Author note: The story gets explained a little bit in this chapter. Keep reading, a plot will appear eventually.
Disclaimer: I own anything you don't recognize, everything else belongs to J. K. Rowling
Chapter 2
I knew that he was a werewolf too. I was curious about the arrangements for the night, so I did this little spell that I invented (crybglo) to make a glowing crystal ball appear in my hand. I looked in to it and saw that Professor Lupin had some Wolfsbane potion, and he would transform in his office. Being a good divinator is so handy when you don't want to bring up a touchy subject.
When I looked up, I realized that professor Lupin had been watching me the whole time. I was thankful that I had whispered the spell, no need for him to know that I had gone against the rules (slightly) of inventing new spells. Suddenly, I got the full impact of Remus Lupin being at Hogwarts. In Diagon Alley, I had looked into my crystal ball to see if anyone that knew about who my mother really was (besides McGonagall) was going to be there. The answer I had seen was 'no.' Either I had miss-predicted, or Professor Lupin didn't know. Neither option seemed quite right. I decided to find out which it was.
"Oh, hello Professor Lupin, my name is Hannah O'Riley."
"How did you know who I was?" he asked.
"I am a Seer." I said, truthfully, but not in answer to his question.
"You must be a pretty good Seer," he said. "I don't think you will learn anything that you don't already know about divination at Hogwarts. No offense to the teacher or anything." he added hastily.
"Oh, right. Trewlany has made-what- two real predictions in her life? When she predicts the death of one kid a year, she always picks the one with talent in divination. None of them have been discovered as Seers yet. No offense to the teacher or anything." I said.
"I never knew that." Lupin said. "Why are you in here? I thought it was reserved for teachers."
"It is supposed to be." I said. "I'm a fifth year transfer student, and- Dumbledore hasn't told you?"
"Told me what?" Lupin asked.
"That I would be here." I said. "Um, yeah."
Lupin looked confused. "Did you say you were a transfer student?" he asked. "I didn't think Hogwarts took transfer students."
"They don't usually." I said. "I have actually lived in the Hogwarts area all my life, but they couldn't find me. My birth certificate only said Hannah, so the quill that writes down a child's name when they show signs of magic only wrote down 'Hannah.' You can't do too much with a first name only. At the end of last year, when I realized there wasn't a last name on my to my birth certificate, I asked Mrs. Tweedy to add it on there. As soon as she did that, Dumbledore owled me and asked for my academic records. As soon as he saw them, he arranged all the details, and here I am."
"Wow." Lupin said, sounding impressed. "Why didn't you have a last name on your birth certificate?"
"My parents hadn't made one up yet." I said.
"Made one up?" Professor Lupin asked.
"Mm hm." I said. "No one knew that I was born, besides the Potters. They didn't even tell you or Sirius."
Professor Lupin turned pale. "Who are your parents?" he asked slowly. "Do I know them?"
"You did." I said. "Billy and Elizabeth..."
Professor Lupin suddenly sat down next to me. He had been standing our whole conversation.
"They had a child?" he asked faintly.
"Undoubtedly." I said. "You mustn't tell anyone who I am."
"Of course not." he said. "That would be foolish and inconsiderate."
"So you do know?" I asked.
"Of course." he said. "Your mother was one of my best friends."
"Thank, you Professor. I was trying to see if you knew. See, in Diagon Alley, I looked in my crystal ball to see if anyone who knew that was going to be at Hogwarts.(I left out the part about McGonagall. He didn't need to know that.) I got a 'no' as my answer. How can you tell if something is cursed?"
"You think your crystal ball might be cursed? Why?" Lupin asked
"Either my crystal ball is cursed, I made a mistake, or you are going to die before we get to Hogwarts. Humor me." I said
"Can I see it?" he asked
"Here." I said, handing it to him.
He prodded it a couple times with his wand, muttering things I couldn't hear. After about ten minutes, Lupin said "You may be right! This looks like it has an intermatpost curse on it. What that does is change the answer you get to its opposite. It is dark magic. Where did you get this and have you predicted anything else on it?" he asked urgently.
"I got it at Divination, everything you need. I didn't predict anything else on it, because when it's not handy I just use this spell I invented to make a little crystal ball in my hand. That's what I was doing when you came in." I said.
"Ok." he said. "I will look into that place and inform Professor Dumbledore about it. Thank you for telling me, I didn't realize how unlikely it would be for you to make a mistake."
"I have never made a mistake Professor." I said. "And please don't tell Professor Dumbledore about my mother. He doesn't know. Actually, I would appreciate it if you didn't mention to anyone about anything that happens in this compartment, besides what you need to tell Dumbledore about my crystal ball." After I said that, I put a shielding charm on Professor Lupin and I, and then magiked a bunch of silver confetti squares out of a small bag and said a spell that made the confetti cover the compartment.
While it was flying through the air, Professor Lupin looked at me in shock, and said "Is that silver?"
"I do have a shielding charm on us." I said impatiently. "I'm not that stupid."
"You know about that?" he asked. "I mean, it shouldn't surprise me, but..."
"Let me finish this spell," I said. "It's draining my energy. Then I'll explain some things to you."
"Of course." he said.
I finished covering the compartment, said a complex chant, gathered it (magically) back into a pile, and then stuck my wand in it. After I had said a few words, I stated talking again. "I'm not taking any chances. I put an eavesdropping charm on this compartment. Ok. You still don't understand a few things. I'm surprised Dumbledore hasn't told you, but I'm a werewolf. What Dumbledore doesn't know, is that it's by my own free will."
"That's crazy! Why-" Professor Lupin started to say.
I cut him off. "Don't ask, but I wouldn't have done it unless I had a very good reason." As you know, my parents were killed by Voldemort when I was a baby. No one but James and Lily knew that they knew exactly when, and how it would happen. They wrote me a letter the size of a book, explaining everything. You are in that letter, along with Sirius, and rat-boy. Yes, I know all about that. I suspect that he betrayed my parents, as well as James and Lily. No other spies knew-my grandparents took every precaution, even one you don't know about. No, I'm not going to tell you. There are only three Potters left in the world. Voldemort thinks there is only one. Only two people know who those three Potters are, myself included. Don't worry about anything, I'm at Hogwarts on a mission."
Suddenly, I went into a trance. "At the end of our seventh year, the final battle will begin. Harry and I will survive, Dumbledore will save the life of a student, sacrificing his own." I suddenly snapped out of my trance, totally shaken. Remus Lupin was staring at me.
"I'm sorry Professor," I said. "It was such a big prediction, that I couldn't do a silencing charm. I would have preferred that you had not heard that."
"It's ok." he said. "I want to do anything that I can to help. Maybe you could explain it to me?"
"No way!" I exclaimed. "Do you think I go around telling people I just met everything I know! You are the last person I want interfering. If I tell you, you will tell Dumbledore everything! He wouldn't survive knowing. How do you think it feels, to know how, and when you are going to die? My parents barely did their parts right, and James and Lily messed up. Big time."
By this time, I was almost talking to myself. Even so, Lupin asked me "What do you mean, James and Lily messed up big time? They saved Harry's life!"
"Yes." I said. "But they- no, I'm not going to tell you. No way, no how. No. It's so weird. I won't even know until Halloween. "
"No offense, Professor Lupin," I said, shaking my self out of it. "But only with the necessary precautions, can Voldemort be overcome. If you tell anyone anything, those necessary precautions will not be put in place."
"Oh, and Professor, don't believe everything you hear. You could also do to be a bit more observant, as well as should I. You should have picked up on what I said about Professor Trelawny. She has predicted the death of one student a year, the one that has divination talent. That is very true. Who's death did she predict out of the fifth years?"
"Harry's!" answered Lupin.
"Right." I said. "Which would make Harry a Seer." I pulled my snake out of my trunk, and started speaking to it. Professor Lupin turned a faint color green. Maybe he's not so unflappable after all. "I am a Parselmouth." I said. "Let's be observant here..."
"Harry is a parselmouth, and so are you. You are a Seer, and so is Harry. It seems like you have the same gifts. But wait, Harry could be a Seer because it runs in the family, but he's a Parselmouth because Voldemort accidentally put a little bit of himself into him. Did he do that to you too?" Professor Lupin asked.
"Nope," I answered. "My parents Apparated me to an orphanage, with Voldemort at our back door."
"Oh." he said. "The only other possibility I see is a spell of some sort to make you two have the same talents."
"Right!" I said. "James put the spell on Harry, and my mother did it to me. It is only light magic when done on family."
"Hmm." Professor Lupin said.
"Good job on that one," I said. "But I shouldn't have had to tell you that I was a werewolf. I don't know why Dumbledore never told you, but when I realized he hadn't, I decided to give you a few hints. When I was putting that spell on the compartment, I deliberately used silver, so that you might pick up on it. I never touched it, and made sure that you saw that when I called it back into a pile right in front of me. I stood up and leaned over it, making sure to stand as far away from it as I could. Normally, a wizard doing that spell would have simply held it. Another hint you were blatantly unaware of, was when you asked me if that was silver flying around the room, I said, and I quote, "I do have a shielding charm on us. I'm not that stupid." I thought that would be obvious, but you were so shocked about me knowing about you, that I got impatient and told you about me."
"You would have worked it out eventually, if I hadn't told you, but today is not my most patient day. I am usually very patient and not very easily irritated. Please forgive me for telling you needed to be more observant, but it's because the next few years are going to be very crazy, and you know a lot about my situation, and Harry's. You heard that prophesy, try to get Dumbledore to tell you things, and to use his pensive, so that we have access to his thoughts."
