Chapter 10: Caught by Lily and Alice

We were running down the corridor, trying to avoid Filch who had just found his 'Precious little kitty kat' as Remus had put it, when James suddenly pulled us all into a spare class room.

*Flashback*

I had agreed to dyeing Mrs. Norris and Me, James and Sirius were currently sitting in a broom cupboard trying to dye the stupid cat blue while Remus was on look out for any one walking past. Why bother if were in a broom cupboard you may ask. Because it Mrs. Norris is making sounds like she's being strangled, that's why!

We were all groaning at how loud Mrs. Norris was being when suddenly Sirius himself shouted loud enough to be heard over the horrible screeching "The little s##t scratched me!". "Shut up! We might be heard Padfoot!" The thought that ran through my mind at that moment was 'Seriously James, seriously? It already sounds like we're torturing somebody in here, it can't get any worse!'

I voice my thoughts, "James, don't bother, it can't get worse than the noises Mrs. Norris is making! Don't worry, we're nearly done anyway!" Just as I say that we had done with her and we quickly threw the new blue version of Filch's cat out of the broom cupboard and made a dash for it with Remus.

As we ran down the corridors we heard a shout from behind us "Who's done this to my cat?!". Oops. We ran even faster as we heard the steps of Filch coming after us.

*Flashback over*

James pulled out a piece of folded black parchment and tapped his want on it saying "I solemnly swear I am up to no good". Ink appeared on the map, reviling a map of Hogwarts. An exact map. All over the map were every hidden passage in Hogwarts and the location of every person in the school!

"So let me guess" I said with an eyebrow raised, "A creation made by you Marauders". "Yep!" Sirius announced proudly. "But you have too promise not to tell anyone, or we'll have to use a memory charm on you!" James told me. I snorted to myself, they wouldn't be able to use a memory charm now that they'd told me! But that didn't matter anyway. "Of course I promise not to tell anyone! I think it's genius!" I yell back at them. "Thanks, but I think we should use it to check that Filch has gone by, don't you guys?!" said Remus. So we looked at the map and indeed Filch had gone by.

"Well, I'm going to take a nap, in cue of later events, see you later guys" Remus said to us and left. The way he emphasized the words 'Later events' made me curious, as it was clearly a bit of a reminder to James and Sirius, who had both nodded their heads at him. I didn't make my curiosity obvious though, instead just smiling and saying "See you later Remus". Remus nodded his head and left.

"I'm going to go practise some quiddich, I know it's not quiddich season yet, but I've been made captain and I want to keep my skills up! Sirius is on the team too, the captain gets too pick person from last years team too defiantly play on the team again and I chose Sirius!" James boasted. "Can I come?" Sirius asked. "Course you can!" James exclaimed. "We'll see you later then Brooke" James says as I split ways from them outside of the classroom. "Bye!" I shout as I walked away.

I wondered around the school for a while, having no clue of what to do now that my friends were gone. While walking I wondered about what Remus had clearly been pointing out to James and Sirius. 'Due to later events?' The only thing that came to mind was him staying up all night, but what would he be doing that Sirius and James would know and Remus wouldn't want to tell anyone else? Weird!

I really wanted to go out flying, just to spread my wings and glide through the sky, I was desperate to get into my other form! But people would see me, i'm type of hard to miss in my other form. Being on fire and all. In the end I decided to go and watch James and Sirius practise, not like I had anything else to do.

Walking to what I could only guess was the quiddich pitch I saw Sirius and James messing around on their brooms and throwing a ball to each other. I went and sat down in one of the stands. After about twenty minutes of watching them practise Sirius and James seemed to notice that I was there.

They both flew over to me and landed in the stand. "Do you want to play Brooke?" James asked me. "No thanks" I declined with a crooked smile on my face. James and Sirius both gasped at my refusal. "Do you even know how to play quiddich?" Sirius questioned with wide eyes. "Uhh... not really" I said sheepishly. Both of them gasped. Sirius pretended to faint, throwing a hand to his forehead and falling dramatically into James's arms.

"Sirius get off me, your to heavy too heavy for me to carry!" James exclaimed and I laughed. Sirius looked offended, but he quickly started laughing at the look on James's face. "The only person I should have in my arms is my Lily-flower!" James shouted. Me and Sirius both rolled our eyes at him.

"Rule number three!" I shouted at James, "No obsessing over Lily all the time!; She doesn't apprieciate it! Rule number four! Stop giving Lily pet names! Maybe when your going out, but not now! Rule number five! Lily is not a possession! You don't own her, so stop calling her 'Yours'!".

"Okay" James said simply, both miserable as well as happy if that's even possible. Sirius looked dumb-founded. He blinked twice before before speaking. "Back too subject. We're going to teach you how to play quiddich tomorrow, it's getting dark and must be dinner time by now, we missed lunch, LETS GO EAT!".

Sirius grabbed me by the waist and pulled me onto the broom in front of him, making me yelp with surprise and then both himself and James took off towards the ground. Once we landed they put all of the stuff away in the quiddich shed before the three of us all ran to dinner.

-Nearly 7PM that night-

I was sitting in bed, fighting off the urge to shift forms and go for a fly. Nobody would see me, it was starting to get dark I finally decided. I jumped out of the dorm window (Obviously Lily and Alice were down in the common room) before shifting forms and relishing the feeling of the cool night against my flaming body.

I flew over the Whomping Willow and was very surprised to see that it was completely still. I swooped down and landed on one of the thick branches, praying to myself that it didn't start moving. Luckily it didn't. I heard a voice I recognised very well. "What the bloody hell's a pheonix doing in the Whomping Willow?!". Sirius. I looked down and sure enough, standing below the Willow were the Marauders.

What were the Marauders doing standing under the Whomping Willow at 7PM?!

"Never mind" Remus said quietly, "We have to go". "Sorry Remus, let's go" James said apologetically and they all rushed into a small tunnel under the Willow that I hadn't noticed before. I waited about ten minutes before I was sure they weren't coming back out anytime soon. Just before I was about to take off the Willow sprung into action, flinging me off it's branches. It only took me a couple of seconds in the air to regain control of my body, flapping my wings and twirling into the air.

I flew back too the castle in no hurry, glidng through the window and landing in my human form on my bed.

Looking up I noticed Lily and Alice both staring at me wide eyed. Oops.