Lupin's Little Dark One
By: Ethiawien
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, Hershey's, or anything else famous I may mention.
Chapter One: The Return of Moony and A New Face
As she sat aboard the Hogwarts express, her first year at the school, she would be entering the same classes as the students that had been studying six years, and she was a year younger than them. Her school in Canada was destroyed, her teachers, two being her parents, all murdered. She was devastated as she moved in with her mother's school friend in England, a Remus Lupin, he was upset to, he never took the guardianship to heart, never thinking he'd have to care for her. They had adjusted in the two months, to life with each other, she mostly stuck to her room, playing her guitar, or reading. He was always about, a member of the Order of the Pheonix, and preparing to return to Hogwarts as the defense against the dark arts professor.
She now sat playing her guitar and looking out the window, while he dosed. Outside the compartment door people shuffled to find a seat. Eventually there was a knock at the door and she opened it.
"Look at that!" the young man behind it said, "Lupin's coming back!" He and his two friends came in. The one who spoke had flame red hair and bright blue eyes, his friends, a boy and a girl, the boy having jet black hair and mystic green eyes, and the girl poofy brown hair and matching eyes. She herself had dirty blonde hair and dark blue eyes, which in some people opinion, had her resmebling Lupin.
"Can I help you?" she asked, making herself noticed.
"Bloody Hell," said the same red headed boy, "your a reincarnation of Lupin you are." She stared at him.
"Excuse me," she said. This was when Lupin awoke, smiling at all four of the younger peoples.
"Ah, Keiran, I see you've met Ron, Harry, Hermione," he said, "Guys, this is my god child Keiran." She nodded to the group.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Hermione asked.
"You never asked." Remus remarked with a smirk, "It was very sudden, her mother was my Hogwarts sweet-heart and well..."
"Voldemort decided it was a good idea to blow up Central Canada's wizarding population," Keiran said darkly. Harry met with her eyes for just a split moment. He could tell that she wanted a revenge and he wished that she could have it. "My friends, my family, and my school, all gone, both my parents taught." Lupin put a firm hand on her shoulder as she clenched her fist. She turned sharply and went back to sit by the window staring out at the passing land. Remus walked up to Harry.
"I was hoping youi could help her, please, considering everything so similar to what you've gone through." He whispered. Harry nodded in understanding as the compartment filled with the strumming of Kieran's guitar. They all looked at her.
"It's a perfect day and no one's standing in my way, it's a perfect day and nothing can go wrong." Kieran sang the song softly. Harry took a long look at her. He knew that what had happened had affected her deeply, by looking at her eyes. She stopped and glanced at him. He smiled softly and she turned to look back out her window.
The train arrived that evening at the school and Remus left them to attend to any other students that would need assistance, after instructing Kieran to go to Dumbledore's office. Harry assumed she'd been to Hogwarts over the summer by that. She grabbed her bag and got off the train and unknowingly started up the path to the castle.
"Kieran, there's carriages over here!" Ron called after her, "it's loads quicker than walking!" She turned and came back to them.
"Logical enough," she said, "but what's that... thing driving them?" Harry and Ron glanced at her.
You can see it?" Hermione asked. When Kieran nodded she sighed. "How is it that now I'm the only one who can't, it's a thestral, a horse of the dead, they supposedly live off of spilt blood and such, only people wo have seen at least one person die can see them."
"I'd be happy to exchange my summer with yours," Kieran said, "you can go watch your friends and family die and I'll stay nice and cozy in Canada protected from harm." Hermione glared at her. "You're the one that wants to see it, tell you something else, it's fugly to begin with."
"Nevermind!" Hermione snapped as the group climbed into a carraige and the thestral pulled it up the trail.Harry and Ron exchanged glances as they realized Hermione didn't like Kieran one bit. As the carraige pulled to a stop the group got out and walked. Kieran sighed and went to the stair and waved back to them and headed up them.
She reached a rather disturbing statue and stopped. She touched it and looked around. She couldn't remember how to get in.
"Oh, duh, Hershey's Kisses!" she said stepping into the hollow with the statue, which rose as the ground beneath her formed into stairs. When she reached the top she stepped into an office filled with oddities and pictures of elder men that smiled warmly at her. There was a desk, and from the backwards facing chair rose Albus Dumbledore. In his hands he held a tattered hat.
"Miss Lupin, please, have a seat, we've much to discuss and only a few moments to discuss it in." said the wise man rounding his desk to come before her.
"What do you mean by calling me Lupin?"she inquired.
"Exactly as it sounds, Remus is your father."
"He couldn't be," she replied sinking into the chair, in her heart knowing it was true.