'Remus Lupin is going to be one of the light side's most valuable assets.' Did I say that out loud, Professor?"
"Say what? You went into a trance, I think. Only for about ten seconds. I didn't hear anything, but you moved your lips."
"I moved my lips! That's not supposed to happen. My old divination teacher told me that if I didn't want people to hear my predictions, I could put a spell on myself that would make it look like I wasn't making one. I think she got tired of hearing them so often, but I did the spell anyway. If it is a big prediction, I still say it out loud, but if it's a small one, it's quiet, and I usually don't move my lips. I guess if it is a medium sized prediction, I might get medium results of the spell."
"I will tell you the prediction, because it was about you, and I want you to take care of your self. I quote-"Remus Lupin is going to be one of the light side's most valuable assets."
"I have a question, Professor. Do you think that on the day of the full moon, your magic isn't quite up to par?"
"Actually, I have noticed that. I try not to do any important magic that day. I also get a little bit short-tempered on the day of the full moon. When did you get the bite?"
"Ok, I'm glad it's not just me with that problem. I'm really sorry I was so rude. I want you to be able to tell McGonagall everything you know, if anything should happen to me. McGonagall would be the best person to tell, and she will believe you. She won't be surprised." I didn't tell Lupin that she already knew. I also avoided answering when I got the bite.
"Minerva!" Professor Lupin said. "Ok, but when did you get the bite?"
Darn. I thought to my self. "Well, I could tell you the whole story. If I do will you tell me yours?"
"Weeeeeeeellllllllllll, ok. It's only fair, after all you've told me already. I've been dying of curiosity ever since you told me it wasn't an accident."
"It all started two years ago." I said. "I would have been a third year. We had a new potions teacher. To me, he seemed weird. I paid close attention to him, and one day he said that he had taught at twelve different schools, one a year, and we were the worst behaved. He had taught at a new school every year since the year Voldemort tried to kill Harry. I thought that was suspicious, so I searched the entire library, trying to find anything at all of some importance. I saw in one book, about the ways to bring back the dark arts,(yes, I stole it from the restricted section) that there was a rumor that there was a Potter in an orphanage, unprotected, who could bring Voldemort back. I looked into all those schools that this professor had said he worked at, and found out that they were all orphanages."
"It could have been a coincidence, but I doubted it. I told the headmistress, Mrs. Tweedy, about what I had found out. She said that when he did something sinister to me, she would believe me, if I had proof. She was just trying to get me to go away. She didn't believe me in the slightest. She didn't think he would do anything. I knew that if he found out who I was, he would try and do something to get me to bring back Voldemort. I wanted nothing to do with that, so I figured my only chance was to try and have something sinister happen to me, by his own fault, that I could prove."
"I did a lot more research, and called someone from one of those orphanages. She said that a person had gotten taken out into a forest, and something happened to her that killed her. I called all the other orphanages, and it was the same story everywhere, forest and all. I wracked my brain for some way that I could get into a forest with him, and come back alive, with him. Obviously, I would have to do something to him, maybe stun him.
I searched the library some more, and came across a book on werewolves. It said that you don't turn into a wolf the night you are bitten. It said that if you do a spell on that night, you can become an animagus. It said that being a werewolf boosts your power. It gives you a sense of where a dark wizard is. It is a very sinister thing, to let someone be turned into a werewolf. If you get bitten, no matter what, you can not die that night. You become a better wizard, and for that one night, invincible. The reason hardly anyone knows about that is because once you're bitten, it is very hard to stay conscious."
"I stared at that book for a long time. The good things were good, but they didn't quite balance out the bad, and there had to be another way. I wasn't even totally sure of the threat. I didn't even know if he would take me out on the night of the full moon. That chance seemed very remote."
"I did an alternate future spell, that only a skilled Seer should ever attempt. I wasn't supposed to do one, but I had no choice. I asked what would happen if I didn't find a way to get in and out of that forest with the professor. I saw that Voldemort would came back to power. After that, I was sure of the threat. Next, I asked what would happen if I found a way other than becoming a werewolf. Voldemort would get me, and use me."
"I asked what would happen if I did become a werewolf. I would go into the forest on a detention with the professor. I would summon a werewolf to me, and get bitten once, before I brandished him back to where he came from. I would face a snake that was possessed by Voldemort. I would do something to the snake, and make sure that he didn't find out that I was a Potter. I would be able to get him away from me. I would stun the professor, and get him back to school. I would convince Mrs. Tweedy that he was a death eater, he would be sent to Azkaban."
"When you are doing a future spell, you don't get details. I had no idea getting bitten would hurt so much. I fell to the ground in pain, and had to act like I tripped. I did that animagi spell, so that I got some lasting benefits. I didn't want to heal the bite mark, that was part of my proof. I did a painlessness charm."
"We walked for a little while, and then the professor Apparated us to what I am sure was Albania. We were deep in a forest, a different one than the one I got bitten in. I was glad I had done that in the other forest. If I had summoned a werewolf in this forest, a whole pack would have come. The deeper we walked into the forest, the more worried I became. I hoped that invincible wizard stuff was true, because I would have to apparate back to school, with a stunned death eater. I had no clue how to apparate, all I knew was that it took concentration. I decided that when the time came, I would concentrate on Mrs. Tweedy's office, and see what happened."
"I walked along, behind the professor, trying to plan what to do. I had no clue what Voldemort would try, but I was willing to bet that it would kill anyone who had no Potter blood in them. That was why I became a werewolf, so that I would have a reason to be alive, other than being a Potter. I knew that Voldemort liked to stand around and play with his victims; it was in my letter. My father was an Auror, and he knew Voldemort's ways. I could easily stand there and tell him that I had become a werewolf that night, and tell him that he couldn't kill me. I had no clue how he would react, or what would happen after that, but I had a plan. All that I could do then was pray."
"I prayed that Mum, Dad, Aunt Lily, and Uncle James would help me. Suddenly, I heard a voice in my head. A woman started talking. She told me that she was my mother, and since I had sacrificed so much for others, they were allowed to have their voices in my head for a few minutes. She told me that she was the only one who I could hear, but my father, James, and Lily were there too. She told me that James and Lily wanted to tell me something, but now was not a good time. She told me that on the Halloween of my fifth year, I should look into my crystal ball, and then I would know, and I could tell Harry. She told me that I could take a little bit of Voldemort's life force away by using the killing curse. She told me that it would take about twenty times of being hit with it for him to be broken down to enough human to actually die. She told me I could only try it once."
"The last thing she told me before she left, was that whatever I did, not to predict anything about Harry until the end of my fourth year. She said I could watch him in my mirror, that I had bewitched, but not to predict anything about him. She didn't give me a reason, but now, since the year is over, I know. I would have either blown my cover, or gotten killed over what happened with the Triwizard tournament.."
"When my mother left my head, I found myself facing Voldemort. This was a year before rat-boy found him, so he was possessing a snake. This professor of mine must have been even more clumsy than Pettigrew, if possible. He was not able to do anything for Voldemort, other than bring me to him. It seemed that he had been saving his strength for this moment, because he got up, detaching himself from the snake, and stood facing me. He was about the size of a small child, but very ugly. He looked evil."
"He spoke to me. He said" 'Oh, another child. Hello child. Are you by any chance a Potter?'"
"I answered him, being careful not to deny my mother. I said 'I am an orphan. I don't remember my parents at all. I was a baby when they died. I have been at an orphanage ever since.'"
"'The only Potters I killed who had a baby did not send their child to an orphanage. Perhaps you have heard of Harry Potter, little girl?" Voldemort asked me.'"
"I answered him. 'Everyone has heard of Harry Potter.'"
"'Oh, yes.' Voldemort said. 'He is quite famous. Crucio!'"
"He held the curse on me for a minute, and then lifted it."
"'I like doing that. I think it is time to put you through the Potter blood test now. Don't worry, it will only kill you if you're not a Potter.'"
"'Wait!" I said. 'I have something you need to know. A werewolf bit me tonight. I read in a book, that no matter what happens, I can't die tonight.' I pulled out my wand, and continued talking. 'The book also said that I get a boost to my magical powers.' Right after I said that, I pointed my wand at him, and said 'Avada Kedavra.' As if in slow motion, I saw him fall down, into the snake. The snake just lay there. There was nothing for me to do, but brandish him deeper into the forest." "Then, I whirled on the death eater. I stunned him, and somehow managed to apparate us back to Mrs. Tweedy's office. She called the Ministry, and Bryan Yerosco has been in Azkaban ever since."
I looked at Lupin. He was staring at me, with his mouth hanging open. The first thing he said was-
"You heard your mother? And your father, and Lily and James were telling her things to tell you?"
"Yes." I answered.
"And you had the cruciatus curse put on you?"
"Yes." I said.
"And you're an Animagus?"
"Would you like to see?" I asked him. Without waiting for an answer, I turned myself into a cute Golden Retriever puppy. I jumped up onto Lupin, and started wagging my tail.
He smiled at me, and said "I'll take that as a yes."
I got off of him, turned back into a human, and smiled. "Any other questions?" I asked him.
"Yes." he said. "What did your mother mean, when she said something about your mirror?"
"Oh," I said. "Let me show you." I pulled a large mirror out of my trunk, and showed it to him.
"It looks like a regular mirror." he said.
"Oops!" I said. I looked at the mirror, and snapped my fingers.
"Oh!" he said. "Wow!"
