Okay, Several of you, will probably be annoyed. I am working on an update, one that I am getting excited about while I write it. But I realized that this is kind of hard to read, so I'm going to split up Chapter one, so that it's not quite as long, and so that no one misses any important information. I hope you guys enjoy the story.
The Prank
Fifteen year old Lilly Evans was busily working in the library, while completely unobservant to her surroundings. She was doing what she always did, after reading all of her text books over the summer; she was studying the ones that she and her classmates would be using the following year. Lilly had done this for as long as she could remember. Originally in first year, she would simply "borrow without permission" from the second years and return their textbooks completely unnoticed. Once her second year hit, she figured that it'd just be easier to buy the year above hers text book as well.
Currently she was browsing the 'Standard Book of Spells, Grade Six' looking to see which spell she wanted to learn first. She continued flipping page after page, her eyes, staring keenly at the book, until she spotted one that looked rather interesting. It was an advanced version of the spell Lumos. Lilly bent further over the book, as she began speed reading through the descriptive text.
"Lumos Felibus is an advanced version of the spell Lumos. Instead of the small amount of light that is produced from using Lumos, this branch of the spell will flood an entire room, allowing numerous amounts of light, regardless of whether or not the darkness is a spell, or natural."
Lilly grinned. She quickly picked up the rest of her things, after bookmarking the page and hurried off to an empty classroom. She found one a few doors down from the library, after making sure no one was looking, she slid inside and reopened her text book. After going over the theory once more she pulled out her wand and started practicing. After several tries, her wand erupted into light, but to her delight it didn't extinguish like she thought it would, instead it stayed. Jumping up from the desk she was sitting on, she quickly turned out the lights, but the class room barely registered the difference. The light trailing out of Lilly's wand was so powerful, that it lit the entire room.
"This is cool." She whispered, bending back over the text and muttering the counter spell. She was about to start looking for another spell that she had caught a glimpse of, when the door burst open, causing Lilly to jump.
"Lilly!" Looking up, she saw her best friend Ashton grinning from ear to ear. "One day and you've already been to the library?" She asked teasingly. Lilly nodded quickly and then motioned her inside. Ashton complied, closing the door behind her. "Okay, what've you learned?" She asked.
"Lumos Felibus." Lilly whispered excitedly, while flicking her wand. The effect was once again immediate. "Advanced version of Lumos." Lilly explained at Ashton's look of wonder.
"Can you teach me?" She asked. Lilly nodded and had her read the book and within minutes Ashton had produced the same light that Lilly had just previously distinguished. "This is an awesome spell." She whispered, causing Lilly to erupt into giggles.
"I feel like we go through this every year." She said, catching Ashton's eye. The two of them laughing.
"That's because we do." Ashton said rolling her eyes. "But, we need to head down to lunch, Parker's probably beat us there, and you know how she is about food." With that the two girls packed up the rest of Lilly's things and hurried down to the Great Hall. The entire student population was packed into the four large house tables, already, as they walked over towards their usual end of the table. The one furthest from the door, as predicted Parker was already there, eating with her nose in a book.
"Parker!" Ashton yelped as Lilly rolled her eyes. Of the three of them, Ashton had far too much energy, although it did come in handy occasionally. Lilly ran a hand through her long curly red hair that had fallen down around her shoulders. Her sideways bangs curled and flipped as they fell across her forehead and left eye.
"Hey guys." Parker said after swallowing a mouthful of food. "What spell have you been learning today?"
"I found an advanced version of the spell Lumos." Lilly answered as she started filling a bowl full of corn. "It's pretty cool; we'll teach it to you later. So what have you been up to on this fine day?"
"Erm, well, I've been reading outside by the lake. I vacated the dorm as fast as possible. Apparently someone got new mascara or lip-gloss, or something." Parker explained grinning. "They were driving me mad." The three girls began chuckling as they continued eating.
"So, any idea as to why they started term on a Friday this year?" Ashton asked. "Not that I'm complaining. I mean, it gives me time to actually complete my homework, but isn't it sort of a waste?" Parker and Lilly shrugged.
"I think it has to do with that Voldermort guy." Parker whispered while glancing down the table, to make sure no one heard her. "I think the teachers were worried that he might try something, a lot of people are getting worried." She said. "The Daily Prophet is reporting a disappearance or two every few weeks."
