Harry's first birthday was drawing nearer and nearer, when more than the usual mayhem found its way to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Minerva McGonagall, deputy headmistress, head of Gryffindor house and Transfiguration teacher, received the awful news about her mother's death and immediately she decided to return to her hometown, despite the fact that she was in charge of owling each student with the list of school stuff. She needed a replacement quickly, someone responsible and organized but also trustworthy. Only one person came to her mind at once: Lily Potter. Lily's grin wouldn't leave her face as she found her way to Dumbledore's office, it was great to be back at Hogwarts. The empty corridors hadn't changed that much and Lily was really feeling home. 'Go to Prof. Dumbledore's office as soon as you arrive, he'll give you the list of those to whom you must owl and their years' had said Minerva and that was what Lily was doing. 'Good to see you again, Lily!' said The Grey Lady, waving, as she passed through a wall. Lily's grin intensified even more. 'The password is "Cheesecake"' she had said. ' Cheesecake' said Lily to the gargoyle, which let her enter the headmaster's office. After giving her a warm welcome, Albus Dumbledore gave her a huge list and sent her to Minerva's office where she would be more comfortable. In her way, Lily said hi to three teachers (Flitwick, Vector and Kettleburn), two ghosts (Nick and the Friar), the caretaker's cat (She was even happy to see Ms. Norris) and countless portraits. She opened the office door, and someone in there startled her. A dark- haired blue-eyed man was sitting behind the desk, his feet up on it and his face grinning too.

'I can't keep reading this' said Remus as he sprung up and quickly left the room. He closed the door behind him and he pressed his back against it, countless tears rolling down his face. Tonks stood sitting on the floor and not understanding, decided to just kept reading to find out... if he wanted to be alone, she wasn't going to stop him. But she was really intrigued, she needed to know what had happened that day to mark Remus that way... She went back to the book...

'Hey, Professor Potter!' said Sirius, in a mocking tone of voice. 'Sirius! What are you doing here?!' she asked, leaving her bag in the chair in front of Sirius. 'He's been waiting for us' said a male voice, behind her. She turned around to meet James, Cassie and Harry. 'What a lovely surprise!' Lily said taking Harry from Cassie. A few minutes later, Remus, Nikki, Mme. Hooch and Dumbledore arrived and after asuring Harry would be fine, Hooch and the Headmaster left with the baby, to show him the rest of the castle and the staff. Lily sat on Minnie's chair and let out a deep breath. 'I'm hungry' said Sirius 'Nikki, will you come to the kitchen with me?' Nikki nodded, James said 'I'll go too' and both tagged along. 'You have loads of letters to write' said Remus 'Yes, I'll better start right away' said Lily and took out green ink and parchment. She was reaching for her quill when a voice from the door called the three friend's attention. 'Hello, Evans. Or should I say Potter?' asked Severus Snape, standing there, his arms crossed on his chest, his hair as greasy as usual. 'Lily would be just fine' she said quickly and then added 'I may sound silly, but what exactly are you doing here?' 'Haven't you told your dear friend, White?' answered Snape 'Dumbledore was needing a Potions Teacher and called me immediately' Cassie had never contained that amount of rage 'I guess I just forgot, but we don't talk about irrelevant facts anyway' she said. 'And Remus Lupin... as disgusting to see you as usual' 'Severus' said Remus coldly. 'So you've been seeing Cassie in classes?' asked Lily, trying to get the conversation away from trouble. 'We haven't seen since the Antidotes exam, a couple of months ago' said Cassie 'It's nice to see you again' she lied forcing a smile. 'I wish I could say the same... but you still hang around with Mud-bloods and werewolves' Snape spatted 'Shut your trap' snarled Remus 'Make me' 'What's going on?' 'Well... if it isn't Mr. Potter' said Snape 'Snivellus?!' 'I'm Professor Snape now' 'Well... that's... congratulations' said James as he threw a strange look at his friends. Behind Snape, Cassie's eyes were narrowed, Remus' fists were clenched and Lily was trembling slightly. 'Don't give me that' said Snape harshly 'or you must pretend in front of your little wife?' James was already frowning. 'What do you want?' he asked. 'Certainly not your congratulations' Snape answered acidly. 'Well... If you're here, Severus!' said Dumbledore, who entered carrying a crying Harry 'Lily, I think the little one is a little homesick' Harry's arms were flying in the air, trying to reach for 'Daddy' James took the baby who giggled a little and from James' arms stared at Snape. 'This is James and Lily's son, Harry' said Dumbledore 'I believe that you'll be teaching him in the future' Snape was looking at Harry as if he was an overgrown and specially disgusting flobberworm, but when he heard the last part, one of his eyebrows raised. 'It'll be my pleasure' he said as sarcastically as it is humanly posible and added 'I'll be going now, I'll be seeing you around this week, Lily' an unpleasant smile appeared in his lips and left as quickly as it had come. 'Lupin, White, Potter' he mumbled something that sounded like 'Nice seeing you' as he left but his voice returned clear from the hallway 'Say Hello to my good friend Black in my name' and a cold laughter came also. Lily sighed, while Remus unclenched his fists. 'I apologize in his behalf' said Dumbledore 'It'll take a while for him to fit in, but he'll do a great Head of house' 'He's also head of house?!' asked Cassie horrified. 'Yes, Cassiopea, remember that the last Potions master was Head of Slytherin House' said Dumbledore understandingly. 'Why don't we go to the kitchen with Sirius and Nikki?' offered Remus placing an arm on Cassie's shoulder. 'I don't really think that's a good idea...' said James 'Why?' 'Well... they're kinda... busy' James answered with a wink. Dumbledore smiled, 'Back to school indeed, has he?' The atmosphere lightened up a little, when everybody smiled. After a while, Lily had started writing the letters, with James and Remus throwing baby Harry to eachother and Cassie sitting on Minnie's desk, watching them, when Sirius and Nikki returned, carrying pumpkin pasties for everyone. Lily stopped to eat and Sirius took the list of names. 'Look at this name! Na... Naku...Nakoruru Arisawa... what kind of wizard can name his son Nakoruru?' asked Sirius looking at the list. 'A Japanese one, genious, besides I belive that's a girl's name...' said Remus also looking at the list. 'This could've been a great place to look for baby names, too bad Harry's already set... when comes the next one?' asked Sirius grinning at Lily. She laughed but didn't answered. It was a special kind of laugh that made everyone in the room look surprised at her. 'Lily?' asked James 'is there something you want to tell me?' 'hum... gee, I don't think so, honey, but... Remmy, why don't you ask Cassie?' she said being now deeply interested in her pastie. Everyone stared at Cassie, who was blushing crimson and looking at the ceiling. Remus was shaking slightly, Nikki's pastie had fallen to the carpet, letting an orange mark on it and the only sound heard were Harry's giggles. A small smile was pulling her lips when Cassie said 'hum... well, I guess I might be a little pregnant...' looking directly into Remus' eyes. Remus lowered his head, and when he looked up again, his face was beaming with a huge smile. Sirius let out a bark of laughter when Remus took Cassie into the air, and laughed around McGonagall's office. Harry kept giggling trapped in a hug between Lily and James and Nikki was surprised to find her eyes wet. 'That's great! That's great!' Sirius was singing,'It's my turn to be the godfather!' said James and Cassie was saying 'It's not certain yet! I'm not sure!' but nobody was listening that is until Remus silenced her with a kiss. Everyone was smiling, looking at the kissing couple when Sirius yelled horrified 'Wait! You're not gonna call your baby girl Nakoruru, are you?' Cassie's P.O.V. It wasn't certain yet! That's why I hadn't told anyone but Lils!... but it's certain now!! Remmy and I are having a baby! Of course, we'll be getting married too. After that episode in Hogwarts, Lily brought me a list of 150 names in alphabethical order separed in two columns, one for the girl's name and one for the boy's name... You are really hopeless, you know, Lils? Oh! And I'm really happy to tell you, Siri, that Nakoruru isn't one of the names I have in mind...