He saw Harry in a train compartment, with Ron and Hermione. He was eating a cauldron cake. Since it was not too exciting, I snapped my fingers again. Then I explained. "You weren't really watching the mirror," I said. "You were seeing what I saw, which was what was on the mirror. For you to have actually seen him in the mirror would have been dark magic. Only someone with Potter blood could see it. I snapped my fingers to allow you into my mind to look at the mirror. When I felt the urge to let my thoughts wander from Harry and his food, I let you out."
"No offense," said Professor Lupin. "but you have told me about quite a few things you and your family have done, that border on dark magic. Is that right, for a fifteen year old girl?"
I was becoming slightly indignant. "I said that I have done light magic, that would have been dark magic, had I not done it on family. I bet every witch has one of these mirrors on her child! And if my parents ever did anything that was dark magic, it was for our side. Dark magic destroys a wizard, but sometimes you need to even out the odds a little. They were going to die anyway, the might as well die doing some good."
"I'm sorry." Professor Lupin said. "I forgot for a moment about the history of power in your family. You are a very powerful witch, no wonder Voldemort would want you dead if he knew about you. I have one more question. What do you think Lily wanted to tell you? Did it have anything to do with what you said earlier about them messing up?"
"That was two questions." I said. "Lily and James messed up. I believe that Lily wanted to tell me something about that. Nothing connects with that situation. Nothing makes sense. There is something I don't know about. Another element to the situation. I really only noticed it, when I was watching that mirror in my third year. I heard what Harry told various people about what he heard with the dementors. It made no sense. It wasn't supposed to happen like that. Something changed at the last minute. And with ra- I'll stop here."
"Why are you stopping?" Lupin asked.
"I almost forgot that you have some personal ties with these subjects." I said. "You wouldn't want to hear what could have been, would have been, or should have been. Even if you did want to know, I wouldn't want you to, and neither would James or Lily. I was only telling you the plan, not how or why it went wrong. I'm pretty sure that is what Lily wanted to tell me. I will find out on Halloween. Then, I might tell you."
"Ok." Professor Lupin said. "I don't really understand, but ok."
"Now, don't you have something you want to tell me?" I asked.
"Oh." he said. "Actually, it's the last thing I want to talk about, but I did promise."
"Right." I said. "I'm all ears."
"I got the bite when I was five. I had a lot of friends, but they were mostly muggles. I went to a muggle school, and over spring break, most of my friends went away on vacation. One day, I convinced my mum to let me go to the park by myself. The park was within seeing distance of our house, and near near a forest. I was swinging, when I looked up, and saw a vicious werewolf in the shadows heading straight towards me. I was terrified. I didn't even know what a werewolf was, all I knew was that it looked hungry. I tried to keep swinging, thinking that if I was high enough, it wouldn't get me. I wanted to hold it off long enough for my mum to come and get me. I swung for about an hour, before I got tired and swung a little lower. The last thing I remember was seeing a great big wolf jump on top of me."
"My parents came later that night, to come and get me. They saw me on the ground, bleeding and scratched everywhere. They took me to a wizard doctor, and he told me that I had been bitten by a werewolf. My parents tried everything, but there was no cure. I was taken out of the muggle school, and tutored at home. My parents wanted me to be smart in everything. I think that they were hoping that if I was perfect in every other aspect, it wouldn't matter that I was a werewolf. They put a sound proof charm on our cellar, and locked me in there every full moon."
"I never thought that I would get accepted into Hogwarts, even though I could do a lot of magic, and had a wand when I was six. Then, Dumbledore came to our house. He told us that if we took the necessary precautions, there was no reason for me not to go to Hogwarts. The Shrieking Shack was built, and Dumbledore started roomers that it was haunted. They planted the Whomping Willow, and dug a tunnel under it. I was to go there, every full moon. I was also not supposed to tell anyone that I was a werewolf. I made up so many excuses, but in two and a half years, my friends figured it out. Sirius, James, and Peter became animagi, and made my transformations bearable. Have you ever transformed without the Wolfsbane potion Hannah?"
"No." I said. "Is it really bad?"
He laughed weakly. "Imagine the cruciatus curse. Imagine strenthening it a little, and then going through that once a month. I went through that twelve times a year, for almost thirty years. Imagine how grateful I was, when James and Sirius managed to become animagi. A werewolf is only a danger to humans, and while I was with my friends, my mind became less wolfish. From my fifth to seventh year, my transformations were fun. We explored the school, and all of it's secret passages. That's how we came to write the Marauder's Map. Have you heard of it Hannah?"
"Of course." I said. I was watching in my third year, when you were in the shrieking shack. I was watching a lot that year. I have a charm on my mirror, to alert me when something interesting is happening. I even debated weather or not to owl Dumbledore, and tell him everything. I thought I might have been able to testify against Peter, but I decided that no one would believe me."
"Professor." I said. "James duplicated the map a couple of times before it got confiscated. He was going to tell you, but you never needed it. Here." I handed him a copy.
"Thanks," he said. "But won't you need it?"
"I have one." I said. Then, changing the subject abruptly, I said "Five!"
"What?" Lupin asked.
"Five." I repeated. "You were only five. That's five years before you even got to Hogwarts. Two and a half years before anyone found out. Another two and a half years before anyone was able to do anything about it. After that, three good years, and then twenty three years before they made the potion. You must have incredible strength of character, Professor Lupin."
"Oh, I wouldn't go that far Hannah." he said.
"I would." I said. "That is more that thirty years of transforming without the potion. You've done it more than 360 times. Can you make the potion?"
"No." he said. "I've never been any good at potions. It was always my worst subject. I'm stuck with Snape making it for me again. Can you make it?"
"Yes." I said. Mrs. Tweedy had some guy come in and teach me how. I'm glad now, because if I couldn't make it, Snape would, and then he would know, and torment me. I heard you say it was disgusting. Mine tastes good. Do you want me to make it for you? If I did, I would have an excuse to make it. I could tell Harry, Ron, and Hermione that at my old school, our teacher taught us how to make potions taste good, and Snape deliberately made yours taste bad, so I offered to make it. I know Hermione will have it all worked out by the second day of school any ways, but I can at least pretend to try, right?"
"As long as you don't poison me, go ahead and make it for me. It's actually almost time to take it. Do you have some with you?" Lupin asked.
"Yep." I said. "Did Snape owl some to you?"
"Yes." he said.
"I know Snape would never unintentionally make a mistake on a potion. What you have to worry about are intentional mistakes."
"Oh, that's a comforting thought!" Lupin said, laughing. "Do you have any idea why sugar makes it useless?"
"Wow!" I said. "I've never had a teacher ask me a question that they didn't know the answer to! I'm honored, but I have no clue. Snape might even have made that up, I don't know."
"You've never seen that anywhere?" Lupin asked.
"No." I said.
"Have you ever put sugar in yours?" he asked.
"No." I said.
"Why not?" he asked. "Sugar makes every potion taste better, and you can always add it, unless it specifically says not to."
"Mine tastes fine without it." I said. "It's cherry flavored. Want to trade for tonight?" I asked him.
"Sure," he said. "As long as you are positive you didn't make a mistake."
"I'm sure." I said. "Here." I threw him my container, and he gave me his. We both drank at the same time.
"Yours does taste good!" Lupin said. "but I'm still curious about whether or not you can add sugar."
"Sorry." I said. "I could probably find out, and tell you, if you want me to."
"That would be great!" Professor Lupin said. "I would do it myself, but it takes a lot of time to grade papers."
"I've gotten a lot of detentions, and every other time, they made me grade papers. They never said no magic, so I made up a spell to do it. Would you like me to teach it to you?" I asked.
"Sure!" Professor Lupin said. "I would love that." After I taught it to him, he said "I remember your mother getting a lot of detentions. It was usually for predicting the questions on tests and telling them to all of her friends. What do you do?"
"Oh, you know. Pranks, sneaking in to play with the babies, predicting pop-quizzes. A lot of the same stuff the marauders did." I said.
"How do you know what the marauders did?" Lupin asked.
"It's all in my letter." I said. "Do you want me to read you some of it?"
"Would you really?" Professor Lupin asked.
"I offered, didn't I?" I answered.
"Yes, I was just surprised that you wanted to. When I first came in here, you didn't seem to want to tell me anything. What changed?" he asked.
"Well," said. "You heard that prediction, and you knew so much already, that I figured you might as well understand what you knew. Then I predicted that you would be one of the light side's most valuable assets. When I heard that, I thought I better tell you everything I could, without you getting mad, or being over loaded with information. It also helped that you were open with me, and you haven't really been acting all teacherish. Let me read you some of my letter, and you might see what else."
I got my letter out of my trunk, and looked for the right section. "Here, I said. I'm starting now."
'Hannah, if you ever need someone to talk to, go to Remus Lupin. I used to talk to him all the time, and he always made me feel better, no matter how he was feeling. I don't know what he is going to do, or where he will be, but you will meet him sometime. He is a good listener, and can handle a lot. You will have a lot in common with him. Go to him when you are overwhelmed with the size of your task, but don't tell him what it is, until the need arises. He will help you train. You will'-I'm skipping that part.-'Trust him, and don't tell him about'-skipping."
"You got high praise, Professor Lupin." I said. "The rest is what not to tell you, and when I can tell you things. Moving on."
"'Sirius Black is innocent. I know that, but I don't know what of. Obviously something goes wrong in the future. I don't know why, we have everything planed and I did the spell with all the power I have to use.' -skipping-'Just remember, whatever you hear, Sirius Black is innocent.'"
"What spell does Elizabeth mean?" Professor Lupin asked. "And why did she put all of her power into it?"
