Epilogue Teach Me
Dairine tore down the corridors as rapidly as she was able when Dumbledore announced his discovery. She was not ready to go back, for she wanted to learn more magic first! So blindly was she running that she plowed into someone, causing them both to tumble to the floor.
"You," hissed the icy voice of the individual that had given her and Nita directions.
What was his name? Uh...Severus! "Sorry."
Severus stood up and needlessly dusted himself off. "What's wrong with you?"
Getting to her feet, she mumbled, "I don't know how to use this as much as I would like to." She gestured to the wand sticking out of her pocket.
"Oh? You seem smart enough to know how." By the evasive way he said she could not determine if it was intended as a compliment that she was intelligent or an insult that she only seemed intellectual.
"Well, I don't know." An idea struck her. "Would you teach me, Severus?"
He could not veil his shock. "Are you joking?"
"Do I look like I am?" Dairine demanded.
"No..." Severus actually smiled. "Fine, I'll teach you."
"Where did Dari go?" queried Nita, worried.
"Perhaps she did not want to leave her new friends," Kit suggested.
Dumbledore did not know Dairine well; therefore he assumed that speculation was as good as any. "Then we'll have to coax her home by her friends not being here."
"Wh-what do you mean, Sir?" Peter fearfully questioned.
"You'll all have to go with Nita and Kit, not permanently, just for a while. You don't mind, do you?"
James and Sirius grinned and gave each other a high five.
The headmaster smiled. "I didn't think so."
"But, Professor Dumbledore, we can't miss anything that might be on the O.W.L.s," pointed out Sapphire.
"Why did you have to say that, Saphy?" Sirius groaned. "Now we wont get to go."
"Don't be so sure," said Dumbledore. "I think you all might learn something by going, so you are going. When I come to get you I'll bring you back to today."
Remus looked at Nita and Kit. "How will your parents feel about having foreign teenagers from the past in their flats?"
Immediately, Nita replied, "My dad won't mind. We've had exchange students from other galaxies."
Everyone from Hogwarts, including Dumbledore, raised their eyebrows.
Nita shrugged.
"Well, off you go," said Dumbledore cheerfully.
Nita, Kit, James, Sirius, Sapphire, Remus, and Peter all stood holding hands in a line.
"Tempus itum!" Dumbledore uttered with a flick of his wand, and they disappeared.
Minerva's Note: There will be a sequel, but I make no promises as to when I will write it. In case you have not figured it out, the Powers sent them there to get Lily to doubt her loathing of James, and they obviously succeeded. By the way, I know some of you liked Remus/Sapphire and others did not. The entire point of what I like to call their "sweetness and pathetic sappiness" was so Nita would realise how much she wanted love.