Chapter Nine: Preparations
Remus arrived at Dumbledore's office in the year 1997. The day was January 8th and he was three day's early. He had his reasons.
"Lollipop." He said kindly to the griffin and walked up the stairs he revealed.
"Come in Remus."
In the door way Remus leaned against the frame and grinned at the headmaster. "You realize I would have come in anyway?"
"Yes, of course, but I do like to maintain some control of my office, so I, as an old man does, invited you in." he gestured to the seat. "and I often do things that I don't need to, but I happen to enjoy formalities."
Remus took the seat with a larger grin on his face. "You wouldn't realize it Albus, but it's for that reason only that so many believe and trust in you."
"Really?" he looked skeptical. "I though it was because they believed I was so insane that even Voldie wouldn't touch me."
Remus broke out laughing. "Never, Albus, call your self old, I know some forty year olds that are older than you!"
"Glad you see me as younger than yourself."
"I wasn't referring to my self in that categorization, my friend."
"I know, but I often need to hear it to bring the knowledge to mind."
"You know why I'm here Albus."
"Yes,"
"When."
"Same time."
"I'll visit with Harry until then."
"Remus, my dear friend."
"You need me to teach DADA right?"
Dumbledore smiled and his eyes twinkled "How did you ever guess?"
"I don't know, ask Twilarny."
"I'll make sure to do so."
"It was nice talking with you again."
"You too."
And Remus left to the Gryffindor tower. He knew that Harry was going to need all the emotional preparation for his friends return as he could get.
Just this time, he left Sirius at home alone.
He didn't know of 'Gwen' after all.
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Harry, fishing for some good news on the Marauders map, saw his old professor enter the castle and waited for him to come and visit.
When he left Dumbledore's office Harry practically flew down the stairs of the tower to greet his fathers friend.
"Remus!"
"You were expecting me?" his eyes twinkled.
"Of course."
"Marauders map?"
Harry smirked at his friend, "Need I repeat myself?"
"No, not at all, come with me, we need to talk."
Harry frowned, and crossed his arms. "What kind of talk?"
"A semi-good one."
Harry shook his head, "Lately I have had nothing but bad news. Mione isn't back and until she is, if you want to talk it's about her, or its good news."
"It's about her." Remus assured the boy. Harry smiled him and they walked outside.
"Harry, I need to know something, how close are you to Hermione?"
"We are best friends." He answered.
"Anything else?"
Harry sighed deeply. "I wish."
Remus looked at the ground, a frown on his face.
Hermione, when Gwen, had fallen badly for someone. He wasn't about to jinx it, but it was kind of obvious who. Harry, just saying he wanted to be closer to her than a best friend might as well have blurted out his feeling right then and there. He had no hope, none at all.
"Hermione is coming back on the 11th." He finally said. Harry's eyes lit up brighter then Remus had ever seen them, but his joy died upon looking at the werewolf's face.
"That's good isn't it?"
"Harry, I'm not the one to tell you, however who should tell you, you wouldn't let them live."
"Just tell me." Harry said well naturedly.
"Hermione loves someone from my time."
"You mean?"
"When she attended Hogwarts with your father and me, she fell in love with someone, but neither of them will admit it. But when she comes back, she will. She almost told him and him her before she left."
Harry's eyes Darkened "Who?"
"Not someone I'll tell just about now."
"Why on earth not?"
"You'll kill them."
"If they love Mione I want to talk with them, I promise I wont kill whoever it is."
"You wont keep that promise." Remus warned.
"I will and you can body Bind me if I try."
"Fine you want to know?"
"Yes."
"You positive."
"YES!"
"Snape."
"What? Harry blinked a few times and looked around him. "Snape's not here."
"No Harry, Hermione loves Severus Snape."
Harry's eye grew twice their normal size, and he fainted.
"It's better than I thought." Remus smiled and levitated Harry to Poppy.
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Lucius was standing in the dungeons, Snape's class room to be precise, pacing.
"Where is she Severus!" He demanded.
"Still not here Lux."
"Draco owled me saying he heard about her! She vanished off the face of this earth and has come back and I demand to know where she is!"
Snape sighed. "Don't you think, my friend, that if I knew, I would be with her." He looked at his friend with sorrowful eyes.
Malfoy senior sat down. "Of course, how could I forget?" Lucius looked up at his old friend. "When did you hear of her return?"
"a month past."
"And you haven't searched her out?"
"No, she's still, as you so bluntly put it, off the face of this earth, when she shows up here will she be back."
"And when will this be?"
"On the eleventh."
"Then I shall remain here until then."
"Don't you have work to attend to?"
"Nothing that can't wait, Severus." He stood up and grabbed his short staff, "I'm going to visit Draco."