"I haven't been able to renew my subscription." Lilly said sadly. "My mum felt it was best to give my sister a break from the Owls flying in and out." Ashton made a sigh of disgust.
"I seriously am contemplating showing up at your house on my seventeenth birthday and petrifying that girl." She growled as Lilly shook her head slowly.
"I don't think that would help. My mom would probably freak out even more. Neither of them really likes me being a witch to begin with, especially not my sister." Parker eyed her friend sadly. She was extremely glad her entire family was magical, although she really could care less about being a pureblood.
But she couldn't imagine what it was like to have your very own sister torment you every summer, and holiday that you went home to, just because you could do magic. Lilly's mum had always been wary, but Lilly had always explicitly said that she supported her.
"What'd they say about you being prefect?" She asked quickly. Lilly looked up and smiled.
"Mum was so happy. Especially once I explained it fully. She couldn't stop smiling once I had gotten my letter, and she actually bought me Sneakers as a reward." Lilly couldn't keep the silly grin off of her face as she thought about the adorable kitten asleep in her dormitory at the moment.
"I swear I'm going to steal her from you Lilly." Ashton said grinning. "She's the cutest thing ever." The three girls chortled as they began picking their things up and heading out of the Great Hall.
"So, what's next on the to do list?" Lilly asked once they were climbing the staircase. At this Parker began to get a grin on her face. "Thought so." Lilly said smirking back.
"What's the plan and who's the target?" Ashton asked, giggling. The three girls had been best friends from day one. They first met on the train, all three petrified of the sorting hat, although for various reasons. Lilly, was muggleborn, so didn't have any idea as to what to expect, while Parker was a pureblood, who's older brothers had told her horrifying stories about how you got sorted, and Ashton was afraid of tripping in front of everyone.
While all three were crazed bookworms, they all had their own special talents and preferences. Lilly, had quickly fallen in love with charms, and would create some of her own. She also had a problem with writing. She couldn't ever stop. She was currently on her third novel, although no one ever read them of course. Lilly, was the biggest bookworm of all. She could rarely ever bring herself to separate from a book, unless she was practicing charms, writing, or pulling pranks with Ashton and Parker.
Parker was more of the prankster. While Lilly was addicted to writing, Parker was addicted to pranks, and flying. She'd learnt when she was five, and had hated putting her feet on the ground ever since. But her other talent, was drawing. She'd constantly go down to the edge of the lake and start sketching the castle, the lake, or the forest. Parker's hair was spirally curly; it was long, and ebony. She wore it with sideways bangs, as did Lilly, and in tons of layers. Both of their hair appeared to be similar, but each were tweaked to fit with their styles and faces. Parker's eyes were a brilliant sapphire.
Ashton, on the other hand had a warm, golden, honey, brown, shade of hair, to match her chocolate eyes. Her hair was cut into choppy layers, but it was straight, and ended at the small of her back. Her biggest passion, other than her friends, was dancing. She'd taken ballet ever since she was three, because her mom owned a studio, even when she came to Hogwarts, she still practiced, thanks to the Room of Requirement. Because of her ballet, she'd constantly start walking in on the balls of her feet. This of course, would continuously earn her odd looks from all her classmates.
Lilly, Ashton, and Parker held the top three spots in their year, academically, and none had ever gotten a detention, for anything. They were so good at pulling their various pranks, that no one ever suspected them. For one, they didn't really speak to anyone outside of their trio, in addition to being the top students, and they could actually keep from bragging about all the things that they'd done.
Every prank that they pulled was designed in the same way; Parker was responsible of what exactly the pranks were and how to get it done, while Lilly took care of the spell work that it required. Ashton was constantly doing distractions and legwork, in addition to helping create the alibis. But what she was brilliant at was sneaking about, thanks to her silence while walking, as well as her knowledge of the school. Their group worked quite brilliantly together.
The only real problem was that they had competition. Not that they minded. No, in fact they loved that the Marauders thought they could actually keep up. No one knew exactly who was behind the pranks pulled by the three girls. The only trace they left was a triangle, bearing letters at each point. The top was PE, and the bottom points were, MR, and HB. Of course, this told the school, absolutely nothing, and then again, everything, simultaneously. As cheesy as it was, the girls had been in first year when they figured they needed to be able to claim their tricks, so, they created this. The letters were simple; Pureblooded Ebony, Muggleborn Red, and Half-blood Bronze. To be fair, they'd create it in first year.
