After

It was warm morning, well about as warm as it could be in England in Summer. It was July 29th and Remus Lupin a man with large facial scars and a dodgy haircut was sitting at his kitchen table reading ‘The Daily Prophet’.

~BLACK IS BACK~

Sirius Black notorious mass murderer has escaped from Azkaban prison and his whereabouts are currently unknown!

He escaped, Remus always knew he’d get out somehow. Would Sirius come after him? Surely not, they had loved each other, no they hadn’t. Sirius had fooled everyone. Double crossing bastard.

There was a knock at the door, Remus rushed to open it. Wait, what if it was him? “Who is it?” Remus called.

“Professor Dumbledore!” A voice called back.

Oh no what did he want? He opened the door and there he was, Albus Dumbledore the man who ruined everything.

“May I come in?” Dumbledore asked with that stupid smile on his face, Remus should’ve slammed the door in his face, but he didn’t he led Dumbledore into his shabby little cottage.

Remus made tea and sat down staring into Dumbledore’s sparkling blue eyes.
“What do you want Albus?” Remus asked.

“Well Mr. Lupin I shall not bore with the tale of why I came here, merely the facts!” Dumbledore said choosing to ignore Remus’s tone. “As you know Sirius Black walks amongst us once more, and my concern is that of your safety,”.

Remus laughed sarcastically, “Since when has your concern been my safety!”.

“I would like to offer you a position.” Dumbledore said ignoring what Remus said.

“Oh wow you’ve ignored me for nearly twelve years and then when Black escapes your concern is my safety?! What about my sanity Albus?!” Remus shouted at him.

“Mr. Lupin I can see you are unhappy in this current state, but I think a position at Hogwarts would improve your wellbeing. You would have constant access to Wolfsbane potion, as Professor Snape would gladly brew it for you,”.

“I’m not of sure about gladly,” Remus muttered.

“And it would be an opportunity to get to know Harry.” Dumbledore plowed on. “Not to mention that Black will be unable to harm you at Hogwarts!” Dumbledore finished.

“What is the position?” Remus asked, taking a sip of his tea. He was calming down now.

“Defense Against The Dark Arts professor.”.

“What happened to Lockhart?” Remus asked raising an eyebrow.

“He turned out to be a fraud, and a memory charm he preformed backfired, leaving him in St. Mungos.”.

“And how about the teacher before him? Quirrell was it? Didn’t he have Voldemort on the back of his head?”.

“Yes he did, but me and Minerva have decided that we want no one accept you!” Dumbledore smiled.

“Right okay I’ll take the stupid job!” Remus said there really was no other option, he would do anything to avoid seeing Sirius again. Especially if he was going to try kill him.

“Wonderful!” Dumbledore said clapping his hands together. “You Don’t happen to know where your former classmate Mary MacDonald is, do you?”.

Remus felt a pang. It had been so long since he had heard from Mary, he knew exactly where she was, but Dumbledore wasn’t going to. “Mary lives in America now and if she doesn’t want to be found, she won’t be,”.

“Oh that’s a pity I was going to offer her a job as Head of the Astronomy Department.” He sighed, “Well Mr Lupin, I shall see you on September 1st. Your ticket for the Hogwarts Express should shortly arrive before then.” He finished.

“Goodbye Dumbledore, see you in September!”.

Then Dumbledore turned on the spot and vanished.

Remus immediately ran to his phone. He dialled the number. “Hello?” a familiar voice echoed through the receiver.

“Hi Mum, it’s Remus,”.

“Oh Hello Remus! How are you?”. Remus could sense the smile on her face, he really should visit more often.

“I’m fine, could I please speak to Dad?”.

“Oh yes of course Remus darling!”. He heard her shouting for her husband.

“Remus?” His father called through the receiver, a minute or two later.

“Hello Dad, I have a been offered a job at Hogwarts!”.

“Well I’m aware of that, has Dumbledore been around yet?”.

“What? You knew he was coming?”.

“Well yes of course I did he wrote to me and asked for your address because he didn’t know where you lived!”.

“And you didn’t think to tell me?”.

“Well I might have if you came to visit once in while!”.

“Oh don’t start! You know why I don’t visit!”.

“No I don’t! As it’s only one night a month! Well anyways, did you take the job?”.

“Yes I did, and I’m not sure I should have!”.

“Well you would be able to visit very often, as we live in Hogsmede now! And you would be safe! The full moon would be harder but that’s a small problem and as long as you have Pompfrey there to patch you up after!”.

“Right. I’m going!”.

“Good man! We will be seeing you soon then?”.

“Yes first Hogsmede weekend I will be at your door!”

“Good your Mother will be thrilled to hear that! See you soon Son!”.

“Bye Dad.” He hung up.

Remus was going back to Hogwarts but this time as a teacher.

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There was a full moon on August 2nd, he went to the usual forrest to transform. Not too many injuries, just the usual aches and pains.

8th of August 1973

He went to Diagonal Alley the following week.

He went to Flourish and Blotts, to get some more books.

As he walked past Florean Fortiscue’s Ice Cream Parlour, he saw a boy sitting outside with messy black hair eating an ice cream. Remus was reminded of a he had spent sitting at that exact table with two raven haired boys, eating ice cream, not a care the world.

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