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Chapter 6: What Will the Justice Be?

The news of the incident spread quickly. Soon, the whole school knew what happened to Alice. Nobody knows how the whole school knew, for that was between only those who should know.

"Severus, please, please, please tell the truth. Did you, or did you not help Mulciber, Avery, and Rookwood make Alice make an Unbreakable Vow?" I asked, my voice deathly low. It was after lessons and Severus and I were taking a stroll together near the Black Lake. He was holding my hand a bit tight though, sometimes I get the feeling that he thinks of us as more than friends. I don't think of him that way at all though.

"I-Lily I, I, I was, I was there," replied Severus nervously.

"WHAT?! YOU WERE THERE AND YOU DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO STOP IT?! HOW COULD YOU, SEV? HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?! I THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T ONE OF THEM. BUT I'M AFRAID I WAS WRONG! HOW CO—"

"LILY! Please, let me explain myself! I couldn't do anything! If I did, then they would think I wasn't worth to be a Slytherin and they would curse me into oblivion!"

I calmed down just a tiny bit. I wouldn't ever want Severus to get hurt, but what they made Alice do was horrible too! And Severus is pretty skilled, I bet Alice would've helped him too if he had helped her.

"But, well, Severus, just I don't want you hanging out with those certain Slytherins. Okay?" I said anxiously.

"Lils, I, er, well, okay," said Severus.

I smiled back at Severus, but I knew he was hiding something. He wouldn't just agree so easily. I knew I'd have to watch him and make sure he didn't get into any trouble.

"Okay, so Avery is a stupid bloke, it won't be hard to get him. And we can blame it on his poor magical skill, not us!" Sirius plotted, telling me, Remus, and Peter what we were going to do to prank Avery. Of course, I already knew, I was helping him explain.

"We're going to execute it in the Slytherin common room. But it's going to take place in Potions tomorrow." I said seriously.

"We're going to put a Zonko's product in his Potions kit. In his slicing knife actually. A powder. It makes things bounce. Of course, we'll have to use our awesome skill to put it onto the knife in a certain way that it doesn't make the knife bounce," said Sirius.

"Yes, that is correct Padfoot. And we are also going to have to make sure Avery uses that knife. Like we said, he's pretty stupid, so he may not know he should use that knife. We'll have to tell him if he's doing something wrong. It'll be fun to see this happen after what they did to Alice!" I smirked.

"That's it! We'll get them all! That can be the theme of this prank! And we'll make it known!" exclaimed Sirius.

"Excellent idea Padfoot! We're not pranking anyone, we're giving justice!" said Remus.

"Who are you and what have you done with my prefect, anti-pranking friend?" said Sirius.

"Yeah. That's not Remus," added Peter.

"But the problem with this excellent idea is that we would have to change the whole prank! And we have Potions tomorrow!" I said.

"Then I guess we'll just have to cancel the whole Potions thing," said Sirius. "And we can make a whole NEW PLAN! Huh, how about it?!"

"Okay, perfect. But what are we going to do?!" said Remus, throwing his hands up into the air.

"That is a very good question," said Sirius, narrowing his eyes and pointing his finger into the air.

"Nooooo," I said sarcastically.

"Nooooo," Sirius mocked.

"It's only cool when I do it," I said, nodding my head and looking up at the air.

"Is not!"

"Is."

"Is not."

"Is."

"Is not."

"Is."

"PEOPLE! Stop arguing over such a silly thing!" said Remus bringing his hands to his head.

"I win!" I said, throwing my fist up into the air.

Remus raised his eyebrows. "Oh yeah James, what did you win?"

"Er, I, um, I won, uh, I won, er, I won the argument!" I said, bringing my arm out and pointing it at Remus to show I showed him.

"What argument did you win?" he continued, smirking.

"Uh, I won, the argument about, about, about well, about the argument!" I said, putting on an 'isn't it obvious' face.

"Siri, do you know?" Remus asked Sirius.

"Uh, of course I do. The argument was about us two having an argument!" replied Sirius.

"Look at that, you two don't even remember what you were arguing about!" exclaimed Remus.

"Well that doesn't matter Moony because we have to think up a prank," I said seriously.

"Well then, we'd better get thinking," said Peter.

I was sitting in the library doing my Transfiguration homework when I saw my friends walk in. They were whispering to each other, wondering if they should come over to me and talk it out, or ignore me and my selfish behavior and go on with their work. They looked over at me with a hurt look on their faces before walking off to another table to do their homework.

Why did I have to do that yesterday? I thought annoyed. I really wanted to find out about Severus, but I kind of became inconsiderate about it to Alice. I shouldn't have done that, I know. It was wrong and unfair to Alice.

I watched my friends walk over to the table farthest away from me and pull out their books from their bags. I could slightly see that they had their Charms books out. I was the best at Charms out of all of them, and we usually did our Charms homework together every day. I wasn't that great at Transfiguration, so they helped me. And I was really having trouble with today's Transfiguration homework.

I just don't want things to be like that between my friends and me. I know that was selfish of me, but not as selfish as they're making it seem! I just don't get why they think it's such a big deal!

I wonder where Sev is doing his homework. I had a feeling it may have been in the place that doesn't exist, in other words, not doing his homework, but my other feeling, my weak feeling, gathered up strength and pushed it off.

His Slytherin friends, I mean acquaintances, blow off their homework so much, so much, you wonder how they pass their year. Well, if you didn't know how influential their pureblood families were at least.

I knew I would have to have yet another talk with him if I saw him with those horrible Slytherins again!

I mean, not all Slytherins are bad, most aren't. Some people would say most are and few aren't. I say the opposite. I am the kind of person that tries to see good in everyone. Some people would call it naïve. I call it forgiving. I'm not trying to brag or anything, I don't see how that's something to brag about. Well, okay I do. But I don't show off my forgivingness. Of course, everyone knows about it anyways. So there really is nothing to brag about. It brags itself.

Anyway, the point is that I would really have to take some action if he still hangs out with those Death Eater wannabes. It's not that I want to have complete control over him, he is in control of the friends he has. But the thing is that I don't want him with those people because I care about him as a friend.

"So, is everything ready?" I asked Peter. He was the only one small enough to do the job we needed done for the prank, or as Remus called it, the 'justice'.

Peter nodded. "Yep. I crawled under and—" "Pete, don't say it! There are people near us!" I whispered.

"Oh yeah, oops," whispered Peter.

I gave him a brotherly smile, showing that it was okay.

"This is going to be great. And the whole school, including the teachers are going to see what happens to those who do evil," I said, rubbing my hands together and ironically, smiling evilly.