Chapter 9 – Professor Lupin and the New Mystery

Olivia spent the rest of the day pondering Professor Fireoza's words. She knew that there was more to the Professor's story but she knew that she would not be able to find anymore out right now. What disturbed her the most though was that she could not read Professor Fireoza's mind. After thinking for some time though Olivia dismissed it as not having enough practice. After an hour of pondering Olivia decided to give it a rest and decided to read the book on animagi she had gotten out the day before.

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"So I wonder why Olivia had to stay after and talk to both Snape and Fireoza?" Ron thought aloud

"Yea she never did tell us what happened with Snape." Harry agreed.

"Let's go ask her I wanna know what happened."

"Sure………'Mione you wanna come with us?" Harry asked.

"To do what?"

"We're gonna go ask Olivia what happened with Snape when she stayed after to talk to him."

Harry watched as Hermione's face morphed from one of curiosity to one of pure distaste and anger.

"No………go without me." Hermione replied curtly.

Harry was going to ask about Hermione's behavior but decided to wait until later. So Harry and Ron ran up the steps in the boy's tower to Olivia's dorm. Ron beat on the door impatiently as Olivia got up to answer the door.

"No need to pound on the door Ron I know that when someone knocks that they want me to answer." Olivia quipped as she opened the door.

"Sorry." Ron muttered sheepishly as he followed Harry into Olivia's room.

"So what can I do for you two?"

"We wanted to know what happened with Snape this morning?" Harry asked

"Oh well then I can hardly blame you Ron, but next time try to control yourself. Anyway I was thinking last night that potions would be the hardest subject for me to get caught up in so I devised a plan. I went to Snape after class and acted like I regarded him as like a potions god or something. I was like 'My old potions master was horrible but she always told us about your great talent and how you are the best potions master in the world.' So then I was like ' I was hoping that now you're my potions master you could help me get up to par with the rest of the class.'………"

"He bought that load of crap and from the new Gryffindor?" Ron asked amazed.

"That's not all Ron to totally sell him I went on this rant about how I wished I was in Slytherin so that he help me at anytime and so that I bring out my full potential. That totally sold him."

"That's wicked." Ron exclaimed.

"I can't believe that Snape bought that especially since you talk to me." Harry gasped.

"Hey no one ever said that Snape was the brightest light on the planet." Olivia replied drawing laughter from both Harry and Ron.

"So why'd you have to stay after in Defense Against the Dark Arts? Harry asked after he calmed down some.

"Yea did you get in trouble for zoning out?" Ron added

Olivia hesitated not really sure how much she was supposed to tell them. She knew that Dumbledore wanted her to keep as much of her identity as secret as possible and she doubted that even Dumbledore knew that Professor Fireoza knew her. Olivia decided that she would keep the truth secret from them…for now.

"Yea kind of ………she just wanted to make sure that I knew what I had zoned out on and to make sure that I don't do it again."

"At least she didn't take any points from us." Harry stated

"Yea."

It was then that Harry actually took a look around Olivia's room and noticed a lot of muggle things lying about. He saw that she also had quite a few pictures of her friends and family. Harry walked over to where the pictures were and looked at them all noticing at the same time that they were all muggle photos.

"Those are my two best friends." Olivia stated as she saw the picture of the two girls Harry was looking at. "Their names are Louise and Tes. That's a picture of my family well one part of it at least, here's the other part."

Olivia saw the weird gazes she was getting from both Harry and Ron so she decided to elaborate.

"My parents are divorced that's why I have a picture with my mom and her half of the family and my dad and his half of the family."

"Do you miss them?" Harry asked

"Sort of………I miss Louise and Tes the most. I mean I love my family and all but I spend more of my time with Louise and Tes that they've become more of my family now."

Harry was going to say something but was interrupted by Ron's discovery of Olivia's muggle things, especially her CD player.

"Whoa! What's that?"

"It's called a CD player here I'll show you what it dose."

"Olivia you can't muggle things don't work here there's too much magic." Harry warned Olivia but she just ignored him.

