'Hey Potter! What do you think you're doing?!' Lily shouted to her guilty looking fellow fifth year.

James Potter quickly stuffed a piece of parchment into his pocket and turned around to face her. 'Err…nothing I just…err…was walking…you know…around' he finished lamely. Lily Evans was not fooled.

'It's past 10:30! You should be in your dorm room. Why are you hanging around the seventh floor corridor?'

James mumbled something under his breath and shrugged a pink tinge flushing his cheeks. 'Come on Lily; let me off the hook this once.' He waggled his eyebrows up and down regaining some of his arrogance, 'I'll make it worth your while'.

Lily was furious not only was he already in trouble he was trying to flirt with her! She was a prefect and doing her duty and he dared to stand there and ask not to be punished. 'Empty your pockets!'

James looked startled, 'what?!'

'You heard me, empty your pockets!'

'But…but…' he stuttered. She smirked he was obviously hiding some incriminating evidence in there. She held out her hands 'come on, you heard me!'

He stared at her for a few seconds and she started to get uncomfortable, really this punishment didn't fit the crime. Usually a night time wanderer would just get a few stern words of warning but this was James Potter and she was very curious as to what she would find in his pockets. He thrust his hands angrily into his pockets and handed her the piece of parchment he had just stuffed in there this was followed by a few sweets from Honeydukes and some odd bits and bobs that were obviously part of some pranking plan or other. This was followed, however, by a most unusual looking object. A silvery liquid looking piece of cloth landed on her outstretched hands and she looked questioningly up at James before bursting out laughing.

'What is this?' She asked incredulously.

He said nothing but turned to walk away in the direction of the Gryffindor common room. She shrugged to herself bemused by her findings.

'She took the cloak?!' Sirius yelled at James. 'How could you let her take the cloak?!'

'She took the map as well' James said quietly.

Sirius looked like he was about to explode. Remus said 'if she finds out what either of those things are we are so busted.'

'Look I had no choice she was really angry and well…I…' he trailed off as he tried to think of a good reason why exactly he had let her take them.

'You like her that's why!' Sirius yelled, 'you let your damn feelings get in the way and give in to her stupid stupid stupidness! She had no right to empty your pockets she's only a prefect for Merlin's sake!'

James stuttered and blushed trying to deny this accusation but then gave in 'yes so what if I like her? She hates me so it's not like it's ever going to go anywhere!'

'Oh come on Prongs, you could have anyone in this school why Evans?' Sirius demanded.

'You wouldn't understand Padfoot' James said in a pitying voice. 'You're just too much of a womanizer!' Sirius looked for a minute like he was going to deny this but then just shrugged and grinned before brushing his unruly dark hair out of his face.

Lily sat in her room with her findings staring at the silvery thing. For some reason she thought she recognised it but could not for the life of her figure out what it was. She picked it up and felt it rush through her fingers like water. Her friend Alice in bed next to her snored and turned over. Lily noticed she was shivering and got up to shut the window. Well this thing might as well go to some use she thought to herself and draped it over Alice's sleeping form. As soon as she did however she gasped as Alice's legs and back suddenly disappeared.

She groped around in the dark for a second and was relieved to feel Alice was still there. Her fingers touched the liquid material of the thing and with sudden understanding she realised what it was. She had only read about them in books of course but why on earth did James Potter have an invisibility cloak? This thought had hardly passed through her mind before a much more interesting one did. She grinned wickedly to herself as she thought I can have a lot of fun with this.