A/N: Another chapter.

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Chapter 17

"I've got you a job!"

Silence echoed through the kitchen, most likely derived from absolute confusion meeting Harry's statement. After discussing the killings of muggles, the last horcrux, and defeating Voldemort, Harry had ran out to go find Sirius a job?

"I think the Slytherin is starting to infect you with his idiocy." Sirius said, the look from Draco wasn't amused.

Harry waved his hand and took a seat at the table again. "It's not stupid. We figured out that the likely place for Regulus to have hid the horcrux was at Hogwarts correct?" At our silent nods, he continued. "So I got Sirius a job there."

"What in the kitchens?" Draco snorted.

"No as the new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher. I just cleared it with Headmistress McGonagall."s
I heard a combined sound of fingers tapping on the table, and looked down to realize they were my own and Draco as well. I really think I had infected him with my own nervous habit.

"Harry. School season starts in like five days. How did you pull off having her give him a job like that on short notice?"

A satisfied smile settled onto Harry's face.

"She's actually been looking for awhile. No one wants the job with the dark mark having just appeared. It's a cursed position. So I suggested Sirius here."He leaned back in his chair, toying with the fabric on his shirt. "I didn't tell her the truth exactly."

"Which explains why you needed to get me a job. Otherwise you could have just asked to let us look for the horcrux." There was a definite reprimand in Sirius's voice that Harry would go about all this without asking anyone else, or including others. He was acting like a lone hero once again.

"Well the less people who know, the less chance that Voldemort finds out what we're doing."

I snorted rather loudly at this little statement. It earned me looks from everyone at the table.

"Sorry. But honestly Harry. Sirius is alive, which is a large sign pointing to what you're doing. Voldemort of course knows Regulus stole the horcrux, and I'm sure he's also figured out the likely place it's hidden. You're going to have competition looking for it."

A gloom set over the room once again, realizing that what I had said was correct.

"I hate it when the muggle's right." Draco muttered. "But she is. Though I happen to think it's a good idea to send Sirius in as a teacher. He needs a reason to be there, since it's likely to take him longer then one day to find where his brother hid the thing." A smirk had reappeared on Draco's perfect lips. "Though everyone is forgetting something." He pointed at me. "She can't cut herself from Sirius. He goes, she has to. And how are you going to explain a muggle at Hogwarts?"

A twin for Draco's smirk appeared on Harry, his eyes glittering dangerously. I was suddenly quite worried.

"She's going to work there as well."

Silence was once again the norm as everyone digested that little piece of information. Until suddenly Draco and Sirius started to laugh at the absurdity of it. I quickly joined in with them, thinking that Harry perhaps had lost part of his brain in the apparating process.

"Headmistress has been looking for a Muggles studies teacher since the last one left to travel around America discovering the truth behind Rodgers and Hammerstein films."

Truth behind old American musicals... Well that teacher was going to have a problem if she expected to find a whole community in Oklahoma that broke into song about how beautiful the morning was, or about their surreys...

"You mean, she's going to be the Muggle Studies teacher?" Sirius sounded flabbergasted.

"Well who better to teach the subject then a muggle. That's what I explained to McGonagall. She wasn't really pleased with the idea but I vouched for Aine, and explained that I would have of course but a charm on her that would wipe her memory if she tried to tell anyone anything about the Wizarding community."

I narrowed my eyes on the dark haired man sitting across from me, looking rather smug with himself. My brown eyes glittered rather dangerously as I asked my next question.

"Did you?"

"Of course not!" Green eyes had widened in surprise, apparently shocked that I would even think any such thing. "But I had to reassure McGonagall."

"This is ridiculous." Next to me, Sirius had his arms crossed over his chest. "I'm going to go work at Hogwarts in the hopes that I will remember, or perhaps accidentally fall over the hiding place for the last horcrux. She..." He jerked his thumb in my direction. "Has to work there as well since she can't get away from me. Don't you think it might be a better idea if you went instead? Or maybe just explained to McGonagall what you need?"

"And then she gets involved." Steel echoed in Harry's voice. I glanced at Draco and saw him shrugging his shoulder, indicating that when Harry was like this there was no winning the fight. So don't even try. "You three are the only ones who know. Who are ever going to know. If it wasn't for the damned side effect, I'd have Aine back home safely now."

My nails had dug into the wood of the table, my hands clenching without my even knowing it. Just at the mention of being safe at home. Would I really have been safe at home? After all death eaters had invaded my flat and killed Cairn there. So they knew who I was. They knew likely as well what I was doing, and what I had done. So there was no definite guarantee that when I went home I would be safe either. Strange as it was, I was probably safer in the eye of the storm rather then on the outskirts. And hell if I couldn't go home, at least I could do something with myself. And teaching after all was what I normally did.

"Fine." Sirius sighed, resigned now to go along with whatever Harry thought was best. "By the way, if you didn't tell the truth. How did you explain my sudden liveliness? Corpses are generally not the best teachers."

"I don't know. I had quite a few lifeless teachers in school. Usually gave me time to do my own studying."

My comments were ignored by everyone. Well fine, if they didn't want good humour, then that was their problem.

"Unexplainable. The veil just kicked you out." Harry shrugged. "It is in the Department of Mysteries. You found yourself out of the veil, and came home like you normally would do. And I found you."

That was far too simple to be believed. Though I guess those are the best lies, the ones that are just kept free from too many complications.

"So when do we leave?"

"Tomorrow. You'll get settled before the students arrive."

A sudden thought came to me, that gave me pause and made me think quite hard. It was something that had certainly occupied my mind while I was reading the books so long ago, and now it was a distinct possibility.

"Do I get to be sorted?"