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Slygrifflepuffclaw - I am happy that you are enjoying the story. I will try to write in more casual way in conversations. Thanks for your review, it means a lot to me.

So this is the next chapter, the Boggart lesson.

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Chapter 3: Heart to heart talk

This situation with Draco was really funny.

"How is it, Draco?" I heard the squeaking voice of Pansy Parkinson. "Does it hurt much?"

"Yeah," Malfoy answered, putting on a brave sort of grimace. But he winked at Crabbe and Goyle when Pansy had looked away.

"Pathetic. He doesn't need to try that hard to impress her. She's already in," I mumbled to Hermione who was sitting beside me. She chuckled and shook her head.

"Settle down, settle down," came the voice of Professor Snape.

Today's task was shrinking potion. Malfoy intentionally took the seat next to Harry and Ron to harrass them and he did moreover Snape helped them. While Ron was forced to cut Malfoy's root I looked at Nevillie who was struglling with the potion. I saw him trying to add another cat spleen in the potion.

"Neville, don't," but it was in vain as on hearing my voice he jumped and the cat spleen dropped in his cauldron.

"We needed only one spleen," I told him sympathetically.

"Oh no!" he looked horrified and then came Snape. He started yelling at Neville who was on the verge of tears.

"Please, sir," Hermione started, "please, I could help Neville put it right —"

"I don't remember asking you to show off, Miss Granger," said Snape coldly, and Hermione went as pink as Neville. "Longbottom, at the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens. Perhaps that will encourage you to do it properly."

Neville was trembling with fear when Snape went away.

"Help me!" Neville pleaded to Hermione.

I watched as Harry and Ron talked with Seamus who I was sure telling them about Sirius Black being sighted. Malfoy moved towards them and tried to provoke Harry.

The end of class came and Snape tested the potion on Trevor. And surprisingly he did shrink. Snape looked like someone dropped dungbomb on him. He took points for Neville making right potion.

"Five points from Gryffindor," said Snape, which wiped the smiles from every face. "I told you not to help him, Miss Granger. Class dismissed."

Hermione just sighed and we took off. Ron started talking but when he turned Hermione wasn't there to answer his question.

"She was right behind us," said Ron, frowning.

"There she is," said Harry and I saw Hermione panting and, hurrying up the stairs;

"How did you do that?" said Ron.

"What?" said Hermione, joining us.

"One minute you were right behind us, the next moment, you were back at the bottom of the-

Hermione tried to explain to him how he was talking absurd and she was with us. She moved away from him waving him off and walked with me.

It was quite difficult but I was able to make an adequate potion. Cooking made things easier. Hermione did look shocked on seeing my potion.

"Wow! Your potion was right," Hermione said as we walked to lunch.

"Uh huh," I nodded.

"When did you become nice in potions? You hated it," she remarked and I cursed in my mind. Arianna in this world might not be as good as I was.

"Cooking helped," I commented.

"You cooked," she looked surprised.

"I did, I was given kitchen duties this time and -"

I reassured Hermione that it was no big deal and that I, now, had a new respect for Potions. We had lunch fast so we could reach the classroom early. Everyone was excited to go DADA, Remus Lupin looked like he knew what he was teaching. He wasn't in the class when we arrived.

"Hope he is going to be better than Lockhart," Ron commented.

"He is much better. He helped Harry, you know chocolate, that shows he knows his subject. I think he is going to be the best Professor we ever had," I commented.

"Thank you for the compliment, Miss Song," I heard the voice of Professor Lupin and it was first time ever in my life that I might have turned red. I blushed on being caught saying that.

"Good afternoon," he said. "Would you please put all your books back in your bags? Todays will be a practical lesson. You will need only your wands."

I reluctantly took out my wand and looked at it. I am going to be the first one who was going to fail.

We followed him out of the classroom and got hindered by Peeves. I smiled on seeing the poltergeist, who was stuffing the keyhole with gum.

"Loony, loopy Lupin," Peeves sang. "Loony, loopy Lupin, loony, loopy Lupin —"

Remus just shook his head and warned him but Peeves didn't listen.

He raised the wand to shoulder height, said, "Waddiwasi!" and pointed it at Peeves.

With the force of a bullet, the wad of chewing gum shot out of the keyhole and straight down Peeves' left nostril; he whirled upright and zoomed away, cursing.

It was cool and I realized watching the mischievous gleam in Lupin's eyes that he was and is a marauder.

It was boggart class and the class went as it was supposed to, with Neville turning his boggart into Snape and then his clothes into his grand mum's clothes.

