~*THE SCARLET DAWN*~
Chapter Three-A's and Some Time in Detention
"Lily, Lily, oh LILY!" bellowed a voice that Lily quickly recognized as Sirius'. She looked over at the clock on her bedside table. It was 4:30 in the morning. Lily threw on her green velvet robe and went downstairs, hoping that it would be something important this time. Sirius was standing in the common room with loony tunes boxers and no t-shirt.
"Nice pajamas," said Lily sarcastically. A huge grin was plastered on Sirius' face. This was NOT good, he was up to something.
The last week had been the greatest, most amazing yet weirdest week of Lily's life. She had done well in all of her new classes and had a lot of new friends at Hogwarts. It was quite strange, though, first of all because she was in a new word practicing magic with completly new people. She had felt very stupid when the mail came by owl the first day and she ducked her head as if the owls were going to attack her. But she had quickly gotten used to that.
Then there was the whole Sirius vs. James problem. Lily could hardly stop herself from laughing out loud whenever they would start to fight. They would be extremly rude to each other, then one of them would say something that would impress the other one, and that person would have to pretend like they weren't impressed. It was amazing that they still hated each other, Lily thought that they could be best friends if they just dropped it.
"So Lils, remeber last night when I tried to turn James' face green?" asked Sirius.
"How could I forget?" asked Lily, knowing that he was going to try and pull yet another prank on James.
"Well, I figure that if I'm really quiet I'll be able to sneak into his room and perform the charm," said Sirius.
"Oh, because I thought that if you didn't run into his room, jump on his bed, knock over the bedside table and set off his exploding snap game you could sneak into his room and perform the charm," replied Lily with a yawn.
"That too. Anyway, the charm is kinda hard and since you are the best one of us at charms..." started Sirius.
"You want me to do it." finished Lily with a frown. She didnt want to get herself into trouble.
"Not exactly. You just have to make us silent and then follow me into the room and make sure I don't do anything stupid," explained Sirius.
"Oh, because who would think that sneaking over into someone elses' dorm, probably going through their stuff like last time and then turning their face green would be stupid?" asked Lily sarcastically. Sirius put on a puppy dog expression and pushed out his lower lip. "Alright, what's the charm?"
"Oh thank you thank you thank you, Lily you're the best I love you! Thank you thank you thank you!" exclaimed Sirius, giving her a huge hug. Lily didn't seem too amused.
"That's nice. Now if you could please get off of me," Sirius quickly walked over to the other side of the room. "Thanks. Hum, this isn't too hard. Just a different wrist movement, that's probably your problem. You were just sending sparks?"
"Uh-huh. Wow you're good Lily," said Sirius.
"I know. Well, hold on a second, SILENCIO," Lily jumped up and down and threw the book at Sirius. It was completly quiet. Sirius tried to say something to Lily, but Lily held up her hand and grabbed a piece of parchment and a quill that way laying on one of the common room tables.
"You're silent, I can't hear you, obviously. We'll have to communicate using this," wrote Lily, handing the paper to Sirius. He quickly wrote something.
"O I C. U follow me, k?" it read in his suprisingly neat handwriting. Lily nodded and they walked over towards the boys dormitories. Lily had been there the night before, when Sirius had attempted this same prank, but that hadn't worked out too well. Professor McGonagall had heard the noise and Lily had barely gotten to her own dormitory when the professor had walked in through the portrait hole and rushed up to see what had happened. Luckily for Sirius, he had bolted out of there so fast that James hadn't seen his attacker and no one had gotten in trouble.
"Going 2 do charm. Stay back or u turn green 2." wrote Sirius. Lily walked back to the door and Sirius silently said the charm. Green spread all over James' body, and got on his sheets and pillows also. Sirius laughed and walked back to meet Lily, but he tripped into James' trunk, sending James' belonging flying onto the floor.
"Sirius, pick this stuff up or James will know we were here!" wrote Lily.
"Yeah, like he's not gonna figure that someone was here by the lovely green shade of his face! Help me!" wrote Sirius. Lily started picking things up and then looked over at Sirius. He picked up a silvery cloak and made an inaudiable gasp. "U know what this is?" he wrote. Lily shook her head no. "It's an invisibility cloak. They're really rare. Man, I wish I had 1 of these."
"Maybe it's time for you to become friends with James so you can use it," wrote Lily. Sirius wrote something back, which was completly the oppisite of what Lily was thinking he would say. On the paper he had only written one word.
"Maybe."
***
"Hey Lily, you know you love me," said James sweetly. Lily turned to look at him in all of his green glory.
"Good morning gorgeous," she said with a laugh.
"Well hello darling, lovely day isn't it. Would you happen to know the counter curse that will change me back to my original color?" he asked in a sing-song voice.
"I'm suprised you don't know it, you're the one that is so smart," said Lily. James quickly disagreed.
"Not at charms, I'm horrible at them. Please Lily, you know you want to," said James. Lily couldn't help but laugh at this situation.