Their competitors were the infamous Marauders. The girls had to hand it to them; their pranks were generally very nice. But still, they had nothing on the girls. However, it did help to know who your opponents were. The entire school suspected that the Marauders were made up of James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. The four most popular guys that attended Hogwarts. Ashton, Lilly, and Parker, knew without a doubt that those four were their competition. They also knew that Remus was in fact a werewolf, and the boys were unregistered animangi.
Lilly had figured out the werewolf bit in second year. It wasn't that hard to notice, especially after the students studied them in Defense Against the Dark Arts. However, they didn't find out about the other three until last year when Parker had followed them into the forest and had caught sight of them changing. She'd been in awe, because of how advanced the magic was. But the girls had never told anyone else their secret. They didn't want to, for various reasons, one, it wasn't any of their business, another was that they trusted Dumbledore, and they were positive that he knew, and finally, if they ratted them out, their competition would be booted out of the school.
They were currently up in the astronomy tower so that they wouldn't be overheard.
"Okay, so Parker, what's this big idea that you have?" Ashton asked; grinning as Parker smirked.
"I think that as our first prank, for this term, we should target James Potter and his crew. After all, it's not like they'd be able to get us back." She answered smugly. That was truth; rumors had been flying ever since the two groups had started vying for the trouble maker spot in first year. Currently, everyone thought that it was a bunch of Slytherin boys.
"Hmm..." Lilly said quietly. Both turned to look at her expectantly. "Well, you want to know what would drive them mad." when she didn't continue, they both yelled out,
"What?"
"Pranking them from inside their dorm. They'd be dying to know how on earth the Slytherin's managed it. Even if they do realize that it's someone in Gryffindor, they'll never think it was a girl, much less us three." At this, Parker erupted into laughter.
"Lilly, you're amazing. I must say." Lilly giggled and stood up and took a mock bow.
"I try." With this they were all giggling like mad. "Okay, so what exactly do you think would irritate them the most?"
"Well, you know how Sirius is about his hair." Ashton paused. "What if we manipulated it somehow, like, either cut it off magically, or changed it to dred locks, something crazy."
The girls thought about it.
"I like it as a beginning. But we have to hit all four of them simultaneously. What about Potter,"
Ashton jumped up with a start. "Well, you know how he Is with girls. We could fiddle with that aspect….like, ---"
"What about their uniforms?" Lilly said suddenly, as a coy grin spread across her face. "You know how they love their images. What if we swap their uniforms?" The other two caught on really quickly.
"Is there a way for them to think they're wearing their normal ones?" Parker asked. Lilly nodded.
"We can do Sirius' hair, at the same time we fix their clothes. We'll have to actually get into their room, to do that though. But I think it's best to actually switch it over once they've hit the Great Hall." She explained.
"We're going to have to come up with a way of getting them to stay asleep." Ashton said quickly. "We can't' risk getting caught." Lilly grinned. Nope. With all that they'd done over the years, they'd get expelled if anyone ever turned them in.
"But that's half the fun." Parker whined. "The thrill of getting caught!"
"Yeah, but is it worth what they'll do to us?" Ashton asked, trying not to laugh at Parker's hysterical antics.
"Even if they catch us, it's not like they're going to know who we actually are." Lilly said. "All we have to say is that we think they're hot, and that we wanted to make out with them and their pig headedness will completely block all of their suspicions." She said disgust lining her voice.
"She's right." Parker said grinning. "I mean, I'm sure they'll sleep through it anyways. But if they don't, the worse they can do is kick us out." As Ashton shook her head grinning.
"You just happen to have a thing for Black." Ashton shot out, laughing at Parker's look of hilarity.
"No I don't." she sputtered. "He's too arrogant, and besides, I have a feeling he's made out with every girl in this school, save for first, second and third years." But Lilly and Ashton were howling with laughter.
They continued to plan and began mapping out their time slots to see exactly how much it would take to pull this off. It was decided that Ashton would keep a look out, and if anyone started coming near the door, she'd create a barrier within the door frame, while Parker fixed Sirius' hair and Lilly cast the spell, that would allow her to change their clothes at her every whim. She put it on every single uniform, because she had a feeling they'd try to sneak back up and change.
