"DAD" was all Paige could mouth out as he winked at her.

"Well, incase you didn't know," Remus continued, "I'm Professer Lupin. I was supposed to be helping with history of magic but for awhile I will be teaching here so let's get started."

Paige noticed there was something different about him, in both appearance and actions. For one, he looked a little paler. The other thing was he was a little shaky.

"So, if you would please turn to page two in your books, you will see…yes?"

Remus had looked up to see Drew with his hand in the air. The boy next to him, Jason, had smacked his hand smacked against his forehead in shame.

"What is you name?" asked Remus.

"Jason Aurous"

"You have a question?"

"Yes, what happened to McGonagall and when will she be back?"

Remus sighed, "I'm not obligated to tell you what happened but I have a feeling it will be awhile." was all he said.

"'bout time she left" muttered a Slytherin.

All the Slytherins laughed quietly and the Gryfindors glared (A/N an evil death glare. What they didn't know was that they were throwing daggers at them with their eyes. MUHAHAHA…couldn't resist. Back to the real story now O.o ) Remus could feel the tension.

"Ok now, back to the book, page two, you'll see some of the effects of incorrect transfiguration…

After class was dismissed, Remus went over to Paige.

"So how are things going so far? You like your classes so far?" asked Remus.

"It's not too bad. Dad, could I ask you a quick question?" was Paige's reply.

"Of course, what's on your mind?" said a confident Remus.

"What's really wrong Dad? Your acting strange and you look pale, I'm worried. What happened?" asked Paige.

Remus took a big breath and exhaled while shuffling his feet. "I really wish I could tell you but…it's, I…I can't, not yet. In time I promise you will know." was all he managed to say.

"Oh, figures, guess I should get to class." said Paige as she turned and left. Remus just looked at his shoes until he heard the door close.

"She'll know soon enough." he whispered to himself.

"Come on, just one more class before lunch." said an oddly chipper Cecily.

"Yippee skippee, it's potions, too." said Drew, mocking Cecily with a little skipping.

"Let's just get this over with." said Jason laughing.

Paige nodded and followed. No one asked what she had talked about. They weren't sure they wanted to know. They walked all the way to the Dungeon in silence. When they got to class, Paige decided she needed to vent a little in her journal.

That was typical Dad with his big secrets again. Just once it would be nice to talk to him, like we did before when he was telling me everything about magic. I want him to tell me things straight forward, no dancing around the topic. I don't need to be protected anymore.

Then Jason and Drew started talking. Well, it was more of a row. Shall we listen in?

"I'm telling you, the potions professor is Hermione Granger." started Drew

"And I'm here to tell you your dumb and it's someone new." retorted Jason.

"Oh, huh, is that so, and who is this 'someone' you refer to?" asked Drew smartly.

"I believe I could answer that if everyone would sit down." said a voice in the corner.

Yeah cliff hangers! I wonder who it could be? Oh, that's right, I know already it's (sound of a passing train) and then (day-care passes with crying babies). Yep, so stick around, more to come! smalltowngirl