Disclaimer: I made up Elizabeth but everything else belongs to JK Rowling. Please enjoy!

Remus choked.

"Harry Potter?" He asked incredulously. She looked confused.

"Yes. What, do you know him?"

Know him? Remus thought. Know him? Well no. Not personally. But I know his story. I knew his parents. I know he's only the most famous wizard in our world for defeating the darkest wizard of all time at the age one. No big deal really.

Somewhere in the back of his mind he realized that dating your best friends' son's teacher is probably against the friend code somehow, but he didn't really care. All he knew was that after nine years of wondering what on earth had happened to Harry he had finally found him. He had found James and Lily's son.

"I think," he began slowly realizing that Elizabeth was still staring at him looking worried. "I think I knew his parents." Her face lit up.

"Did you really? Wow, small world."

He laughed but it was hollow and empty sounding.

"Yeah you could say that." He paused briefly and then added, "I was there the day he was born."

That's so cute! Is what Elizabeth was thinking but what she actually said was,

"Were you really? That's so nice." He smiled and nodded but his smile slowly faded as he stared into his cup of coffee.

"And I was at their funeral too." Elizabeth remembered what Mr. and Mrs. Dursely had said about Harry's parents dying in a car accident. She leaned forward, her eyes full of sympathy.

"Do you want to talk about it?" she asked.

Remus pondered that for a moment.

"No, that's okay." He answered. "Thanks though."

As he stared into her brown eyes he thought about how much he would love to tell Lily and James about her. He imagined their reactions. Lily would smile and say, "So Remus we heard you had coffee date the other day."

"Not a date," he would protest. "It was just coffee between friends."

"Uh-huh." She would answer; disbelief all over her face. "Sure it was."

At least that was the Lily he knew at Hogwarts. But she was so young then. And now here it was almost a decade later. Would Lily freak out that he was getting coffee with her son's teacher? Would they think it was funny? Would he even tell them?

"Good one Moony!" James would say. "Do you think maybe you can talk her into giving Harry an A?"

James was just like that. Always making things fun, being unexpected, and he was forever trying to find Remus a girlfriend.

"Remus?" Elizabeth's voice broke his train of thought. He blinked a couple of times and shook his head to clear away the imaginary voices.

"Sorry," he said looking embarrassed. "I zoned out there for a second."

"You were a million miles away." She told him. "Where did you go?"

"I was just thinking about Harry's parents." He answered truthfully, deciding for the sake of appearing sane not to tell her about the imagined conversation. She smiled sadly.

"What were their names?" She asked.

"Lily and James." He said. "We went to school together for seven years. They were two of the best friends I've ever had."

"James," she said slowly, "James and his wife who died in the house fire?" He nodded.

"Oh Remus. That's so terrible. I'm so sorry."

They sat in silence for a few minutes. Remus was thinking about what a tragic twist this coffee date had taken and Elizabeth was mulling over everything he had said. Two things struck her as sort of odd. Firstly, hadn't the Dursley's told her that the Potter's died in a car crash? And here Remus was telling her it was a fire. She decided that she must have heard the Dursely's wrong. There was no reason for their stories to not match each other. Secondly, if Remus had been such good friends with the Potter's then why didn't he know where Harry was? Why had it come as such a shock that he was in her class? Shouldn't Remus have known where Harry lived? Maybe even visited him a few times? That's what she would have done. She decided to ask him about it.

"The police suspected arson," he answered spinning lies of the top of his head. "They thought someone close to the Potter's set the fire. I was questioned and heavily suspected given my… uh… background." At this she raised an eyebrow but he told her not to worry about it so she dropped it. "Anyway by the time they were done with their reports, Harry had been sent away to live with a new family and none of us that were suspected were told where he went. Eventually they arrested the man that set the fire but still refused to tell us where Harry was. In the end I sort of accepted the fact that I probably wouldn't see him until he was eleven."

"Why eleven?" She asked.

"That's when he'll start at the same boarding school his parents and I went to." He answered. She nodded and then asked,

"So they caught the guy that set the fire?" Remus's face darkened and when he spoke his voice got very low and quiet.

"Yeah, yeah they did."

"What happened to him?"

"He got a life sentence in prison."

"Good." She said. "He deserves it." Remus nodded curtly and Elizabeth, getting the feeling that he didn't really want to talk about the arsonist anymore said,

"I have a class picture with Harry in it. Do you want to see?"

"Could I?" Remus asked quietly. Elizabeth pulled the photo out of the envelope in her purse and handed it to him.

"He's that one right there in the front."

Remus looked at the picture and his whole face broke into a smile. Harry looked so unbelievably much like James did at that age. He had the same untidy black hair but he had Lily's eyes. Lily's gorgeous emerald eyes.

"Oh wow," Remus breathed brining the picture closer to get a better look. "He looks so much like them."

"Does he?" Elizabeth asked. It brought her so much joy to see the look on Remus's face when he looked at the picture of little Harry. It was the happiest and most peaceful she had seen him look all night.

"He's really something special Remus," she told him. "I'm going to keep an extra close eye on him for the rest of the year."

"Good." Remus smiled. "I think that's a great idea." In that moment he decided that he wanted to keep an eye on Harry from now on too. With Lily, James, and Peter gone and Sirius worse than dead; Remus decided it was really up to him to tell Harry about his parents. He wanted to tell him about how Lily and James were always looking out for him. How they always gave him a place to stay and a hot meal when he couldn't afford one. How their door was always open, no questions asked. And about how he was invited to their first, and only, Christmas together as a family with Harry.

Remus made up his mind right then that he was going to repay them for their kindness. He was going to find Harry and be a part of his life. He was going to stop whoever this kid was from bullying Harry on the playground. He was going to make sure that Harry knew who his parents were and that he knew that even though they weren't there, there were still people around that loved him.

"Elizabeth?" he said suddenly.

"Yes?"

"Is your school hiring?"

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PS. Sorry about the cliffhanger. We'll get back to Harry next chapter I promise!