"Right." Lily said in a military tone, to the four boys. "We have a free period now. We shall all follow Smith and see where she goes and what she does. Is that understood?"
"Yes Ma'am!" the three boys replied.
"If she supects anything, make a diversion! Now then troops, let's march!" she cried heading out of McGonagal's Transfiguration class. The three boys hurried after her and they spotted Hermione walk across the end of the corridor towards the stairs.
"Right. Phase One. Invisibility Cloak. Sirius, Remus GO!" Lily ordered.
The two boys saluted and quickly flung the Invisibility Cloak overthemselves and hurried off to follow Hermione. "Moony? Do you reckon that Lily's gone a little bit overboard, with Operation Find out what Hermione is up to?" Sirius whispered as they followed Hermione up to the Seventh Floor.
"I don't know Pads. She does want Smith to be her friend. She hasn't got that many female friends." Remus replied slowly, watching every one of Hermione's actions. Sirius nodded his agreement.
"I think...the only way that we can successfully avoid having Lily angry at us forever, is by finding out what Smith's secret is, and... to avoid your annoying mopiness, YOU should apologize and tell her that you secretly fancy the pants off of her and want her." Sirius concluded with a smug smirk on his face.
Remus' eyes widened. "I do not fancy her." he sputtered. "Is it that obvious?" he relented with a small sigh.
"Way too obvious. I think the only person who hasn't noticed it is Hermione." Remus shrugged and quickened their pace under the Invisibility Cloak. "Damn! Where has she gone?"
Remus ran to the stairs and quickly checked upstairs. "She's gone upstairs. I don't know why. Get James and Lily to meet us on the Seventh Floor. I reckon she's gone to her quarters."
The two boys quickly ran towards the library where their two friends were currently residing. "Guys. She's on the Seventh Floor."
James and Lily rushed out to meet the two boys. Sirius stopped in the middle of the corridor suddenly. "Guys! We've been so stupid!" he cried, slapping a hand to his forehead. "We have the Map. Why aren't we using it?" James and Remus stared at him in horror. Lily just looked on confusedly.
"Pads. How come you thought of this and not Moony? Why are you turning smart!?" James cried dramatically, waving his hands around frantically.
"What's this Map?" Lily asked curiously.
The three boys turned around and proceeded to explain to Lily all about the famous Marauder's Map.
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Meanwhile...
Hermione quickly entered the Room of Requirement and found herself face to face with a Death Eater dummy. She shed her robes and stood in the middle of the room wearing her tank top and shorts. She took a deep breath and shouted, "Activate dummy!"
The dummy started to move forward with its wand raised. "Stupefy!"
The dummy ducked and sent a spell towards her. Hermione cast a shield around herself and tried to disarm the dummy. Unfortunately her spell missed and the dummy managed to disarm Hermione. Growling as her wand flew towards the corner of the room, she threw herself forwards and began to attack it with a flurry of karate moves that she had learnt over the previous summer.
After about twenty minutes of sparring with the dummy, she realised that it was almost lunch time. "Finish!" she shouted, the dummy automatically shut itself down. Suddenly, she found herself in want of a hot shower, and the room suddenly provided her with a bathroom and an ensuite bedroom, instead of the dark dungeon she was earlier provided with. She quickly jumped into the shower and washed off all of the sweat and grime from her body.
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"Come on Lily. We may as well find out what she's up to. All we have to do is go through that door." Sirius tried to coax Lily.
She shook her head resolutely. "No. No no no no no. It's not right. She could be doing something private." she said slowly. James rolled his eyes.
"I vote we send Moony in first!" he cried before shoving Remus into the room and closing the door behind him.
Remus stumbled into the room and swore lightly. "I'm going to kill him!" He decided to look around the room, to see if he could find any clue as to what she was doing. There was a slight sound behind him, and he whipped around and gasped. Hermione was standing behind him in nothing but a towel, dripping wet. She whipped out her wand angrily and blasted Remus out of the room, before realizing who he was. Remus flew out of the room and into James, screaming.
"OI! What the hell Moony?" James cried from his position on the floor.
"Merlin, I'm sorry. Professor, sort of ... um blew me out of the room. " Moony apologized.
"Why did she blow you out of the room?" Lily asked incredulously while Sirius continued to laugh manically.
"Because he walked in on me, just as I was coming out of the shower." Hermione said calmly from the door, now dressed in her tank top and shorts.
Sirius stopped laughing while James and Remus' jaws dropped. "I'm really sorry about that, Professor, but it was all James' fault." Remus explained. "He pushed me in with no warning, I didn't realise that you were in here." he continued innocently.
Hermione snorted. "Yeah and I'm a banshee." she said rolling her eyes. "Well. Go to lunch before I take points off for loitering."
The four children ran off as Hermione pulled on her robes, blushing at the fact that her long time love had just seen her practically naked.