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Pippa Lupin (C) Ashley :)

The other Lupins that are (C) to no one really. I don't claim to own them and they are not mentioned in any of the HP books. You may do as you wish with them.

All other characters are (C) Jo Rowling.

New Year's came and went and Aurora could hardly believe that it was 1981 already. It was March now and she was grading essays from her students. She had come back to Hogwarts but this time she was the teacher of Psychology of the Magical Mind. She had been trying to stay very busy since she arrived otherwise she'd sorely miss her husband. They wrote each other daily, Aurora keeping him updated on their baby girl and Holly and Nicola and he keeping her updated on Italia. Pippa had taken to babysitting the young girl now because Sirius was finding it very difficult to take care of a 6 year old girl when he was constantly out battling Death Eaters.

Dumbledore had become their Secret Keeper and Pippa had to Disapparate right onto the doorstep to avoid being seen by Death Eaters who had been patrolling Rowena Walk. One thing that Aurora hadn't told anyone yet was that she suspected that she was pregnant again. Her stomach had been growing a bit over the last few months and she was eating like mad again, having odd cravings at all hours of the day not to mention the terrible sick feeling she had.

Holly and Nicola were excited to have Aurora there even though neither girl had her as a teacher yet; she taught fifth years and older. At the moment she was waiting for the last sixth year student of the day to come in for a career advisement session. She looked up when she heard footsteps approaching her. She smiled up at Jonah Abbott as the shy blonde Hufflepuff girl came to stand in front of Aurora's desk.

"Please have a seat, Jonah," Aurora motioned to the chair in front of her desk and Jonah sat down a bit awkwardly. Aurora smiled at her again and straightened up a bit. "So…You want to start working in the Department of Mysteries?"

"Yes."

"Alright…" Aurora reached over and grabbed a black career pamphlet that had dark blue letters upon the front, reading So You Want To Become An Unspeakable? She handed it to Jonah and Jonah opened it, looking down at the brochure's informative paragraphs. "You'll need to get an Outstanding on your N.E.W.T. for this subject."

"Ok…Professor, is it hard to be an Unspeakable?"

"Hard?" Aurora asked rhetorically and Jonah nodded, looking curious. "You just need to be well managed in Occlumency and you must be quite good at keeping secrets. Hard…I wouldn't say hard. Dangerous, yes, it is dangerous. But there's no need to fret! You've been doing quite well in our Occlumency and Legilimency sessions in class. Just keep practicing and you'll do fine. I think you've got it in you, Miss Abbott." Aurora beamed at the girl and Jonah blushed modestly, her eyes glittering happily.

"Is that all, Professor?"

"Hmmm…I believe so. Just keep practicing your lessons from this class. For anymore information, you'll have to go to the Ministry itself for I don't know what branches of Unspeakable there are; I just know that they have many. Just ask the clerk at the Atrium and they should give you another brochure with all of the branches and the information on them. Then, after you graduate, I imagine that you'll go through some more training for the field you choose."

"Ok. Thank you, Professor Black!"

"You're welcome; Good evening, Miss Abbott." And Aurora waved to her as the young girl dashed out of the room, calling after her friends. Aurora sighed softly and went back to grading paperwork. Only fifteen minutes later, she heard soft footsteps approaching her desk. She looked up and smiled at Professor Dumbledore, who smiled warmly back.

"Professor Dumbledore, what brings you to my classroom this afternoon?"

"I have something for you, Aurora," he answered as he sat down across from her. Aurora kept smiling, looking at him in slight bemusement. "This," he said as he pulled a pretty large vial out of his robes. A silvery matter, not liquid or gas, swirled about inside of the vial and Aurora knew what it was. 'Memories.'

"Memories? Whose?"

"Your mother's." Aurora's eyes shot to his instantly.

"My mother's? What do you mean?"

"I have been trying to slowly extract your mother's memories from her for some time now so you would be able to see them. I finally managed it. It will help you better understand your uncle."

Aurora scowled but took the vial. "Thank you, Dumbledore…" she said quietly to his back as he walked out of the classroom. She looked at the vial for a long while before she stole herself away to her office. The vial was the exact length of her hand from finger tip to the bottom of her palm. She hurried up the stairs and closed the door behind her and locked it. She placed the vial on the desk there and the searched the room for a big enough bowl. She finally found on in a cupboard and she carefully emptied the vial's contents into the head-sized bowl. Slowly, hesitantly, she dipped her head forward. As soon as her nose was close enough to the silvery threads, she was pulled into her mother's memories.

Thanks to eloquent-dreams (again! yay!) and sands' gal for the reviews! Ok, I know this chapter is short and since I don't really care for the way this chapter ended, I'm going to post the next chapter too. The next chapter is a lot darker. I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Please review! Thanks. -Siriusgrl88