We all got in line, and somehow I got stuck before Harry. I wanted to stand after him but he gave me the pass. I didn't want to but as soon as Ron was done, I moved forward in front of the boggart.

The rolling spider changed into something I never thought it would. It was me, my elder self standing and looking at me. I froze on seeing her. Her hair looked horrible, tattered and dirty, she had all the guilt of the world filled in her eyes and she was pleading with me to kill her and stop the pain.

The wand in my hand felt it got stuck.

"Arianna," I heard Harry behind me.

I lifted my wand and whispered with as much courage as I could muster.

"Riddikulus!"

I thought for a moment that it worked but the shape changed and in front of me now stood a dementor which was moving towards me trying to suck my soul out.

"Here!" Professor Lupin shouted suddenly, moving forward.

Crack!

The dementor had vanished. It changed into the full moon and then Lupin said, "Riddikulus!" almost lazily.

"Forward, Neville, and finish him off!"

And Neville did finish it. I was a little shaken by what happened.

I realized my worst fear was turning into me again.

The class ended by Professor giving points, I wanted to run out of the classroom and lock myself somewhere but the choice was taken away.

"Miss Song, please stay back," I stopped on hearing this. Everything came into focus, how my friends were looking at me.

They looked concerned and it felt like it was pity.

Everyone cleared out and I followed Professor Lupin to his classroom.

"Sit."

It was simple and neat room - The place where Harry had succeeded in performing the Patronus charm.

I took the chair and watched him as he placed the paper in his hands on the table. He waved his wand and conjured a glass and filled it with water.

"Drink."

He sat across me behind the table on his chair and waited for me to drink. I picked up the glass and gulped down the water in one big gulp.

"Boggarts changes into your worst fears when you first see it. While they don't have any power of the form they take, the fear gets ignited in the person. The thing they fears most," he said but I remained silent.

I couldn't meet his eyes. I was finding a hole in his table more fascinating right now. I knew he was waiting for me to say something and after being silent for few minutes and seeing that he was not giving up, I sighed.

"My worst fear is that I will become that girl, the girl who will have to do anything to survive, who doesn't have anyone beside her. No one cares for her. Her eyes are filled with so much guilt of doing all the things that are not right, that can kill others. That girl has lost the innocence not because she wanted to, but she was forced to. I fear that it would have been my future if Hogwarts hadn't been an option. Coming here has changed that but I fear that others banish me knowing what I am," I blurted out, the words that I have never told anyone came spurting out of me.

I looked up from the table, my horrified eyes meeting his strange hazel yellowish eyes. His face showed so many emotions that I couldn't register all of them. Sadness and pity.

I shook my head on seeing him trying to sympathize with me. But he couldn't.

He didn't know what I was feeling.

How I was surviving.

"The fact is you aren't." My head snapped to him, "It might have been your future or maybe not. But you are here. You are given a chance," he hesitated a little but he continued." I never thought I would be able to attend Hogwarts and make friends but I did. I came here, learned and made friends that would have supported me whole life. I had blast here. They never backed down in helping me and you won't either. You remind me of someone I knew."

I was strong, I never cried but his words brought tears into my eyes. A tear fell and trudged down from my eyes to my chin.

"She was strong, very courageous and never backed down from anything. She was loyal and one of the best friends I have ever had. She made me realize that I was worth the chance. If I didn't deserve to be where I was then I wouldn't be here in the first place," The smile on his face was genuine and I realized that he was not just friend of Harry's father but his mother's too.

"You look a lot like her and I think you are strong too and if anyone tells you, you don't deserve this then hell with them because you do. You have every right to be here. If you didn't, you wouldn't be here."

His words were encouraging and they gave me the hope that I needed. I could change myself not become the monster that I once was.

Wait a minute did he say I looked like her.

I am blonde, Harry's mum was redhead.

I have blue eyes.

"Now, I think you should join your friends, they will be waiting," I stood up and smiled. "My door is always open."

I picked my bag and moved towards the door. Before leaving I turned and looked at him.

"What?" he questioned, his eyes looking at me with humor.

"Thank you," he nodded and I left the classroom. I knew Remus Lupin was nice person from watching movies but he was one of the kindest people I had ever met.

"What happened?" Hermione questioned as soon as she saw me.

"Nothing, I am good."

And for the first time, I meant them.

A/n: Aw, Remus is kind of awesome. He is one of the nice person in the series and I love him for that.

Arianna getting better in Potions.

Looks like Hermione is being a little suspicious.

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