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

Chapter 10 | Assistant

After I stumbled into the Potions classroom, I noticed that everyone was already sitting on their seats without talking, very odd. Since Snape seemed not to be there yet. I quickly made my way towards the twins and they looked at me with a scared expression.

"Wha-" I wanted to asked but stopped as soon as I felt someone grabbing me by my hair. The person dragged me towards the teachers desk and forced me to turn around to the class. Everyone was staring at me and the person behind me.

"Miss Lovegood" Snape's slick voice slowly said. "Since you decided to come late to your first lesson of this year, you will be my assistant til we finish our next potion"

"Which will be, Sir?" I just asked, I knew it wouldn't be wise to argue with him. This usually just brought me more trouble.

"The Veritaserum." He let go of my hair and pushed me towards my seat again. I grabbed my bag from the ground and sat down next to George. He looked worried and Fred just shock his head, he knew what that meant. At the end of the potion making, Snape's "assistant" needed to drink the potion to present the effects. But Snape wasn't finished with torturing me for this day he walked up to our desk and looked at me.

"May you tell the class the effect of the serum?" He asked me, he was hoping that I had no clue.

I slowly stood up. "The veritaserum is the most powerful truth serum and only three drops of it are enough to force the drinker to reveal their darkest secrets. Every question asked will be answered truthfully, it is really hard to resist the effect. The use of it is strictly controlled by the Ministry of Magic. The serum is clear and colorless which makes it almost indistinguishable from water, Sir" I told him, he looked disappointed because his plan to embarrass me had failed. But I wasn't a Ravenclaw for nothing...

"But I am sure you don't know how it is made, Miss Lovegood"he tried to counter with a smirk.

"No not really, Sir" I started and he looked pleased with himself, but before he could comment something I continued "I just know that it is quiet difficult to produce and the potion must mature for a full lunar phase, which are -to be exact- 28 days. And I think the main ingredients were Jobberknoll feathers."

His smirk had disappeared and he looked shocked, probably wondering how I knew so much, since we never had this topic in class before. I smiled at him and sat down again. He turned around and went angrily back to his desk and told us to open our books with a loud voice.

"That was awesome Maeve" I heard Fred whisper. And before they could continue I winked at them.

"you should stay quiet or do you want to be his assistant too?" I asked them rhetorically and opened my book at the page he told us and began to read. The rest of the lesson was pretty uneventful. At the end of the lesson Snape ordered me to stay, as I already had expected. Fred and George looked at me with pity in their eyes and i told them not to wait, since I had planned to go to the library anyway.

After everyone was gone Snape looked at me, it seemed like his features had softened.

"Miss Lovegood, May i ask after the reason for your delay?"

"I needed to talk to Dumbledore about private-" I began to explain, but he interrupted me.

"I know about it." He said. Excuse me,what? "I got informed with some other teachers, we decided on what would be best for you and who should teach you...and about your father."

I looked at him in shock, he had never been nice or welcoming or anything besides mean and bitter and he was now in the group of teachers that would help me.

"My father..." I repeated.

"If Dumbledore's and my assumption is correct, we need to be really careful about that information...since..." he stopped talking.

"Since what?" I snapped. Why did no one wanted to tell me who he maybe was. He looked at me, he seemed hurt and stated " I can't tell you, not if we are not completely sure. We decided not to make you worry or scare you."

His featured suddenly hardened again and he told me to leave him alone. I angrily ran out of his classroom and muttered under my breath "In the end I need to do it all by myself again".

I made my way into the library, which gladly was very empty. I placed my bag onto a table that was near the shelves and absent from the others. I had missed the library so much and I nearly knew where everything was by intention. When I didn't spend my time with the twins I usually was found in the kitchen or here, with my head buried in books.

I went through the bookshelves and picked some books out of them that might help me find informations about my father. I decided to look through the books about the history of hogwarts and important families that attended them, I was sure that he must have been to Hogwarts since Dumbledore and Snape both knew him or at least had someone in mind when they heard his name. I spend the whole break I had before my charms class looking through important families and their histories. I first had looked if my mothers name had a history, which it didn't. Falcon didn't appear once, so I decided to focus on only tip I had, Hogwarts and started looking through the Ravenclaw students Hogwarts had. But before I could continue with the other houses I needed to head off to my charms class with my head professor Flitwick.

The class was pretty uneventful, as always I nearly got bored at the easy questions he was asking us. So I focused on helping the twins and when Flitwick was focused on some other students I decided to tell them the news.

"Dumbledore showed me a letter from my father and Snape's knows about it." I told them. Both of them leaned forward and we sticked our heads together.

"The letter was signed by a person called Orion and Dumbledore and Snape refused to tell me who they assume he is. I know that they have someone in mind and they won't tell me until they are for sure. It seemed like this man is dangerous or something they acted so weird. But since they know him I am sure he attended Hogwarts...oh and by the way I am one year older than I thought" I told them and they looked at me with confusion and didn't say anything.

"Yeah, I know. I am shocked too, believe me" I said and noticed that my words had a bitter undertone. After a while they started to ask a few questions and i told them everything i knew, but felt so clueless and stupid since I wasn't able to answer all of them. Gladly the lesson went by pretty quick and this time we would have a longer break for lunch.

I sat down next to Fred, while George was sitting on the other side. I opened my book again as soon as I sat down. The twins started eating and talked about our next prank and the up coming quidditch match. I had completely forgotten about quidditch training which would be after the class with him. I looked through the Gryffindor students and Hufflepuff, but then class was about to start. That meant my father never was in Hogwarts and Snape and Dumbledore knew his name from somewhere else... or he was a Slytherin.

When I stood up I accidentally pushed my bag from the bench and all my books were now laying on the ground.

"Why are you carrying so many Defense against dark arts books..." Fred was wondering and then Realisation seemed to hit him. "Ahhhh...your new Professor lover boy"

"Want to impress him in the first lesson, ay?"

I just rolled my eyes. "I just wanted...to be prepared" I lied and couldn't help but smile as I thought of Remus. They noticed it and knew that they had guessed correctly.

"Naw, look at her having a crush on our new-" Fred said and immediately stopped when I pointed my wand directly in his face. "Be careful what you say next, Weasley. I know some really disgusting spells" I said and tried to sound as serious as I could.

He raised his hands in defense and I added "I had the best teachers" and winked at them. We started laughing and made our way through the corridors to the D.A.D.A. classroom. I got more and more nervous and excited with every step...