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Oookay then

Harry was ambushed the moment he walked through the door by a torrent of black hair. Returning the hug awkwardly – he'd never been very good with physical contact – he looked at the person hugging him. It took him a couple of minutes to recognise this person as Catherine (mostly by her indecipherable mumblings). An unfamiliar voice called, over Cat's head, "Let the guy breathe Catherine. He has just got out of hospital you know."

Cat stopped hugging him to playfully punch the man on the arm. "Charles, unless you want me to beat you up again," several snickers sounded, "keep your trap," she reached over and ran a finger over his mouth, "SHUT."

Harry took a look around. The man next to Cat – sporting a black eye that looked rather recent (definitely more recent than the Final Battle) – was obviously Ron's brother Charlie, behind him were the twin terrors of Fred and George, who were next to Ginny's eldest brother Bill and his wife – whose pregnancy was beginning to show. Ginny herself was now standing on her other side. He noticed that she'd curled her hair. The nice feeling in his stomach felt like someone poured cold water on it when he realised it was probably for a date.

Reprimanding himself for letting her go, Harry spotted Mr and Mrs Weasley, both of whom he smiled at. Feeling someone poke him in the back, he moved out of the way to let Ron and Hermione in. Harry took one glance at the looks of longing they were giving each other and vowed that if they didn't get together by Christmas, he'd just lock them in a broom closet and be DONE with it.

Tonks – who had arrived moments after them – and Remus followed them in. Cat's squeal of "Remmmmyy" as she ran across the room was the only sign that she had moved before she flung herself on a surprised Remus. "Oh my God, I've missed you sooooo much. I haven't seen you in all these years … man you look old. All the transformations I missed. I so sorry, honey. I didn't try hard enough to stop them taking him away and I never told you the truth and … It's all so hard. Oh Remmy." And to everyone's surprise, she burst into tears.

Remus, however, looked to Harry to be in complete and utter shock. He didn't appear to have any idea who the hysterical woman was! As her speech went on though, he was obviously piecing together the clues. Tonks, standing next to him, was obviously not very happy about the very pretty woman who'd draped herself all over her boyfriend and called him 'honey' (who would be?).

It was a shock to everyone when Remus muttered "Kitty?" When she nodded into his chest, though, he too burst into tears. "I've missed you Kitty. I've missed you so much. I would have seen you, but the Ministry wouldn't tell me who fostered you and kept asking what my parental right, as a werewolf, was."

"You should have said godfather," Cat sniffled into Remus' chest.

That stopped Remus from crying. "But, I'm not…" he shakily replied.

Cat seemed to have recovered herself too. She pulled back from the hug, smiling wide, and yelled, in a sing-song voice, "Yes you are!" She then turned to Tonks, who looked more than a little relieved that the relationship was completely platonic, "And aren't you going to introduce me to your girlfriend? What happened to your 'I'm a werewolf and no one should or will ever love me' phase? Not that I'm not happy it's over, it was REALLY annoying. Whats-her-name Andrews used to practically throw herself over you and you never noticed – thank Merlin, that woman drove me batty."

Harry was the first person to regain the use of his throat. Everyone else had apparently decided to imitate goldfish. "Catherine, Kitty, Cat, whatever your name is, mind explaining what's going on and how you know Remus to the rest of us?"

"Oh, well that's simple," the large grin on Cat's face was replaced by a mischevious smirk to match the twinkle in her eyes. "Padfoot adopted me and made Moony my godfather." Her eyes stared into Harry's as though daring him to say he was lying, but he was too shocked to breathe properly, let alone argue with anyone.

Harry missed the rest of the conversation and didn't think proper thoughts until he was called for dinner. It was only then he noticed that Ginny had guided him to the couch and had been rubbing his shoulder during the time his mind had been on a short holiday. Maybe she did care about him after all.

A/N HAPPY (insert what you will be celebrating here) Please review. Will update in New Year