"Wait Lux!" Snape stood up.
"What is it?"
"I need to talk with you for a bit longer."
"About what?"
"Gwen."
Lucius raised his eyebrows, "Oh do tell." And he sat down again.
"Firstly, she wont have aged."
"Really?" his eye grew wide. "she's still seventeen?"
"Eighteen."
"Eighteen?"
"She lived a year before she started her vanishing game."
"I see."
"She turned up in our time, just like she will on the eleventh. But there's something more pressing. She told you something. Before she left, on Christmas I believe, she told you something of importance, I must know what it was my friend."
"she Told me many things."
"Tell me of them."
"First she claimed that many people lied to me, Tom Riddle, my father, she wouldn't list more, but I have kept an eye out for this Tom riddle."
"He attended this very school, thirty years before we did. He was always head of his class and he was head boy, he got a prize in his seventh year for special services to the school, he was born to a witch mum and a muggle da. He was named after his father. His da left him when he learned of his mothers reality, his mother died of grief. Tom discarded his fathers name. HE was in Slytherin after all. Why?" Snape faced Lucius. "Because he was Salazar's Heir. You want to know who Tom Riddle is Lux?" Snape smirked darkly. "Now a day he goes by Lord Voldemort."
Lucius did a double blink. "Really?"
"Yes, Potter figured it out in his second year, and I believe you already knew this my friend since you placed Tom's Diary with Ms. Weasley."
"You caught me." He put his hand sup in defense.
"Even though she warned you, trying to save you, save the Lux she used to know, you ignored her better judgment."
"On that yes, but not on what she said after that."
"Please go on."
"She told me to watch out for you and make you stronger, and I did,"
"Not how she wanted."
"No, but I didn't figure that out until I found out who Tom was."
"I see, you realize you'll have to apologize to her?"
"I have waited all these years just to do that very thing my friend. After all, her wisdom, once understood, saved my neck."
"As it did mine." Severus agreed.
"That was all you wanted Severus?"
"Yes, Lux, you can go find your successor now."
"It was wonderful speaking with you again."
"You too, I don't hate my father for making us friends."
"Neither I, Neither I."
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AN: So a nice transition chappie huh?"
Well that's all I'm saying.
Oh and I updated three stories in one day!!!!!!!
*pats herself on her back*
I feel so happy!
Review!
Relena
Remus arrived at Dumbledore's office in the year 1997. The day was January 8th and he was three day's early. He had his reasons.
"Lollipop." He said kindly to the griffin and walked up the stairs he revealed.
"Come in Remus."
In the door way Remus leaned against the frame and grinned at the headmaster. "You realize I would have come in anyway?"
"Yes, of course, but I do like to maintain some control of my office, so I, as an old man does, invited you in." he gestured to the seat. "and I often do things that I don't need to, but I happen to enjoy formalities."
Remus took the seat with a larger grin on his face. "You wouldn't realize it Albus, but it's for that reason only that so many believe and trust in you."
"Really?" he looked skeptical. "I though it was because they believed I was so insane that even Voldie wouldn't touch me."
Remus broke out laughing. "Never, Albus, call your self old, I know some forty year olds that are older than you!"
"Glad you see me as younger than yourself."
"I wasn't referring to my self in that categorization, my friend."
"I know, but I often need to hear it to bring the knowledge to mind."
"You know why I'm here Albus."
"Yes,"
"When."
"Same time."
"I'll visit with Harry until then."
"Remus, my dear friend."
"You need me to teach DADA right?"
Dumbledore smiled and his eyes twinkled "How did you ever guess?"
"I don't know, ask Twilarny."
"I'll make sure to do so."
"It was nice talking with you again."
"You too."
And Remus left to the Gryffindor tower. He knew that Harry was going to need all the emotional preparation for his friends return as he could get.
Just this time, he left Sirius at home alone.
He didn't know of 'Gwen' after all.
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Harry, fishing for some good news on the Marauders map, saw his old professor enter the castle and waited for him to come and visit.
When he left Dumbledore's office Harry practically flew down the stairs of the tower to greet his fathers friend.
"Remus!"
"You were expecting me?" his eyes twinkled.
"Of course."
"Marauders map?"
Harry smirked at his friend, "Need I repeat myself?"
"No, not at all, come with me, we need to talk."
Harry frowned, and crossed his arms. "What kind of talk?"
"A semi-good one."
Harry shook his head, "Lately I have had nothing but bad news. Mione isn't back and until she is, if you want to talk it's about her, or its good news."
"It's about her." Remus assured the boy. Harry smiled him and they walked outside.
"Harry, I need to know something, how close are you to Hermione?"
