'Dad? What happened? It's just one minute I was a normal and then I was a wolf for a very long time and now I'm human. Well sorta anyway...' Charlie trailed off.

'Well from what I understand, the blue moon affected your transformation and because you haven't mated yet or hit pu- er... Grown up in other respects, you were affected by the double moon in the month. It's something to do with your body not being strong enough to cope with the wolf and its need for growth. I never had it... But I had mated before one came round. I just felt really rough the whole month.' Remus supplied.

'Well, I was just thinking, I dunno... Just I don't want it to happen again... With Hogwarts and all...'

'Hey cub, don't worry! It won't! The next blue moon is years away! And you will have found a mate by then! I'm sure you will!' Remus said confidently.

'Dad? Well... Who was your mate? If you don't mind saying?' Charlie blushed.

'Oh! Oh! Erm... Well it was... Well not so much a mate... More a close female friend... It was... Er- it was your mum.' Remus cringed and took a sudden interest in his shoes, ' Well when she found out about my... Problem. She was so kind and understanding and I just felt something click inside. Like a connection. But we never seriously romantically went out or anything. It was just...'

'Remus?' a soft voice from behind Remus startled him, his eyes snapped up from his book on spells he was reading, he span around and saw a pair of startlingly green eyes staring at him,

'Lily, hello. Erm, hi, what do you want?' he said nervously, his eyes flicked towards the door.

'Remus, here's the thing: I think you're hiding something from us, I think it's something big. I know for a fact that you don't just disappear to visit your sick mother every 28 days. Every full moon I might add.' Remus paled, his eyes bulged and he slammed his hand to her open mouth.

'Not here!' he spat, he released her mouth, 'Sorry, but no one can know. Only James, Sirius and Peter know along with Madame Pompfrey and old Dumbles. I would be thrown from the school from the parent! So how did you find out? Deduction? Moon charts? Stalking me?' Lily let out a giggle.

'No stupid! Only one of those is right! Stalking of course!' she exclaimed at Remus' confusion, 'Nah, I worked it out from the pattern of days you missed and the fact you look pretty rotten and ill afterwards. So deduction and moon charts.' Remus grinned.

'Lily, do you- mind? That I'm not human.' he said slowly.

'Yes! Of course I mind!' with that simple statement Remus felt like crying, he really liked Lily and her rejection- ' Whoever told you that you aren't human? You are sweet and kind and gentle and one of the nicest men I have ever met! You are human. Possibly too good to be human! ' she smiled warmly and kissed his cheek, to Remus' embarrassment and utter relief - how could he have been so stupid?! 'But seriously, no I don't. You can't change who you are and why should I change my opinion?'

Remus grinned and pulled Lily into a hug, only to have James walk through the door.

'Ok. Well if it turns out you actually are my dad, let me know.' Charlie grinned.

'I am your dad Charlie, I am your dad where it truly matters and don't forget it.' Remus said softly, his voice full of conviction and love.

'I love you dad, I really do.'

'I love you so much cub that I didn't think it was possible.' Remus smiled.

'Anyway. What did I miss whilst I was stuck?' Charlie picked up the conversation.

'Well, McGonagall sent through your letter with your updated third year books, instead of your first year ones, but she said have the first two year one's anyway. But as you won't be using them and they're are the same as my old ones, could you possibly use mine? I don't mind but it saves us a bit of money that we can spend on other stuff, like a holiday perhaps?' Remus suggested.

'Yeah that's fine! I memorised them anyway. After that I did all the spells...'

Charlie sat a his desk, he traced a split in the wood with his long finger, stopping and changing direction occasionally. He sighed and glanced at the slightly ajar door, he really wanted to move on with his magic, but couldn't risk getting caught. What if his dad shouted at him for doing it? He didn't like that idea. Slowly he stood up, pushing the chair back and walking slowly across the creaky wooden panels towards the door. He reached out his hand and slowly and carefully shut the door with a soft click. He then moved back towards the desk and sat down, slipping his hand into a hidden compartment in the top of the desk, he pulled out a spells book, the standard book of spells, grade 2. Charlie brushed the pages with his fingers, trying to recall the page he left off on. Page 254. He flipped the pages over slowly until he reached the page, the page read ' Making and Containing Fire'. Charlie grinned, this was one of his favourite tricks, he cupped his hands and a ball of blue fire appeared. He then split the ball into two and changed one of the ball's colour to orange and red. He knew roughly what he did, but the spell was necessary and the wand movement but due to his lack of wand, he used a good sized stick from the back garden.

