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

Chapter 15 | Black

One week of constantly debating with my feelings went by until it was Saturday. I had seen  Remus  for a few times and had class with him a second time. He really was a great teacher. With him every student enjoyed studying for some reason and we had fun learning.

This was my first weekend back at Hogwarts. Today Ravenclaw had a quidditch match against Slytherin. After I decided to get up since I was too nervous to fall asleep again,I went into the Hogwarts kitchen to fulfill my addiction to matcha. I sat down at the Ravenclaw table, since Fred and George weren't even awake yet. I was really early and only a few students were already up. I finally found the time to take a look at the Slytherin students that attended Hogwarts to find my possible father. The past days I didn't had anytime to focus on this problem and I haven't continued speaking to Dumbledore about the lessons. But today was my focus on the upcoming match.

While I was eating some fruits I flicked through the pages of the Hogwarts :history of the houses book. I looked at some of the names and the pictures.

Orion Black

Was written under a group photograph of a Slytherin year, along with some other names. I nearly chocked on the plum I was eating currently, I started coughing. Orion...Black. This last name was familiar...
Looking at some other years I found more Blacks...Arcturus Black the third p, who attended Hogwarts around thirty years before Orion. A few years before and after him I found a Walburga, Alphard and Cygnus the third. All of them had the same last name; Black. Their age was closer to Orion's, they probably were cousins or brothers and sister.

I needed to take a look a their family tree. I looked at the clock and saw that I still had enough time to go to the library. I quickly made myself out of the great hall and I bumped into some one.
With my head I was focused on the last name. Black.

"I am sorry" I muttered and started to walked past the person, still lost in my thoughts.

"I have nothing to complain about" a familiar voice answered. Remus. I smiled to myself and turned around to face him.

"Even though I enjoy you bumping into me...you need to watch your step, not everyone will be as happy as I am" he said and smiled down at me. I smiled back at him and blushed. I noticed that he looked at my cheeks and I saw something flicker in his eyes.

"Then I will try to only bump into you" I said and smirked at him. I felt my face heat up even more as he stepped towards me. My heart was beating so fast now that is as sure he could hear how nervous I was.

"You better be doing that. you don't want to make jealous, don't you?" He said with a slow voice. This was completely unlike him, his teacher presence, his so friendly and kind side. And now he was towering over me, looking down at me with a smirk. He was so intimidating and I...I liked it. A lot.

"Of course not, Professor" i finally managed to say after i just started into his eyes for a while. I had tried to read what he was thinking...

"Good" he said with a smirk and stepped away again. "I will see you later at the match, Maeve" he said in a less intimidating way.

"Ye- Yes.." I stuttered and he walked away into the great hall. I turned around and went to the library as i had planned. I needed a few moments to realize what had happened and what i wanted to do at the library. After I had collected my thought again I tried to look for a Black Family book. Since so many Blacks attended Hogwarts, seemed to be wealthy and kind of famous, I was sure that this school had a book about this family. After unsuccessfully looking through every isle that potentially had the book, i realized that since they all seemed to be in Slytherin, the book needed to be in their tower. Every house in Hogwarts had its own library, that carried books specific for them. I decided to ask one of them for help after the match, hopefully one of them would help me.

I gave back the Hogwarts book and made my way to the Ravenclaw tower. Most of the other students were up by now and walked trough the corridors, happily and excited. Some of them wished me luck for the match and I thanked them.

I walked upstairs to my room and found Grace getting ready. She had put blue paint on her face and was really excited.

"There you are! I was already worried." She shouted.

"I was so nervous that I couldn't fall asleep again after I woke up too early, so I already ate breakfast" I told her and began to get ready myself. I changed into my quidditch uniform and Grace talked me into putting blue paint on my face. After debating for a while I decided to just let her do it. She drew two blue lines on my cheeks, like I was about to go to war. I needed to admit it looked kinda cool.

"Okay okay, i doesn't look too bad" i admitted and we laughed.

"I told you! So let's head downstairs shall we?" She said. On our way down we continued talking about the match, that came closer every second. And my nervousness grew too. When we sat down at the table she must have noticed that my face looked pale.

"You don't need to worry...remember the tea leaf reading. We are going to win this match!" She told me and and placed her hand in mine. After a while the twins sat down next to me. They tried to calm me down too and made fun of Grace believing Trelawneys class.

"You are a Ravenclaw...more intelligence isn't possible, why do you believe in this bullshit?"
"And especially with that crazy Professor " the twins said to her.

"Fred. George. Please let her..." I said and glared at them.

"Do you believe this rubbish too?" George asked me. And the twins started laughing.

"No it's okay, Maeve. I know Trelawney isn't the best teacher and she might be crazy. But I really enjoy divination and nothing that was showing my future was ever wrong. So I have no reason to believe that it is false." Grace stated. The twins looked surprised. She was right when everything was right, why would she not believe in it.
"And Maeve just doesn't want to believe it because the tea leaf reading is right and she wants to hide the fact that she is in l-" grace continued but before she could finish I stopped her, I knew what she was about to say...that I was in love.

"Grace!" I interrupted her.

"What?" The twins asked at the same time. "What did she get?" I let my head fall down into my hands in annoyance.

"Loss and sadness ....and that Maeve is in love with someone!" Grace told them in a celebrating way. A let out a squeak.

"Oh. My. God." Fred mocked and both of them started hysterically screaming to make fun of Graces excitement. She just laughed at them "do I really sound like that?" She asked between laughter.

I left my head buried in my hands and the twins continued. "Our little maevy-baby -" George began to say in a loud voice. I started to punch him. I knew it didn't really bother him, since I wasn't the strongest person and was just making this to make him stop speaking.

"Is...in" he continued. So I continued punching him jokingly. "Please stop!" I said and laughed.

"She is what, Mister Weasley?" I heard a familiar voice from behind me. Oh shit.

"Nothing professor!" I immediately answered and my face went red and turned towards Remus. Why was he always there when the twins could embarrass me?

"Alright...anyway I would save your strength for later" he said and winked at me. He then walked away and left the four of us behind with open mouths. For some reason it took me a while to figure out what he meant, then I realized that he meant the match and nothing else...or did he? He had said it in a strange way and I had seen his eyes flicker like earlier this day.

"What was that?" Grace asked me after he was gone. The twins just started laughing at me and I just shrugged, like I didn't knew what she meant.

"We should go to the field now" I stated and we made our way towards the quidditch field.