chapter two

At breakfast, Jenny stared into space, lost in her own thoughts, her eyes rested on Remus, it's just too horrible, she thought I can't marry him. She shuddered all over and looked down at her bowl.

Severus looked at her intently over his post, his greasy hair fell before his eyes and his watching went unnoticed (as did nearly everything else he did). Jenny looked up at him over the brim of her glasses and he promptly turned away.

After breakfast she walked numbly to charms, where she went over revision notes with her Slitherin friend Octavia Winterbottom, who had aspirations to become a code breaker at Gringotts until she got married (Jenny thought her rather insipid).

After her herbology class, the newly appointed professor Sprout told her to 'buck' up and 'stop daydreaming', reminding her that the end of year exams were very soon and that if she failed them she would not be back next year.

Similar things had been said to her all week by her other professors, all in fact apart from Professor McGonagall. Who barely spoke to Jenny, gave her average reports and marks, and didn't attempt a relationship with her. Jenny knew her transfiguration teacher didn't like her and most would just accept it, but jenny for some reason found that she wanted her teacher to like her.

That lunchtime Jenny found Remus. With little delicacy she told him why she would not marry him. ('It's a stupid idea!' she said 'we're far too young, we've got our whole lives ahead of us.') And Remus told Jenny with little delicacy why they should no longer be together. ('I was such a fool. Honestly, why did I think it was a good idea to go out with a Slitherin?') And that was how they finished their relationship.

Minerva was in a very good mood. She had received a letter from her attorney informing her of her father's death and that she was to inherit his house in Angus. She saw ahead of her a long summer refurbishing it with Donald or Malcolm.

Minerva McGonagall was widely reported as one of the most eligible witches in the UK, not only was she beautiful, but her work for the ministry was extensive.

'Witch weekly' latched onto any story concerning her, but Minerva lived in the fear that they would one day discover she had a hideous estranged daughter, who was in Slitherin and who she had heartlessly given to the Trinity family.

At the end of her sixth year transfiguration lesson Minerva gave the students some final advice for their exam, which was to take place the next day, and dismissed them.

She gathered books from the desks and sat down to plan her lessons for the following week. She was spiralling into a depression at the amount of work she still had to do that evening when there was a knock at her door.

'May I come in?' Remus said.

For the following hour Remus cried heartily on her shoulder and she discovered just how much her daughter was like her. Level headed, strong willed, sexy and slightly heartless. It was then that she resolved to get to know her daughter better.

N/B: hummm...