As an afterthought, Ashton vanished their crumpled uniforms, making sure they couldn't just wear those for today. Luckily for them all four boys stayed completely silent as they stole out of the room as quietly as possible. They quickly walked down to breakfast; laughing as they talked about how exciting today was going to be. They knew that Gryffindor house was going to get a rude awakening this morning, on the account that Sirius Black absolutely adored his hair.
The moment they walked in through the Great Hall doors, Parker nudged Lilly with her foot. Looking up quickly, she muttered the incantation she'd looked up last night, and pointed her wand. Within seconds, the four boys were wearing a different uniform from one another. Potter was dressed in Slytherin, Black, in Hufflepuff, Pettigrew was sporting Gryffindor, and Lupin was in Ravenclaw. But that wasn't the best part, no; they were wearing the girls' uniform. The student body stared in shock, and then began howling with laughter. The four boys all looked at one another, smirking, before realizing that they themselves were dressed just as ridiculous.
Floating above their heads was the triangle enigma, letting everyone know who was responsible for this prank. The boys grinned, before dashing out of the hall. After finishing their breakfast the girls all headed for Charms, by far Lilly's favorite class. The boys hadn't reappeared, which made the girls smirk even more. By Transfiguration, they were all sitting in the class, before everyone else got there, even beating Lilly, Ashton, and Parker.
Lilly walked to her desk, forcing herself not to look at the four ridiculously dressed boys. The girls prided themselves on no one ever finding out about who was behind their antics. But it was so hard, not to laugh, especially at the fact that they hadn't managed to get the ridiculous clothes back to normal. It was a simple enough spell, but it was rarely ever used.
Ashton was having an extremely difficult time not laughing. Especially at how Sirius Black kept scowling. Parker was sending her warning glances as often as possible, but they were more like her smirks. Eventually they made it to their desks, which were in the middle of the room, while the boys sat in the very back.
"You know, it's rude to laugh." At this the girls all glanced at each other, trying to warn them not to say anything. Luckily the rest of the class decided to walk in at that moment, and of course, they all erupted into laughter. McGonagall was less than pleased.
"Boys, is there a reason that you have chosen not to dress in your standard uniform?" she asked disapprovingly. "Much less, the other houses?" They all began muttering, and then as an explanation, Potter pointed to the signs above their heads.
"Oh." With that she began to start the lesson. Lilly was extremely proud of herself for getting her transfiguration assignment down quite easily. Well, to be fair, she did learn how to do this last year. Although, she did struggle with this class the most. But when Professor McGonagall had announced that they'd be transfiguring a snail into a tea pot, she did it in one try.
"Miss Evans twenty points to Gryffindor." She said as she picked up her tea pot as she had passed by her desk. "Don't worry about homework." Lilly grinned and started pulling out parchment and writing her next leg of the book that she was creating.
"Mr. Potter, Mr. Black, and Mr. Lupin, five points for being able to transfigure your snails properly." She said approvingly. Before class let out she assigned everyone practice, and Lilly, Ashton, and Parker hurried out of the room.
"Let me guess Miss Evans," Parker began in a mock McGonagall voice, "You mastered that charm, when, hmm…last year perhaps?" Lilly turned pink and gave her a playful push.
"So? What's your point? Be grateful that I have mad study skills." Lilly said giggling.
"Yes, we're grateful, but I thought that was your worst subject." Ashton interjected. Lilly shrugged.
"Yeah, but I was bored." With that they headed off to lunch. The day was going by splendid. Their first prank was seen by everyone, quite consistently and no one suspected them as usual. After all, who in their right minds would, seeing as they're the perfect student?
Later that evening…..
"Who could have pulled this off?" Sirius asked heatedly. "I mean, we couldn't even get rid of it!" his three best friends all looked rather sullen.
"You have to give them credit. It was some decent magic." James said as he took a sip of firewhiskey. "Just be glad it's faded off." There was a moment of silence before anyone else spoke.
"WE can't just let them get away with it. We need justice!" Sirius yelped, while Peter nodded his agreement.
"As much as we all love that idea," Remus began, "there's a small problem…we don't know who they are." As this sunk in, they all became a bit more depressed.
"They have to be older." James said roughly. "I mean, that was decent magic, more than any normal fifth year could have done. After all, they swapped out our clothes, without a glitch or anything."
"Stupid Slytherins." Sirius muttered; his hand was running over his newly re-grown tresses.
