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(A/N): thank you to all those who reviewed! I know it took me a while but I had writer's block! I promise to get the next chapter up soon if people like this one!

"My lady McKinley?" Remus asked as he stepped into the deviation tower to see Sarah sitting sideways in a chair reading. "My dear Professor you have not graced me with your presence since the first feast, I am starting to fell as if your avoiding me," he pouted.

"No," she answered simply; "I've been busy setting up my room and classes of course. This is the first time I have been able to sit down and read."

"The Princess? Reading?! Sound the alarm," he smiled sitting in another armchair. "Well as much as I love watching you pick up a book, I have come to ask a favor."

"And what might that be Remus?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

"Come to Hogsmeade with me?"

"Why?"

"Well," he grinned standing; "to talk."

"And why may I ask can't we talk here?" She said snapping her book shut.

"Because in Hogsmead there is Honeydukes and in Honeydukes there is peppermint."

"Are you trying to bribe me Mr. Moony?" She asked standing a mischievous grin plastered on her face.

"I might," he smiled back offering an arm. Sarah threw the book over her shoulder and took it letting him lead her down to the small town.

"I never thought you would speak to me again," Sarah whispered when they were halfway there. Several students ran past them trying to get to the shops before they became busy as it was a Hogsmeade weekend.

"Sarah," he sighed looking at her head on; "I am so sorry about that. I was mad with hurt and guilt."

"You weren't guilty Remus," she said simply; "there was nothing ANY of us could do." He caught her eye as they started walking again; she wanted him to challenge her on this. He wondered if this meant she hadn't changed her mind.

The two professors entered Honeydukes and bought several sweet such as chocolate frogs, peppermints, lemon drops and such. Then they swung over to the three broomsticks and each bought a butterbeer. The two ended up on the hill that overlooked the two by the shrieking shack making a little picnic for themselves.

"I think as long as you don't wear your hair down you'll be fine," Lupin smiled.

"Excuse me?" She asked popping a small sandwhich into her mouth.

"The problem with the male students you've been having. About ninety-nine percent of them have a crush on you. Hopefully it will wear off but if any of them see you with your hair down, they'll be DOOMED!" He laughs.

"I think you are quite mistaken Remus," she responded.

"No I'm not," he said mock offended; "whenever you put your hair down when we were in school all the boys drooled, even Slytherin. If Sirus was here he would back me up, it use to drive him crazy."

"Well if Prongs were here he would back me up, Lily had the best hair," she said carelessly.

"Please even Prongs knew that you had nice hair, he just preferred red heads. Besides I didn't think it was Prongs you were trying to get attention from, I thought you had eyes for a certain shaggy dog," Remus teased throwing a piece of fruit at her.

"Hey!" She exclaimed throwing food back at him.

"Professors?" A girl's voice asked as the two stopped sometime later both covered with food.

"Remus!" Sarah fumed; "look at what you made me do!"

Professor Lupin couldn't help it and started to roll on the ground laughing; "Sarah you should see your face!" Then he looked up at the person who had interrupted their childish romp. "Hello Harry, Ron, Hermione. How are you enjoying your Hogsmeade weekend so far?"

"Professor are you feeling ok?" Ron asked a little afraid.

"Cleanaro!" Professor McKinley said and the two who had partaken in the food fight were cleaned up.

"I remeber that charm!" Lupin squealed smiling still on the ground.

"You should it only took Lily five hundred food fights and two years to perfect it!" Sarah snapped standing up as the remaining food packed itself away into a basket and hooked onto her arm. "Remus please do try to act your age."

He immediately stood up dusting himself off; "very sorry Sarah. Now for you three," he said turning to the fifth years. "Please do keep how we've been behaving to yourselves."

"We will Professor," Hermione chimed in.

"Very good. Now my dear sister are you ready to go back up to the castle?" He asked offering an arm.

"Your his sister?" Ron exclaimed; "well that puts the rumors to rest."

"What rumors?" Professor McKinley asked.

"That you and Professor Lupin," Hermione stared, "well to speak frankly that you two were in love."

The two professors looked at each other and started cracking up. "Sarah and I... What I meant to say is Professor McKinley and I would never be, romantically involved with each other. Also we are not brother and sister the way Ron and Ginny are; we became far to close to just be considered friends so we all started calling each other brother and sister. Unless of course you were dating someone in our group," he grinned looking at Sarah.

"Are you finished with the history lesson or would you also like to bore us with the history of magic?" Sarah pouted.

Remus shook his finger at her smiling; "now who's being childish?"

"Were my parents in this group?" Harry asked quietly.

"Of course," Remus said placing a hand on Harry's shoulder; "James, Lily, Sirius, Sarah, myself, Rachel and... Peter." Sarah gave him a puzzling look; he didn't growl at Sirius' name but paused at Peter's, she thought, does he believe as I do that Sirius didn't do it?

"Come on Harry," Ron said trying to ease out of the touchy subject, "didn't you want to get some dungbombs? And Hermione didn't you say you had to use the post?" Harry nodded following his friends back down to the town.

"Harry has two very nice friends there," Sarah commented; "I hope his friendships do not fall apart as ours did."

"It won't he has better friends," Remus said walking with her back to the castle.

"Knock, knock big brother," Sarah said moving into Remus' classroom with a tray. "How would you like some warm tea and scones?"

He grinned looking up from his pile of essays, "now I remeber why I missed my sister. But," he said sadly, "you'll have to leave it there I must finish these before tomorrow."

Sarah set the tray down at a student's desk, pulled Remus up and sat him down in front of his snack. Situating herself at Remus' desk she pulled a red quill; "I'll read them, you eat and tell me what marks each deserve."

"Sounds good to me," Remus said digging into the scones. It had been a ritual since the 'sisters' of the group found out about Remus' transformations in their sixth year. The scones were suppose to help with his changing and the honey tea was simply something that helped him relax. It was always a terrible time before he transformed; he couldn't concentrate so who was good at the subject he was having trouble with helped by reading the problem, giving hints, wrting it out for him and then changing the handwriting for him. The girls fussed over him the day before and the day after and the boys went out with him that night. It was good to have some of that again.

It became a ritual with them to correct papers together it was peaceful and relaxing to have someone Sarah trusted back with her again, she even let it slide when Remus got the need to call her kid. But, she thought, we have to talk about what happened, sooner or later, I'll have to tell him.