"We are best friends." He answered.
"Anything else?"
Harry sighed deeply. "I wish."
Remus looked at the ground, a frown on his face.
Hermione, when Gwen, had fallen badly for someone. He wasn't about to jinx it, but it was kind of obvious who. Harry, just saying he wanted to be closer to her than a best friend might as well have blurted out his feeling right then and there. He had no hope, none at all.
"Hermione is coming back on the 11th." He finally said. Harry's eyes lit up brighter then Remus had ever seen them, but his joy died upon looking at the werewolf's face.
"That's good isn't it?"
"Harry, I'm not the one to tell you, however who should tell you, you wouldn't let them live."
"Just tell me." Harry said well naturedly.
"Hermione loves someone from my time."
"You mean?"
"When she attended Hogwarts with your father and me, she fell in love with someone, but neither of them will admit it. But when she comes back, she will. She almost told him and him her before she left."
Harry's eyes Darkened "Who?"
"Not someone I'll tell just about now."
"Why on earth not?"
"You'll kill them."
"If they love Mione I want to talk with them, I promise I wont kill whoever it is."
"You wont keep that promise." Remus warned.
"I will and you can body Bind me if I try."
"Fine you want to know?"
"Yes."
"You positive."
"YES!"
"Snape."
"What? Harry blinked a few times and looked around him. "Snape's not here."
"No Harry, Hermione loves Severus Snape."
Harry's eye grew twice their normal size, and he fainted.
"It's better than I thought." Remus smiled and levitated Harry to Poppy.
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Lucius was standing in the dungeons, Snape's class room to be precise, pacing.
"Where is she Severus!" He demanded.
"Still not here Lux."
"Draco owled me saying he heard about her! She vanished off the face of this earth and has come back and I demand to know where she is!"
Snape sighed. "Don't you think, my friend, that if I knew, I would be with her." He looked at his friend with sorrowful eyes.
Malfoy senior sat down. "Of course, how could I forget?" Lucius looked up at his old friend. "When did you hear of her return?"
"a month past."
"And you haven't searched her out?"
"No, she's still, as you so bluntly put it, off the face of this earth, when she shows up here will she be back."
"And when will this be?"
"On the eleventh."
"Then I shall remain here until then."
"Don't you have work to attend to?"
"Nothing that can't wait, Severus." He stood up and grabbed his short staff, "I'm going to visit Draco."
"Wait Lux!" Snape stood up.
"What is it?"
"I need to talk with you for a bit longer."
"About what?"
"Gwen."
Lucius raised his eyebrows, "Oh do tell." And he sat down again.
"Firstly, she wont have aged."
"Really?" his eye grew wide. "she's still seventeen?"
"Eighteen."
"Eighteen?"
"She lived a year before she started her vanishing game."
"I see."
"She turned up in our time, just like she will on the eleventh. But there's something more pressing. She told you something. Before she left, on Christmas I believe, she told you something of importance, I must know what it was my friend."
"she Told me many things."
"Tell me of them."
"First she claimed that many people lied to me, Tom Riddle, my father, she wouldn't list more, but I have kept an eye out for this Tom riddle."
"He attended this very school, thirty years before we did. He was always head of his class and he was head boy, he got a prize in his seventh year for special services to the school, he was born to a witch mum and a muggle da. He was named after his father. His da left him when he learned of his mothers reality, his mother died of grief. Tom discarded his fathers name. HE was in Slytherin after all. Why?" Snape faced Lucius. "Because he was Salazar's Heir. You want to know who Tom Riddle is Lux?" Snape smirked darkly. "Now a day he goes by Lord Voldemort."
Lucius did a double blink. "Really?"
"Yes, Potter figured it out in his second year, and I believe you already knew this my friend since you placed Tom's Diary with Ms. Weasley."
"You caught me." He put his hand sup in defense.
"Even though she warned you, trying to save you, save the Lux she used to know, you ignored her better judgment."
"On that yes, but not on what she said after that."
"Please go on."
"She told me to watch out for you and make you stronger, and I did,"
"Not how she wanted."
"No, but I didn't figure that out until I found out who Tom was."
"I see, you realize you'll have to apologize to her?"
"I have waited all these years just to do that very thing my friend. After all, her wisdom, once understood, saved my neck."
"As it did mine." Severus agreed.
"That was all you wanted Severus?"
"Yes, Lux, you can go find your successor now."
"It was wonderful speaking with you again."
"You too, I don't hate my father for making us friends."
"Neither I, Neither I."
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AN: So a nice transition chappie huh?"
Well that's all I'm saying.
Oh and I updated three stories in one day!!!!!!!
*pats herself on her back*
I feel so happy!
Review!
Relena