"Erm—guys, what makes you think it was a Slytherin?" Peter spoke up. "I mean, how else do you explain Sirius' hair?" as they contemplated this, Sirius suddenly looked up.
"That hex." They all looked blankly at him. "Remember, someone hexed me yesterday, but it didn't do anything? That was probably the hair." At this they all relaxed.
"Either way, I think they had help. I mean, unless it was an older student, they had to have a lot of help." James said looking at his glass. "I mean we know, Remus didn't do it, and he's the top in the year."
"No I'm not." At this they all stared at him. "Erm—that Evans girl is. I'm fourth." He muttered sounding embarrassed.
"Evans…." Sirius muttered thinking. "Evans…have I made out with that one?" at this Peter shook his head.
"I don't think so. She's a bookworm. Practically lives in the library." He said after he'd gotten their attention. As they continued to draw blank stares, he continued, "She's about five foot five, deep ruby red hair, and emerald eyes."
"Oh." James said suddenly. "She's in our classes." At this they all groaned.
"Duh! She's in our year." Remus said smacking him in the head with a pillow. "Do you know her personally, Wormtail?" To their dismay, Peter shook his head.
"Never talked to her, well aside from her helping me out once in Charms. But that was in first year." they all became a bit gloomier again.
"Well, I believe that we may need to have a chat with Miss Evans." Remus said. The other three stared at him. He sighed, "No, I don't think that she is behind it. But she may know how they pulled it off, as in, they may have asked her about what types of magic they would need to use. We can ask her if she know who they are."
"Do you know what I just realized?" James spoke once more. They all looked at him grinning. "After all of these years, they don't even have a name. Everyone in this school just refers to them, as 'them, or they."
"What do you think that symbol means?" Peter asked. "The letters, MR, PE, HB. Do you think they're initials or something?" they all shrugged and stared at the fireplace once more, completely unobservant as a shape walked past them, and out of the common room.
Sunday, September 3
Lilly was sitting in the library. She'd completed all of her homework ages ago, and at the moment she was completely engrossed in her 'Standard Book of Spells, Grade 6.' In order to block out all noise, and keep everyone from disturbing her, she'd put up two powerful shield charms, as well as silencing the room around her as well as herself, so that no one could hear her and she couldn't hear them. She had bubbled herself into the corner as she began muttering spells and turning her useless cell phone into various things.
She was so engrossed into her work that she didn't even hear someone collide with the shield charm. Instead, she had began to pack her things up and dash off to an empty classroom, once she took the charms down, however that presented a problem seeing as James Potter was just beginning to clamber to his feet, right in front of her, thus blocking her escape route.
"excuse me." She murmured, trying to get past him. But he kept staring at her. "Can I help you?" she asked finally.
"Erm—well, I was wondering…" he sputtered. She sighed, looked at her books and rolled her eyes.
"Listen. You better go to the hospital wing to fix your nose. I have no idea how you broke it, but it's bleeding everywhere, and Madame Pince will not be happy if you ruin the books." She said before sliding past him. Lilly shook her long red hair as she tried to figure out what was wrong with the overly popular boy.
Probably took one too many bludgers to the head. She thought absently as she hurried to the nearest empty classroom. She checked to make sure no one was looking before sliding inside and closing the door behind her. But before Lilly could actually practice anything, her two best mates burst into the room.
"Lilly, we've got kind of a problem." Ashton said breathlessly. She looked at the two in surprise; both seemed to be a bit panicky. "Erm—their looking for you." Lilly didn't like her tone. It worried her.
"Who's looking for me?" she asked quietly.
"The Marauders," Parker answered. "They, erm—Ashton you explain, you overheard them." They both looked over at the brunette.
"Right...um, well, they really want to get the, well, us back. But they don't know that it's us. They seem to think it's an older Slytherin. But in the possibility that it's someone younger, they think they might have asked you for help. So they want to know if you know who pulled the trick." The moment she finished explaining Lilly erupted into giggles.
"I told you guys!" she said through laughs. "They'd never suspect, little Lilly Evans, or Ashton Scott, or Parker Mckinnons." After a moment of pausing to catch her breath, she added, "I'm tempted to tell them, just to see the looks on their faces."
"Lilly! You can't! They'll rat us out and we'll get expelled!" Ashton squealed. Only making Lilly laugh harder.
