the rest of her apprehensive classmates stood up to stand in line.

"Of course Gryffindors are first in line. What idiots," Matt said. Jadis merely nodded in response. Wouldn't they be better off standing back and watching then just jumping in? I bet that's why they die or get injured. Trying to be brave, brash fools, Jadis thought. She was sure that every Slytherin, which only was herself, Matt and Velma were thinking the same thing. The Ravenclaws too had to be thinking something along the same lines, though probably not quite as insultingly.

Jadis turned around and realized that there were only a few nervous Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws behind them. Jadis turned back and watched the first student. Most Slytherins usually stood at the end of lines, but that was usually lack of enthusiasm in classes. But Jadis had no desire to be last. Being last meant everyone would look at you and judge you. She was already judged and hated by almost all gathered there, she didn't think it really mattered where she stood. But at least this way she knew what kind of stuff Professor Lupin was making them do under the Imperious.

The first couple got simple commands like jump. The first couple Gryffindors failed miserably in the first couple attempts. Lupin tried the Imperious three times on each person. By the time the first of the Ravenclaws, Jay was able to kind of disobey on the third try. He kind of half-jumped, half-stopped himself and ended sprawled on his back, to which he was greeted with applause and a small praise from Professor Lupin. Git, Jadis thought. She wasn't too inclined to think too kindly of him, especially not since she'd seen him flirting with some house mate of his that wasn't even taking Defense during Herbology.

"He is punishing students who don't work or are often late," Matt suddenly said. Jadis watched as the Ravenclaw girl that was up was dancing rather embarrassingly. She wasn't the only one he'd made do something somewhat embarrassing to. Matt was right, Lupin was purposefully, mildly embarrassing bad students in his class. Jadis felt something somewhat tighten in her stomach. Am I a bad student? She asked herself as she went over the past couple of weeks in her head. While she had been late a couple of times and perhaps had been slightly... inattentive, she was still doing well in his class, especially the practical part. Does that make me a good student?

"Think he'll punish us?" Jadis asked as the Ravenclaw stopped dancing and seemed to come to her senses. She suddenly turned a bright shade of red before heading to the back of the class. Jadis raised a brow and watched as Velma walked up and gulped the knot in her throat. Matt followed Velma and after him would be her turn. She wondered for a moment if it was just her, or if class was really passing by faster than usual. However, she didn't mull on this long as she watched Velma.

By all outward appearances, Velma was a good student. She did it all her homework and was good in the practical sense. She was always on time to class, she didn't cut and she appeared to pay attention to lessons. In other words, she was a perfect Slytherin, because it was all more for show than anything else. It was the reason why Jadis was surprised that Lupin wanted to punish her as well, for Velma merely walked up to Jadis.

"I would declare to you my passionate love, but I don't feel love and you are close at it gets," Velma said to Jadis, causing everyone to gasp and Matt to burst into laughter. Jadis turned a deep red color that matched her hair as she looked at Velma in horror; she then turned her gaze over to the shocked amber eyes of Professor Lupin, not at all paying attention to Velma who managed to throw off the curse and was now blushing furiously.

Velma suddenly stepped very close to Jadis, causing Jadis to turn her attention to the very angry Velma. She had her eyes narrowed on Jadis and was glaring at her with deep loathing, her teeth clenched together. "I am going to make you pay for this," Velma murmured softly and menacingly before turning away, her hair whipping Jadis in the face and causing her to flinch. Jadis furrowed her brow as she watched Velma walk out of the classroom. Great, like I needed anyone else to make my life difficult, Jadis thought as she turned to look at Matt, who by now had stopped laughing.

With Velma gone and out of her face, Jadis suddenly realized the dead silence that consumed the class. She looked around and was suddenly aware that everyone was looking at her. Jadis felt her cheeks flush once more to have everyones' eyes staring at her. The only person that was not staring at her in shock was Matt, who was looking at her like he felt sorry for her. Oh Merlin, now they all think that I'm a lesbian and have been having an affair with Velma, she realized as she looked into the eyes of Jay Booth and could see it all over his gaze.

