Here you go. Third and final chapter. Hope you like. I wasn't sure about it. Please review.

Chapter Three

Life's so fragile and love's so pure

We can't hold on but we try

We watch how quickly it disappears

And we never know why But I'm OK now

Remus Lupin circled the kitchen table for the umpteenth time that hour.

"Oh for crying out loud Remus - would you just sit down! You're making me dizzy."

Mrs. Weasley reprimanded him from her sit at the end of the kitchen table.

"Sorry Molly."

He sat down on one of the empty seats and started drumming his fingers on the table. Molly looked up at him disturbed once again from her after dinner tea.

"Remus!"

His eyes darted up to her glare. He looked down at his hand.

"Sorry. It's just he's coming here tonight."

Molly's face softened.

"I know. But he'll be fine. It's the same drill as last time - Moody will look after him."

"Why couldn't I have gone?"

He moaned like a little kid.

"You know perfectly well why, Remus. Now finish that drink Severus gave you."

Remus eyed the goblet cautiously, then picked it up and swallowed the rest in two large gulps, pulling as face as he put it back on the table. The full moon always made him irritable and almost childlike in his anger. His changes had been a lot worse since Sirius had gone. It was as if Moony knew that Padfoot was no longer around in this world and he was pining for him. It was worse than when Sirius had been in Azkaban because at least then he was still alive which seemed to settle Moony. Remus sighed. Molly looked up at him.

"It's nearly dusk, you should be getting to your room. And don't worry about Harry - he'll be here and healthy when you wake tomorrow."

He nodded and stood, glad that this was his last night cooped up in his room.

"Goodnight Molly."

"Goodnight Remus dear."

He trundled up the stairs and to his room, locking the door, then curling up on the bed, waiting for the moon.

*****

Harry thought of the address of the Order, and once again the battered door appeared between numbers eleven and thirteen. Moody used his wand and the door opened. Harry crept inside, knowing not to make a sound because of Sirius' mother's painting.

Once the door was closed Harry looked to Moody and the others who had been his escort as to what to do. Then he heard the door to the kitchen open and he turned to see Mrs. Weasley running up towards him.

"Harry!"

She cried happily. He grimaced and waited for the screaming and cursing to start. Mrs. Weasley noticed the look.

"Oh, don't worry. We got that painting down ages ago."

She pulled him into a tight hug.

"It's so good to see you looking well. Come into the kitchen and I'll fix you up some food if your hungry."

Harry was. The Dursley's were still on that health kick and Ron and Hermione's sweets could only get him so far. He followed her into the kitchen, followed by Moody, Tonks and Kingsley. The others having retired for the night.

"Where's Professor Lupin?"

He questioned, looking around. He had assumed Remus would be here to greet him. He'd already been slightly disappointed that he wasn't there to pick him up.

"It's full moon, dear. He's in his room."

A light suddenly flicked on in Harry's head. Of course - full moon. How stupid was he? Although in his defence it was a cloudy night so he couldn't see the moon, but he should have realised.

"Here you go, Harry."

She said putting a plate down in front of him.

"Thanks Mrs. Weasley."

He said as she placed other plates in front of the other hungry people in the room.

After dinner Harry trundled upstairs and to his old room. Ron was laying in bed, still awake and he looked up when the door opened.

"Harry!"

He sat up.

"Hey Ron."

"You just got in?"

"No, I've been here about an half hour - your mum was just getting me some food."

"I didn't here you come in. Must have dozed off." His voice went down I volume slightly. "Moony kept me awake last night with his howling."

"Really?"

Harry looked shocked. Ron nodded.

"His room's just across the way - Snape's been making him that Wolfsbane stuff so he's been a harmless wolf but I think he's missing Padfoot."

Harry didn't reply. Just nodded. He was missing Padfoot as well. Harry yawned, and fell onto his bed not even bothering to undress. He laid there, kicked off his shoes, then rolled over.

"Night Ron. We'll chat tomorrow."

"Night Har...ry..."

He yawned, closing his eyes.

*****

The sun was high when Harry finally awoke. As Ron had said, Moony was once again howling in the night, keeping him awake. He looked across - Ron was still fast asleep.

Getting up he went and had a wash, changed, then headed downstairs to the kitchen. Opening the door he saw Mrs. Weasley washing dishes and chatting with Tonks, who was hindering more than helping by the sounds of things.

"Harry!"

Tonks smiled, then dropped the plate she had in her hands with a smash.

"Tonks!!! That's the fifth one today! Just sit down!"

"Sorry, Mrs. Weasley."

Tonks said sheepishly and joined Harry at the kitchen table.

"Have a good sleep?"

Harry just nodded, not wanting to mention about Lupin.

"Really? I didn't! That's damn howling! He's been like it ever since - well...you know."

Harry did know. And he was also glad that Tonks was now back to her old self. From what he'd heard she'd been quiet after she'd gotten out of St. Mungo's.

"I didn't want to say anything."

