Chapter 9

The Cloak and Curses

"We might be attacked?!" exclaimed Professor Swithin, not bothering to keep her voice down.

"Shhhh! And yes, Albus does have his suspicions," answered McGonagall.

"But Minerva, this doesn't make any sense. Dumbledore is the only wizard Voldemort, oh please Minerva, get used to the name already!" cried Swithin, as McGonagall had flinched when she said Voldemort's name.

Professor Swithin returned to her whisper, "Dumbledore is the only wizard Voldemort ever feared. Why the hell would he attack Hogwarts when Albus is headmaster?"

"That's the point. You-Know-Who is trying to lie low for a few years until he is as most powerful as he's going to get. Thus, he's going to send his most loyal Death Eaters here to try to kill Albus so You-Know-Who can take over Hogwarts when he is ready," replied McGonagall.

"Which is when?" asked Swithin.

"Sooner than later, I'm afraid," sighed Professor McGonagall.

Just then they reached the gargoyle guarding Dumbledore's Office. "Fizzing Whizbees," said McGonagall clearly, and they started walking up the staircase. When they reached the grand oak door, Swithin knocked loudly three times.

"Come in," came Albus Dumbledore's calm voice.

As they walked in, they found that Professors Sprout, Flitwick, Slughorn, Binns, and Kettleburn were already there along with Filch holding Mrs. Norris and Hagrid taking up most of the room.

"Ah, Minerva, Cailin, please sit," announced Dumbledore and he conjured out of mid-air two more chairs for them.

"Now, I have formed this meeting to discuss a matter that might be occurring any minute. I have my suspicions that we might be attacked by Voldemort's Death Eaters. I don't know if I am right or not, and to find out, someone in this room is going have to become a spy on Voldemort for me," declared Dumbledore. No one either moved or breathed. "After nights of thinking, I have decided that...Cailin, will you please stand."

Swithin stood up slowly, almost unsure if she should obey or not.

"I have chosen Cailin to become my agent. Thus," Dumbledore looked her straight in the eye, "I will require you to become a Death Eater, and may cause you to face certain death at Voldemort's own wrath."

"I can't believe we got no homework today from Defense Against the Dark Arts!" cried Peter in glee as the four Marauders stepped into their dormitory. They all had finished thier homework and were just going to mess around until it was time for bed.

"Hey James! Since we have nothing better to do, want to pull a prank with the Cloak?" asked Sirius, sprawling himself on the bed.

"Cloak? What cloak?" asked Lupin, glancing up from his book.

James kicked his trunk open, and pulled out an old traveling cloak, which he put on. Instantly, his body disappeared and his head seemed to be floating in mid-air.

Lupin dropped his book, and Peter just stared, unable to comprehend what he was looking at.

"Who wants to go give Mrs. Norris a good kick?"

Fifteen minutes later, all four of them were lurking through Hogwarts corridors, searching for Mrs. Norris, squeezed under James' Invisibility Cloak. Turning a corner, they saw Filch running past, cursing Peeves.

"Change of plan," said James under his breath. He stuck his foot out from under the Cloak, causing Filch to fall flat on his face. It took all of the four's self-control not to burst out laughing at this point. Mrs. Norris came mewing a few seconds later and in a flash, Lupin had kicked her high into the air. Sirius decided to have even more fun. Letting himself to laugh, since many of the Blacks' laugh was kind of an evil, bark like, crackle, including Sirius', it echoed off the walls scaring Filch more. Then Sirius spoke in the most creepy and ghostly voice he could muster.

"Argus Filch, I would not suggest upsetting Peeves. He now has me. And I will haunt you." At this point, Argus Filch screamed, grabbed Mrs. Norris, and fled from the corridor.

Taking off the Cloak and bursting with laughter, Sirius, James, Lupin, and Peter all high-fived each other.

"We are the Marauders!" cried Sirius.

"What does Maruaders mean?" questioned Peter.

"Technically it means mischief makers," answered Lupin.

"Well, that's us!" exclaimed James.

"Definitely!"

"Absolutely!"