"I'm not stupid. I know that. That's why I'm not going to. Plus I don't want to put a target on my back. Do you realize how many people will hate us? After all of these years?" at this they all laughed even harder.
"Actually, I think they'll just be extremely surprised." Parker mused. "I doubt that anyone would get seriously angry. But anyways, what are we going to do about this?" she asked the other two.
"Nothing." Lilly answered swiftly. "Just act like normal. They're just looking for me; they've got no reason to think anything of you two, well other than that you're both gorgeous. I'll just feign all knowledge. Other than that, just act normal."
"Yeah. You're right." Parker agreed looking at Ashton who nodded. "Besides they actually have to find you first." At that statement, Lilly froze.
"Um, apparently they have." She whispered. The other two gaped at her. "Erm—well, I was in the library, and I had my shield charms up, so people wouldn't annoy me, and then when I was leaving, he was getting up off the floor…" Lilly gasped before laughing.
"What?" Ashton asked.
"He…he...must have ran into the shield charm." Lilly said. "He broke his nose." At this they all howled in laughter. "James Potter broke his nose walking into a shield charm." With that, they all left wandering down the hallways.
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Later that night, Lilly was sitting in the common room, scribbling away on various pieces of paper as she started to fall deeper and deeper into the story that she was creating in her mind.
"Run! Run now!" Telby screamed, to her as Jane stared in horror. Her best friend was laying on the ground, sobbing from the pain of her snapped ankle. She couldn't….no. before Telby could utter another word, Jane dove for her, and dragged her up, and began running as fast as she could.
"Jane, you have to save yourself! Leave me!" Telby cried in her ear. But Jane was too bent on getting them both to safety.
THUMP.
Startled, Jane sat up sharply, causing herself to bang her head on the top bunk. After cursing and rubbing her head, she slowly climbed out from the bottom bunk and glanced around the room. She was in her little brother's room. She must have fallen asleep after reading them their bed time story. But where were they and what was with that dream?
She crept out of the room, heading towards the kitc—
"Arrgh!" Lilly yelped, nearly falling off the couch. She'd glanced up, in thought, to stare off into space, as she so often did, and instead, her gaze connected with the infamous James Potter, who was sitting right across from her.
"You realize that it's rude to stare." She sputtered picking herself up. "Next time you could give a bit of a warning when you're sitting across from someone." He stared at her curiously.
"You weren't listening?" he asked in shock. She stared at him.
"You weren't talking." She said, mentally wondering why he was trying to make a conversation with her.
"Yes I was." He said stubbornly, causing Lilly to roll her eyes.
"Whatever." She mumbled, beginning to gather the dozens of paper into a single stack, by numerical order.
"What are you doing?" he asked suddenly.
"I'm organizing these." She answered shortly, glaring at the parchment in her hand. "Listen, is there something you need?"
"Erm—yeah, listen, Evans." Oh bugger. What a git. Needs to have a conversation and uses my last name. Lilly thought to herself. "Do you remember that little prank that was pulled on me and my friends—"
"My friends and I," Lilly corrected. He stared at her blankly. "Oh, sorry. Force of habit." She mumbled.
"er—okay, anyway, do you?" She nodded, attempting to smother a smirk. "Well, I was wondering if you possibly would know who was behind it." Lilly stared at him and then started giggling. I mean, I had no doubts about the whole conversation Ashton had overheard, but still, that he had actually asked. She thought, randomly.
"Why are you asking me?" Lilly asked. "What, going around and interrogating the entire school?" he smirked cockily and shook his head.
"No, doubt it would do anything. But well, your top in our class, we were wondering if you helped them or something." At this Lilly froze, a small smile playing at her lips, Lilly began thinking to herself, 'I could do one of two things, either, lie, or defend and lie. I figured the latter would be more fun.'
"Listen Potter, I'm in Gryffindor for a reason. Loyalty. Even if I did know anything about the situation, I wouldn't tell you. Besides, if I did know. I'd personally commend them on a job well done." She said grinning as his eyes narrowed.
"So you know." He said, LIlly continued grinning. "But you won't tell."
"No. I said, if I knew, I wouldn't tell."
"That's the same thing!" he said. Lilly started snickering again.
"Too bad they don't teach English here, Potter, key word is 'if." With that she got up and went to her dorm, putting her stack of papers in the small folder before sliding it into her bag. With that Lilly went back downstairs and out the portrait hole to find Parker.