Here you guys go. My school week is over, but my sister has to have surgery so I haven't had much chance to write, but I will try!

Chapter 10
Wolf-Remus?

An hour later Harry and I were sprawled out on his bed. He was reading the animagus book and I was reading the werewolf book Hermione had left in my room. I still hadn't found out anything that told me what was wrong with him and I was getting pretty mad at Hermione. The least she could do was tell me which chapter!

A tapping on the window drew my attention from the book.

"Hedwig." Harry said unnecessarily while opening the window. She flew over to me and dropped a small bit of parchment that I recognized as the piece I had sent with her.

"Thanks, Hedwig," I said stroking her head. She nipped my finger like I had seen her do to Harry many times. I looked over to Harry confused and he shrugged letting me know he was confused too.

Opening the parchment I scowled

Crescent,

I am still your mother. As for Snape, it isn't any of your business. Refrain from butting into other people's business.

Selene

Growling in frustration I threw the parchment to the floor. Harry picked it up and read it, both sides.

"What does this mean, Twink?" He asked slowly.

I told him what Snape had said when he talked to me this morning, "Then I got pissed and asked him why it was his business and he told me to ask my mother."

"Does he know your mother?"

"Apparently. This is all very confusing."

"Maybe we could ask Remus."

"Oh, yes. 'Remus, dear? Why does Snape have the right to butt into my business?'"

Harry grinned, "Ok, maybe not. Maybe we can talk to Dumbledore when we walk to him about the adoption thing."

"You know, there's a common link to all we need to talk to him about."

"Snape."

I laughed, "Maybe we can ask him to get rid of Snape, then all our problems will go away."

"Not all," he murmured. If you could smack your own brain, I would have but instead I pulled him into my arms. I knew he was thinking about the prophecy and it hurt my heart.

"Don't think too much on it Harry."

He nuzzled his face cozily into my neck. Holding on to him tightly I ran my fingers through his hair in what I hoped was a soothing manner.

"Come on, Harry. I'm hungry, let's go get some food." I said hopefully diverting his mind to other things. As we descended the stairs to the main floor something popped into my head. "Have you told Ron and Hermione?"

"Told them what?" He asked glumly, still brooding.

"About what you told me the first night."

"The prophecy?"

"Yes."

"No."

"Why did you tell me?"

He blushed and looked away, "I needed to tell someone. And out of everyone I think you are the one who most deserved an explanation."

As we walked into the kitchen we saw Molly and Remus getting ready to go out. "Where are you guys going?" Harry asked as we sat at the table.

"Diagon Alley. Your school letters came. We figured it'd be safer if we went." Remus said.

"They are going to help you?" I asked Remus taking an apple and leaning my chair back.

"Why not?"

"Werewolf." I said plainly as he had said to me and he chuckled.

"I am going for strength, to carry things. Oh and to grace Molly with my rugged good looks, of course."

Molly laughed, "I don't know what I would do without his good looks to accompany me."

"Now, Molly, remember Arthur."

"Oh, yes. My faux pas."

Harry and I laughed at their banter as they headed upstairs. "So much for hanging out with other people, huh?" I said finishing my apple and grabbing a pear without setting the front legs of my chair on the ground.

"Just wait." as he said that footsteps preceded the appearance of Hermione and Ron .

"Hey guys. Harry was just predicting your arrival."

"Wow." Ron said sarcastically. They sat at the table with us , Ron next to Harry and Hermione next to Ron. I raised an eyebrow at them but Hermione shook her head at me. I opened my mouth to speak anyway but she headed me off.

"So, Twinkle, are you looking forward to coming to Hogwarts?"

"Why, yes, I am." I said unable to control the grin that cut across my face at her reluctance to talk about her and Ron. Harry smacked my leg to get me to hide the grin but all he succeeded in doing was to make me fall backwards with a scream.

Standing up quickly I fixed my skirt and smoothed my hair while glaring at the others, who were laughing hysterically. Suddenly we heard a crash from upstairs followed by the screams of Mrs. Black, something about a filthy blooded grandchild, then frantic footsteps down the stairs.

"What happened?" Tonks asked frantically.

"I fell." I said rubbing the elbow which had smacked against the hard floor.

"Don't ever do that again! Do you know what Remus would do to me if anything happened to you two," at this she pointed at Harry and I, "on my watch?! I would rather face wolf-Remus."

We laughed, "Wolf-Remus isn't that bad."

"And how do you know?" she asked.

"Well since the wolf bane he keeps his mind," Hermione said quickly.

"I suppose," Tonks said still suspicious.

"So you're playing babysitter?" I asked righting my chair and sitting down, this time with all four legs on the ground.

"I had stuff to do in the library anyway so I volunteered to stay," she said sitting at the other end of the table. She opened the book she had brought with her on her frantic trip down the stairs and began reading.

"What did you have to do?" Hermione asked.

"Research."

"On what?"

"None of your business, Hermione. If you don't mind, I'm reading." Tonks snapped. Hermione looked at us with a confused look.

'they probably made her stay,' Ron mouthed. I nodded and looked at Harry. Despite how hard he had laughed at me he was still looking glum. Ron followed my gaze, "Oi, Harry, what's wrong?"

"Just thinking."

"About what?" Hermione asked.

"Nothing," he set his glasses on the table and rubbed his face.

"How can you be thinking about nothing?" Ron asked humor in his voice.

"I am thinking about something. I just don't want to talk about it."

"Ok." Ron mumbled.

Hermione patted his shoulder and I opened my mouth once again to say something but before I could Harry pressed his lips to mine. I let out a groan of surprise and pulled back.

"What was that for?" I whispered.

"Shut up," he said under his breath.

"What?"

