Chapter 7 The Two Way Mirror

Two weeks had passed since school began and Lily was finding it difficult just to finish all of her work on time. She often times wondered how James could manage being Quidditch Captain, Head Boy and a Marauder all at once, but he did.

They were both sitting alone in the common room studying. Lily was sitting at her desk and James at his. Their backs were to each other, their quills scribbling furiously.

James pulled up a piece of parchment and scribbled a little note on it. He sealed it with his wand and made it hover over to Lily's desk where it landed right in front of her. She tapped the paper and it opened, inside she read: 'Hogsmede? 12 o'clock?'

She scribbled underneath it, 'In your dreams,' and sent it back to James.

James opened it and frowned. He scribbled back underneath her response, 'why not?' and sent it back to her.

'Because you're annoying me.'

'What if I stop annoying you? Will you go with me then?'

'No.'

'Give me a chance! I've changed!'

'Don't make me laugh.'

'Come on, please?' he turned to give her a puppy dog face.

'Aw… cute face… not a chance.'

'Anything, name anything and I'll do it.' He was beginning to run out of paper.

'Jump off a bridge.'

James got up from his desk; Lily turned and asked, "Where are you going?"

James replied matter of factly, "To find a bridge."

"Oh, my god, I was being sarcastic, sit down."

James sat down. "Please Lily, go with me to Hogsmede?"

Lily rolled her eyes, "No! Now please drop it!"

"But—" he started, she cut him off.

"No! I have a lot of work to do, and I don't need your whining added on top of it too! Go play Quidditch if you can't sit still. Or find your friends. Honestly," she turned around trying to focus on her work.

"I can't, Padfoot's in detention," he said sadly.

"Well what about Remus or Peter?"

"I dunno where they are," he told her.

James got up and sat down on the couch by the fire and pulled out a mirror. Lily shook her head as she thought 'how narcissistic can one person be?'

She heard him said calmly and clearly into the mirror "Sirius Black".

"Hey Prongs! Bored?" Sirius's voice said.

"Yeah. I'm just sitting here. Do you happen to know when Mooney and Wormtail are? I can't find them anywhere on the map," he asked the Sirius in the mirror.

"Nope. Maybe they went to Hogsmede?" James nodded. That was a possibility. "D'you know what Filtch has made me do?" Sirius asked James through the mirror.

"Clean the trophy case by hand again?"

"Nah, he's making me clean out the bedpans in the hospital wing! This is disgusting. I should just make Kreacher do it." James laughed.

"Do you think he'd still listen to you?"

"I dunno, my mum might have told him not to since I did a runner, but…" he shrugged. "So how's our favorite Head Girl doing?"

"She's a little annoyed at the moment," Lily answered from the corner. Sirius and James chuckled. "How are you talking to him anyway?" she asked. She lost focus when James pulled out that stupid mirror.

"This?" James asked, holding the mirror up to show Sirius's face looking at her. "Sirius bought it a while ago."

"Yeah, fifth year. Pretty handy, eh?" Sirius told her happily.

Lily took a seat next to James and looked at the mirror. "So you two just say each others names into the mirror and you can talk to one another no matter where you are?" she asked.

Sirius nodded, "Yes'm."

"Not bad…" Lily nodded her head in approval.

Sirius smiled up at her nice and big. He turned his head to show them his profile and then whipped it back around to face them worried. "I gotta go, I think I hear someone," and his face disappeared leaving James and Lily's reflections lingering in Sirius's place.

"You two are unbelievable. How you come up with half the things you do, I have no idea," Lily told her.

"Well," James ruffled his hair, he had never sat so close to Lily before without her yelling at him to go away, "when you're as determined as we are I guess anything is possible. Plus, Remus is a pretty sly old fox when it comes to evading trouble. He's gotten us out of some tight squeezes many times."

They sat in silence for a while, before Lily got up to put away the books lying on their desks. "You know, when you're like this you aren't so bad," she told him placing The Healing Guide to Accidental Magical Mistransformations back on the shelf.

James looked at her from the couch as she said this, "Really?" his eyebrows raised as she made that statement.

"Oh, boy, here we go," she muttered to herself as James asked her to go with him to Hogsmede next weekend.

"You know, I try being nice, and what happens? I just get hit on," she collected her school books and began heading for the door.

"Aw, come on! It was a joke!" James raced after her with his bag slung over his shoulder.


GAH!!! i love the mirror!!! I think it's awesome!