'She was pregnant' was thinking Tonks 'and they were getting married...' that thought didn't leave her. After reading she went looking for Remus but couldn't find him in the house. She had to leave to the Auror's headquarters at the Ministry but even there, her glance was lost in nowhere and her thoughts were the same. Remus had left to take a walk, he could barely stand that thought before Sirius' death but now he was finding it even harder... They had discussed because of the colour of the flowers on their wedding! And the last thing he had said to her was 'Do as you please'... That and the baby inside her had haunted Remus for years... When he returned, he headed directly to Sirius' bedroom again and he was about to cast the book into the fire when Harry opened the door. 'What's that?' he asked, looking at the book. 'This?' asked Remus, taking the book away from the fireplace. Harry nodded. The last person Remus would like to show that book, was asking him about it. Nothing could be done now. Sighing deeply, he gave the book to Harry, whose hands shook to see the names in the cover. 'That was written by your mother's best friend, they are memories of your father, mother, Sirius and other friends... do you feel prepared to read them?' Harry's hands shook again while he organized every thought that was racing through his head. 'Maybe tomorrow' he said giving the book back to Remus 'but don't throw it into the fire... I expect I'll be brave enough one day to read that' Now everything was clearer in Remus' head, he had to keep that for Harry, he had to be strong for Harry... and that was exactly what he was going to do. 'Come on, Professor, let's go downstairs... we've missing a gobstone player since Hermione isn't here' Harry said with a smile, a gesture that wasn't usual in his face anymore. The only way Remus found to answer that, was with another smile, the first real smile in his face after Sirius' death. 'Ok, but in one condition' he said 'Which is...?' 'Call me Remus' In the way down, they came across Tonks. Her eyes met Remus' but not a single word was spoken. He took her hand, to stop her and planted a kiss on her cheek, to her and Harry's surprise.
** Harry was about to finish his seventh year when finally, Voldemort met his doom. The results were Voldemort's death and Harry in St. Mungo. He had been unconcious for the last three days and someone was always next to his bed. When he finally woke up, Remus was there. 'Remus?' said Harry's voice. His eyes still not fully opened. 'Harry! You're awake!' 'Remus, can I ask you something?' 'Sure, but try to rest a little bit more' 'Can I read the book now?' Remus smiled widely.