"Uhh... class dismissed. We will finish up the rest of you next time," Lupin said after clearing his throat and breaking the silence. Immediately afterward everyone broke up and started to go and get their things, staring at her while beginning to whisper to each other less-than-kind speculations. Jadis groaned as Matt came up to her and patted her on the shoulder. Merlin, like I really need a rumors like that going around about me. People don't talk to me as it is, Jadis thought to herself miserably.

"Don't worry about it Jadis, maybe they'll think it was an elaborate joke from Lupin," Matt said as he patted her on the back. Jadis grimaced as she watched the people passing her and gather their things. It was clear that this was not going to be thought of as a joke and as she watched the first of her classmates reach the classroom door, she suddenly realized it wouldn't be long before every seventh year knew. Suddenly she felt very sick as she thought about every person in the school thinking and judging her. Never before had he heard of anyone at Hogwarts being gay and therefore, she had no idea how people at Hogwarts felt about the issue.

Sluggishly, Jadis walked over to gather her things and tried to shake off the feeling of dread. She didn't think there was anything wrong with people who sexually preferred members of their own gender. She really didn't care that Velma was lesbian. Her problem with Velma was that she was a horrible human being. However, what she thought didn't matter, it was what everyone else thought that did. And her only hope was that people would be too hung up on pureblood, mudblood thing to care.

"Jadis, would you mind staying a moment?" Jadis had just slung her bag on her shoulder when she heard Lupin call out to her. Jadis slowly turned to look at Lupin. As she looked at him, she wondered why he had done that to Velma, if Velma by all outward appearances was a good student. She didn't understand his motive for wanting to embarrass her, though she wondered for a moment if it might be just because he didn't like Velma. Or perhaps he was trying to get back at her about the dare. Don't be stupid, he can't possibly know she dared me, Jadis thought as she nodded in response to Lupin's request.

"I'll see you later Jadis, I'm going go see Pam," Matt said as he patted her one the shoulder and took off. She half-expected for him to grin at her or give her suggestive looks about Lupin as he was prone to do ever since the night of the dare. However, he merely gave her the tiniest of encouraging smiles, that brightened his blue eyes in benign friendliness, before turning and rushing out of the room, closing the door behind himself.

Turning slowly away from the recently closed door, Jadis' eyes searched out those of her Professor as she slowly walked over to him. "Yes, Professor Lupin?" Jadis said, trying to sound polite. However, as her eyes caught Lupin's amber eyes, she found a voice inside her head screaming out WHY? As if she didn't have enough to deal with as it was, now everyone was going to think she was a lezzer and Velma was going to destroy her and.... suddenly Jadis' eyes widened as she realized it would only be a matter of time before Snape knew. And Lord only knew how he was going to use that to his advantage!

"I'm very sorry about that... I never would have imagined that Velma... it was only supposed to mildly embarrass her and punish her," looking up towards Lupin, she found herself mildly surprised by the way he was looking down at her. His cheeks were lightly flushed and the expression on his face was very nervous and apologetic as he lightly chewed on his bottom lip. His brow was deeply furrowed with concern over his wonderful amber gaze that was fixated and studying her features and begging for forgiveness. He looked positively sorry; years taken off from him and making him seem almost like a teenager.

As Jadis studied him, she found herself wondering what Lupin must've looked like as a teenager. She felt her cheeks growing warm as she thought about how cute he looked all nervous and realized that he had to have been quite the delicious piece of candy when he was her age. And as she looked down at the length of his body, she blushed more furiously to think he must've gotten better with age.

Pushing these thoughts away and mentally slapping herself for the moment, Jadis looked up into his sparkly amber gaze and gave him a small smile. "No that's fine Professor Lupin, lesbians profess their love to me all the time," Jadis said, shrugging nonchalantly, causing him to laugh nervously. Sighing, Jadis looked down at her feet. "I'm sure if it had been anyone else I would have found it very amusing," Jadis said, trying to force her blush away. What the hell was I thinking? He is my teacher! And I know perfectly well where those kinds of inappropriate thoughts can lead me! No, I'm just... being stupid. Oh god, why is he staring at me like that? "I'm sorry, what did you say Professor?"

