A/N: Still reading? Well, thank you very much, have a gold star ! This chapter is short, like a goblin, but sweet, like Lupin! (See what I did there? Ooh I could eat him with a spoon!) Anyhoo…
Chapter 6 – Catching as he fell.
A knock came at the door, then a pause.
"Harry? Can I come in?"
"It's unlocked," came the reply. Lupin entered to find Harry flicking through his photo album.
"Hey," Harry muttered.
"Hey." The photos transfixed Lupin. Harry, Hermione and Ron in their first year at Hogwarts. Lily, James and baby Harry. The Weasley's in Egypt. Lily and James' wedding day. Harry paused on that page and Lupin moved closer.
"Was a hot day, that. They had moved the date for me, the original one clashed with a full moon." He smiled sadly. "And there's me and Sirius, 'course he's aged better than me." Harry turned to him.
"Prof – Remus, there's something I want to ask you. Be honest with me, please."
Lupin nodded. "If I can answer, I will. Go ahead."
"In the . . . when Sirius . . . well, what I really want to know is, in the end, could we have done anything to save him?" Lupin was taken aback. He was expecting a question about James, or anything rather than the question he was facing now.
"Harry, I can answer most truthfully that -." He paused. Could they have saved him? Could he, Remus, have been there at that very moment to catch his friend as he fell? He supposed that there could have been a slight chance that someone there that night could have intervened, sparing his friends' life. However, remembering that night, as it came to him in nightmares, Remus had come to the conclusion that, no, nothing else could have been done. Instead, he smiled at Harry and said:
"My dear boy, you had already saved him."
Harry Potter smiled as he looked down at his final photo, him and Sirius, knowing that, in the end, he had done all he could do.
A/N: Aww, cheesy I know! And now, my pretties, we reach the finale of our story. Follow me!