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When Remus Lupin went down for breakfast that morning, he had no idea that his day was to be a strange and oddly fulfilling one. In fact, he was rather convinced that it was going to be miserable and full of boring card games with himself. This was his frame of mind as of late -- optimism be damned, he thought, if there's been a ban on firewhisky in front of the children -- and as he made his way towards the kitchen he assured himself that nothing good would be happening anytime soon.
Upon reaching his destination, however, he noticed Ginny Weasley sitting at the dining table with an oddly-shaped machine in front of her. Annoyance was quickly exchanged for interest.
"I say," he said, approaching the sixteen-year-old with caution, for he never really had a way with girls. "What's this?"
She didn't even look up, but replied quite efficiently as her fingers tapped funny little buttons: "A laptop. I have a friend who works at computer repairs in Ottery St. Catchpole -- she gave this to me."
"Ah," Remus mumbled, feeling rather confused. "Ehm... What are you doing?"
"It's called a Google," Ginny said, glancing briefly over her shoulder at him. "You search for things and it finds them for you."
A Google? he thought to himself. Good Lord, Muggles were bizarre.
"Would you like a demonstration?"
Forgetting his cup of tea, mug of coffee, bit of bacon and toast with marmalade, he replied with an eager acceptance that one only ever expects from a small child. She made a noise that sounded suspiciously like chuckling, but stroked the keys before he could accuse her of anything.
She told him to have a seat.
The screen (that's what Ginny called it and Remus smiled at the thought that he was learning a new language) became very white and at the top there sat the word "Google", each letter a different color. There were a few other words beneath that and then a very long rectangle.
Ginny clicked on the rectangle and a little black line appeared, blinking on and off.
"I'll do a search for you," she said, flipping red curls into his face. He tried to explain that he was right next to her, but she told him to shut up and he did, remembering that this demonstration was being done out of the goodness of her heart and not for any personal gain.
Girls are infinitely more thoughtful than boys, he told himself.
She hit a few more keys, then pressed a rather large button marked "Enter" and before he knew it a long list of blue words popped up. At the very top of which was Remus-Lupin.net.
"Good Lord," he said.
Mr Moony Presents... Welcome to the Approved Remus J. Lupin (aka Moony) fanlisting! Remus is a character from the Harry Potter series...
"What does that mean, 'the Harry Potter series?' " he asked, turning to face the youngest Weasley child with a feeling of genuine confusion settling into his head.
"I've no idea," she replied, "And I gave up trying to find out. Shall I do another?"
"Please, do,"
She did. This time, it was a completely different list of blue that came onto the screen, the first of which was heart the ginny weasley fanlisting.
Heart: The Ginny Weasley Fanlisting, Pop-up. Netscape is evil. MSIE; Image Maps; CSS; 800x600 or higher; lots of images/colours. Part of TheFanlistings.org. "Do they really have images?" she said, although he wasn't sure he was supposed to answer. "Well, that's vaguely unsettling."
"And what's with this fanlisting business?" Remus asked. "I'm rather sure I don't have fans,"
"I'm rather sure I'm eight hundred-by-six hundred," Ginny muttered, looking a bit put out. "I don't like this page, it's time for a different search."
For the third time she hit an assortment of little buttons and, after what seemed a long time, the blue words came back: Original Fan Fiction.
"Intriguing," she said, and a little blue arrow came to sit on top of the words. A clicking noise was heard before a peach colored background made itself known. She scrolled (that was another part of the computer-speak) down the page until she found something that held her attention enough to stop.
"Harry and Luna?" she asked him, pointing to the sentence that had caught her eye. "Bloody hell, as if that'd ever happen."
"Bill and Hermione?" he read, skipping down a bit. "Ginny, I'm beginning to wonder what kind of a thing this Google is."
"Apparently a very disturbed one," she replied. "Whoever created this site seems to think that I baby-sit you during your break from the rest of the world and..."
He turned his eyes to her face, raising an eyebrow. "And, what?"
Very slowly, Ginny turned an abominable shade of red and a weak smile broke onto her befreckled face. She sniggered, sort of whimpered, and after a few moments managed to cough and look away as she pointed to a spot at the bottom of the screen where two horrifying words met his gaze.
Werewolf nudity.
"...What?!" he exclaimed, nearly jumping out of his chair.
Ginny burst into laughter, clutching her stomach and trying to avoid falling to the somewhat hard-looking ground. Remus, however, didn't seem to think that this was funny at all. For goodness sake, she was sixteen! He was... much older! And who's business was it to imply that he... to infer that the two of them...
"Damn, that's amusing!" she gasped, grinning.
"No," Remus said, feeling as though the world had turned into a Beatles creation with no sense and kaliedoscope vision. "No, it's not."
"Yes, it is,"
"No, it isn't,"
"Yes, it pretty much is."
"No, it isn't!"
She gave him a rather sultry look, complete with puckered lips and warm eyes that made his insides feel strange.
"Remus," she said, sending a shiver down his spine. "Don't make me come over there,"