"When you predict the future," I answered. "You predict what will happen, after all the different things happen to change what would have been if no one had done anything. The better you are at divination, the more likely the future that you see is the one that is likely to happen, because you see the end result. A cloudy future means that it is likely to change. Only someone who knows the future can change the future, but it is nearly impossible to do. There is a spell, that is immensely complex. My letter gives all the details, but I have been working on it since I was five, and it will take me approximately three more years to get to the point where I could attempt it without dying. The spell takes a huge amount of power." "What my mother was talking about, was changing the future. It is totally illegal, and Dark Magic, unless you are doing it to save lives. That is what my mother always used it for. One thing she used it for was to save me, and apparate me to the orphanage. That changed the future so drastically, that it knocked her unconscious for two weeks. She put all her power into this plan, so that it would work without a hitch. We couldn't afford a single thing to go wrong."
"But something did go wrong?" Lupin asked.
"Not with the part where I live. I'm alive now."
"But with another part?" Lupin pressed.
"Maybe." I answered evasively.
"Do you know?" he asked.
"Maybe." I said again.
"Are you going to say maybe to every question you don't want to answer?"
"Yes." I said. "Let me read more."
"'Harry Potter was born today! Lily thought of the name Harry, but James went along with it so you could be Hannah and Harry, best of friends, favorite cousins. Of course, James and Lily don't know what I saw today. Why did I ever look into that dratted crystal ball? Some times divination is not all it's cracked up to be. Remember that Hannah, when you are a great divinator. Every time I touch someone, I see their future. I have wondered for some time know, why I never saw Lily's. It's understandable that I never saw James', he's my brother, but I should have seen Lily's from the start. Now I know why I didn't." Suddenly, I stopped reading. "Any questions, before I move on to a new section, besides why I stopped?"
"Yes." Lupin said. "Do you see people's future when you touch them?"
"Yes." I answered. And it is not fun. I haven't touched you yet, besides when I was a dog. Give me your hand, I want to get this over with."
He held out his hand, and I put one finger gingerly on it. I saw him smiling, with foggy shapes that could have been a wife, and a baby. When I thought about it, he was still pretty young. I smiled, and lifted my finger. "You have a good future. Foggy parts, which I like, but good, clear as day." I told him. "You deserve it."
"Moving on. Here's a bit written by my dad." I said. "'Voldemort is gaining power everywhere. Hogwarts is one of the only safe places now. The Aurors are all busy trying to get rid of Voldemort. There is not really much we can do, but we try.'"
"Here is more by my dad. 'Hannah, your mother got together with the Auror research team, and found out how we could get rid of Voldemort. He needs to be hit with Avada Kedavra about twenty times, before he is left human enough to die. He has been trying lots of immortality experiments, which complicates things, but we are going to get some Auror teams together. I was paired with Frank Longbottom to be the heads of team A. I am glad to get to do this tedious work with my best friend, but your mother tells me that we will not be successful with our mission, but we must try. She says she has no clue why, but we must go full steam ahead. I decided not to tell Frank about that, he knows the risks, and I don't want Elizabeth trying another one of those spells. Recently, she has been getting unconscious for up to two weeks every time she does those. I think all this advanced magic is finally getting to her. I understand that she needs to do something, but she told me that she is not assured that the last future changing spell she did will work. She was unconscious for two weeks, the only other time that happened was with you."
"'This was last one was for the' -skipping-'three lives, and she says that she doesn't have that kind of power. She wants to wait a week, and then try it again. I'm afraid she is going to kill herself, but she told me that she hasn't changed the way she is going to die in the slightest, so that is not possible. I suppose that is comforting. I want to do some good for the future, but there doesn't seem to be too much to do besides this Auror team, which isn't going to work. Elizabeth's theory is that some one in the future will finish job that the Aurors started.'
'Sorry, I had to stop there, because my alarm went off. Whenever my alarm goes off, it means that your mother fell asleep and then went into a trance. When that happens, I have to write down her prediction.'
'This prediction was about what I was just writing a minute ago. I found out that you and Harry are going to finish the job that the Aurors start. Now I know that we must go full steam ahead. I will try to leave as little as possible for you and Harry to finish up. I have to go get started right now. Goodbye, Hannah darling.'"
"Job?" Lupin asked.
"Don't ask." I told him.
"Let's see, umm here." I said. 'Hannah, I know you are not going to meet Harry until your fifth year. You can bewitch a mirror so that you can see and hear everything that he can see and hear. You can also switch the view so that it shows him. The spell is "Familius vewarto Harry Potter." I also know that there will be times when you want to do something to help in one of his situations. I'm not telling you not to, but think it over carefully before you do.'"
"Let me find another bit. Here. 'Harry will live with Lily's sister. I don't know why, but he will. Her name is Petunia, and she hates all magic people. She and her husband and son will be very cruel to him. He will have to escape every year to get back to Hogwarts. He won't find out that he is a wizard until he turns eleven. He will think that his aunt Petunia's family are his only relatives. Be careful of when you tell him about you and-skipping. Only tell him when the time is right. Imagine how it would feel to find out everything all at once. I think it might overwhelm him. Try to give him hints, and tell him little bits at a time.'
'It is so hard for me to comprehend, Hannah you have no idea. I am writing this with you and Harry on the floor in front of me. Now James is making you two zoom around the house together. You are both giggling madly, I think he hit you with the tickling charm. I look at Harry, and wonder what went so horribly wrong with our plan, that he will grow up with muggles. I already wrote down the plan, you know it Hannah. You get Apparated to the orphanage, Voldemort kills us, without finding out that we ever had a baby. Voldemort goes to Godric's Hallow, and-skipping. Lily and James know the plan. What will go wrong? I can't See it Hannah, and that scares me. I can usually predict anything I want, but whenever I try, I get knocked unconscious for hours. I have tried so many times, Hannah. If that ever happens to you, prepare for the worst. I think the worst will happen to us, but I don't know how to prepare.'"
"There is a tear drop on this page, Professor." I said. This book has so many protection spells on it, that it is impossible for anything to happen to it. The only time some of the protection spells were ever off, was when someone was writing. They trusted themselves to be able to keep anything off of it. Seers don't show strong emotion much. For there to be a tear drop on this page, means so much. It shows you how hard it is to know when someone is going to die. To know when you are going to die. To know that something is going to go horribly wrong with a plan that you had perfected. To look at a giggling baby, to see his parents, and to know that he is going to be treated worse than a dog for ten years. My mother put a little button in this page. If I push it, I can see Harry and I, being elevated and zoomed around that room. I also hear-never mind."
Lupin was silent for a moment, and then said "Can I see that?"
"You really don't want to." I told him.
"Yes." he said. "I don't know why, but I do."
"It's on one of the last pages." I said. "Does that tell you anything?"
"Mm hm." Lupin said. "I still want to see it."
"It's emotional torture!" I said. "If you watch it, I'll have to watch it again. I don't know if I can handle that. It won't be as bad for you, you don't know the plan. You also haven't seen the way the Dursley's treat Harry." I was almost trembling now, but I also half way wanted to see it again. "If you really want to, I'll let you." I said.
"I really want to, but if you don't want to-"
"Here goes nothing." I said. I snapped my fingers, and pressed the button at the same time. Immediately, we saw a big room, slowly coming into focus. We saw James and Lily on the couch, My father in a chair. You could tell my mother was doing the spell, we saw everything from her point of view. Harry and I were giggling madly, and rolling around on the floor. We heard Lily say 'James, don't! Take it off!' She was laughing too.
James said 'When one spell goes off, another goes on!' The next thing we knew, Harry and I were zooming around near the ceiling. Everyone in the room was laughing.
We heard my mother say 'James, I hate to break the mood, but did you get my owl?'
'Yes.' James answered. 'I read it to Lily. I'm glad we have a way to do this. Poor Hannah, is there a reason you both have to, umm, yeah. Can we end this conversation?'
'Of course.' we heard my mother say. 'Watch the babies.'
By this time, Harry and I were in the kitchen. Harry had grabbed Lily's wand, and was making a pot get big enough for both of us to go swimming in. It had just reached a size that was big enough to satisfy us, and he was pouring water out of the wand, when Lily took it away. 'No underage magic young man!' She said, pretending to be stern. 'The Ministry is very worried about that little stuff, at a time like this. We'd better get home now. Thanks for having us, Billy and Elizabeth.'
'Yeah, bye sis, bye Billy. Harry, say goodbye to your cousin.'
'Bye-bye Hannah! Swim tomowow!' said Harry.
'Yes, see you tomorrow!' we heard my mother say. Goodness! No! Lily, James, come back! It's tomorrow!'
'Oh, no!' James said. 'Liz, turn that thing off, you don't want Hannah to hear this. Harry, Hannah, you can swim now!'
I snapped my fingers, just as the scene went blank. I started sobbing, uncontrollably. I slammed my letter shut, and pushed it aside. I was trembling, and couldn't see because of my tears. I felt Professor Lupin put his arm around my shoulders, trying to comfort me.
"It's ok." he said. "It's ok. Shhh, now everything will be all right. Look in the mirror again, Harry is happy. You're going to Hogwarts, where you will have the best time of your life, we're almost there."
"The train ride went really quickly." Professor Lupin continued. "Thank you for showing that to me. I'll take you to the shrieking shack after everyone gets off the train. We've stopped now, let's wait a minute."
"Mother was right," I said. You are really good at comforting people. I can make it to the shrieking shack by my self, but will you walk me to the Whomping Willow?" I asked.
"Sure." Professor Lupin said. "I'll come get you in the morning too. Wait in the shack for me, and I'll take you to Dumbledore's office. Let's go now, there should be a carriage waiting. Pack up your stuff, and leave it here."
