Lupin's True Love Returns

Carey Ann Lupin

Story Summary:
Eighteen years have passed since Veronica was at Hogwarts. The Memory Charm is failing and Veronica is beginning to remember the times of fun and horror at the school. As a teacher she knows how to make class fun. She learned a lot while away including how to fight. Will she be able to teach Harry all she has learned or will she have to bring others in to help

Chapter 45 - Chapter 45 - A Marauder? What's that?

Chapter Summary:
“That’s where the Marauders get together and beat the tar out of the one being a prat.” Sirius crossed his arms and stared at his godson. “And I take it take Harry is the one being a prat since he doesn’t know the signal.”
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September 18, 1996

Two days. Two days spent lying in the Hospital Wing waiting for Madam Pomfrey to let her out. Two days of staring at the blank white walls. Two days of pure boredom. Two days of avoiding questions. Two days of listening to Madam Pomfrey telling her that she needed to take it easy. Two days of Veronica hexing every male that came near her, be they demon, Jedi, Mutant, Ranger, Professor, or family. Veronica had even hexed Severus when he tried to ask her how she was feeling, and that was just that morning. Severus now knows how it feels to be a woman when she's pregnant. Veronica had nodded off after that incident so she never saw Chip and Nick come into the Hospital Wing.

"Are you sure we should wake her? She's been pissed ever since she found out that she wasn't going to be allowed to teach us." Chip watched Veronica's still form nervously. He still was afraid of what she might do to them if she caught them sneaking up on her.

"She's not going to do anything to us because we're not going to wake her." Nick sank into one of the chairs and motioned to the one beside him. "We're just going to sit here until she wakes up. Then we're going to have a civilized conversation with her."

"About what?" Veronica's voice sounded hoarse from all the yelling she had done in the last two days.

Nick and Chip both jumped when they heard Veronica's voice. Nick rose to his feet and moved closer to her bed. He knelt beside her bed before picking up her hand. "How are you feeling?"

"Bored out of my gourd. I can't wait to get out of this place." Veronica sat up and leaned against the headboard of her bed. "What brings the two of you here? Want a first hand look at me hexing you?"

"No, ma'am." Chip shook his head. "Uh...Nick?"

Nick gave Veronica a slight grin as he pulled his chair over and sat in it. "We were wondering how you know about Daggeron and who that lady was that told him that you were going to train us?"

"Apparently, Daggeron was around when the Founders founded Hogwarts a thousand years ago." Veronica reached for the history book lying in the bean of sunlight on her bedside table. She casually opened it and handed it to Nick. "The Founders knew Leanbow, Udonna, Daggeron, and Niella. Of course this was long before Octomus made an appearance."

Nick took the book and looked at the moving portrait on the page. "So they were here a thousand years ago."

"Yes. Leanbow taught horseback riding while Daggeron taught sword fighting. Udonna and Niella taught Healing and Empathy." Veronica closed her eyes for a minute. "The Founders, Leanbow, Udonna, and Daggeron were the ones that saved Esmeralda from a fate worse than death."

"A fate worse than death? What would that be?" Nick smirked slightly.

"Her father."

"Her father? Why would he be a fate worse than death?" Chip watched Veronica's breathing pick up pace.

"He was trying to kill Esmeralda when we saved her." Daggeron stood in the doorway of the Hospital Wing.

Harry peered around Daggeron. He didn't want to make Veronica any angrier than she had been. "Aren't you going to hex them, Aunt Veronica?"

Veronica gave Harry a slight smile. "No, Harry. And I'm not going to hex you either."

Harry raced over to Veronica's bed and hugged her. "I'm glad you've gotten over being mad at everyone."

"I'm still mad, Harry. I just decided that it will be easier for me to get out of here if I stop hexing everyone." Veronica stretched slightly before patting an empty spot beside her.

"You know you liked hexing Snape." Harry climbed onto the bed and snuggled with his aunt.

Veronica smiled at her nephew before turning back to face Nick, Chip, and Daggeron. "I have to say thank you, Daggeron."

"For what? I have done nothing to aid you." Daggeron looked confused as he sank into one of the chairs beside her bed.

"If you hadn't insisted on helping Esmeralda, then her line would never have carried on for a thousand years." Veronica gave him a small smile.

"How did you know?" Daggeron was amazed with this woman lying before him.

Veronica shrugged. "What I'm going to tell the four of you doesn't leave this room. I'm a dream seer."

"But dream seers are very rare, Aunt Veronica." Harry's hand stilled on the slight bump of Veronica's stomach.

"Even rarer when you consider I dream of the past." Veronica's hand threaded through Harry's hair. "Most of the time I dream of the Founders."

"That explains why you seem to know so much about the Founders." Harry was ignoring the looks that he kept getting form Nick and Chip.

"Why are you sitting on her bed, kid?" Nick pulled Harry from Veronica's side.

"He's my nephew and the only one, other than Remus, that I allow to pet my stomach like he's been doing lately." Veronica watched Harry's cheeks redden slightly. The chimes of the clock rang out the hour. "Did the Headmaster assign you rooms, Daggeron?"

