"Remember Harry, the flow of air is not about control, but of acceptance and finding new ways." Said Alex Summers as he was instucting Harry on controlling his elemental powers. It was almost chirstmas 1987, and Harry had been doing well. He had grown from an underfed, young child whose life was nothing but brutal, to that of an 7 year old child who had amazing magical potential. Harry's phoenix, Hedwig sat on a branch in a tree where Harry and Alex Summers were sitting. Like Harry, the phoenix had grown a lot. Harry still had to record his findings everyday in his diary, but Hedwig had grown from an ugly featherless chick to an amazing phoenix, whose feathers were as white as the clouds in the air. Only a few red feathers were present on Hedwig's coat.

"Very well Harry, now let's try again. Feel the air around you, and then request, don't demand but request it to lift you up." Said Alex as he sat a few feet away from Harry who sat in a meditating trance.
Alex felt the wind getting stronger, and looked around himself. The tree where Harry and he were sitting was called the tree of remembrance. It was the only tree that made the journey from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. He could see that the castle with it's shining walls was being cleaned by the house elves. He had to smile, Harry had befriended several of the little buggers, and somehow got a fangroup of house elves.

Looking back at Harry, Alex could see that he was floating a feet in the air, but that the strain was getting worse, by the look on Harry's face.
"Very good Harry, Very good. Let's end the practise here. Calm down and thank the wind for lifting you up." His words didn't even left his mouth, when Harry fell a feet down from the air. "AUW" Said Harry, as he started to rub his butt, to relieve the pain.

"Well done Harry, it seems that you are able to levitate yourself. But the trick is to land. I want you to get your mustand 12, and go fly around the island for a few laps. Get the feeling of the air currents" Harry was already gone by the time Alex was done with speaking. Alex smiled in himself. Harry sure loved to fly. Seeing him flying of on his broom, a american model that was the current competitor to the Nimbus 1750, He saw that Hedwig was flying with him. Smiling, Alex watched as Harry flew through the air, using his natural instincs to keep connected with the air currents around Pacific.

Shaking his head, Alex entered the castle and sat down in his chair at the staff table. A few minutes later, Harry entered and sat down at one of the tables in the great hall. As the last few students made their was to a open seat, the headmistress stood up from her chair at the center of the table.
"Students, today a whole lot of you will be going home for the winter holydays. I would like to say two things. Thanks to some happy accident, we have a professor for both the history classes. Professor Bianca Tusarge will be replaced by Professor Remus Lupin. So from the moment that you all return for our new term, you'll see both Bianca and Remus in the class, as Remus will be learing from Bianca how to be an effective teacher for some of the schools hooligans. Remus do you have anything to say?"

Remus stood slowly, he had been told that honesty at Pacific was important. "Students, My name is Remus John Lupin, I'll be your new teacher for History, and I am a werewolf." There, he said it, and expected to be thrown out of the school any minute now.

"I don't care." Shouted someone from the back. Remus looked up, and saw Damian, one of Harry's friends standing on his chair. "I don't care that you are a werewolf. You are a person, who like everyone else is entitled to a job." One person started to clap in his hands, and Remus saw that Harry was clapping. Soon more and more students were clapping, and soon the entire hall was clapping for Remus.

Trying to find words, Remus made everyone sit down on their chairs. "Thank you. Thank you for accepting me. I never have feld so accepted ever." Said Remus softly, but every students had heard him. Looking at the headmistress, Remus nodded, a smile on his face, for seeing the truth that Alexandra had told him.
Smiling back, Alexandra turned from Remus and looked at the students. They all looked at her, hope for an quick speech before they could eat.
"Students," Alexandra said. Every student looked at her. "Enjoy your feast"

A loud cheer went through the great hall, as all students started to eat from the food that the house elves hade made and placed on the tables.
"Good speech, nice and short" Said Alex to his sister. "Leaves more time for drinking" Said Alexandra as she and her brother bumped a fist to each other.
"Do they do that often?" Asked Remus softly to Dora Vector. "Describe often" She responded. Seeing his confused look she stared to explain. "Throughout the entire year, both Alex and Alexandra have jobs that demand their full attention. The start of the winter holidays is the only time of the year where Alex and Alexandra go 'all out'."

She pointed at the brother/sister team and then to the students. Some of the first years looked at the Headmistress and the teacher from hell they all seemed to love and couldn't believe that both were shoving firewhiskey down their throats like it was water. On the occasion that they paused, both started to produce four feet long dragonlike flames. Remus started to chuckle and soon was laughing at the Headmistress and her brother. Raising his own glass, he never notised that Dora placed something in it, or the spark in her eyes.

Remus soon had his laugh back under control, and took a swig of his own glass of juice. Setting it down, Remus started to feel something was wrong. He touched his face and found out that his shaved face was now sporting a full growth beard. Looking at his side, he could see Dora looking at him, with twinkeling eyes. Smiling slightly, Remus shifted, making sure that he was facing Dora. "Say, Dora. Don't you have anything to say to me?" Remus asked innocently. Dora nodded, as she tried to keep her laugh inside of her mouth. She failed and a loud laugh came from the teachers table. All students could see the normally strickt anciend Runes teacher howling from laughter as she pointed to Remus's full grown beard. Remus then made the final touch that made her fall from her chair. He touched his beard and started to stroke it with his thumb and forefinger, while taking a thinking pose.

The moment that Dora Vector left the table and fell to the ground, Remus pulled from his robe a small pill and placed it in Dora's own cup. It took perhaps ten minutes for Dora to control her laughter, and as she sat back on her chair, she had to drink something before she could say anything. The moment she drank the liquid in the cup, she knew she was pranked. Looking at Remus, she tried her strickt teachers face, which failed spectacuarly as Remus was still looking at her with his thinking face on and stroaking his beard. "Pray tell, Remus. What have you done now." She tried to say in her most stern voice, but it came out as a little girls voice. "Ohw, nothing much. Just a small tablet that will have you squeal like a little girl for the next hour. Just call it payback for the beard"

"Ohw please, not another one" Said Alan Richards, as he sat next to Dora on the other side. "One prankster was bad enough, but two?"
"Hey, be glad it only works for an hour, when we pranked Filius Flitwick when I was at Hogwarts, we miscalculated the formula, and after we pranked him, his voice didn't return to normal" Said Remus, remembering the great time he had with his friends, the Marauders.
It was then that a tradition was born between Remus and Dora. Both would try to top each other with funny little pranks that lasted an hour.

Harry had a blast with his first christmas at Pacific. At the Dursley's he never got a christmas present. This year he got several candy bars from his friend, as well as an inventation to the wedding of Evelyn to her finacee, Louis Duprene. He also got several books about different charms, that he couldn't wait to use. Even a book about phoenixes came to him, thanks to the headmistress.

But the most treasuring present he got was from his uncle Remus. Remus had given him a photo of his Parents, when they were holding little baby Harry. Remus told Harry the story of how he came here, and they bonded over the fire in Harry's room, making marchmellows and bread, and drinking hot choco. They were having the time of their life, but all things must come to an end.
As Harry and Remus were talking about his family, deep down in the ministry of magic of the United States, aurors were working with Unspeakables to find out what charms were placed on the wardstone from the Potter's cottage. The one that Remus had taken with him.

Finally, some auror shouted that he got it, and the whole group started to look at the names that were on the stone. The shock for them was larger than they had expected, when they found out that Peter Pettigrew had been the secret keeper, the night that Vodemort died.
The British ministry had thrown an innocent man in prison.