Strange Connection (A Ron Weasley Love Story)

Chapter 19 - Dream State

I cannot see or feel. Yet, I can hear. I could hear everything Ron said to Madame Pomfrey, and I knew exactly what werewolf he was referring to. It was one of the many, many things we had talked about late into the night in the Gryffindor common room.

Remus Lupin.

I knew him when I was a little girl. He lived right next door to me and my father. Moony (I could never pronounce Remus or Lupin as a child, so we always used nicknames, and it stuck) was my only friends back in those days, really because he acted more like a father to me than my real dad ever had. I would go and visit him almost everyday, sometimes having to sneak out from under my father's watchful eye to do so.
I knew Ron was referring to him because I remember him getting a job at Hogwarts, a teaching position as the 'Defence Against the Dark Arts' Professor. I remember that was the year I had to move away from my father, because without Moony as a neighbor, I had no one to distract me from the way I was being used. No one to comfort me or get me a nice cup of tea and tell me it would be okay. No one to read to me, or take me out window shopping to forget. He knew all about my secret, and I knew about his, so we always joked about 'being even', never having to do favors for one another, even though we often did so anyways.
I felt myself get dizzy remembering so much from my suppressed past. To cover the bad, I had to forget some of the good as well...
I felt tired, strangely, even though I was in a dream state already. I tried to clear my mind and just take deep breaths, and doing this allowed me to slowly nod off to a deeper, less conscious sleep.