𝔉𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔱 𝔪𝔢 𝔫𝔬𝔱 ~ 𝐹.𝒲

ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔯 5

As they walked down the many stairs, neither one spoke. They were both nervous.

Suddenly at the top of the final staircase Juniper stopped her father. "Papa, I'm sorry, you told me to be quiet, but I got bored and wanted to practise my piano to show Uncle Pads, I didn't realise I was being so loud, but I guess I was because you wouldn't show me to people otherwise. I'm sorry" she bowed her head and continued to walk down the stairs.

Remus hesitated before following and overtaking his daughter. The guilt he felt was starting to build up, and with the full moon close, he felt even worse.

They both got to the door and Juniper suddenly felt really shy, but had a thirst to prove that she was more than her memory-loss. Remus opened the door and she saw the normally empty kitchen table was surrounded by people staring in her direction.

She stepped away from behind her father and into the room. She went and stood next to Sirius, who was at the head of the table, making it easier for everyone to see her. She opened her notebook to the front page and spoke.

"Hello, my name is Juniper Lily Theodora Lupin, I'm 15 and I suffer from short term memory loss, It's nice to meet you a-" she looked up from her notebook and made eye contact with a certain boy. He looked exactly like her Uncle Prongs, but had her Aunty Lily's eyes. Harry. She snapped out of her staring and continued. "-all."

Harry noticed her stare and blushed.

"Well let's introduce everyone then shall we? I'm Molly Weasley. This is my husband Arthur and the redheads are my kids. They can introduce themselves." Molly stated with a kind smile.

The oldest looking ginger kid spoke. "I'm Bill, I'm the oldest. This is Charlie, Fred, George, Ron and the youngest is Ginny" Juniper smiled at them all.

A girl with curly brown hair spoke next. "Hello, I'm Hermione Granger, pleasure to meet you!" Juniper waved.

"Er Lils, don't you think you should write this down?" Sirius mentioned to her.

"Oh yes, Papa, can you get my camera please." Remus walked back upstairs and brought down her camera. She used photos as a reference. She took photos of the weasleys and Hermione and wrote down their names and ages.

"Er well I guess I'll go next, I'm Harry Potter" Juniper suddenly dropped her book. "I know who you are silly, your parents are my Aunty Lily and Uncle Prongs!" She Smiled.

"Er well yea" Harry awkwardly stated.

"You look just like them. Do you prank?" Juniper asked excitedly.

"Er well no, should I?"

"Yes! Prongs was a marauder, one of the greatest pranksters of all time, I aim to be just like them, the Marauders are my idols, weird to think that my dad is one and the others are my uncles, oh and wormtail I guess" Juniper went from being all excited to shy.

"Oh right, well Fred and George are the pranksters here not me" Harry awkwardly laughed.

Juniper's face went blank, then confused. "W-wait what? who's Fred and George? Nice to meet you, I'm Juniper Lily Theodora Lupin, I'm 15 and I suffer from short term memory loss" she had opened her book to the front page again.

"Er Lily, Darling, you already introduced yourself, check your book" Remus awkwardly spoke.

Juniper blushed and opened her book and read about the people in front of her. "Oh right, so you're Fred and George right? And your Alasdor 'Mad-eye' Moody, and Molly Weasley and Tonx?" she confirmed by pointing at random people. They all awkwardly nodded. Juniper was embarrassed, she became shy again. "Sorry" she mumbled and hid her face behind her hair.

"It's alright Lil-" Sirius tried to comfort her.

"Oh! Papa, we were supposed to go home today! I can't believe I forgot, well I can but I always remember today. Oh my, what if they think I've forgotten them" at this point Juniper was pacing around the kitchen, ignoring everyone in it. "Oh my this is not good, what if they all leave? What if someone's hurt? Oh no Papa, this is bad" she was panicking now. Her hands were pulling her elbows and her breathing was fast and shallow.

"Uncle Pads, Papa, can someone take me now, I'll go get my boots on okay, it's okay" she practically ran out the kitchen and up to her room.

Everyone at the table looked shocked. "Okay I know I'm not the only one wondering what the hell that was?!" George spoke.

"Yea what was that all about, she looked like she just found out Oasis split up" Harry added.

"Wait who's Oasis?" Ron asked dumbly.

Everyone ignored him. "Yes, Remus dear, what was that exactly?" Molly asked.

"Er yes well, for those of you that knew Emmeline, you know that she loved her creatures, she was constantly caring for them. Well Juniper is the exact same. And well she always looks after the creatures around our home, and when she found out we were moving here, I promised her that once a month, today, we would visit so she could check up on and leave food for the creatures. She loves them so much, but with all that was going on today we both forgot."

Everyone had smiles on their faces. Remus excused himself.

"That's the sweetest thing I've ever heard, I'm so glad we got to meet her, I just want to hug her" Ginny stated.

Before anyone else could say anything a loud bang sounded, followed by several loud thumps, then a loud "oomph" and then Juniper came hopping into the kitchen whilst putting her boot on.

"Lil's what the hell just happened?!" Sirius asked her in a panic. Everyone else was just staring at her with either a look of shock or dumbfoundedness on their faces.

"Oh, I may or may not have been running and got tripped up by my laces and possibly fell down the last flight of stairs?" she trailed off with a questioning tone.

Suddenly Fred, who had been very quiet this evening burst out laughing. "Ahah I'm sorry" he choked out. "Haha it's just so bloody funny" he was howling with laughter. George started laughing with him. Everyone was looking at them as if they were crazy.

Everyone, bar Fred and George, snapped their heads back to Juniper when they heard her quiet laughter, which turned into a howl of laughter, much like the twins.

"What is wrong with you lot?" Moody asked.

They started to calm down. "What were we laughing at?" Juniper asked quietly.

"Y-you fell down the stairs and came hopping in here trying to put your boot on" Fred explained.

"oh , right, sorry" Juniper bowed her head down, her hair falling and covering her burning cheeks.

"No need to apologise" Fred assured. Juniper looked up at him with a questioning glance. Fred just sent her an assuring smile and Juniper smiled back.

"Oh Right, Uncle Pads, Can you take me? I want to introduce you to Bruno! I bet he's gotten so big now, he lives in a field near our home, it's a ten minute walk, I miss him, I haven't seen him in a while." Juniper frowned.

"Sure, I'd love to meet Brun-"

"Absolutely NOT!" Remus came in yelling. "You KNOW how dangerous graphorns are, Bruno was getting dangerous when he was with us, he can kill you, I've taught you enough about them"

"They're less dangerous than you can be." Juniper muttered. Before gasping. "I- I didn't mean that I'm sorry I-" but before she could finish Remus stormed out.

Juniper shyly turned around, facing away from the others and spoke softly. "Uncle Pads, can you please take me now"

They could see just how upset with herself she was. They felt awful.

Sirius nodded, whispered something to Molly and apparated himself and Juniper to her home.

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