Sorry I haven't updated in a while. Read and review. I'm think of posting every Sunday from now on.
September was already halfway over and school was beginning to bog down all the students. Almost every student had used or attempted to use one of the famous Weasley tricks to get out of class. Filch was kept busy, running around Hogwarts looking for the way students were always kept supplied with the sweets. Lily felt that she had already gotten the hang of getting to most of her classes and in the past week she had only gotten lost three times. Lily, Dina, Hugo and Frank could now often be found in the library doing last minute research for their constant pile of school work. The four friends would stay till dinner but once they left the library they were thankful not to go back and they would spend their evenings joking and laughing with the rest of the Gryffindors in their common room.
On one such night all the friends were staying late, Flitwick and Slughorn had both required a three foot essay for the next day.
"I can not concentrate for another second with Hugo's constant tapping! I feel like I'm going mad. We need a break" Lily said, dropping down her quill and sitting upright. The others all looked up from their parchments, Just as Madam Pince rounded the bookcase. She glared at the students, warning them not to talk again. A quick glance was exchanged between the friends, nodding the students all pushed out their chairs and stuffed all their textbooks in their already bursting bags. The library door swung shut behind Dina with a soft thud. The smell of dinner was already wandering through the halls. The students rushed to their common room to drop of their bags and rushed back down to the great hall in time for dinner. Turning a corner they were stopped dead in their tracks. Lucifer slipped through a heavy door that the kids hed never seen before. Closing the door Lucifer caused an almost inaudible creek. Looking both ways to make sure no one saw them, the four onlookers scrambled to hide behind a tapestry in time. The tapping sound of Lucifer's steps on the cold stone floor echoed throughout the empty hallway.
"What do you suppose he was doing in that room?" Lily whispered just as Lucifer's long robes disappeared past a statue of a one-eyed witch. Panting from holding their breath the friends stepped out from behind the tapestry.
"Let's go check what was in the room" Hugo suggested. Turning to face where the door had been but the door appeared to have vanished and melted into the wall.
"Where is the door?" Hugo said a bit too loud and the first years could hear the footsteps stop and slowly become louder as Lucifer returned to where he hear the voice. Looking around Lily had no idea in which direction to hide.
"Hello.." Lucifer sneered as he approached "What door can you not find?" Dina looked around for a possible excuse.
"We… got lost looking for dinner. Right guys?" There others all agreed with her not wanting to tell Lucifer that they had been spying
"The mudblood and the traitors can't find their way around." Lucifer said with a smirk and mumbled, just loud enough for them to hear "All traitors, such idiots" Hugo jumped forward to hit the bulgarian in the face but just in time Frank caught him, preventing a fight.
"Come on Hugo, a few words aren't worth a fight" Lucifer and the friends parted ways and made their way down to dinner.
Lily, Dina, Hugo and Frank quietly slipped into their seats beside Rose and Scorpius. Albus looked up from his heaping plate to acknowledge that they had arrived.
"Where were you, dinner started half an hour ago" Rose asked, turning to face them with a worried expression. Lily and Hugo were never late to food, much less a elf cooked feast after a hard day of classes.
"We saw Lucifer sneak out of a door on our way here but when we went to see the door up close it had disappeared." Dina recounted in an undertone. All the Potters glanced at Lucifer who at that moment choose to enter the Great Hall. Lucifer's gaze hovered over Lily and her friends causing them to quickly face their food.
"Are you sure about this?" Rose said suspiciously "You're not just trying to be a hero like your father?"
"Rose. I would never want something like that, I know what I saw, and Lucifer is very strange." All the younger children nodded their head in agreement.
"We'll talk once there are not so many people around us."
Once all the platters and dishes vanished into the table Scorpius leaned back rubbing his stomach.
"What did you mean that a door disappeared?" The great hall was nearly empty except for the children of the Weasley-Potter clan. "A door can't just vanish." The witnesses exchanged a few glances and proceeded to tell their tale in a bit more detail.
"Do you think Lucifer is up to something?" Dina ended with. No one knew what to do with this possibility.
"That is impossible what would he do? All we know about him is that he has a tendency to insult us but anyone can do that. Remember Dad's stories about Scorpius' dad." James countered with a final look signaling the end of the discussion.
The group pushed against the hard wood table and stood up. noticing that they were the last ones in the Great Hall. Slowly Lily clambered up the grand staircase almost half asleep. At the top of the marble railing Frank left to head towards the Hufflepuff tower and his common room. Meandering their way through the silent halls of the empty school Lily thought about her parents as they used to sneak around these very same corridors. The friends finally found themselves in front of the painting leading into the common room. Albus had to yell to wake the portrait of the Fat Lady. She was angry that students had disrupted her peaceful slumber and would not let them enter their room until they had apologized. After what felt like ten minutes of arguing Rose finally relented.
"I am very sorry for waking you. Can we now get in." With an exasperated sigh.
"Password" was the woman's last request. With an even larger sigh Rose quickly said "Cheesepuff" The painting swung forward leaving a door that Scorpius crawled through. Even at this hour the common room was empty and the students rushed up the stairs to their dorms. Lily and Dina pushed open their door to find the other two already asleep. Stripping and changing into their pajamas the girls clambered into their beds.
"I know what I saw and Lucifer deffinitly has somesort of evil intent" LIly said in Dina's direction but she was already asleep.