Then Look At The Stars

Chapter 4: Flourescent Adolescent

Notes: 

This chapter is named after Fluorescent Adolescent by the Arctic Monkeys! This is one of my favorite songs, but I'd definitely say it fits more for the third section (sections are divided by ***), which is the majority of the chapter. Hope you enjoy!! xx :)

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"I'm his bloody godfather! Is that not good enough for you?"

"I never said-"

"Molly, Sirius, we all have Harry's best interests at heart." Dumbledore cut in, "But it is still only June. We need to wait until at least after his birthday." Sirius crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair, looking annoyed but unwilling to argue with Dumbledore.

"Then I think that is all. This meeting is adjourned."

Legs of chairs scraped on stone and conversations broke through the din of the basement kitchen. The third meeting of the new Order had just wrapped up, ending with a discussion over when Harry should be retrieved from 4 Privet Drive, which had sparked a quite heated debate between Sirius and Molly.

The former nudged Remus in the arm; he was the last person left sitting at the table, everyone else was making their way up the stairs to the hall.

"Mate?" Remus shook his head quickly and looked up at his friend.

"Oh- Sorry Pads, I zoned out for a minute." Sirius gave him a weird look as Remus stood, but seemed to not find it too odd, because he returned to his default state of gloom and headed for the stairs behind everyone else.

Remus had been lost in thought, as he had been for the last five minutes of the meeting, about a variety of things. There was the usually melancholy feeling of nostalgia that always came with Order meetings, longing to hear James and Lily's laughs and Marlene's clever jabs at Sirius, Frank and Alice comparing their latest parenting experiences with James and Lily's, or Fabian and Gideon cracking a joke over a firewhiskey. There were so many people who were never coming back.

The other thing he had been thinking about was Tonks. She'd certainly made quite the impression earlier by falling flat on the dusty old carpet, bright pink hair thrown around her face that she quickly ran her fingers through and fixed. Remus hadn't seen her coming at all, when he had heard Sirius mention she was his relative and Moody praise her skills as an auror, a pink haired blur slamming onto the floor wasn't exactly what he had expected. And when he talked to her, he had almost immediately become comfortable, she felt familiar, like they'd been friends for years. She seemed to share his sense of humor too, and seeing how she cheered up Sirius made him hopeful.

She was certainly amusing, that was for sure. Remus hoped she wouldn't react badly when she inevitably found out about his condition, he could use another friend.

At the top of the stairs the members of the Order were milling about in the hall, attempting to pull on cloaks and say their goodbye's as quietly as possible, slowly filtering out of the front door a couple people at a time. Remus took his place by the wall, trying to stay out of the way as he observed the socialization.