Harry left Defense Against the Dark Arts unwillingly. The sight of Sirius looking depressed in the back of the room made him want to stay. He walked out of the class looking back into the room. The excited shrieks of his classmates made him turn.
"Professor Lupin!" Seamus exclaimed, "You're back."
"Yes, I'm one of you Defense teachers this year." The werewolf explained.
"You won't believe who else they got." Dean spat bitterly, "Sirius Black, the murderer."
"Really? He's here now?" Lupin sounded shocked.
"Yeah, in there," Lavender pointed to the classroom.
Professor Lupin hurried into the classroom and the students, even Slytherins followed eagerly. Harry grinned and Hermione and Ron, knowing the shock they were about to receive.
"So a convicted murderer is teaching, with me, at Hogwarts."
Sirius spun around, "Moony, I didn't think you were going to get here so soon!"
"Full moon was yesterday Padfoot, my old friend," The two men embraced, "I don't suppose you got to see lunar charts, being dead and all."
Sirius laughed, "Shall we go to lunch, then?"
"Actually, no, you see I Have just talked to Professor Dumbledore and…" Lupin lowered his voice so the students couldn't hear.
"Excellent, Harry, stay, everyone else, lunch, now." The students slowly filed out the door, all except Harry, Hermione, Ron and Maria.
Ron turned to the girl he was disliking more and more every second, "This doesn't concern you, you know."
Maria turned to the much taller boy and said, "It concerns me far more than it does you."
About to retort, Ron was interrupted by Sirius, "She's right Ron. You and Hermione head to lunch, if you eavesdrop, I will ring your neck."
Ron and Hermoine stalked out of the class and headed down to the Great Hall, "Who does she think she is? And why did Sirius let her stay?" Ron raged to Hermione and the walked towards Gryffindor table. The six years were leading a wild discussion about Sirius.
"He says Pettigrew is alive! AND Professor Lupin is acting like is friend! AND Harry got mad at me when I rightly called Black a Death Eater! AND Fudge pardoned him! What spell has this guy got everyone under?" Dean raged on much the same way Ron had seconds before.
"It's alright mate," Ron came up behind Dean and patted him on the back, "When I first heard his story, I thought he was completely mad! But then when Scabbers transformed into Pettigrew, I started to listen to what he had to say."
"Your rat was Pettigrew?" Seamus exclaimed in an unbelieving tone.
"Yep. Found out in third year. In fact Hermione and Harry were the ones who helped Sirius escape from Flitwick's office."
"No way!" Lavender shouted, "You were in the hospital wing! How did you do it?"
"Well, I couldn't let an innocent man get his soul sucked out of him, or let an innocent hippogriff get slaughtered. But I can't tell you, maybe Sirius will." Hermione glared at Ron. At that moment the Great Hall's doors opened. They submitted Sirius, with his arm wrapped around Harry, Maria and (to great cheers) Professor Lupin.
Dumbledore rose from the staff table to greet Lupin, "Our second Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher has arrived. To all students third year and under, I would like to introduce Professor Remus Lupin, to all those older, I would like to reintroduce Professor Remus Lupin."
As the two old friends sat to the cheers of older students, Sirius whispered to Lupin, "You got a warmer reception then I did, well except for Harry."
Harry was taking his seat. Questions flew at him from all directions as to what Sirius wanted. "First of all, I can reinstitute Dumbledore's Army, as a proper club, (cheers rose from around him), and second," He turned to Ron and Hermione, "It's him, it really is, he told me how he came back!"
"HOW?" It wasn't Ron or Hermione issuing this question, but Neville, "I was with you when he died. I remember how he came to save us from the Death Eaters and his cousin killed him. No spell can bring back the dead."
"All I can tell you is that it is thanks to Voldemort," Harry started to eat, ignoring the gasps from his classmates, "And it doesn't stop at just him, the other ones get here tomorrow!"
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A/N- Sorry this chapter is really short, but I got two up in one day. Maybe I'll get I third cause I am really bored! Find out the remaining two Defense teachers and how Sirius came back in the next chapter!