"I asked you if you did not have class you should be getting to, for I'd hate to hold you up any longer," Lupin said kindly as he stared into her eyes. He didn't know why, but he was always amused when Jadis spaced out; with other students or people it mildly annoyed him. However, for some reason he was very curious about the thoughts that distracted Jadis. He wondered if they were as amusing and amazing as most of the things she said.

"No, actually I'm all done for the day," Jadis replied as she looked up into his eyes. For a moment, silence hung between them as they stared into each others eyes, both lost in their own thoughts. Remus could not figure out why she was so distracting to him, more so than usual. However, he assumed it was her smell. As the full moon approached, his senses were much sharper than usual, which could be slightly disorienting. Her smell at the current moment was much more alluring than on other occasions, for a reason he could not exactly pinpoint. All he knew was that it was driving him to distraction.

Jadis on the other hand was trying to push away all her inappropriate thoughts. She didn't understand why all of a sudden she was aware of how beautiful his eyes were. Or why she was just barely realizing that his hair looked amazingly soft and that the grey streaks did not take away from how handsome he was, but actually gave him a more distinguished look. For some reason, she hadn't realized it before, but he was very, very handsome, for he was quite tall, with broad shoulders. It also seemed that the more she thought about it, the more even stranger thoughts came into her head, like, Is he single?

"Well, I should be getting to grading first year essays," Lupin suddenly said when he realized that he'd been standing there staring at her long enough and thinking that she was probably getting freaked out by it. Instead, he was pleased to see Jadis shake her head and smile beautifully at him. It was a gesture he knew well enough to mean that she had been spacing out, again. Therefore he wasn't too surprised when she asked him to repeat himself. "I said I should be getting to my grading," he replied kindly, smiling at her in amusement.

"Oh," Jadis said, feeling quite stupid for saying the first thing that popped in her head. Feeling a blush creep onto her face, she found that she was terribly annoyed with how bashful she was being and wondering what was wrong with her. He's just a teacher like any other! "You know Professor Lupin, you wouldn't have to grade so much if you didn't set so many essays. I for one think that it would be a great service to the school," Jadis said with a cheeky smile, as if to prove she could behave normally and that there was nothing out of the ordinary going on with her.

"I'm sure the students would all greatly appreciate that," Lupin said with an amused chuckle, which for some reason Jadis could not fathom or wanted to think about, caused her pulse to race. "But I don't think that you would benefit as much from my lessons without the set reading and written assignments," Lupin continued with a smile.

"Nonsense! You're a great teacher! We learn more than enough in class, the rest is just busy work," Jadis said with a broad smile as she looked at him. Remus once more could not help but chuckle at this and could indeed see why Jadis was in Slytherin. If that was not manipulation, he didn't know what was. However, he wondered if she always had to look so cute, or if she looked more adorable to enhance her manipulation. Not to say she wasn't an attractive girl. That was undeniable, and while he was her Professor and should not think it, to deny that she was attractive would be a lie.

"Be that as it may, I think its is imperative to reinforce the lesson. Not everyone pays attention in class all the time," Remus pointed out with a mils smile, causing her to blush. Jadis knew fully well that he thought that she herself could do with the reinforcement. Neither could she really deny it as she knew that she had spaced out more than her fair share. Well I hope he doesn't think its anything personal. I just got a bit distracted sometimes, Jadis thought to herself.

"So you punish yourself?" Jadis asked with a small, teasing smile. Lupin furrowed his brow and tilted his head in response. "I know you're not that fond of grading so many essays. It must get tiring. Besides there must be other things you must want to do with your time," Jadis explained with a small shrug of her thin shoulders. Lupin shrugged in response as well. He'd never really thought of it like that, and he supposed that she did have a point. Perhaps he was over working himself to get all the students to where they should be in Defense Against the Dark Arts, but it didn't matter to him. Thats what he was there for and he was enjoying it.