He read the passage slowly and carefully- something he happened to do a lot- and reread the passage before doing the spell -flagrente- with his hands. The crackling ball of flame tickled his hands, he felt warm and soft but his head screamed 'GET AWAY FROM THE FLAME!' but Charlie knew he was in control. He heard someone coming up the stairs! He cast a wandless and wordless silence charm, stuffed the book hastily into the desk and pulled a which broom? magazine towards him and feigned reading. He then remembered to cancel the silencing charm and did so as his dad walked in through the door.

'Hey cub, lunch is ready. Come down now please, and remember that we're going out to see Nev today so look smart. Ish.'

'Yeah sure dad, I'll come down now,' Charlie tucked in his chair and followed Remus out, nudging a misplaced magic book under the cupboard as he went.

'So, cub. What you been up to today in your room? I haven't seen you since 11... ' Remus asked casually.

'Oh nothing much... Did a bit of reading and relaxing and stuff... You know. Did you hear that Nimbus have a new broom out? It's so nice, it's got new braking mechanisms and stuff!' Charlie said excitedly.

'No I didn't. What's it called?'

'The whip 300! It's one of the fastest brooms ever made. Way faster than the last broom out by them- the bolt twelve. Dad? Can we go flying today?' Charlie asked.

'Nev's coming round. That may not be the best plan...' Remus reminded him.

'Oh yeah. Can we go tomorrow?'

'Why not? We can go to the forest and fly about there, I hear Lac Bleu is nice,' Remus informed Charlie.

'Ah cool, what's the time?'

'Quarter to- Quick! You've got fifteen minutes until Nev arrives. T-shirt and shorts on! Make sure you're ready in ten minutes, put your plate on the side and help me dry the plates really quickly...' Remus urged Charlie.

'Oh right! Ok!' Charlie picked up his empty plate and walked quickly to the sink where he received a soapy plate and a tea towel, he dried the plate quickly and moved onto the next plate and glasses. After doing this he murmured a quick 'love you, I'll be right back,' to Remus and ran up the stairs to change his jeans into shorts, he pulled on a pair of tan shorts and grabbed his blue baseball boots and put them on. He tried to flatten his messy, brown hair, but when it was to no avail, he ruffled his hair even more and then wandered down the stairs. A few minutes later, Nev arrived with his grandmother.

'I still can't get my head around the fact you're going into third year! It's just nuts! Totally insane! And I never realised about your magic until recently! You're powerful cub, very powerful,' Remus mused, 'and, cub, you never use magic in front of me. Which makes it even harder to believe.' he chuckled.

'Well I could you know...' Charlie trailed off and then with a wave of his hand three fire balls appeared in the air, Charlie juggled them before merging them and then collapsed them by pushing his hands together. Leaving Remus speechless.

'Yep, well maybe I'm glad you don't on second thoughts!' he stuttered. Charlie just grinned.

'So, cub. Any other secrets or little things I should know?' Remus said jokingly

'Erm... I dunno... I want to be a Marauder, I want to be sorted with blue hair, purple eyes and be really tall. I am- a- WEREWOLF!' Charlie said in mock horror and astonishment. Remus shook his head whilst chuckling softly.

'You'll be the end of me...'

'Nah. I won't. I'll be the most awesome person ever! Wait! Correction: I AM the most awesome person ever!' Charlie wiggled his eyebrows.

'What was I thinking when I got you?'

'That you wanted a super awesome cheeky son?', at Remus' look of incredulity Charlie added 'Sorry, just a suggestion!'

'I give up! Let's play a game.' Remus said, shoulders hunched forward and head down in mock despair.

'FLYING!' Charlie sang in an opera style.

'That's not a game, but alright! Let's fly!' Remus stuck his arm out in a super man pose and ran out the open back door, Charlie followed suit.

After a full hours worth of twisting, turning and dives, Remus and Charlie walked towards the house, brooms slung over their shoulders, grins plastered in their faces. They entered the house, stowed their brooms and proceeded to flop onto the sofa. Charlie picked up his standard book of spells grade 6 and spent a comfortable hour creating water form shapes in the air with his hands and minus words. A soft tapping at the window broke his concentration.