Lupin's Little Dark One
By: Ethiawien
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, Hershey's, or anything else famous I may mention.
Last Time:
"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.
Chapter Two: The Story Untold, Told to Her.
"Well Miss Lupin, I see that he has failed to tell you, though I told him to, but in any case, we must continue with our business, you must be sorted." Dumbledore told her, placing the hat on her head. He smiled as he watched her.
"A very noble thought grows in your head, but you a wreaked with vengeance, yet you have a brave and passionate quality, and a sharp mind, you are difficult to place, a good choice for any house... perhaps your lineage, no that does not help much a Slytherin, a Gryffindor, grandparents two from Hufflepuff and two of Ravenclaw ..." the hat whispered in her ear. She jumped at first but grew to it, she was startled at its indecision. Put me where my dad was, please... she thought desperately. "Very well... GRYFFINDOR!" The last word was shouted and Dumbledore removed the hat and she smirked.
"Well then, best be getting to the feast, though I would like to know what classes you were to take this year," Dumbledore said.
"Defense, Chemistry, Animagus, Transformation, Telepathic Studies, Muggle History, Magic History, Omens, and Study of Creatures," she said quickly. Dumbledore smiled and nodded and led her out to the Great Hall without a word and brought her before the student body. A silence fell over them and she looked about them, her eyes meeting with Harry's, he smiled at her. She gave a nervous smirk.
"Welcome back students, before we bring in our first years for the sorting, I would like to introduce you all to our first ever transfer student. She attended Canada's Central Academy of the Magical Arts, which I'm sure many of you became aware by now that Voldemort attacked over the summer, killing 500 of the 525 students, the entire staff, and destroyed the premisses, the 24 other students surviving have been placed in the variety of wizarding academies across North America, but her father saw it fit to bring her to his old school, where he would be teaching. Please welcome our newest Gryffindor sixth year, Kieran Lupin." Remus gave a howl and the Gryffindors a standing ovation as she made her way to the table. Several of them shook her hand, patted her back and Harry and Ron smiled. Hermione gave her an angry glare and scoffed as Kieran sat down across from her.
As the long line of first years now poured into the Great Hall Kieran looked at them with a sigh. Ron and Harry looked at her.
"Are they putting the hat on the whole gang of them?"She asked impatiently.
"Yes, they are, and it is extremely rude to interrupt and remark as you are!" Hermione snapped. Ron and Harry looked at the two in shock as Kieran stood up.
"I am not in the mood to be judged, criticized, and placed on my first night here, thank you, I was simply inquiring, and I meant no disrespect, now if you'll excuse me I have lost my appetite and wish to be here." She turned sharply from her place at the table and left, tears streaming down her face. Remus gave a look to Harry, who nodded at Hermione, then turned to Dumbledore who nodded and Remus took his leave. He found her on the main stair in a fit of tears. He went to her and tried his best to comfort her. She pushed him away.
"Kieran, sweetie, please, what's wrong?"
"You lied to me, and that girl is something dreadful, and you told me she would be an easy friend! Strike two FATHER!"
"Kieran, I hadn't known she would be like that! She was one of the nicest and brightest girls I'd ever met. As for not telling you, I had not the heart."
"So you rather I think I had no relation to you, that you were merely a guardian, a care giver at the end of everything, and that I had no family left?"
"At the time, I wasn't sure of how to tell you, but you adapted so quickly to that belief, I thought it best to stay, I had told Dumbledore not to mention it."
"Well it seems he saw fit for me to know! Now I want the whole bit of it!"
"Kieran," he began, and sighed in defeat, "Your mother and I were madly in love, but after the first downfall of Voldemort, it just wasn't safe for her to be around, she was pregnant, so I sent her there, to be safe, so you would be safe. The death eaters came to kill the very next day, if she was there she would have died, they almost killed me." He looked down, tears forming in his eyes. "After all the dark activity stopped I went back for the two of you, she had moved on, I confronted her, and she thought I was dead, when she saw in the papers that our home had been destroyed she thought I had been in it, but for some reason she never let me see you. I've regretted that decision all my life Kieran." She was watching him with tears running down her cheeks.
"But what I don't get is why she wouldn't let you see me."
"We have a genetic bond, it's the wolf blood, look how quickly we bonded over the summer, and don't you tell me you didn't feel something stronger between us, because I know you did. How often is it a girl will just fall asleep on a guy she just met?"They both gave a half smile and she hugged him, still crying. "I'm sorry."
"No, I'm sorry." she replied softly. He held her there for a few moments before Dumbledore came out through the doors of the Great Hall.
"Remus, Miss Lupin, is everything okay?" He inquired.
"Yes Albus, everything is good, just stress, tension, emotion, teenage stuff." Remus answered Kieran let out a weak laugh. "See, all better, now that everything is straightened out." Albus smiled.
"Then both of you come in and eat, and Miss Lupin, your aren't obliged to sit with your peers, as I well informed the students just a moment ago, mingle, or ever pull up a chair at our table." Albus told her. Kieran smiled. "As Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley have already done." The group went in, heads turning to them and Kieran joined her father, Albus, the teachers, Harry, Ron, and Draco Malfoy at the head table.
"Kieran, you all right, I told off Hermione, she had no right to be so rude like that, I don't know what's gotten into her!" Ron said as Kieran sat down. She flashed a polite smile.
"Don't worry Ron, I'm sure that she's just not used to having another girl around, I mean you know how she gets with Ginny sometimes." Harry said. Ron nodded as he stuffed his mouth with a roll of bread. Draco rolled his eyes.
"Potter you oaf, the reason Granger is so ticked about the whole ordeal is Miss Lupin is so much more, civilized, and she's foreign, she has a different style." Draco said. "All girls are jealous of foreign girls, especially ones prettier than they are." Kieran blushed at Draco's words and he flashed her a smile. "You know, Miss Lupin, I would really like to have a discussion with you on the formation of the Canadian Magical Government, by the way, I'm Draco Malfoy."
"I think I would very much like that Mr. Malfoy." Kieran replied, still blushing.
"Call me Draco."
"Only if you agree to call me Kieran."
"Of course." They both smiled at each other and he turned to a professor with dark black hair, and she turned back to her father, Harry, and Ron.
"That was interesting, not many catch right on and become so chummy with Malfoy, especially not Gryffindors ..." Harry said, "I don't trust him."
"Impressing social skills you've got there Kieran." Ron commented with an awed look. "I've never seen nobody get along so well with Malfoy through a whole conversation."
"Now, boys, he can't be all that bad," she said.
"He's not, he and those two aren't close friends, that's all." Lupin remarked glaring at the boys.
"It's not my fault!" Ron yelped.
"Well technically it is, I'd be chummy with Malfoy if it weren't for you." Harry said.
"Under-lying secrets of the Hogwarts Academy." Kieran said smirking. Albus turned to them.
"There are many secrets you do not know anything of Miss Lupin, even if you do have your father's copy of the Marauder's Map." Albus said wisely. "Not all secrets can be plotted, but many are recorded, in the library."
"And I intend to read every book in the library Headmaster." Kieran said. "I wish to further my knowledge of my ancestry."