"I wouldn't call it punishment, Jadis," he said mildly as he looked into her eyes. For a moment, the sun slipped in through one of the windows and lit up her face causing himself to get lost in her beautiful eyes and the way her wine-red strands of hair seemed to catch fire and contrast sharply against the black mass of her entire head. His breath got caught in his throat as he tried to continue to smile at her, however, he couldn't think of how someone could look so stunning.

"Of course you wouldn't," she teased as she smiled up at him. "Well seeing as I don't have anything to do right now and seeing as it'd be best for me to avoid everyone as long as possible, would you like any help?" Jadis asked as she looked at him, catching him off guard as his brows hiked up to his hair. "I could help you with grading all the younger students' essays. I used to help Professor Snape," she said, her heart clenching at the mention of him, however, managing to control any other reaction.

"In that case I don't see why not," he said with a smile as he led her to his office. For the following several hours, they found themselves quite engrossed in their work, hardly speaking to one another as they worked. However, Remus often found his gaze wandering over to Jadis and found himself smiling every time that he looked at her. She became thoroughly engrossed in the essays that she graded and he found that the expression she bore while she graded was quite endearing.

"Is that all?" Jadis asked when she got through several stacks of essays. Remus looked around, and was amazed to see that not only had they finished with all his backed up grading, but that it was quite late. It looked like they had quite missed dinner already. He merely nodded in response as he looked at everything that they had accomplished. However, before he could say anything about it, he heard something growl and he looked over at Jadis who was blushing lightly. "Sorry, just realized I'm hungry. I guess dinner is over by now though."

Remus merely smiled in response to her as he stood up. "I'm quite famished myself, would you care to sneak down to the kitchens?" he asked as he looked at her. Jadis raised a brow at this, but she wasn't going to refuse considering the way her stomach kept growling. She merely beamed at him and nodded as together they made their way down to the kitchens and inside, where they were quickly attended by House Elves.

"So Professor Lupin, are you going to punish Matt and I?" Jadis asked once they had settled at one of the long tables and started eating. Remus looked up at Jadis with a small smile as he tilted his head, trying to give her a look of innocence that said that he didn't know what she was talking about. "Being coy isn't going to get you anywhere. Matt and I noticed that you were punishing students who came in late, or don't pay attention in class," Jadis said as she drank from her goblet before turning half her attention back to her mash potatoes.

"I see. Well then I suppose that you will just have to think about whether or not you are always a model student," Remus said with a mild smile, though there was a mischievous sparkle in his amber eyes. Jadis looked at him uncertainly, her smile turning into a crooked frown of concern that made Remus chuckle. "Don't worry Jadis, I promise to not embarrass you too horribly."

"Well I suppose after today nothings going to make me live that down," Jadis said with a slight grimace as she looked down at her food, causing Remus to look at her with a mildly guilty look on his face. He really wished he would have thought better of that. He really did feel terrible about the fact that it had embarrassed Jadis and that she was probably right about the idea of nasty rumors bound to start circling around her. However, he supposed that he couldn't do anything about it, and no matter how much he apologized to her, it wasn't going to make the incident go away.

"So Jadis, what are you going to do after you finish this year?" Remus asked, wanting to change the subject as he continued to eat. There was really not point in lingering on the previous subject of what happened in Defense earlier and he wanted to put it behind him, and he was sure that Jadis would rather be distracted from the subject as they days to come were probably not going to be easy on her.

Jadis took a sip of her goblet to wash down what she had just eaten as Remus looked up at her expectantly. "I am not sure," Jadis said with a shrug of her thin shoulders. "There really isn't a necessity for to pick a career considering the fact that my family is quite well off, and there isn't anything that particularly interests me," Jadis said as she looked down at her food and poked at it. "I suppose my father would like me to go into the Ministry, but I am not very interested in that. I suppose if I absolutely had to pick anything, it might have something to do with Potions."