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Chapter 2
I knew that he was a werewolf too. I was curious about the arrangements for the night, so I did this little spell that I invented (crybglo) to make a glowing crystal ball appear in my hand. I looked in to it and saw that Professor Lupin had some Wolfsbane potion, and he would transform in his office. Being a good divinator is so handy when you don't want to bring up a touchy subject.
When I looked up, I realized that professor Lupin had been watching me the whole time. I was thankful that I had whispered the spell, no need for him to know that I had gone against the rules (slightly) of inventing new spells. Suddenly, I got the full impact of Remus Lupin being at Hogwarts. In Diagon Alley, I had looked into my crystal ball to see if anyone that knew about who my mother really was (besides McGonagall) was going to be there. The answer I had seen was 'no.' Either I had miss-predicted, or Professor Lupin didn't know. Neither option seemed quite right. I decided to find out which it was.
"Oh, hello Professor Lupin, my name is Hannah O'Riley."
"How did you know who I was?" he asked.
"I am a Seer." I said, truthfully, but not in answer to his question.
"You must be a pretty good Seer," he said. "I don't think you will learn anything that you don't already know about divination at Hogwarts. No offense to the teacher or anything." he added hastily.
"Oh, right. Trewlany has made-what- two real predictions in her life? When she predicts the death of one kid a year, she always picks the one with talent in divination. None of them have been discovered as Seers yet. No offense to the teacher or anything." I said.
"I never knew that." Lupin said. "Why are you in here? I thought it was reserved for teachers."
"It is supposed to be." I said. "I'm a fifth year transfer student, and- Dumbledore hasn't told you?"
"Told me what?" Lupin asked.
"That I would be here." I said. "Um, yeah."
Lupin looked confused. "Did you say you were a transfer student?" he asked. "I didn't think Hogwarts took transfer students."
"They don't usually." I said. "I have actually lived in the Hogwarts area all my life, but they couldn't find me. My birth certificate only said Hannah, so the quill that writes down a child's name when they show signs of magic only wrote down 'Hannah.' You can't do too much with a first name only. At the end of last year, when I realized there wasn't a last name on my to my birth certificate, I asked Mrs. Tweedy to add it on there. As soon as she did that, Dumbledore owled me and asked for my academic records. As soon as he saw them, he arranged all the details, and here I am."
"Wow." Lupin said, sounding impressed. "Why didn't you have a last name on your birth certificate?"
"My parents hadn't made one up yet." I said.
"Made one up?" Professor Lupin asked.
"Mm hm." I said. "No one knew that I was born, besides the Potters. They didn't even tell you or Sirius."
Professor Lupin turned pale. "Who are your parents?" he asked slowly. "Do I know them?"
"You did." I said. "Billy and Elizabeth..."
Professor Lupin suddenly sat down next to me. He had been standing our whole conversation.
"They had a child?" he asked faintly.
"Undoubtedly." I said. "You mustn't tell anyone who I am."
"Of course not." he said. "That would be foolish and inconsiderate."
"So you do know?" I asked.
"Of course." he said. "Your mother was one of my best friends."
"Thank, you Professor. I was trying to see if you knew. See, in Diagon Alley, I looked in my crystal ball to see if anyone who knew that was going to be at Hogwarts.(I left out the part about McGonagall. He didn't need to know that.) I got a 'no' as my answer. How can you tell if something is cursed?"
"You think your crystal ball might be cursed? Why?" Lupin asked
"Either my crystal ball is cursed, I made a mistake, or you are going to die before we get to Hogwarts. Humor me." I said
"Can I see it?" he asked
"Here." I said, handing it to him.
He prodded it a couple times with his wand, muttering things I couldn't hear. After about ten minutes, Lupin said "You may be right! This looks like it has an intermatpost curse on it. What that does is change the answer you get to its opposite. It is dark magic. Where did you get this and have you predicted anything else on it?" he asked urgently.
"I got it at Divination, everything you need. I didn't predict anything else on it, because when it's not handy I just use this spell I invented to make a little crystal ball in my hand. That's what I was doing when you came in." I said.
"Ok." he said. "I will look into that place and inform Professor Dumbledore about it. Thank you for telling me, I didn't realize how unlikely it would be for you to make a mistake."
"I have never made a mistake Professor." I said. "And please don't tell Professor Dumbledore about my mother. He doesn't know. Actually, I would appreciate it if you didn't mention to anyone about anything that happens in this compartment, besides what you need to tell Dumbledore about my crystal ball." After I said that, I put a shielding charm on Professor Lupin and I, and then magiked a bunch of silver confetti squares out of a small bag and said a spell that made the confetti cover the compartment.
While it was flying through the air, Professor Lupin looked at me in shock, and said "Is that silver?"
"I do have a shielding charm on us." I said impatiently. "I'm not that stupid."
"You know about that?" he asked. "I mean, it shouldn't surprise me, but..."
"Let me finish this spell," I said. "It's draining my energy. Then I'll explain some things to you."
"Of course." he said.
I finished covering the compartment, said a complex chant, gathered it (magically) back into a pile, and then stuck my wand in it. After I had said a few words, I stated talking again. "I'm not taking any chances. I put an eavesdropping charm on this compartment. Ok. You still don't understand a few things. I'm surprised Dumbledore hasn't told you, but I'm a werewolf. What Dumbledore doesn't know, is that it's by my own free will."
"That's crazy! Why-" Professor Lupin started to say.
I cut him off. "Don't ask, but I wouldn't have done it unless I had a very good reason." As you know, my parents were killed by Voldemort when I was a baby. No one but James and Lily knew that they knew exactly when, and how it would happen. They wrote me a letter the size of a book, explaining everything. You are in that letter, along with Sirius, and rat-boy. Yes, I know all about that. I suspect that he betrayed my parents, as well as James and Lily. No other spies knew-my grandparents took every precaution, even one you don't know about. No, I'm not going to tell you. There are only three Potters left in the world. Voldemort thinks there is only one. Only two people know who those three Potters are, myself included. Don't worry about anything, I'm at Hogwarts on a mission."
Suddenly, I went into a trance. "At the end of our seventh year, the final battle will begin. Harry and I will survive, Dumbledore will save the life of a student, sacrificing his own." I suddenly snapped out of my trance, totally shaken. Remus Lupin was staring at me.
"I'm sorry Professor," I said. "It was such a big prediction, that I couldn't do a silencing charm. I would have preferred that you had not heard that."
"It's ok." he said. "I want to do anything that I can to help. Maybe you could explain it to me?"
"No way!" I exclaimed. "Do you think I go around telling people I just met everything I know! You are the last person I want interfering. If I tell you, you will tell Dumbledore everything! He wouldn't survive knowing. How do you think it feels, to know how, and when you are going to die? My parents barely did their parts right, and James and Lily messed up. Big time."
By this time, I was almost talking to myself. Even so, Lupin asked me "What do you mean, James and Lily messed up big time? They saved Harry's life!"
"Yes." I said. "But they- no, I'm not going to tell you. No way, no how. No. It's so weird. I won't even know until Halloween. "
"No offense, Professor Lupin," I said, shaking my self out of it. "But only with the necessary precautions, can Voldemort be overcome. If you tell anyone anything, those necessary precautions will not be put in place."
"Oh, and Professor, don't believe everything you hear. You could also do to be a bit more observant, as well as should I. You should have picked up on what I said about Professor Trelawny. She has predicted the death of one student a year, the one that has divination talent. That is very true. Who's death did she predict out of the fifth years?"
"Harry's!" answered Lupin.
"Right." I said. "Which would make Harry a Seer." I pulled my snake out of my trunk, and started speaking to it. Professor Lupin turned a faint color green. Maybe he's not so unflappable after all. "I am a Parselmouth." I said. "Let's be observant here..."
"Harry is a parselmouth, and so are you. You are a Seer, and so is Harry. It seems like you have the same gifts. But wait, Harry could be a Seer because it runs in the family, but he's a Parselmouth because Voldemort accidentally put a little bit of himself into him. Did he do that to you too?" Professor Lupin asked.
"Nope," I answered. "My parents Apparated me to an orphanage, with Voldemort at our back door."
"Oh." he said. "The only other possibility I see is a spell of some sort to make you two have the same talents."
"Right!" I said. "James put the spell on Harry, and my mother did it to me. It is only light magic when done on family."
"Hmm." Professor Lupin said.
"Good job on that one," I said. "But I shouldn't have had to tell you that I was a werewolf. I don't know why Dumbledore never told you, but when I realized he hadn't, I decided to give you a few hints. When I was putting that spell on the compartment, I deliberately used silver, so that you might pick up on it. I never touched it, and made sure that you saw that when I called it back into a pile right in front of me. I stood up and leaned over it, making sure to stand as far away from it as I could. Normally, a wizard doing that spell would have simply held it. Another hint you were blatantly unaware of, was when you asked me if that was silver flying around the room, I said, and I quote, "I do have a shielding charm on us. I'm not that stupid." I thought that would be obvious, but you were so shocked about me knowing about you, that I got impatient and told you about me."
"You would have worked it out eventually, if I hadn't told you, but today is not my most patient day. I am usually very patient and not very easily irritated. Please forgive me for telling you needed to be more observant, but it's because the next few years are going to be very crazy, and you know a lot about my situation, and Harry's. You heard that prophesy, try to get Dumbledore to tell you things, and to use his pensive, so that we have access to his thoughts."
'Remus Lupin is going to be one of the light side's most valuable assets.' Did I say that out loud, Professor?"
