Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Harry sat down on Ron's Chudley Cannon bedspread. He had known that this day would come. Voldermort had finally found his worst weakness, his friends.

He knew that Dumbledore and the rest of the Wizarding World wouldn't want him to risk life and limb to save his best friends, no, he was much to valuable to have do that. But he was going to anyway. He was going to find a way to save Ron and Hermione!

Someone knocked on the door. Harry jumped up, startled.

"Can I come in?" said a voice Harry recognized it as Lupin's.

"Sure"

"Hey you've looked kinda bummed out lately. What's going on?" Lupin asked.

"Well," said Harry. Wondering if it was safe to tell Lupin what he had heard. Finally, Harry decided that he could tell Lupin anything, "Well, ummm, you see, when I walked into, erm, this house, er, I, er, over heard Molly reading a letter she had just Received." Harry waited for Lupin to reprimand him for "overhearing" the letter. But Lupin remained quiet, "Right," said Harry, "well, er, the letter said, umm, the letter was from Voldermort and it said, erm, ummm, it said that he had Captured Ron and Hermione and that, well, he wanted a ransom for them. And that ransom was my life for theirs."

"Ahhh," said Lupin, "and so you've been in here thinking about how valuable you are n, and how Voldermort has found your worst weakness. So are you going to rescue them?"

Harry was a bit taken back by this blunt statement but replied, "Well, I have been thinking and I figure it's a pretty good bargain. A 2 for 1 deal. And there's even a chance that I might actually live! So I guess I might as well give it a try!"

"Harry," Lupin began slowly, "I have something to say."

"Huh?" said Harry, "Oh I know what you're going to say, some Hogwash about me being to valuable and Ron and Hermione would be happy to give their lives for me! Well, I don't care!"

"Ummm, that wasn't it."

"Oh," said Harry embarrassed.

"This is something that even Dumbledore doesn't know, but Hermione is not muggle born."

"What?!" but then she must be adopted because her parents are the 2nd biggest muggles! Next to the Dursley's of course!"

"Yes. She's adopted."

"But who are the parents?"

"Well, I'm her father."

"Lupin, you have a perverted sense of humor."

"No! She is!"

"Okay then, who's her mother?" said Harry, crossing her arms.

Lupin looked uncomfortable. "Well, Minerva."

Harry looked blank. Then it dawned on him, "McGonagall! Omigawd!" Then he cracked up. When he was quite finished, he said, "Thanks Lupin, I needed that!"

"Nooo!" said Lupin; "It's true!"

"Okay Lupin a joke is a joke, but this going to far."

"Do you wanna see her birth certificate?"

"Not really, I'm sure her parents have it somewhere put away."

"No they don't. I have it," Lupin put his hand in his back pocket, and drew out his wallet. Out of it he pulled a rather tattered piece of paper. With shaking hands he unfolded it and handed it to Harry.

"Hermione McGonagall," Harry read aloud, "Wait, why does Hermione have McGonagall's last name?"

"Professor McGonagall," Lupin corrected, "well, umm, we weren't exactly married."

"Oh," said Harry awkwardly, "But her name's Granger. How did that happen?"

"Well," said Lupin, "We decided that we didn't want her to know she was adopted. So she was given her adopted parents name."

"Oh," Harry said again, "Well why didn't you keep her?"

"Harry be reasonable. I mean, think about it! Minny's job is her life, and she couldn't possibly properly provide for a little girl. And I, well, every full moon, I would be a monster. But I dare say," he said with a twinkle in his eyes, "you've noticed how much Minerva favors Hermione?"

Harry grinned, "Yep."

"Now Harry, you and Hermione both have the same godfather."

"Really?"

"Yes, but it wasn't always that way."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, first I must tell you one thing. If you have any wizard blood in you it is a curse if you don't have a godparent. Leaving you with that, I tell you this. Your father, James, was originally going to be her godfather. But when he died, we found another godparent right away. For we didn't want Hermione to be cursed. We were deciding between Sirius and Pettigrew. But then word came that Peter was dead and Sirius in Azkaban, which is worst than death, we could only think of Severus. He was not one bit pleased that he was a godfather. But when Sirius got out of Azkaban I un-godfathered Snape and made Sirius godfather." Remus sighed and waited for Harry's comment.

"And what about you and, ummm, Minny?" Harry asked.

"Oh," said Lupin, "Well, when we found out that McGonagall was pregnant, well we stopped seeing each other and we where to embarrassed to tell anybody about it so we kept it quiet."

"Do you still umm-"

"Love her?" Lupin finished Harry's question. Harry nodded. "Yes indeed, I still love her with all my heart. But enough of this, you pack yourself up tonight and get some rest, okay? You know how to apparate, right?"

Harry nodded.

"Good, we'll apparate to Voldie and Ron and Hermy. Okay?" Then Lupin left the room.