Remus merely nodded at this. Personally he thought it would be a waste of her talents if she decided to do nothing with her life. However, it was her life and she should really do whatever pleased her. "Well, if that is what you are passionate about, I really think that you should pursue it," Remus said with a small smile. "As Professor Snape is your Head of House, I am sure that a recommendation from him would quite advance you in your career. After all, Professor Snape has always been very well renown for his talent at Potions."

Jadis felt her heart thud for a moment. I don't want anything from him, she suddenly thought bitterly to herself as she stared at her food and thought about the last time that she had seen Snape. She had come to realize that despite her fear, there was a small part of her that was very angry with him. Sure he was leaving her alone now and she was grateful for it, but she still couldn't get over how cruel he had been to her and she was sure that it wasn't going to last anyway. And even if he did continue to leave her alone as she had requested, that didn't make up for the way that he had broken her heart, or toyed with her since the beginning of the school year. She had sufficient reason to hate him and there was a part of her that did, but she supposed that a greater portion of her still loved him.

Looking up and realizing that Professor Lupin had been watching her, she smiled slightly as she shook her head. "If I asked, I don't think that Professor Snape would do me such a favor," she said with a lopsided smile that looked more like a grimace. Remus furrowed his brow at this, wondering what she had been thinking about as she had previously been wearing a tragically serious expression on her face. One that seemed somewhat out of place.

"I thought Matt said that you were Professor Snape's favorite," Remus said as he wiped his mouth on a napkin and placed it on the table. He was finished eating, having already somehow wiped his plate clean. He supposed he had been rather famished. However, Jadis on the other seemed to have hardly eaten very much. It was as though her appetite had disappeared.

"Perhaps I used to be," Jadis responded, unable to look at Professor Lupin in the eyes as she poked at her food some more. She really didn't want to be talking about this. As if she didn't think about Severus enough already without people constantly bringing him up. It reminded her painfully that she was a complete and utter failure when it came to life and made her realize that there had to be something seriously wrong with her. As if it wasn't bad enough that she was a cutter, apparently she was an emotional masochist as well. After all, why else would she fall for a sadist like Snape?

Remus looked at Jadis with some concern. Once more her eyes were glazed over, as if her mind was a million miles away. However, her face was not serene and almost placid as it seemed to be most of the time. It looked almost sad and Remus wondered at it. Half of the time she was quite cheerful and easy going. But the other half it almost seemed as though she were very unhappy. Sometimes, she said things that seemed to almost support this idea.

Like the time she first tried her Patronous and she said that it might take her sometime to think of a happy memory. That could indicate there were too many to think of that she could not decide on one, and it was what he'd thought at the time. However, as he reflected on it, he wondered if perhaps there weren't very many that could spring to mind so easily. Also, the tear that he had seen that day. And what of the time she mentioned that some memories could be too crippling.

However, it didn't seem to make much sense to him that she should be unhappy when she had friends and seemed to be quite cheerful most of the time. The few lapses she had into seriousness and the odd comments that she made every so often... he supposed that they could all simply be results of mundane problems that most teenagers had. Not anything that should be terribly concerning.

He made his mind up about this, when she suddenly looked up at him and smiled resplendently. "Or perhaps I should become a Professor," she said brightly as she smiled at him. "I've already got experience grading papers and helping my fellow classmates. Besides I'm absolutely brilliant," she said with a cocky grin, causing him to chuckle lightly as he shook his head.

"That is definitely a possibility," Remus said as he looked up at her and smiled, loosing himself in her sparkling black eyes, while a part of him wondered at how charming she could be. "However, I think you would drive your male students to quite the distraction," he murmured with a chuckle, not knowing entirely where that had come from or what had possessed him to say it. He felt the terrible imprudence that was to say. However, he relaxed when he saw that Jadis was not concerned with it.