"Not yet." Daggeron climbed to his feet. "I just thought that the Rangers and I would use Godric's rooms since I am allowed past his wards."

"Sadly I discovered those rooms during my third year and now you have to be admitted by me. Perhaps Rowena's rooms will let you in?" Veronica smiled slightly.

"I'll check while the Rangers, Mr. Potter, and you go down to the Great Hall for supper." Daggeron slipped out of the Hospital Wing.

"Well, I suggest you boys step out into the hall while I change." Veronica waved the three teens out the door. "I won't be but a minute." Veronica waved her hand at the door closing it one three teens before heading toward the waiting shower.

Harry leaned against the wall as he waited for his aunt to emerge from the Hospital Wing. "So how did you get your powers?"

"What makes you think that we weren't born with them?" Nick glared at the younger teen.

"Easy. If you had been born with them, you would have known who the Founders were and the connection I have to them." Harry barely shifted his body.

"That doesn't prove anything." Nick was still wary of this boy standing before him. Yeah. He's just a boy.

Harry smirked slightly. "You know you should keep your thoughts to yourself, Nick. I'm not a boy. I've never been one. I had to grow up fast considering that my 'family' , and I use that term lightly, couldn't give a shit about me much less care if I lived or died."

"Your family?" Chip laid a hand on Nick's shoulder. "I thought Veronica was your aunt."

"She is but she was hidden away from me and the rest of us for a long time." Harry's arms crossed across his chest. "I didn't even know she existed until the end of last term. She went to school here with my dad."

"Can you tell us some more about your family?" Chip was bouncing again. He wanted to know more about this young man standing before him.

"You'll most likely get a more detailed history from the book you're holding in your hands." Harry barely nodded toward the book Chip had clutched in his hands. "That's a history of the Rise and fall of the Dark Arts. You'll most likely find a full chapter on Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived." Harry pushed himself off the wall and all but ran down the corridor, trying to get away from his past.

Chip turned to Nick, who was rubbing the back of his neck. "Why do I get the feeling that I shouldn't have asked?"

Neither had noticed the door to the Hospital Wing opening or Veronica stepping out into the corridor. "His parents died, Chip, when he was a year old." Chip and Nick jumped as they turned to face her. "He never got to know them." Veronica hurried down the corridor after Harry with Nick and Chip hot on her heels.

"Where so you think the boy could have gotten off to?" Nick watched Veronica literally fly down each corridor that they passed.

"I don't know but I'm feeling a bit guilty about my questions." Chip saw Veronica slip through a door. "There."

Nick and Chip followed Veronica into the Room of Requirement just as four armchairs appeared before a fireplace. They didn't hear the soft words that Veronica was softly telling Harry but they figured that it was that he was alone anymore.

Harry, with tears glittering in his emerald green eyes, looked up as Nick and Chip entered the room. "Come to rub it in?"

"Harry James Potter!" Veronica stared at Harry as he tried to pull himself out of her arms. "I never thought I'd say this but stop being a prat!"

"Harry, I'm sorry about my questions but I honestly wanted to know more about you and your quest." Chip dropped to the hard floor beside Harry.

"Whatever." Harry turned away from the two Rangers as Veronica climbed to her feet.

"I guess I'm going to have to pull a 'Marauder' on you." Veronica moved toward the door and whistled soft and clear.

"A 'Marauder'? What's that?" Nick barely had time to move away from the door as it slammed open.

"That's where the Marauders get together and beat the tar out of the one being a prat." Sirius crossed his arms and stared at his godson. "And I take it take Harry is the one being a prat since he doesn't know the signal."

"Precisely." Veronica crossed her arms and Remus and Sirius grabbed Harry and dragged him out of the room.

"What are they going to do to him?" Nick was starting to worry as Veronica led them out of the room.

"We're going to tie him up and..." Sirius gave Remus a grin.

"...Tickle him with these." Remus held up five feathers. "And you two get to help since you were the ones he was being a prat to."

Nick shook his head as chip picked one of the feathers. Together the five 'adults' tickled Harry until his laughs could be heard throughout the castle. Veronica untied him with a wave of her hand.

"Are you going to stop being a prat?" Veronica helped Harry to his feet.

"If I don't you're just going to tickle me again, right?" Harry looked up at his aunt.

"But of course." Veronica raised her sculpted eyebrow at Harry.

"I'm done being a prat." Harry gave Veronica a hug. "Thanks for getting me out of my funk."

"Your welcome, Harry. We'd better go eat before Alex and Ron eat everything." Veronica looped her arm with Harry's and led the small group down to the Great Hall where everyone was laughing at Severus waddling around like a duck. "I think I better take that off him." Sirius snorted slightly. "But I'm going to make him go through labor."

Sirius and Remus laughed so hard that most of the students were afraid of what was going to happen next.


I figured the Marauder out after James started being a baka in my other story. I swear some people can't seem to get that others are trying to help them study...