"Say what? You went into a trance, I think. Only for about ten seconds. I didn't hear anything, but you moved your lips."
"I moved my lips! That's not supposed to happen. My old divination teacher told me that if I didn't want people to hear my predictions, I could put a spell on myself that would make it look like I wasn't making one. I think she got tired of hearing them so often, but I did the spell anyway. If it is a big prediction, I still say it out loud, but if it's a small one, it's quiet, and I usually don't move my lips. I guess if it is a medium sized prediction, I might get medium results of the spell."
"I will tell you the prediction, because it was about you, and I want you to take care of your self. I quote-"Remus Lupin is going to be one of the light side's most valuable assets."
"I have a question, Professor. Do you think that on the day of the full moon, your magic isn't quite up to par?"
"Actually, I have noticed that. I try not to do any important magic that day. I also get a little bit short-tempered on the day of the full moon. When did you get the bite?"
"Ok, I'm glad it's not just me with that problem. I'm really sorry I was so rude. I want you to be able to tell McGonagall everything you know, if anything should happen to me. McGonagall would be the best person to tell, and she will believe you. She won't be surprised." I didn't tell Lupin that she already knew. I also avoided answering when I got the bite.
"Minerva!" Professor Lupin said. "Ok, but when did you get the bite?"
Darn. I thought to my self. "Well, I could tell you the whole story. If I do will you tell me yours?"
"Weeeeeeeellllllllllll, ok. It's only fair, after all you've told me already. I've been dying of curiosity ever since you told me it wasn't an accident."
"It all started two years ago." I said. "I would have been a third year. We had a new potions teacher. To me, he seemed weird. I paid close attention to him, and one day he said that he had taught at twelve different schools, one a year, and we were the worst behaved. He had taught at a new school every year since the year Voldemort tried to kill Harry. I thought that was suspicious, so I searched the entire library, trying to find anything at all of some importance. I saw in one book, about the ways to bring back the dark arts,(yes, I stole it from the restricted section) that there was a rumor that there was a Potter in an orphanage, unprotected, who could bring Voldemort back. I looked into all those schools that this professor had said he worked at, and found out that they were all orphanages."
"It could have been a coincidence, but I doubted it. I told the headmistress, Mrs. Tweedy, about what I had found out. She said that when he did something sinister to me, she would believe me, if I had proof. She was just trying to get me to go away. She didn't believe me in the slightest. She didn't think he would do anything. I knew that if he found out who I was, he would try and do something to get me to bring back Voldemort. I wanted nothing to do with that, so I figured my only chance was to try and have something sinister happen to me, by his own fault, that I could prove."
"I did a lot more research, and called someone from one of those orphanages. She said that a person had gotten taken out into a forest, and something happened to her that killed her. I called all the other orphanages, and it was the same story everywhere, forest and all. I wracked my brain for some way that I could get into a forest with him, and come back alive, with him. Obviously, I would have to do something to him, maybe stun him.
I searched the library some more, and came across a book on werewolves. It said that you don't turn into a wolf the night you are bitten. It said that if you do a spell on that night, you can become an animagus. It said that being a werewolf boosts your power. It gives you a sense of where a dark wizard is. It is a very sinister thing, to let someone be turned into a werewolf. If you get bitten, no matter what, you can not die that night. You become a better wizard, and for that one night, invincible. The reason hardly anyone knows about that is because once you're bitten, it is very hard to stay conscious."
"I stared at that book for a long time. The good things were good, but they didn't quite balance out the bad, and there had to be another way. I wasn't even totally sure of the threat. I didn't even know if he would take me out on the night of the full moon. That chance seemed very remote."
"I did an alternate future spell, that only a skilled Seer should ever attempt. I wasn't supposed to do one, but I had no choice. I asked what would happen if I didn't find a way to get in and out of that forest with the professor. I saw that Voldemort would came back to power. After that, I was sure of the threat. Next, I asked what would happen if I found a way other than becoming a werewolf. Voldemort would get me, and use me."
"I asked what would happen if I did become a werewolf. I would go into the forest on a detention with the professor. I would summon a werewolf to me, and get bitten once, before I brandished him back to where he came from. I would face a snake that was possessed by Voldemort. I would do something to the snake, and make sure that he didn't find out that I was a Potter. I would be able to get him away from me. I would stun the professor, and get him back to school. I would convince Mrs. Tweedy that he was a death eater, he would be sent to Azkaban."
"When you are doing a future spell, you don't get details. I had no idea getting bitten would hurt so much. I fell to the ground in pain, and had to act like I tripped. I did that animagi spell, so that I got some lasting benefits. I didn't want to heal the bite mark, that was part of my proof. I did a painlessness charm."
"We walked for a little while, and then the professor Apparated us to what I am sure was Albania. We were deep in a forest, a different one than the one I got bitten in. I was glad I had done that in the other forest. If I had summoned a werewolf in this forest, a whole pack would have come. The deeper we walked into the forest, the more worried I became. I hoped that invincible wizard stuff was true, because I would have to apparate back to school, with a stunned death eater. I had no clue how to apparate, all I knew was that it took concentration. I decided that when the time came, I would concentrate on Mrs. Tweedy's office, and see what happened."
"I walked along, behind the professor, trying to plan what to do. I had no clue what Voldemort would try, but I was willing to bet that it would kill anyone who had no Potter blood in them. That was why I became a werewolf, so that I would have a reason to be alive, other than being a Potter. I knew that Voldemort liked to stand around and play with his victims; it was in my letter. My father was an Auror, and he knew Voldemort's ways. I could easily stand there and tell him that I had become a werewolf that night, and tell him that he couldn't kill me. I had no clue how he would react, or what would happen after that, but I had a plan. All that I could do then was pray."
"I prayed that Mum, Dad, Aunt Lily, and Uncle James would help me. Suddenly, I heard a voice in my head. A woman started talking. She told me that she was my mother, and since I had sacrificed so much for others, they were allowed to have their voices in my head for a few minutes. She told me that she was the only one who I could hear, but my father, James, and Lily were there too. She told me that James and Lily wanted to tell me something, but now was not a good time. She told me that on the Halloween of my fifth year, I should look into my crystal ball, and then I would know, and I could tell Harry. She told me that I could take a little bit of Voldemort's life force away by using the killing curse. She told me that it would take about twenty times of being hit with it for him to be broken down to enough human to actually die. She told me I could only try it once."
"The last thing she told me before she left, was that whatever I did, not to predict anything about Harry until the end of my fourth year. She said I could watch him in my mirror, that I had bewitched, but not to predict anything about him. She didn't give me a reason, but now, since the year is over, I know. I would have either blown my cover, or gotten killed over what happened with the Triwizard tournament.."
"When my mother left my head, I found myself facing Voldemort. This was a year before rat-boy found him, so he was possessing a snake. This professor of mine must have been even more clumsy than Pettigrew, if possible. He was not able to do anything for Voldemort, other than bring me to him. It seemed that he had been saving his strength for this moment, because he got up, detaching himself from the snake, and stood facing me. He was about the size of a small child, but very ugly. He looked evil."
"He spoke to me. He said" 'Oh, another child. Hello child. Are you by any chance a Potter?'"
"I answered him, being careful not to deny my mother. I said 'I am an orphan. I don't remember my parents at all. I was a baby when they died. I have been at an orphanage ever since.'"
"'The only Potters I killed who had a baby did not send their child to an orphanage. Perhaps you have heard of Harry Potter, little girl?" Voldemort asked me.'"
"I answered him. 'Everyone has heard of Harry Potter.'"
"'Oh, yes.' Voldemort said. 'He is quite famous. Crucio!'"
"He held the curse on me for a minute, and then lifted it."
"'I like doing that. I think it is time to put you through the Potter blood test now. Don't worry, it will only kill you if you're not a Potter.'"
"'Wait!" I said. 'I have something you need to know. A werewolf bit me tonight. I read in a book, that no matter what happens, I can't die tonight.' I pulled out my wand, and continued talking. 'The book also said that I get a boost to my magical powers.' Right after I said that, I pointed my wand at him, and said 'Avada Kedavra.' As if in slow motion, I saw him fall down, into the snake. The snake just lay there. There was nothing for me to do, but brandish him deeper into the forest." "Then, I whirled on the death eater. I stunned him, and somehow managed to apparate us back to Mrs. Tweedy's office. She called the Ministry, and Bryan Yerosco has been in Azkaban ever since."
I looked at Lupin. He was staring at me, with his mouth hanging open. The first thing he said was-
"You heard your mother? And your father, and Lily and James were telling her things to tell you?"
"Yes." I answered.
"And you had the cruciatus curse put on you?"
"Yes." I said.
"And you're an Animagus?"
"Would you like to see?" I asked him. Without waiting for an answer, I turned myself into a cute Golden Retriever puppy. I jumped up onto Lupin, and started wagging my tail.
He smiled at me, and said "I'll take that as a yes."
I got off of him, turned back into a human, and smiled. "Any other questions?" I asked him.
"Yes." he said. "What did your mother mean, when she said something about your mirror?"
"Oh," I said. "Let me show you." I pulled a large mirror out of my trunk, and showed it to him.
"It looks like a regular mirror." he said.
"Oops!" I said. I looked at the mirror, and snapped my fingers.
"Oh!" he said. "Wow!"
He saw Harry in a train compartment, with Ron and Hermione. He was eating a cauldron cake. Since it was not too exciting, I snapped my fingers again. Then I explained. "You weren't really watching the mirror," I said. "You were seeing what I saw, which was what was on the mirror. For you to have actually seen him in the mirror would have been dark magic. Only someone with Potter blood could see it. I snapped my fingers to allow you into my mind to look at the mirror. When I felt the urge to let my thoughts wander from Harry and his food, I let you out."