"I doubt that. Boys my age don't pay me any mind," Jadis admitted with a shrug of her thin shoulders. "I suppose I'm rather boyish in figure and they think that I am weird," she said as her mind went over the past couple years of school. If she thought about it, Jay Booth had been the only boy to have shown interest in her and he seemed to have quickly gotten over that. The git, Jadis thought to herself. She still was not inclined to think of him very well. "Actually I have no idea what Velma saw in me," she said with a self-deprecating chuckle. "Though considering she is unhinged, I suppose it would make sense that she would want me."

Remus furrowed his brow at this. "Velma aside, I think that you are very bright, and talented and amusing and any boy would be lucky to have you. Boys your age are idiots if they can't see that Jadis, and you shouldn't think too much about it," he said warmly and with his mild smile in place. Jadis looked up and smiled at Professor Lupin for his kind words.

"Thank you, but you're just being nice. No... I will probably end up alone and have millions of cats. I have already gotten an early start, I have Neji," Jadis said with a grin. However, Professor Lupin did not smile at this in turn and she supposed that she was being to down on herself, aloud. Mentally she slapped herself for being so open, Great now he's going to think I have self-esteem issues. "I was just joking Professor," she said with a small smile as she stared into his concerned brown eyes. "In all honesty I just think that Slytherins are unsuitable matches," she said with a shrug. "With perhaps the exception of Matt, but even he can be a pain."

"Jadis, are you in love with Matt," Remus asked with a furrowed brow as he felt his stomach turn into unpleasant knots. He didn't know why the thought of her being in love with the boy made him feel so sickeningly unpleasant, but he didn't want to think about that. Instead, he focused his gaze on the amusing expression that crossed her face as she seemed to turn green.

"Merlin no, I have always seen Matt as something akin to a brother; he's a nuisance that I have to bare with and have grown to care for," she replied with a small smile. Remus chuckled lightly at this feeling relieved and not sure why. "Did you know that he and Pam are engaged?" Jadis went on as she bounced in her seat with excitement.

Remus nodded at this. "I noticed the engagement ring," he said with a smile, amused by her enthusiasm. It were almost as though she were the one that was getting married. For a moment, they both stared across the table into each others eyes as a companionable silence spread between them. Remus watched as her eyes glazed over and he smiled in amusement, wondering what she was thinking about now and utterly entranced by the beauty of her large, Spanish eyes.

Meanwhile, Jadis started wondering at the fact that since they had gotten engaged, why Pam and Matt hadn't spoken much of their engagement. They are still rather young, what will their parents think? Jadis wondered to herself. She was almost sure that Pam's parents would object. It seemed to her that they didn't very much approve at Matt and for a moment she wondered about her parents. She didn't think she could get a reaction from them, even if she were to tell them that she'd had an affair with one of her Professors.

Not wanting to think about this, she forced her eyes to settle on the amber eyes that were staring into her own. She felt a small blush creeping onto her face as she realized that there was an amused smile on Professor Lupin's face as he watched her. Merlin he has a gorgeous smile and wonderful eyes, she thought to herself as the blush on her face intensified and her stomach started to do somersaults at the way that he was staring at her as though there were nothing more fascinating. She couldn't believe that she could retain his entertainment like this, and as she thought of his sweet nature she thought about the way that she couldn't imagine that he'd ever mistreat her.

However, the moment was lost as one of the elves dropped a pan and caused them both to jump out of their thoughts. Wondering what time it was, Jadis looked around and as she noted that it was nearly curfew, she jumped up with a yelp. "It's almost curfew. I have to run Professor, if Snape catches me out at this hour he will skin me alive," Jadis said with a nervous and apologetic smile as she suddenly ran out of the kitchens. Remus watched her with a furrowed brow and smiled slightly in amusement. Shaking his head, he too got to his feet, thinking that it certainly would be an interesting year.

TBC...

A/n: Please review and tell me what you think so that I know whether or not it is worth my time to continue this story. Also sorry for mistakes that slipped by my notice when editing.