I solemnly swear that I am up to no good | Professor Remus Lupin

Chapter 6 | Hogwarts Express

For a long time we joked around and they shared every information they had about Veelas. This included the fact that they could mesmerize and hypnotize men if they wanted to with seductive dances. They tried to convince me to do it, so that they could test out if it worked. I just rolled my eyes at them.

"Please May, dance for us. Pleeeaseee." Fred begged now and had changed the topic. Again.

"No, I won't, silly"

"Maybe she is saving it for her mister right" George joked. "What was his name again?"

"Oh god. Don't drag him into this..." I replied laughing.

"That would be another reason to test it, you could learn and we would observe." Fred said proud of his idea.

I played thinking about it and slowly leaned forward towards them. "No" I said. They both had really hoped and were disappointed at my answer. But I knew them, the five thousands no wouldn't stop them... before they could argue back, the train suddenly stopped and we tried to look outside.

"We can't be already there" I whispered. The outside was foggy and dark, you could only see shadows that seemed to move. The glass looked like ice was on the other side of the window. But how? We only had September.  But the whole wagon felt much colder then before we had stopped. I felt fear coming up in my body, it felt like all the happiness I had felt was sucked out of me. When I looked over to Fred and George, it seemed like they experienced the same.

We didn't move, we just stared out of the window. I wasn't really sure if I really wanted to see what was out there... the train was moving a little, like someone or something heavy entered it, but it wasn't our wagon. I got so scared than I instinctively moved over on the other bench, between the twins and grabbed their hands. They were holding mine tightly and we just continued staring outside. The lights turned off and I nervously shifted in my seat.

Everything was silent, dark and extremely cold. After a few minutes, which felt like hours, the lights went back on and it wasn't freezing anymore. It went back to normal like nothing had happened. The twins decided to take a look out of our compartment and sticked their heads out.

"Hey...what was that" Fred asked another student next to them. George and I decided to ask some other students. But as we started to leave our compartment the train started moving again and the voice of the driver told us to relax and go back to our seats.

We debated whether or not we should do it. We never really had followed any rules, so we decided to ask a few more and found his brother, who sat there with Hermione and a really pale looking Harry. He looked unwell and sick.

"Oh my god, is everything okay?" I asked worriedly. "What happened to him?" I said pointing at Harry.

"A dementor..." Hermione said slowly.

"Those creatures from Azkaban?" George asked. "What do they want here?"

Before any of them could answer I spoke my thoughts out loud. "Because Sirius Black escaped..."

"Yes... how did you know?" Hermione asked a little concerned.

"On my way to the train station, I saw it in the newspapers" I explained.

"You are like Hermione... but in hot" Ron stated. I knew he was lying to himself, it was pretty obvious that he liked Hermione.

"Ron!" George and Hermione said at the same time. As I noticed that he hurted Hermione with his words I decided to say something.

"Ron, first of all, I am not nearly as clever as Hermione, I just read the newspaper, which you should consider to do too... if you can. And second, Hermione is really pretty and I know for a fact that you think that too." I said to him with a smile. He looked nervous now and his face went red, because I told his secret. Harry giggled too, he seemed a little better now. George laughed too. And Hermione looked a little shocked, she looked at me with a huge grin.

"Let's go, George" I said laughing.

"Wait a second, what happened with the dementor?" George asked Harry.

"A man was with us and he made a spell with made it go away..." he started."I think he is probably our new Defence against the dark arts teacher. I have never seen him before."

George nodded and we made our way back to our own compartment and told Fred what we had found out. George also told him what I had told their brother, which made both of them laugh. The rest of our way to Hogwarts was pretty casual. It was already dark outside when we arrived. The castle looked like it was glooming and warm lights was coming out of nearly every window. The lights were mirrored on the lake, which made the water look the night sky.

The view was breathtaking.

I got into one of the boats with Fred and George, of course. We drove off and were slowly drifting over the water. I slipped my finger tips into the cold water and watched the movement of the small waves I was causing. I looked up and noticed that George was starring at me, I just laughed at him and asked him if I had something in my face. He just laughed it off and my eyes wandered over the water to all the other boats.

For a split seconds as one of the lights directly hit one boat, it looked like he was sitting in it. Remus. But that couldn't be and after that second was gone it was too dark again to see something. My eyes were just playing with me. I shook the thought of my mind. And laughed at myself for my silliness of thinking he would be here. Why would he?