I Quit

I Can't

Remus Lupin hesitated for only a moment in front of the gargoyle. This was one of the only jobs that would take him. He shouldn't do this.

Severus told the Slytherins. You'll be forced to resign or Dumbledore will be forced to fire you anyway. So this is the better option.

"Are you going to give me that password, or just stand there?" the gargoyle said impatiently.

"Sorry. Patronus." Remus said. The gargoyle leaped aside and Remus stepped onto the stairs.

"Ah, Remus, I was wondering when you'd show up." Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster, said, smiling sadly.

"I told you," Remus said, the anger he had suppressed rising up in him. "I told you he was innocent!" Dumbledore didn't have to ask who 'he' was.

"I believed him to be guilty." Dumbledore said calmly. "There was more proof than even I could have looked passed. And, he was, I believed, their secret keeper."

"Well, yes, But I told you. You should've trusted me! You should have trusted me, the way I trusted you! You shouldn't have told me to not look into it! You shouldn't have-"

"Remus, I told you not to look into it because of your condition. Most wizards don't trust you already because of that, and you were friends with someone almost everyone believes to be a murderer, and if-" Dumbledore cut off Remus before he could speak. "If you had tried to prove Sirius innocent, you might have been thrown into Azcaban with him. I believed I was correct, and I apologize."

"But you could have looked into it! You could have convinced everyone he was innocent! But you did nothing-even though you knew I knew him best right after James and I didn't believe him to be guilty."

"Yes. Remus, I know I should have looked into it. But I thought that once too. And I was wrong. I realize now, Sirius is not the same person Ger-my best friend was. Sirius was-is-Good."

"Yes, he is. And you were wrong."

"I was." Dumbledore said, a strange sadness in his eyes. "And I wish I hadn't been."

Remus looked into Dumbledore's eyes, and almost didn't do it. He almost didn't say what he had come all this way to say.

But he did.

"I can't do this, Dumbledore. I quit." And before Dumbledore could say anything, Remus Lupin left the office making his way back to his office, so he could pack up his bags and leave the school that was his home.

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Sorry guys, these are really short chapters. But I did say it was a short story so... yeah. Anyway, I am not going to go through the whole Harry and Remus talking about what happened-you should have read that in the books. (Or watched it in the movies, if you didn't read the books.) (Or both if you did both. Like me!)

Anyway, hope you guys liked this chapter. Adios.

-M