"No offense," said Professor Lupin. "but you have told me about quite a few things you and your family have done, that border on dark magic. Is that right, for a fifteen year old girl?"
I was becoming slightly indignant. "I said that I have done light magic, that would have been dark magic, had I not done it on family. I bet every witch has one of these mirrors on her child! And if my parents ever did anything that was dark magic, it was for our side. Dark magic destroys a wizard, but sometimes you need to even out the odds a little. They were going to die anyway, the might as well die doing some good."
"I'm sorry." Professor Lupin said. "I forgot for a moment about the history of power in your family. You are a very powerful witch, no wonder Voldemort would want you dead if he knew about you. I have one more question. What do you think Lily wanted to tell you? Did it have anything to do with what you said earlier about them messing up?"
"That was two questions." I said. "Lily and James messed up. I believe that Lily wanted to tell me something about that. Nothing connects with that situation. Nothing makes sense. There is something I don't know about. Another element to the situation. I really only noticed it, when I was watching that mirror in my third year. I heard what Harry told various people about what he heard with the dementors. It made no sense. It wasn't supposed to happen like that. Something changed at the last minute. And with ra- I'll stop here."
"Why are you stopping?" Lupin asked.
"I almost forgot that you have some personal ties with these subjects." I said. "You wouldn't want to hear what could have been, would have been, or should have been. Even if you did want to know, I wouldn't want you to, and neither would James or Lily. I was only telling you the plan, not how or why it went wrong. I'm pretty sure that is what Lily wanted to tell me. I will find out on Halloween. Then, I might tell you."
"Ok." Professor Lupin said. "I don't really understand, but ok."
"Now, don't you have something you want to tell me?" I asked.
"Oh." he said. "Actually, it's the last thing I want to talk about, but I did promise."
"Right." I said. "I'm all ears."
"I got the bite when I was five. I had a lot of friends, but they were mostly muggles. I went to a muggle school, and over spring break, most of my friends went away on vacation. One day, I convinced my mum to let me go to the park by myself. The park was within seeing distance of our house, and near near a forest. I was swinging, when I looked up, and saw a vicious werewolf in the shadows heading straight towards me. I was terrified. I didn't even know what a werewolf was, all I knew was that it looked hungry. I tried to keep swinging, thinking that if I was high enough, it wouldn't get me. I wanted to hold it off long enough for my mum to come and get me. I swung for about an hour, before I got tired and swung a little lower. The last thing I remember was seeing a great big wolf jump on top of me."
"My parents came later that night, to come and get me. They saw me on the ground, bleeding and scratched everywhere. They took me to a wizard doctor, and he told me that I had been bitten by a werewolf. My parents tried everything, but there was no cure. I was taken out of the muggle school, and tutored at home. My parents wanted me to be smart in everything. I think that they were hoping that if I was perfect in every other aspect, it wouldn't matter that I was a werewolf. They put a sound proof charm on our cellar, and locked me in there every full moon."
"I never thought that I would get accepted into Hogwarts, even though I could do a lot of magic, and had a wand when I was six. Then, Dumbledore came to our house. He told us that if we took the necessary precautions, there was no reason for me not to go to Hogwarts. The Shrieking Shack was built, and Dumbledore started roomers that it was haunted. They planted the Whomping Willow, and dug a tunnel under it. I was to go there, every full moon. I was also not supposed to tell anyone that I was a werewolf. I made up so many excuses, but in two and a half years, my friends figured it out. Sirius, James, and Peter became animagi, and made my transformations bearable. Have you ever transformed without the Wolfsbane potion Hannah?"
"No." I said. "Is it really bad?"
He laughed weakly. "Imagine the cruciatus curse. Imagine strenthening it a little, and then going through that once a month. I went through that twelve times a year, for almost thirty years. Imagine how grateful I was, when James and Sirius managed to become animagi. A werewolf is only a danger to humans, and while I was with my friends, my mind became less wolfish. From my fifth to seventh year, my transformations were fun. We explored the school, and all of it's secret passages. That's how we came to write the Marauder's Map. Have you heard of it Hannah?"
"Of course." I said. I was watching in my third year, when you were in the shrieking shack. I was watching a lot that year. I have a charm on my mirror, to alert me when something interesting is happening. I even debated weather or not to owl Dumbledore, and tell him everything. I thought I might have been able to testify against Peter, but I decided that no one would believe me."
"Professor." I said. "James duplicated the map a couple of times before it got confiscated. He was going to tell you, but you never needed it. Here." I handed him a copy.
"Thanks," he said. "But won't you need it?"
"I have one." I said. Then, changing the subject abruptly, I said "Five!"
"What?" Lupin asked.
"Five." I repeated. "You were only five. That's five years before you even got to Hogwarts. Two and a half years before anyone found out. Another two and a half years before anyone was able to do anything about it. After that, three good years, and then twenty three years before they made the potion. You must have incredible strength of character, Professor Lupin."
"Oh, I wouldn't go that far Hannah." he said.
"I would." I said. "That is more that thirty years of transforming without the potion. You've done it more than 360 times. Can you make the potion?"
"No." he said. "I've never been any good at potions. It was always my worst subject. I'm stuck with Snape making it for me again. Can you make it?"
"Yes." I said. Mrs. Tweedy had some guy come in and teach me how. I'm glad now, because if I couldn't make it, Snape would, and then he would know, and torment me. I heard you say it was disgusting. Mine tastes good. Do you want me to make it for you? If I did, I would have an excuse to make it. I could tell Harry, Ron, and Hermione that at my old school, our teacher taught us how to make potions taste good, and Snape deliberately made yours taste bad, so I offered to make it. I know Hermione will have it all worked out by the second day of school any ways, but I can at least pretend to try, right?"
"As long as you don't poison me, go ahead and make it for me. It's actually almost time to take it. Do you have some with you?" Lupin asked.
"Yep." I said. "Did Snape owl some to you?"
"Yes." he said.
"I know Snape would never unintentionally make a mistake on a potion. What you have to worry about are intentional mistakes."
"Oh, that's a comforting thought!" Lupin said, laughing. "Do you have any idea why sugar makes it useless?"
"Wow!" I said. "I've never had a teacher ask me a question that they didn't know the answer to! I'm honored, but I have no clue. Snape might even have made that up, I don't know."
"You've never seen that anywhere?" Lupin asked.
"No." I said.
"Have you ever put sugar in yours?" he asked.
"No." I said.
"Why not?" he asked. "Sugar makes every potion taste better, and you can always add it, unless it specifically says not to."
"Mine tastes fine without it." I said. "It's cherry flavored. Want to trade for tonight?" I asked him.
"Sure," he said. "As long as you are positive you didn't make a mistake."
"I'm sure." I said. "Here." I threw him my container, and he gave me his. We both drank at the same time.
"Yours does taste good!" Lupin said. "but I'm still curious about whether or not you can add sugar."
"Sorry." I said. "I could probably find out, and tell you, if you want me to."
"That would be great!" Professor Lupin said. "I would do it myself, but it takes a lot of time to grade papers."
"I've gotten a lot of detentions, and every other time, they made me grade papers. They never said no magic, so I made up a spell to do it. Would you like me to teach it to you?" I asked.
"Sure!" Professor Lupin said. "I would love that." After I taught it to him, he said "I remember your mother getting a lot of detentions. It was usually for predicting the questions on tests and telling them to all of her friends. What do you do?"
"Oh, you know. Pranks, sneaking in to play with the babies, predicting pop-quizzes. A lot of the same stuff the marauders did." I said.
"How do you know what the marauders did?" Lupin asked.
"It's all in my letter." I said. "Do you want me to read you some of it?"
"Would you really?" Professor Lupin asked.
"I offered, didn't I?" I answered.
"Yes, I was just surprised that you wanted to. When I first came in here, you didn't seem to want to tell me anything. What changed?" he asked.
"Well," said. "You heard that prediction, and you knew so much already, that I figured you might as well understand what you knew. Then I predicted that you would be one of the light side's most valuable assets. When I heard that, I thought I better tell you everything I could, without you getting mad, or being over loaded with information. It also helped that you were open with me, and you haven't really been acting all teacherish. Let me read you some of my letter, and you might see what else."
I got my letter out of my trunk, and looked for the right section. "Here, I said. I'm starting now."
'Hannah, if you ever need someone to talk to, go to Remus Lupin. I used to talk to him all the time, and he always made me feel better, no matter how he was feeling. I don't know what he is going to do, or where he will be, but you will meet him sometime. He is a good listener, and can handle a lot. You will have a lot in common with him. Go to him when you are overwhelmed with the size of your task, but don't tell him what it is, until the need arises. He will help you train. You will'-I'm skipping that part.-'Trust him, and don't tell him about'-skipping."
"You got high praise, Professor Lupin." I said. "The rest is what not to tell you, and when I can tell you things. Moving on."
"'Sirius Black is innocent. I know that, but I don't know what of. Obviously something goes wrong in the future. I don't know why, we have everything planed and I did the spell with all the power I have to use.' -skipping-'Just remember, whatever you hear, Sirius Black is innocent.'"
"What spell does Elizabeth mean?" Professor Lupin asked. "And why did she put all of her power into it?"