Olivia made sure a good CD was inside before she turned it on and in seconds the room was filled with the song that Olivia had sung in potions class earlier. Harry just looked amazed as he heard the song playing.

"How'd you do that?" Harry asked curious

"I put a spell on all my muggle things so that they work here. I'm working on putting a sound blocking spell on my dorm so that way no one will be able to hear anything that goes on inside this room." Olivia explained.

"That's cool!" Ron shouted over the music.

Harry and Olivia both looked at Ron then at each other before cracking up at the face Ron was making.

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The next two weeks went by in a bit of a blur for Olivia. She was able to con most of the teachers into tutoring her after class to catch her up with the rest of her class. She was always either being taught stuff to catch up or was in her room reading a book teaching herself magic. Everything was running pretty smoothly until she walked into her third Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

Harry, Hermione, Olivia, and Ron got to class early like the normally did to get good seats but they found a surprise when they entered the classroom. Standing at the front of the room where Professor Fireoza usually stood now stood a thin, tall, and scruffy looking man.

"Professor Lupin!" Harry yelled as soon as he saw him and took off followed closely by Ron and Hermione. Olivia stood back following Dumbledor's instructions to blend in with her story and to act like she knew nothing about this Professor.

Olivia soon spotted the black shaggy dog that was next to the professor and she soon realized that it was Sirius in his animagus form. Harry, Ron and Hermione were too excited about seeing Professor Lupin again to remember that Olivia still needed to be introduced. Well actually Hermione saw that Olivia was standing at the back of the classroom left alone but didn't say anything.

Soon enough the rest of the class started to slowly file in and Olivia ventured to the front of the room to take her normal seat by Harry. Once the whole class was seated Professor Lupin sat down on top of his desk.

"Now as all of you know me, except one, from your third year I will tell you that it will be mostly the same this year with Professor Fireoza filling in for me when need be and also helping me out with certain lessons. There is also another addition to my classroom this year and that is my dog that I acquired on my missions this summer his name is snuffles."

"Acquired? You make it sound like I'm more of a burden then a loving pet." Olivia heard someone complain and looked around to see if she could tell whom it was. She stopped when she heard some answer the complaint.

" Cheer up Sirius I could have used less loving terms. Just be happy that Dumbledor approved of this and that you're allowed to see Harry more."

Olivia then realized that it was Sirius or snuffles who had complained and that Professor Lupin had responded. But taking another glance around the room and she realized that the conversation had been telepathic. It was then that Olivia remembered reading something about werewolf's and being able to talk telepathically and read minds the day or so before and after the full moon and that the full moon was two days ago.

Olivia was pulled out of her revive by Hermione elbowing her quite painfully in the side.

"He's taking roll. Thought you might want to be aware of it before he got to your name." She whispered harshly, but Olivia thanked her anyway.

Professor Lupin continued down the list of names quite easily and uneventfully until he got to Olivia.

"Olivia Stanton?"

"Here"

Professor Lupin looked to see that the person who answered him was in fact Olivia Stanton but froze when he caught sight of her. He stared at her for a few seconds before she heard him again.

"Sirius………look!" He sounded amazed, shocked, and happy all at the same time. "Is it………is it really her?"

"Oh my God Remus………did you know she was going to be here?"

"N-No I………"

Olivia heard no more of their conversation and she had a funny feeling that Professor Lupin could tell that she was listening in on their telepathic conversation. Even thought Olivia could no longer hear them she could tell that Lupin and Sirius were still talking to each other but were stopped when Harry asked what was wrong with the professor.

"N-Nothing Harry." And with that Professor Lupin continued to take roll.

Meanwhile Olivia was once again left to her own thoughts. She had been blocked from reading someone's mind twice now and it wasn't because she hadn't practiced or because their minds were harder to read. No she had been distinctly stopped and she wanted to know why and how. Olivia also wanted to know how both Sirius and Remus knew her and what they were talking about. "Oh well" Olivia thought "More mysteries for me to solve."