Harry confined in her, obviously worried.

"Ah Remus is fine. Just don't let on you heard anything, kay? We're not sure he knows he's doing it."

"Sure."

"Harry, would you go and wake the others - breakfast is almost ready."

Molly asked him.

"I thought breakfast would have been over my now."

"Well, on full moon days breakfast has been put back later. Mainly for Remus, but as he's keeping the others up..."

Harry nodded and headed upstairs. Hermione and Ginny exited their room as Harry was passing it to wake Ron up.

"Harry! You're here!"

Hermione hugged him.

"How are you?"

She asked him.

"I'm doing okay. You?"

"Never better."

Harry went and got Ron up, while Ginny woke the twins and soon they were all around the kitchen table chatting away happily. Near the end of breakfast/lunch, the kitchen door opened and a very tired looking Remus slouched in and sank into the nearest chair, next to Harry. Mrs. Weasley set a plate in front of him.

"Thanks Molly."

He looked to Harry.

"Hey Harry. How are you?"

"Fine thanks Professor Lupin."

"Please it's Remus. The journey went okay then?"

"Completely uneventful."

"If you call a dozen course changes uneventful. He even changed course when a flock of pigeons came near us!"

Tonks said from the other end of the table, making them laugh.

"That's good then."

Remus said picking at his food. After brunch Molly sent her lot upstairs to change so they could clean out the garden. Amazingly enough they still had places to clean even after all this time. Remus sat down by the fire.

"Prof - I mean Remus." Harry started. Remus looked up. Harry sat down opposite him. "I um...I got a letter...uh..."

"From Sirius?"

Harry nodded. Remus smiled sadly.

"Me too."

"Did it mention the wine cellar in yours?"

"No. Why?"

"Well, Sirius said there's a secret door down there and that all his stuff's in there. Said it was a bit of a surprise. Will you come down with me? I think we should see it together."

Remus smiled properly for the first time in ages.

"Yes, Harry. I'd like that. We'll go down this evening when I'm not so tired."

Harry nodded, giving him a smile back before leaving to help the others.

*****

After dinner, around 6.30, Harry sat with Remus in the kitchen while waiting for him to finish his cup of tea. Then the both of them rose and headed down into the basement. No-one had touched the rooms down here so far. Even filthier than the rest of the house. They figured that Kreature must have been the only one down here in the ten years it was left vacant.

They moved through the large basement until they reached the wine cellar. A room with a large rack of wine bottles, covered in dust and cobwebs.

"That must be it."

Harry stated. They moved over and noticed a gap behind the wine rack of about two feet that could only be seen if you actually moved around the barrels at both ends that were stacked almost to the ceiling. They both slid in, trying to find how to get into the secret room, when Remus spotted it.

"Harry."

Remus said and pointed to a mark in the wall. It was a small drawing of a black dog. Harry smiled as Remus ran his finger over the drawing. There was a scraping sound, then part of the wall moved backwards and slid sideways behind the rest of the wall. It was pitch black and Remus lit his wand and gestured for Harry to go in first. Both of them had slight butterflies in their stomachs in anticipation at what they were going to find.

From the light of the wand Harry noticed a button on the wall and he pressed it. Immediately the lamps in the room came to life with a flash of blue flames that changed to reds and oranges. They entered the room fully and stared around in amazement.

"Wow..."

Harry whispered.

"I agree..."

Remus said as he extinguished the light on his wand.

The room was huge. And packed full. It must have housed everything that Sirius and his uncle had owned over the years. There was hardly any space for movement. Harry stepped past a few boxes, glancing at the writing on the top of them.

"When he said he had a surprise he didn't say it was everything he ever owned! I was expecting a photo album or something like that."

"So was I."

Harry read the top of one of the boxes out.

"Hogwarts, 1970."

Remus looked suddenly eager and moved over to open the box. Lifting the lid sent dust flying and both of them started coughing.

The dust soon settled and they looked into the box to see old parchments, quills, ink bottles, items of clothing - everything Sirius had obviously collected in that year at Hogwarts. Remus started rummaging through, while Harry moved further around, weaving between old pieces of furniture from beds to cupboards, and hundreds of boxes - a lot of them belonging to his uncle.

He soon found a corner where Sirius' old bed resided. It was covered in boxes as well. They all had dates on them.

"Hey Remus. There's more over here...1971, 1972, 1974...they go right up until the year after I was born. When he went to Azkaban."

He added on quietly. Remus moved through the boxes and furniture to reach Harry. Harry started lifting boxes to the floor to look under them at more boxes. Remus sat down, pulling Hogwarts 1974 towards him. His face was the picture of glee as he went through this one. There were so many memories here for him. So much for him to reminisce about. It was obviously helping his pain and Harry smiled at him.

Then something caught his eye. A small box and it was labelled photographs. He leaned over and in his franticness he knocked another box over, causing dust to cloud the room, making them both choke.

"Maybe we should get out of here to look at this stuff."

