"Disclaimer: don't own anything in the Harry Potter world, I'm just borrowing them, k. anything else, I guess I'll claim them, they need a good home…*

Hello Past

"Minerva?" I asked again, "Minnie…You…uh… look great." I said with a broad smile, my voice choking up, and not that I could help it, but tears were starting to sting the backs of my eyes.

"Abby," she said through her fingers in a very small, uncharacteristic voice. What the student would say if they saw their strong, stern, teacher like this. "My God, you….you…"
"Look exactly the same as when you saw me last," I said with a small smile. "Yeah, well that tends to happen," giving a slight shrug. "Well," I said overcoming the long moment of silence that was held between us, "let's get a drink and catch up. I'm just dieing to know what you've been up to." She gave a sharp nod, and we turned to walk into the Leaky Cauldron.

"So how have you been, Minnie?" she just kept looking at me and not really saying a word.

But in a quiet voice, so un-Minerva-like, she said, "you told me about this, but it was so hard to believe…. But here you are, looking so…er…so…" she trailed off.

"So good for my age?" I said with a little laugh, shifting to cross my legs under the table.

"Well, uh, yes. You told me that you don't return to the old places you'd lived. The why are you here?"

"Well, for a simple reason, I'm broke. A bad business move on my part, but it did seem like a good ideas at the time. Let me tell you one thing, if anyone, anyone asks you to invest in a "Dot Com" company, just say no!"

"A what?"

"Nothing." I said shaking my head, knowing she wouldn't understand.

"So enough about me, what about you, what have you been up to these last years. I heard them call you a professor. How wonderful, you achieved you dream. Let me guess, Transfiguration."

"That's pretty much it, you know me so well." She said with a small smile.

"It's good you got over the initial shock, so tell me everything that's been happening."

We sat there talking for what seemed like hours, just like old times, no matter how many years there was between us, we were still the best of friends. I really missed that.

"So who's the Head of Hogwarts now, the last one I remember was, Dippet, no…no, Derny. Wait, Dippet was after Dermy, so who is it now?

"Umm…" she sounded while taking a drink of her butterbeer, "Albus Dumbledore." You know the one that defeated Grimwauld, oh wait that was after you left."

"He did that! Wow, impressive. I always knew that handsome young man would go far." Saying dreamily with a sigh, "Ah…that Alby, I miss him. How is he?"

"You know him?"

"Yeah, we're old friends from last century."

"Oh. He's not very good, indeed, considering the situation the world is in at the present moment."

"And that would be? I not up-to-date on the entire magical goings on around the world, I usually just stick to local things, you know in America. Basically, just like you guys."

"Well, here, this will explain a lot." She handed me a recent newspaper; headline reading HE-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED RETURNES. I skimmed through the article and the rest of the paper in record time.

"What I don't understand is why they didn't believe Albus, I mean, he hasn't been wrong before, has he?"

"Well, It… I can't really talk about it here," she said looking around at the other wizards and witches in the small pub, some of whom were reading papers also, and some looking really frightened.

"You know, I normally don't usually do this but…" I said this sigh a sigh knowing I would possibly regret doing this. "What can I do to help?"

 "Well," she said and paused to think, "the school year is about to start and we're having a meeting tomorrow, you could come and see Albus.  I'm sure you two would like to catch up," she said, hinting at something. "It might cheer him up."

"That sounds good; I'll leave in the morning."

Why don't we met down here tomorrow and we'll apparate up together. You know where Hogsmeade and Hogwarts is, don't you?"

"Yeah, I think I can Manage."

"Then it's settled, we'll meet at, say, 8 o'clock?"

"Uh, let's say 10-ish, you know me, I'm not much of a morning person."

A/N: Thanx for reading, please review, even I you don't want to just put something down so I can know I anyone reads this. It gets lonely being the only person reading the story. This chapter was longer, yeah! Okay byeee. Sorry so short, but considering no one is reading this it doesn't matter, plus family things.

~Aurora Angel~