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

Chapter 47 | admirer

The twins and Grace told me about their holidays and we thanked each other for the gifts. We catched up on everything and gladly they had experienced so much, that I didn't really need to tell them what I did during the holidays... A part of me really wanted to tell them everything and how happy I was, but I couldn't do it. It was a secret I needed to keep, even though I trusted them. For Remus...

We talked and walked around the castle grounds until it was time for dinner. Today we would be celebrating the return of the other students, so there was a lot of different foods. I tried my best to not make it obvious when I sighted Remus at the teacher table. And as I had already feared it was hard and when the dessert came, he tried to tease me, which made it far worse. I hadn't expected him doing something this risky...the whole school could see the looks he was giving me, but he didn't seem to care. The whole evening I wasn't able to talk to him in private, because the twins and Grace were always around. But I wanted to warn him that what he was doing was too risky...and too hard for me to resist, but that wasn't the point. A shiver ran down my whole body when I thought of class with him again...I really hoped that he would be more careful there...

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The next morning was the first day of class. Waking up early and starting with potions caused me to be in a bad mood from the beginning. Grace tried to cheer me up during breakfast and I wondered how she could be in a good mood this early. I filled my cup with coffee and just stared at the table and the food in front of me.

"Maeve, are you even listening?" Grace said throwing me out of my trance and tipped on my shoulder.

"Huh?" Was all i could answer and looked at her confused.

"Still asleep I see...I asked you if you were able to fix one of your problems over the holidays...?" She asked with a smile.

"Problems?"

"Your father, your powers and most importantly your crush..." she explained with a wink at the end.

"Well before the holidays I asked Draco to get me a book that might had more informations abou my father..." I explained and she looked confused so I continued, so she hopefully wouldn't dig deeper. "And I talked with Dumbledore about the training and I will get a new teacher for this...which we just met yesterday and who probably hates me now..."

"I don't think he hates you...I think the opposite" she answered and laughed. It took me awhile to understand what she meant.

"No no no...I don't think he-...I mean haven't you seen the disgust in his face? He is probably thinking that I was doing something nasty in there..." I answered her.

Before she could argue back the twins sat down next to me, so I was in the middle.

"Good Morning" George stated in a happy tone.
"Maeve-baby" Fred ended the sentence and wrapped his arm around me.

Before I was able to greet them back Grace turned to the twins. "What do you think the creepy auror from yesterday thinks of her?" She asked the twins, nodding towards me.

"Well...I think you have another old man that fancies you now" George answered laughing.

"Stop it Freddy...he is definitely not! That would be so weird!" I argued back.

"Yeah, because he isn't Professor Lupin..." Grace stated and started laughing too.

"No..." I whined and the other started laughing, while I buried my head in my hands.

"I heard my name..." I heard a familiar voice behind me. I turned around in shock and disbelief. But I had heard correctly...Remus was smiling down at us. Shit.

"Good Morning Professor" Fred and George answered like nothing happened and I just looked at him in shock. I really hoped he hadn't heard anything, especially not about what happened yesterday...

"We were just talking about Maeve's multiple admirers..." Grace stated and the twins tried to hold back their laughter. I turned around to her and looked at her in full shock. I had expected the twins to embarrass me...but not her.

"Grace!" I whisper screamed at her.

"Exactly!" Fred stated and laid his arm around me again. I dared to turn around to Remus again. He looked at us with a smile and a risen eyebrow. But it looked like the twins weren't done with embarrassing me yet...

"But Maeve belongs to me anyway..." Fred stated with a smile, looking at Remus.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that, mister Weasley" Remus answered while he directly looked at me. I swallowed hard and just stared at him. He turned towards Fred again. "A person shouldn't belong to anyone" Remus finished and left us speechless at the table. Even though he corrected himself, I knew what he had meant...

The twins and Grace gladly didn't said anything to that and we made our way to potions. I tried my best to focus on class and get the event out of my head. We did a lot for the upcoming O.W.L.s in class and Snape told us, that the veritaserum would be done after our tests. I had already forgotten about the potion that I would need to take...and now, that I really had a secret I was more than afraid of what could happen. This bothered me the whole day and Grace noticed it during charms and additional to that the D.A.D.A. lesson came closer...

After charms we made our way to the defense against dark arts classroom, that I knew far too well. I sat down with the twins and just as they were about to ask me something, Remus walked into the classroom. For the beginning he told us to read some pages in our books about ghouls, which was part of the O.W.L.s. It was really hard for me to concentrate on the text and not because of Remus...my worries about the veritaserum made it nearly impossible for me to focus. What if Snape would ask me about my Veela abilities in front of the class? Would it even be in front of the class? Probably, because it was 'to show the effects'... would he ask me to reveal my possible relation to Sirius Black? Or the worst thing would be, if he asked me about Remus...this would ruin my reputation even more and most importantly he would lose his job...and it would be my job. This was definitely the worst this that could happen...and I needed to find a way to prevent it at all costs.

"Maeve is everything alright?" George whispered and tabbed on my shoulder to get my attention.
"You look really worried..."

I quickly checked if Remus noticed our little talk, but he was explaining something to a student in the back. So I turned back around to the twins.

"I am really scared because of the truth potion..." I stated. "I mean what if he asks something about my father or that I am a Veela...Snape literally hates me. I wouldn't be surprised if he is trying to reveal my darkest secrets to the whole school to ruin my life..."

"Maeve..." George interrupted me, but I continued talking unwillingly ignoring him.

"I mean you saw how Grace reacted when she found it out...everyone is going to be afraid of me and probably even some of the teachers-" I whispered to them, but froze when I heard someone clearing their throat behind me. I noticed that Fred and George's eyes were staring at the person behind me, so I turned around already knowing who it was.

"Miss Lovegood, I hadn't expected this behavior from you." Remus said with a serious expression on his face. I quickly looked around the classroom, which was completely silent, everyone was staring at us.  "You stay after class for detention"

I looked at him with confusion. I had never expected him to give anyone detention....especially not for just talking. "But...but I have quidditch training after class" I stuttered.

"Well, then you should have thought about that, before you talked in my classroom" he just said and walked to his desk. "Now everyone be quiet" he demanded and everyone turned to their books again. Except me, I continued staring at him. He noticed it and winked at me. Now I slowly began to understand why he was doing this and I couldn't help but smile to myself. Now I couldn't wait for the class to end and to have my 'detention'...