"Leave them alone. If you want to talk to Hermione, do it when Ron's not around." He breathed. His lips brushed my ear and sent a shiver down my spine. Chuckling he licked my ear softly and I let out a low growl. Tonks' head shot up from her book and she looked at us with a raised eyebrow. Harry jumped back from me as if scalded. Hermione and Ron burst into laughter and color crept onto Harry's cheeks. I leaned over and kissed his temple gently.

"Don't be embarrassed, Harry," I murmured softly. He pulled my chair closer, wrapped his arms around my waist and buried his face in the crook of my neck. I giggled as his eyelashes tickled my skin.

Hermione sighed, "you guys are so cute."

"Hermione, can I talk to you?" I asked.

"Sure."

We walked upstairs and into her bedroom. I sat on Ginny's bed and Hermione sprawled on her own bed. "What do you need?"

"What's up with you and Ron?" I asked.

"WHAT?!" She exclaimed blushing furiously.

"AHH!!! What's going on?" I screeched excitedly.

"Nothing," she said slowly.

"What happened?"

"We….uh…..kind of…kissed….but just…..uh…once."

"AHHH! This is so exciting!! I was waiting for this to happen. It took you guys long enough!" I said practically jumping up and down.

She grinned, "I guess it did take us a while."

"A little more than a while."

"So what's up with you and Harry?"

"What do you mean?" I asked .

"You know, how's it going."

"Good."

"Just good? The first night you got here you guys slept together."

"In the same bed! That's all."

"I know that. Ron told me about the morning after the full moon."

"Yesterday morning?"

"Was it only yesterday. God it seems like a long time."

"I know. In a week we are leaving for school."

"I'm looking forward to it."

"I'm not." I mumbled.

"Why?" Hermione asked sitting next to me on Ginny's bed.

"People are going to be like, 'why is she here? Why didn't she start with the rest of us."

"We will tell them the truth. You were in the United States and Dumbledore didn't think it was appropriate for you to come to Hogwarts then."

"Then they will ask why now?"

"Because situations change."

Sighing I smiled at Hermione, "Thanks 'Mione" I gave her a hug then went to go until something else came to mind. "'Mione? Is Ginny avoiding me?"

She sighed, "I think so."

"Why?"

"Harry."

"No I'm Crescent." I said jokingly.

"It seems so weird to hear that. You've been Daughter, Moonbeam and Twinkle for so long that I seem to forget your name."

"!s Ginny avoiding me because of Harry? She told me she was over him."

Hermione sighed again, "She is, sort of. When someone you like, or liked, moves on to someone one else you still feel it."

"You speak from experience?"

"Much."

"Why?"

"'Cuz when I like a guy I just sit back and watch him. I don't do anything about it, because who would want me?" She said a little sadly.

"Ron." I said plainly.

"I don't really think he wants me. I think he wants someone."

"Merlin, 'Mione." I said then smiled, that was the first time I used that word like that, " if you can't see how much he cares about you then you are blind."

"Cares, yes. I know he cares about me but I don't know if he likes me like that."

"Gods, Hermione he is freaking in love with you!" I said.

"You think?" She asked.

"Hermione you are the smartest, most perceptive person I know, how in the world can't you see something that EVERYONE, even Harry, sees."

"Really?"

"Yes. Hey, speaking of perceptive, maybe you can see something that Harry and I can't." I said then told her about Snape.

"There's something going on that we don't know about," she said thoughtfully.

"I know that." I said frustrated.

"Give me a while, Twink. There has to be something we are missing. He knows your mother, he's civil to you…." she trailed off.

"He got all huffy when Remus called me Daughter." I said suddenly remembering how he had acted.

"Maybe he's your dad!" She exclaimed.

"No, Sirius was -is- my father. There's a spell you can do to find the paternity of a person. I did it when I first started learning magic."

"So how come you didn't know who your father was?" She asked intrigued.

"Didn't tell me the name, showed his face, as it was when I was 'conceived'. And we all know he looked nothing like that man when he escaped."

"Do you miss him?" She asked suddenly.

"So much it hurts." I said truthfully. "That night, when Harry first kissed me, I actually got out of bed to go tell Sirius. Then it hit me, I was in his room, and he wasn't there."

"You know, I think that now was the perfect time for you and Harry to get together. Like last summer, everyone saw the sparks that were between the two of you, but we were all shocked when you didn't get together then. Even at Christmas, Remus had to physically restrain Sirius from following the two of you around with mistletoe."

Laughing I could just picture Remus tackling Sirius as he went to raise the retched fungus over Harry's and my heads. "I know he's not coming back but I find myself waiting for him to walk into the room, or to hear his laugh from another room."

She nodded, "That's what Harry said when he first got here. Almost the exact same words. I only feel bad that I don't feel worse. I wasn't that close to him."

I smiled despite the tears that had come to my eyes at the topic of conversation, "It's not your fault. And you don't have to feel bad for not feeling bad. You should be jumping up and down that you don't have to feel this pain, not yet."

"Yet."

"Your parents will die, Hermione. It's the way of life, or it's supposed to be, children bury their parents. Only most get to wait until they've grown up."

"And Harry…"

I nodded, "he got less time than I did, and he can't even remember them. Now Sirius. I don't know how he does it, I sure as hell couldn't."

"You never know what you can handle, 'til you have to," Harry said as he and Ron came into the room. They sat on Hermione's bed. We all sat there quietly contemplating the statement until I let out a bitter chuckle.

"It's not fair. We shouldn't have to deal with this heavy stuff. We should be kids, not adults." Hermione said, Ron made a scoffing sound and Harry grunted, each agreeing in their own way.

I have layed out the clues I have givin you so far with Snape, see what you can make of it, for those of you who are trying to figure it out.

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