JAMES POV
I swept the Invisibility Cloak (the only one in the world that gives you true invisibility, one of the Deathly Hallows) over Lily and I's heads and we knelt so that the cloak hid our feet. "What are you thinking? This won't help hide us!" Lily whispered quickly, but I shushed her again. I watched Big Peter come up the stairs (the caretaker) and he looked around with wide eyes. "Found you!" he bellowed, and I could feel Lily cringe. But I knew what he was doing. He always did this to try and scare whoever it was out of hiding. I should know; Sirius and I have heard it enough. Then, he said, "I know you're here! Come to me!" Lily looked at me with even wider eyes than Big Peter's. She opened her mouth, but before she said anything she just shut it again.
LILY POV
What on earth was going on here?? Peter could definitely see us, he was looking straight at us. Now I knew to keep quiet, however. Suddenly, Peter began to run in our direction- he was going to barrel us over! James pulled me behind him only a couple inches to the side, and I saw my foot stick out from the cloak. James winced, but Peter is not famous for noticing details. He ran right on by, Mrs. Finch following. "James," I hissed, "What was that all about?" He studied my face long and hard, then whispered, "I'll tell you in the common room. Come on." We ran down the hallway, keeping our knees deeply bent so that the cloak covered every part of us.
JAMES POV
We reached the Fat Lady and I said, "Fortuna Major!" She jumped, then said, "You know, James, I could tell a professor about your nightly outings!" "And you know, Agatha" (I had found out her true name, which she was very embarrassed about), "I could stop bringing you wine to drink with your friend- oh, what's her face. The one you drink with all the time." She huffed at me heavily. "Fine." She swung open and I saw out of my peripheral vision that Lily's mouth was wide open again. I smirked to myself and whipped off the cloak. Suddenly, I saw Sirius jump out in front of me. Uh-oh… I suddenly remembered that we had been sharing the cloak earlier tonight when we got separated… and I didn't go back for him. Oops.
SIRIUS POV
"James! I was almost caught by Big Peter and he nearly whupped my- oh." For I saw Lily beside James. "Hello, Evans..." I cleared my throat. "Um..." I struggled to control laughter at the look on her face. I looked back at James. "Why'd you leave me behind?" "I was running back for a recruit- in other words, our map." "If you'd just remembered it earlier," I began to grumble, but Lily cut me off. "I think you owe me an explanation," she said, staring at James. "What was the cloak, and what's the 'map'?" I looked at James, surprised. The cloak was our secret. Not even snivelly Wormtail, or good boy Moony knew about it. James glanced at me apologetically, and said "I had to save her from Peter. He was still looking for me." Then he turned to Lily.
LILY POV
James began by saying, "Do you know what the Deathly Hallows are?" "Of course, they're in that children's book." "Yeah… except it's not a legend. My family is the descendants of the original three brothers. We have the cloak, the stone is lost, and the Elder Wand is probably with some crazed old wizard. So this gives us true invisibility when we wear it." "O… Oh…" I said. James Potter was crazy! But, then why did Peter not see us..? This was getting ridiculous. "Prove it." "I think you've had proof enough. Peter didn't see us, did he?" I winced slightly. He was right, and I was- urgh- wrong.
JAMES POV
"O-kay… sooo, you think you get it?" It took a moment for Lily to gather her senses. "You haven't explained the map. It's not a Hallow," she said, slightly sharply, her jaw set. "Oh… the map…" I laughed a bit nervously. "It's nothing, just a Hogwarts map, you know, that tells where all the rooms are." "Which, you should know where they are already," Lily said disbelievingly. "Why would it be a 'reinforcement', and why would you run to get it if Mr. Peter was after Sirius?" "Um," I began, beginning to sweat slightly, "You know, I-" "He was getting it so that we could escape into an empty room," Sirius said smoothly, giving me a funny look. Usually I rocked at lying. Today wasn't my best.
LILY POV
"Mm-hmm," I said thoughtfully, "But, again, you should know which are empty because we've had all the classes and we know which rooms have no classes in them." "Erm," James began again, but I cut him off. "I thought so. Let me see the map." He and Sirius looked at each other, then he nodded. "Fine."