Daughter of Padfoot

Chapter III

Maxis Johnson's living room was very interesting indeed. There were curious little instruments all over, many posters, and certificates. Remus seemed to know his way around the house, because after we aparrated there he led us into a small kitchen, where there was a black haired woman humming merrily at the sink. Dishes were flying around scrubbing themselves and putting themselves away. We stood in the door way and as the woman turned to reach for her wand on the counter she saw us. The dishes dropped suddenly.

"R-R-Remus?" she stuttered

She ran over to hug him.

"Oh, oh I thought maybe you had been hurt. You stopped writing two years ago, and my owls could never find you."

"I'm, sorry." He said embracing her. "I resigned from Hogwarts, and I needed sometime to think about things."

"You resigned?"

"Snape told every one." Said Remus simply

"That bastard, He's still trying to get us expelled!" she yelled "I..."

She looked over Remus's shoulder and noticed Harry and I who had shrunk back into the dinning room.

"Less? James?" she asked shocked. Her voice quieted.

"Aphrodite, Harry." Corrected Remus

Tears welled up in her eyes, and dripped down her face.

"I saw you two about four times before every thing went crazy. You look like your parents. Exactly like Less and James. You," she pointed at me "I skipped my N.E.W.T's to see you bought home from the hospital. Got into big trouble for that, but it was worth it. And Harry. James, Sirius," she scowled at my dads name "Less, and I snuck into the room when you were being born. Stole a couple of hospital robes. Got locked up in a muggle jail for a night for that one."

We didn't know what to say.

"Come into the parlor, and sit down." She continued

She grabbed Remus's hand and dragged him from the room. We followed.

When we were comfortable in the parlor Remus started to talk.

"So what're you doing now?"

"Well I do some things for the ministry occasionally, but mostly I work for my self. The ministry doesn't like all of my, shall we say 'strategies'."

Remus seemed to understand.

"What do you do?" asked Harry

Maxis grinned.

"I hunt werewolf killers and occasionally other poachers. The ministry doesn't like how I do it sometimes. If it's a full moon I'm supposed to let the poachers do their thing."

Remus shuddered involuntarily.

"I never do that though. It makes them mad, and half the people I catch they won't put into Azkaban, so I have to catch them all over again."

She grimaced "I put myself on the Sirius case for a while; nothing happened. I looked for that scoundrel everywhere. I suppose you know what happened." She addressed me.

"I-I well... He's innocent." What made me say that, I don't know?

"I know he's your father, but you know the story."

"He is." Harry and Remus said at the same time.

"That's what we came here to tell you." Said Remus "that and, Voldemort's back."

"Him!" Maxis jumped up suddenly "what?"

"In June." Said Remus "he came back at the Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts; at the end. The D.A.D.A teacher was an imposter. He was a Voldemort supporter. He changed the winning cup into a port-key. It sucked Harry and Cedric Diggory into a graveyard. Voldemort killed Cedric and took blood from Harry to regain a body. Well actually Pettigrew did that."