A/N: Sorry about this, but I updated chapter 34 today, and there is quite an important bit in there. Apologies if you have already read it guys!



Ingratitude and Assumption



I woke up, and Lily's bed was made neatly. I wandered down to the common room, where Ed was nursing a bruise on his cheekbone.

"Oh, Hi." He said, getting up. "Have you spoken to Lily or Severus yet?"

"Not since yesterday, but what happened to you?"

"Uh, Severus apparently didn't want any company or advice last night, but I'm fine, really, its not as bad as it looks." he said, briefly gesturing towards the large black and yellow patch of skin over his cheek. "Umm, do you want to go and visit Hagrid?"

"Not really, I want to find Lily and see how she is, but I'll come with you late..."

"Do you really think that's a good idea? I-I mean, she might be tired, and perhaps a bit grouchy."

He looked at me nervously, and I glared right back at him.

"What's wrong with her?"

"Nothing, well, nothing she would tell me. She came storming down here with a bit of a temper, you see, and..."

"Did she say anything to you?"

"Well, nothing important, just..."

"Just what?"

"Well, I don't know why, by she came in from breakfast or somewhere cussing about...well, about Severus, and...you."

"Why?"

"I have no idea. But Ren, come on, she's going through a bad time, you know she wouldn't be angry at you if she were in her right mind."

"Look, wait here, I'm going to find her, alright?"

I didn't wait for an answer from him. I was absolutely astounded; he must have misunderstood. Why the hell was she angry with me? Why the hell was she angry with Severus, for that matter? I trudged around the whole castle, in more than slight confusion, until I finally found her in Greenhouse B, the very Greenhouse that this whole thing had started in.

She turned to me from the mandrake she was tending, and her look turned to ice as soon as her gaze met mine. She threw off the earmuffs she had been wearing, and marched straight towards me.

"You little cow!" She screeched at me, in a tone that made even the Mandrakes shiver. "How DARE you! You told him it was all his fault, didn't you?"

"Lily, what are you on about? I never tol..."

"Then why does he think it's his fault? I can't *believe* you would do this to me!"

"Lily, I never told him that, and you *know* I would never do anything like that! I tried to tell him it wasn't his fault, but he wouldn't listen! Did he tell you all this?"

"No, he didn't." She snapped "He's a better friend than you will ever be! He would never admit that you put those ideas into his head! And what the hell did you think you were doing throwing your weight around in the dungeons? Did I ask you to go off on a mission to kill him?"

I just stared at her in disbelief. I had no idea what to say, except something about that scheming bastard. How else would she have known about the fight?

Malfoy.