James was standing in Professor Longbottom's office.
"Yes, I had a feeling something was up." The Professor said in response to an earlier remark James had made.
"Well thank you for trying your best. When we find her you're alright with it?" The Professor nodded.
"I can't decide what she does." James smiled at his answer.
"Thank you." He turned to leave, but made one last comment. "We're going to be giving Cogswald to the dementors when he's found. Does that suffice?"
"Barely, but yes." Professor Longbottom replied. James left his office. Talking to McGonagall? Check. Talking to Professor Longbottom? Check. Convincing Lily not to come with? Uncheck.
James sighed. That was going to be a challenge. His sister was starting to become seriously influenced by himself, his brother, his cousins, and let us not forget darling Brynn. James walked down the corridors and after waiting five minutes for the stairs he wanted to come back he walked into the Gryffindor common room.
"Lily?" He asked once he entered. The occupants stared at him. Everyone was staring at him as of lately. What? Had they never seen an attractive wizard before? "Lily?" He called up the stairs towards the girl's dormitory.
"Yea?" she called down.
"Come down here!" James requested.
"Hang on! I'm not dressed yet!" Lily was always like this on the weekends. If she didn't have the dorm mates she did, she'd sleep until supper. After a few minutes he heard her footsteps coming down the stairs. "What is it?" she asked.
"You can't come." James stared her dead in the eye. She opened her mouth to protest until she saw the look he was giving her. "Lily you can't. You're only a fourth year you haven't even taken your O.W.L.S! You're more at risk than Brynn is!" Lily sighed.
"But I want to help!" James nodded.
"Then do everything you can to keep mum and dad at bay. I don't need them interfering." Lily nodded.
"Will I have access to all the owls?"
"Yup." James said.
"Alright, I'll post one by the house and here at the school." James smiled at her before kissing her forehead.
"Thank you, for blasting Sanders for me by the way." Lily broke out in a grin.
"Didn't know I could do that could you?"
"No, actually I didn't. Dad didn't teach that to me until fifth year." Lily smirked.
"I've known it since last year." He rolled his eyes as she gloated a bit more.
"Well I'm going to see about Albus and Louis I'll see you later!" With those words said James left the common room in search of his brother and cousin.
Albus was hiding in the farthest corner of the library where most no one would find him.
"Hiding from the fan-girls?" James asked.
"Shh! They might hear you!" Albus practically shrieked. Something suddenly struck James as odd.
"Where's your other half?" Albus gave him a confused. "Scorpius?"
"Oh! It's a Hogsmede weekend. He went to Honeydukes." James hadn't realized it was a Hogsmede weekend he remembered the last time he went, almost a year and a half ago.
"Well, I need to talk with you and Louis." Albus frowned.
"Already?"
"You didn't think I was going to stay long, did you?" Albus broke eye contact.
"What are we supposed to do?"
"Louis said he was coming with, but I want you to stay here." Albus raised an eyebrow.
"Scorpius would kill me if something happened to you."
"You're more afraid of Scorpius than Aunt Fleur?" James gave a sheepish look.
"Sadly, yes." Albus rolled his eyes.
"Screw Scorpius. I'm coming with." James sighed.
"Fine, but you better make sure you can-"
"Don't give me that speech!" Albus snapped at his brother. "I will be perfectly fine." James nodded before leaving him to his book.
James later found Louis down in Hogsmede at the Three Broomsticks having a butterbeer.
"So, what's the plan?" Louis asked.
"Brooms, cloak, we're leaving the map to Lily in case she needs it for anything." Louis nodded.
"What exactly is going to happen when we find her?" James wasn't sure how to answer this. "You're still in her head aren't you? What's going on?"
"The same thing as last time, but they want to know something." James scrunched his face trying to focus.
"Like what?" Louis put a hand on his shoulder.
"I don't know. I know she isn't telling them that's for sure, but I don't know what they want; she's blocking me." Louis frowned.
"It can't be anything good if she's blocking you. She probably doesn't want you to do anything stupid." James glared at him.
"Since when do I do stupid things?" Louis laughed.
"Since you were born."
"How would you know? We were born only months apart!" Louis grinned.
"I just do!" James rolled his eyes, he got up from his seat and started walking to the door.
"Tomorrow morning." He said over his shoulder. Louis raised his butterbeer, taking another swig of it in response.
The next day James woke up early. No, no not early it was earlier than early. He woke up EXTRASUPERMOTHERFUCKINGEARLY . The sun hadn't risen and the air was still cold. He changed out of his night clothes and tip toed down to the common room, Louis following right behind him. Their brooms were already outside of the school, so all they had to do was retrieve Albus.
James and Louis walked slowly towards the Slytherin common room under the Invisibility Cloak. Albus had just crawled out of the hole in the wall when they got their.
"Al, get under here!" James whispered as he dragged his brother under the cloak. The three made their way to the Main Hall and out the doors. James pulled off the cloak and they ran to the Whomping Willow. Louis prodded the knot to freeze it and Albus retrieved their brooms.
"If you see a dementor fly faster and zig zag like mad!" James ordered before they kicked off. They mounted their brooms and with one silent nod zoomed off just like the first time except they had the added accompaniment of Albus. "Louis!" James hollered.
"Yea?"
"If you get knocked out this time I swear I'm never trusting you with a mission again!" James shouted. The last time Louis had been knocked out James ended up in Azkaban.
"Alright, I'll do my best!" He replied, they quieted down and flew faster. After about three hours they ran into some trouble.
"SHIT!" Albus shouted from the back of their triangle. James turned his head to see Albus swerve.
"What is it!?" He asked.
"Somebody sent the Owl Post!" Albus replied. They had stopped to hover.
"Isn't that Aunt Fleur's owl?" James asked. They'd been found out.
"We better do some mad zig-zagging." Louis decided.
"That's dad's owl! Lily's probably got a howler by now!" Albus muttered as he smacked his face.
"C'mon we gotta lose 'em." James shot off followed by Louis and Albus.
"James! How exactly are we going to lose Owls?! They can travel longer than we can!" Louis asked as he caught up to James.
"We'll just have to try." James swerved in order to avoid colliding with his dad's owl. Spontaneously his dad's owl came into a collision with another owl.
"That's Lily's owl!" Albus said incredulously.
"Way to go Lily!" James cheered. "Remind me to buy her whatever she wants from Hogsmede when we return!" Lily's owl rounded up the other three owls flying in a circle swiftly around them to keep them from flying at the three boys.
"Thanks!" The three called back receiving a hoot in reply. Knowing that their owl problem was handled they were off again.
This chapter is actually going to be dedicated to someone. It's for Rachael, your review made me laugh hysterically and smile and just extremely happy! I hope you enjoy this chapter! Thanks for making the end of my year spectacular!
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