"Who wants to go find Snivellus Snape?"

"There he is!" exclaimed James, pointing towards Severus Snape. They were out on the Hogwarts Grounds and Severus was sitting down, back to a tree, doing homework. James poked his wand out from under the Cloak, took aim and whispered, "Locomotor Wibbly!"

Snape's legs started to dance uncontrollably. Unfortunately, Narcissa was nearby. She, Slytherin girl prefect, shot the counter-curse at him for the Jelly-Legs Jinx then spun around.

"Okay! Who did this!" she yelled, and it wasn't a question, it was a command. When no one responded, and since she knew about James' cloak, she put two and two together.

"JAMES CHRISTOPHER POTTER AND SIRIUS ORION BLACK!"

"Now, we run," muttered Sirius.

Safe in the Gryffindor Boys Dormitory, the Marauders pulled off the Invisibility Cloak and each fell onto their beds, laughing uncontrollably.

"What did you do to Snivellus, James?!" exclaimed Lupin when he had enough breath.

"Jelly-Legs Jinx. It was in the Defense Against the Dark Arts' book," answered James.

"Genuis. Who do you want to get tomorrow night?" asked Sirius.

"Actually, remember the first night here and you said we might need a map of this place?" replied James.

"Oh yeah! At midnight we could sneak out of our dorm with the cloak and start to make a map of Hogwarts!" said Sirius.

"Let's not make just a regular map. Lets make the Marauder's Map. Purveyers of Aids to Magical Mischief!" said Lupin.

"It could show all the secret passageways of Hogwarts and show who and where everyone in this entire is!" suggested Peter.

"How the heck are we supposed to do that?!" asked James.

Sirius rolled his eyes. "ARE YOU A WIZARD OR NOT?!"

"Oh yeah, good point. I guess I must not have noticed," said James.

"How could you not have noticed THAT?!" yelled Peter.

"Because that's how his brain works," said Sirius.

"He has a brain? Well that's news to me!" exclaimed Lupin.

"Look, Cailin! Try to understand! Try to see it how Albus sees it! Try to understand!" McGonagall was desperately trying to talk to Swithin, but Swithin's face was covered by today's Daily Prophet.

"No, Minerva," said Swithin calmly, flipping down the newspaper, "you try to understand."

McGonagall spoke again, "Cailin, I didn't want you to have to do this but-"

"You didn't want me to have to do this? Did you have anything to do with helping to choose who would take the task?"

"No, but-"

"Shush Minerva."

"Don't you shush me! You will listen t-"

"No seriously. Shut it. I hear something."

Cailin Swithin walked to the window and stared down.

"Damn it. They're here."

Minerva McGonagall joined her at the window.

There was three Death Eaters, Rodolphus Lestrange, Bellatrix Black, and Fenrir Greyback.

Professor Swithin ran from the room and McGonagall quickly ran after her. McGonagall had a pretty good idea of where Swithin was leading to and didn't like it one bit.

They reached the two doors leading outsie the castle and with a wave of her wand, Swithin caused the doors to fly open. She stormed towards the three Voldemort followers and as soon as she had good aim, bright green light shot out her wand. McGonagall was quite surprised that Swithin would start a duel with the Killing Curse but she reminded herself never to underestimate Cailin Swithin. Fenrir Greyback turned just in time to reflect the spell. Bellatrix cackled loudly.

"Ah, want to kill? C'mon Professor, give me your best shot!" laughed Bella.

Another blast of green light shot from Swithin's wand straight towards Bellatirix's chest. Swithin was ready to duel to the death.

Author's Note: So I know in the last chpt's Author Note I said that this chpt would be from one of my OC's POVs. But I just did the first and last part of this chapter from McGonagall and Swithin's Pov instead.
Here's a question for my readers: Would you like me to include a few chapters from like the Professors' or other HP characters' POVs because I would assume that sometime around 1971 Dumbledore was starting the Order of the Phoenix. So I could include the starting of the OotP if you would like. Please comment or PM me your answer!
Thanks and hope you're enjoying the story!