Chapter Seven

Emily helped Lily onto the train and watched he leave. As she was leaving, she ran into Molly and Arthur.

"Hey," Molly said, looking at Emily.

"How have you been?" Emily asked.

"Good," Molly said, "all the kids are off to school."

"Ya, mines in the same year as your youngest," Emily said with a smile.

"How have you been holding up?" Arthur asked, looking around.

"Got the Daily Prophet on my door step every day," Emily said, "it's okay though. Things have been going very well lately."

Molly and Arthur said goodbye to Emily and they were off. Emily walked down the road. After about a half hour of walking, she got a ride. She got home to find someone waitting outside her house. She slowly walked up to them. They quickly walked over to her.

"What are you doing here?" Emily asked, folding her arms.

"I'm from the Ministry," the person said, "I'm an Auror, sent to watch your house."

"Why?" Emily asked.

"The Ministry feels like this is a place where Sirius Black might come to," the person said.

"Oh," Emily said, looking around, "did you find him?"

"Well no," the person said.

"Than you can leave," Emily said, going inside and locking the door.

She looked out the window to see the Auror walking around her house. She rolled her eyes and sat down on her couch.

Lily had arrived at school and was sitting down by Ginny.

"I'm so excited for this year," Lily said, looking at Ginny.

"I don't see why," Ginny said, "it's the same as last year."

"No it's not," Lily said, "last year was pretty bad."

"It's not going to be a good year with Sirius Black on the loose," Ron said, looking at at them, "he's a killer."

"Mom says he's not," Lily said, pulling out a picture of her mom and Sirius. She showed it to everyone around her.

Harry looked at the picture for a bit.

"Ya, I'm sure back than he wasn't," Harry said.

"No, mom says he's stil good," Lily said, putting her picture away, "I do believe her. She says it was all a misunderstanding."

"I'm sure it was," Ron said, rolling his eyes.

"You can think whatever you want," Lily said, "I believe he is good."

A few people started laughing at her idea. Lily looked around, but didn't seem to care about that. She did look up at the table to see that Dumbledore smiled at her and nodded his head. She smiled and went back to eating.

The next few days Lily got teased from people at school. She was in DADA class now. She was sitting next to Ginny.

"Now today, we are learning about defensive spells," Remus said, "now can anyone name off a few spell that can rendur an apointment unable to fight?"

"I'm sure Sirius Black knows," someone yelled.

"Ya," someone else yelled, "I'm sure Lily will think he is only there for good. That's how you're going to end up dead."

"He is good," Lily said, looking around.

"What makes you say that?" Remus asked, walking over to her.

"My mother said he is," Lily said, looking up at Remus.

"What is your mothers name?" Remus asked, looking Lily up and down.

"Emily Roberts," Lily said, "I'm Lily Roberts."

Remus stared at her for awhile before smiling.

"You can tell your mother she is obviously wrong," Remus said, walking back to the front of the class.

"And why do you think she is wrong?" Lily asked, folding her arms.

"Emily was never right when it came to this sort of things," Remus said, getting a few odd stares from people.

"Oh, you must be that other guy she has a picture of in her room," Lily said, causing Remus to look at her, "Ya, there's one of you and of James, Lily, and Harry from when he was like 3 months old and one of Sirius."

Soon the bell rang and everyone, except Lily started to leave. Remus looked at her as she stood up.

"Are you his daughter?" Remus asked.

"No," Lily said, looking at Remus.

"So she moved on after him," Remus said, looking at the ground.

"No," Lily said, shaking her head, "mom has been single forever."

Remus stared at her for awhile, before asking, "than who is your father?"

"Hm, I'm not sure," Lily said, getting a look on her face as if she was in thought, "mom never told me. She said he left her before I was born."

"You should go before you're late," Remus said.

Lily nodded her head and left the classroom. Remus went into his office and sat at his desk. He grabbed a piece of parchment and a quil. He wrote a letter and headed to the owlry. He quickly sent off his letter and headed back to class.

Emily sat at her house. Everytime she went outside, she saw the Auror. She was hoping he would leave soon so she can go about her day. She had decided not to leave the hosue until the Auror was gone. It had been two weeks since he had been there. Emily woke up one day and he was knocking on the door. She answered it.

"What is it?" Emily asked.

"Your mail," the Auror said, handing her mail to her.

Emily grabbed the mail and closed the door. She had got a letter from Lily which read:

School sucks, everyone is teasing me just cause I believe Sirius is innocent. I do hope the year goes by the than it is right now. We got a new DADA teacher, Professor Lupin. He reminds me of the picture in your bedroom. I wonder if it's him. I might ask him later. I hope all is well there. Bye

Emily gave a small smile and than looked at another letter. It was also from Hogwarts. She looked around before she opened it and read:

Hey Emily, I know it's been years since I last spoke to you. I am sorry for what I did and just needed to ask one question. I saw your daughter the other day and just couldn't help but wonder. Is she mine? I ask her, but she didn't seem to know who her dad was. Please tell me if she is. I really want to know. Love Remus

Emily gave a small laugh before getting a parchment, ink, and quil. She sat down and wrote her own letter. She wrote one to Remus and one to Lily. After she was done, she went outside where the Auror walked over to her. She handed him the letter for him to send off. She went back inside with a smile on her face. She knew he would find out sooner or later.