"When you predict the future," I answered. "You predict what will happen, after all the different things happen to change what would have been if no one had done anything. The better you are at divination, the more likely the future that you see is the one that is likely to happen, because you see the end result. A cloudy future means that it is likely to change. Only someone who knows the future can change the future, but it is nearly impossible to do. There is a spell, that is immensely complex. My letter gives all the details, but I have been working on it since I was five, and it will take me approximately three more years to get to the point where I could attempt it without dying. The spell takes a huge amount of power." "What my mother was talking about, was changing the future. It is totally illegal, and Dark Magic, unless you are doing it to save lives. That is what my mother always used it for. One thing she used it for was to save me, and apparate me to the orphanage. That changed the future so drastically, that it knocked her unconscious for two weeks. She put all her power into this plan, so that it would work without a hitch. We couldn't afford a single thing to go wrong."
"But something did go wrong?" Lupin asked.
"Not with the part where I live. I'm alive now."
"But with another part?" Lupin pressed.
"Maybe." I answered evasively.
"Do you know?" he asked.
"Maybe." I said again.
"Are you going to say maybe to every question you don't want to answer?"
"Yes." I said. "Let me read more."
"'Harry Potter was born today! Lily thought of the name Harry, but James went along with it so you could be Hannah and Harry, best of friends, favorite cousins. Of course, James and Lily don't know what I saw today. Why did I ever look into that dratted crystal ball? Some times divination is not all it's cracked up to be. Remember that Hannah, when you are a great divinator. Every time I touch someone, I see their future. I have wondered for some time know, why I never saw Lily's. It's understandable that I never saw James', he's my brother, but I should have seen Lily's from the start. Now I know why I didn't." Suddenly, I stopped reading. "Any questions, before I move on to a new section, besides why I stopped?"
"Yes." Lupin said. "Do you see people's future when you touch them?"
"Yes." I answered. And it is not fun. I haven't touched you yet, besides when I was a dog. Give me your hand, I want to get this over with."
He held out his hand, and I put one finger gingerly on it. I saw him smiling, with foggy shapes that could have been a wife, and a baby. When I thought about it, he was still pretty young. I smiled, and lifted my finger. "You have a good future. Foggy parts, which I like, but good, clear as day." I told him. "You deserve it."
"Moving on. Here's a bit written by my dad." I said. "'Voldemort is gaining power everywhere. Hogwarts is one of the only safe places now. The Aurors are all busy trying to get rid of Voldemort. There is not really much we can do, but we try.'"
"Here is more by my dad. 'Hannah, your mother got together with the Auror research team, and found out how we could get rid of Voldemort. He needs to be hit with Avada Kedavra about twenty times, before he is left human enough to die. He has been trying lots of immortality experiments, which complicates things, but we are going to get some Auror teams together. I was paired with Frank Longbottom to be the heads of team A. I am glad to get to do this tedious work with my best friend, but your mother tells me that we will not be successful with our mission, but we must try. She says she has no clue why, but we must go full steam ahead. I decided not to tell Frank about that, he knows the risks, and I don't want Elizabeth trying another one of those spells. Recently, she has been getting unconscious for up to two weeks every time she does those. I think all this advanced magic is finally getting to her. I understand that she needs to do something, but she told me that she is not assured that the last future changing spell she did will work. She was unconscious for two weeks, the only other time that happened was with you."
"'This was last one was for the' -skipping-'three lives, and she says that she doesn't have that kind of power. She wants to wait a week, and then try it again. I'm afraid she is going to kill herself, but she told me that she hasn't changed the way she is going to die in the slightest, so that is not possible. I suppose that is comforting. I want to do some good for the future, but there doesn't seem to be too much to do besides this Auror team, which isn't going to work. Elizabeth's theory is that some one in the future will finish job that the Aurors started.'
'Sorry, I had to stop there, because my alarm went off. Whenever my alarm goes off, it means that your mother fell asleep and then went into a trance. When that happens, I have to write down her prediction.'
'This prediction was about what I was just writing a minute ago. I found out that you and Harry are going to finish the job that the Aurors start. Now I know that we must go full steam ahead. I will try to leave as little as possible for you and Harry to finish up. I have to go get started right now. Goodbye, Hannah darling.'"
"Job?" Lupin asked.
"Don't ask." I told him.
"Let's see, umm here." I said. 'Hannah, I know you are not going to meet Harry until your fifth year. You can bewitch a mirror so that you can see and hear everything that he can see and hear. You can also switch the view so that it shows him. The spell is "Familius vewarto Harry Potter." I also know that there will be times when you want to do something to help in one of his situations. I'm not telling you not to, but think it over carefully before you do.'"
"Let me find another bit. Here. 'Harry will live with Lily's sister. I don't know why, but he will. Her name is Petunia, and she hates all magic people. She and her husband and son will be very cruel to him. He will have to escape every year to get back to Hogwarts. He won't find out that he is a wizard until he turns eleven. He will think that his aunt Petunia's family are his only relatives. Be careful of when you tell him about you and-skipping. Only tell him when the time is right. Imagine how it would feel to find out everything all at once. I think it might overwhelm him. Try to give him hints, and tell him little bits at a time.'
'It is so hard for me to comprehend, Hannah you have no idea. I am writing this with you and Harry on the floor in front of me. Now James is making you two zoom around the house together. You are both giggling madly, I think he hit you with the tickling charm. I look at Harry, and wonder what went so horribly wrong with our plan, that he will grow up with muggles. I already wrote down the plan, you know it Hannah. You get Apparated to the orphanage, Voldemort kills us, without finding out that we ever had a baby. Voldemort goes to Godric's Hallow, and-skipping. Lily and James know the plan. What will go wrong? I can't See it Hannah, and that scares me. I can usually predict anything I want, but whenever I try, I get knocked unconscious for hours. I have tried so many times, Hannah. If that ever happens to you, prepare for the worst. I think the worst will happen to us, but I don't know how to prepare.'"
"There is a tear drop on this page, Professor." I said. This book has so many protection spells on it, that it is impossible for anything to happen to it. The only time some of the protection spells were ever off, was when someone was writing. They trusted themselves to be able to keep anything off of it. Seers don't show strong emotion much. For there to be a tear drop on this page, means so much. It shows you how hard it is to know when someone is going to die. To know when you are going to die. To know that something is going to go horribly wrong with a plan that you had perfected. To look at a giggling baby, to see his parents, and to know that he is going to be treated worse than a dog for ten years. My mother put a little button in this page. If I push it, I can see Harry and I, being elevated and zoomed around that room. I also hear-never mind."
Lupin was silent for a moment, and then said "Can I see that?"
"You really don't want to." I told him.
"Yes." he said. "I don't know why, but I do."
"It's on one of the last pages." I said. "Does that tell you anything?"
"Mm hm." Lupin said. "I still want to see it."
"It's emotional torture!" I said. "If you watch it, I'll have to watch it again. I don't know if I can handle that. It won't be as bad for you, you don't know the plan. You also haven't seen the way the Dursley's treat Harry." I was almost trembling now, but I also half way wanted to see it again. "If you really want to, I'll let you." I said.
"I really want to, but if you don't want to-"
"Here goes nothing." I said. I snapped my fingers, and pressed the button at the same time. Immediately, we saw a big room, slowly coming into focus. We saw James and Lily on the couch, My father in a chair. You could tell my mother was doing the spell, we saw everything from her point of view. Harry and I were giggling madly, and rolling around on the floor. We heard Lily say 'James, don't! Take it off!' She was laughing too.
James said 'When one spell goes off, another goes on!' The next thing we knew, Harry and I were zooming around near the ceiling. Everyone in the room was laughing.
We heard my mother say 'James, I hate to break the mood, but did you get my owl?'
'Yes.' James answered. 'I read it to Lily. I'm glad we have a way to do this. Poor Hannah, is there a reason you both have to, umm, yeah. Can we end this conversation?'
'Of course.' we heard my mother say. 'Watch the babies.'
By this time, Harry and I were in the kitchen. Harry had grabbed Lily's wand, and was making a pot get big enough for both of us to go swimming in. It had just reached a size that was big enough to satisfy us, and he was pouring water out of the wand, when Lily took it away. 'No underage magic young man!' She said, pretending to be stern. 'The Ministry is very worried about that little stuff, at a time like this. We'd better get home now. Thanks for having us, Billy and Elizabeth.'
'Yeah, bye sis, bye Billy. Harry, say goodbye to your cousin.'
'Bye-bye Hannah! Swim tomowow!' said Harry.
'Yes, see you tomorrow!' we heard my mother say. Goodness! No! Lily, James, come back! It's tomorrow!'
'Oh, no!' James said. 'Liz, turn that thing off, you don't want Hannah to hear this. Harry, Hannah, you can swim now!'
I snapped my fingers, just as the scene went blank. I started sobbing, uncontrollably. I slammed my letter shut, and pushed it aside. I was trembling, and couldn't see because of my tears. I felt Professor Lupin put his arm around my shoulders, trying to comfort me.
"It's ok." he said. "It's ok. Shhh, now everything will be all right. Look in the mirror again, Harry is happy. You're going to Hogwarts, where you will have the best time of your life, we're almost there."
"The train ride went really quickly." Professor Lupin continued. "Thank you for showing that to me. I'll take you to the shrieking shack after everyone gets off the train. We've stopped now, let's wait a minute."
"Mother was right," I said. You are really good at comforting people. I can make it to the shrieking shack by my self, but will you walk me to the Whomping Willow?" I asked.
"Sure." Professor Lupin said. "I'll come get you in the morning too. Wait in the shack for me, and I'll take you to Dumbledore's office. Let's go now, there should be a carriage waiting. Pack up your stuff, and leave it here."