Remus said through his spluttering. Harry agreed and they both grabbed their boxes and left the secret room, sitting down on crates in the wine cellar.

Harry sat the smaller box on his lap and opened it. It was packed full of photos. He started rummaging through them. The top ones were when Sirius had been a child and he looked just as mischievous as he when Harry saw him in Snape's memories. As he moved down he came across ones from his primary school years and stopped dead. Just about every picture included another young kid. One with black messy hair and glasses.

"It's dad."

Harry whispered. Remus looked up at him.

"Hm?"

"My dad and Sirius from primary school."

He kept rummaging lower as Remus moved to sit next to him. Harry's smile broadened as he got lower and lower until he reached the first year of Hogwarts. He pulled out one with four boys on it, waving back at them. It was in a carriage of the Hogwarts Express.

"My God...I remember that being taken!" Remus said softly. "It was taken just before we got off the train on our first day. I'd been sitting in the carriage alone for about an hour before it left. It had just started moving when James and Sirius had fallen through the door. There was a group of girls standing there looking appalled at something they'd said - I can't remember what it was now - Anyway they pushed them and James had fallen into Sirius, and then into my carriage. I think it was Lily that had done the pushing - it was priceless the look of amazement on James and Sirius' faces. They'd never got a reaction like that from women before.

"I expected them to just get up and leave but they didn't. They just sat down and started chatting to me like I was an old friend. It was a great feeling. It wasn't till later that Peter joined us. He was being bullied by a group of second year Slytherin students and was thrown into our carriage. James and Sirius befriended him immediately saying that they'd get them back when they got to school. They had that look on their faces, you know the one Fred and George get a lot when they start planning something..."

Harry smiled, knowing that look.

"What else is there?"

Remus asked looking down at the box. Harry started pulling Hogwarts photo's out by the dozen, some with all of them in some with just a couple, but in all of them they were smiling. Remus had a story for just about every single one - Halloween photos, Christmas photos, Quidditch photos, Hogsmeade photos, other holiday photos.

"That's James' house. We stayed there one Christmas - Sirius and I that it, Peter couldn't. It was one of the best Christmas's I'd ever had." He pointed to another picture. "And this is the first picture we have of Sirius, James and Peter as animagi."

Harry stared at the photo. Remus was sitting in the middle with a stag one side of him, laying down, his hooves resting under him, a very familiar shaggy black dog the other side, and Harry could just make out a rat sitting in Remus' open hands. The dog looked to be barking at the camera, the Stag was just staring nobly off into the distance and the rat seemed to have fallen asleep, Remus was smiling though and there was no sign of the lines of worry and age on his face as he sat amongst his friends.

They continued through the pile. Through the years of Hogwarts, through holidays, pranks they'd managed to snap, quite a few of Snape with strange clothes, and strange hair colours, looking incredibly angry, some of the teachers looking rather drunk one Christmas when they'd stayed at Hogwarts. Then finally they reached the last year and photo's of James with Lily in them, of other people that Harry recognised as people from the photo Moody had shown him, then onto James and Lily's wedding. Sirius and Remus dancing, James and Lily sharing a kiss outside, Sirius dancing with some woman, Remus asleep on one of the tables. Then they moved onto photo's of James and Lily at their home. Photo's of them relaxing in the garden, of one Christmas when Remus and Sirius had joined them, but a lot of them were taken at the Order HQ, Remus had told him.

After that came photo's of Lily when she was pregnant, of Remus and Sirius congratulating James, who looked bemused, of Lily in hospital holding a small child in her arms.

"And there's you."

Remus said smiling. Harry stared at the photo for a long moment before continuing on to ones where he was being held my his father, then by Sirius and Remus, then onto others at what must have been his christening and one that Harry had in his own photo album.

By this time they'd reached the bottom of the pile and there were only a few photos left. Harry pulled them out. They looked to be professional photo's. One of James and Lily, one of James and Lily with Harry, one of Sirius, one of Remus, one of the both of them with Harry, and then finally one of all of them with Harry sitting in Lily's arms.

"That was the last photo before...well, you know..."

Harry just nodded, not daring at himself to speak because of a lump at the back of his throat. Remus, against his better judgement, put an arm around Harry's shoulders. Harry was thankful to him.

"Thanks Sirius."

Harry whispered. Something had swept through him and he suddenly felt like he'd known his parents for years, that they weren't just names, that they were real people that loved him, including Remus. He felt a tear slide down his face and quickly brushed it away.

"This is the best gift anyone has ever given me. You've given me my family back."

He looked back down at the photo. Lily was beaming as she sat and held a wriggling Harry. James was kneeling next to Lily, smiling at Harry and holding a small teddy out to him, waving it about and Harry was reaching for it. Remus was smiling down over Lily's shoulder, and Sirius was smiling out at the camera, his face free from the worry and stress, a hand on Lily's other shoulder. One big happy family.

Goodbye my friend.

I can go now

Goodbye my friend.

THE END

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