"Alright," said Lily. She opened up her Standard Book of Spells Grade One and checked to see the counter curse. A moment later James looked quite like himself again, except he had a weird greenish tint to his skin tone.
"So what should I do to get back at Sirius?" asked James. "I know for a fact that he still sleeps with his teddy bear. I could take some of the engorging potion we're going to make in potions today and make the teddy bear really big. Then I can put the teddy bear in the great hall with a sign that says 'I belong to Sirius' around his neck. I know it will be easy to get the bear. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get down to the Great Hall in the middle of the night without anyone seeing me..."
"Why don't you just use the invisibility cloak?" asked Lily. Once the words were out of her mouth she knew that she had made a huge mistake.
"You know about my invisibility cloak?" said James, more of a question than a statment.
"Kinda," said Lily slyly. James didn't seem too happy about this.
"And how do you 'kinda' know about my invisibility cloak? Were you 'kinda' there when Sirius 'kinda' cursed me and 'kinda' knocked all my stuff over and 'kinda' put it back in my trunk the wrong way?" asked James.
"Kinda," said Lily.
"I thought you were my friend! How could you help him do that?" asked James.
"Because you are both my friends. Why don't you just talk to him? Then you guys don't have to go around being mad at each other," said Lily. James thought about this for a minute and then responded.
"He's the one who started it, he's going to have to end it. You're going to come down to the great hall with me tonight, right?" asked James.
"I don't want to get in trouble," said Lily.
"There's enough room for you to hide under the invisibility cloak with me. It will take just a little while, I promise," said James.
"I guess," said Lily. "Come on, let's get some breakfast."
***
"So Sirius, here's the plan," said Lily, throwing her arm around his shoulder in hopes to make a two person huddle.
"There's a plan?" he said in a confused yet interested tone.
"Yeah, tonight in the Great Hall, be there or be square," said Lily. Sirius raised his eyebrow.
"Wait a sec, you, little miss never-likes-to-break-a-rule Lily, are telling me that you are going to sneak into the great hall tonight, after hours, to pull an outrageous prank and then kiss me for hours underneath the Ravenclaw table," Lily gave him the Look. "Um, I might have added that last part, kinda, but you were hinting at it hun. You, me, great hall," and Sirius made a couple of kissy noises. Lily smacked him.
"Don't. Ever. Say. Anything. Like. That. Again," Lily stated slowly.
"Ok your highness. Really though, what is this little plan?" he asked. Lily actually did have a plan, one that both boys weren't aware of, and she thought that it was the perfect way for them to become friends, but she didn't want to tell either one of them her plan. That would spoil everything.
"You're going to play a little prank on James," she said nonchalantly. Sirius still had that confused look.
"What happened to, 'Pranks will get you in so much trouble, you're going to get expelled, I can't believe I'm friends with both of you,'" asked Sirius, finishing his overly exagerated yet still acurate impersonation of Lily.
"I guess one would be okay. And you are getting my help, so if I were you I wouldn't question it. It's going to be really good, I swear," she said. Sirius contemplated this and figured that she was right.
"So what exactly does this plan involve?" he asked after a few moments.
"You'll see. Just be in the Great Hall tonight, I'll meet you there, and don't let the caretaker find you or he'll hang you from your ears in one of the dungeons," said Lily. She then walked away, as if hanging people by their ears was the most normal thing a person would have to do for punishment.
***
"Ouch, Lily that was my toe!" James half whispered.
"And that was my hair," responded Lily a little bit more quietly.
"Oh no, your hair, how horrible!" James said sarcastically, now speaking in a normal voice.
"Shut up before some one hears us! The invisibility cloak doesn't stop people from hearing you, you know that right?" asked Lily, shifting her position under the cloak so that she could walk more easily. She was walking with James down to the Great Hall, hoping that they wouldn't get caught. So far this didn't seem as great of a plan as she thought it would be. She might be caught, and she was worried about Sirius. He didn't have the protection of the cloak, he might be in big trouble right now and her plan wouldn't work.
"Shhhhh, I think I just heard someone," said James. Lily quickly turned behind her and sure enough she saw Sirius standing behind them at the end of the hallway. If James saw Sirius now it would mess things up, so Lily stalled James, trying to make him not look behind him.
"I see someone, up ahead. Look, right there!" exclaimed Lily. James stopped mid-turn and looked ahead of him.
"Are you sure? I don't see anyone," said James skeptically. Ok, so plan A didn't work, it was time to move on to plan B.
"Yeah, I'm sure. Oh, it's scary being in the castle so late at night like this, I don't really like the dark," said Lily, shivering. James looked at her, worried that she really was afraid. Lily felt a little guilty but she needed her plan to work.
"Don't worry Lils. Just close your eyes and give me your hand, I'll guide you over there, it will work fine I promise," said James. Lily obliged and James concentrated on the path ahead of them. Luckily he didn't look behind him and soon they had entered the great hall.
"Ok, now I just have to engorge this teddy bear and we can get out of here," said James, sitting down and taking out a battered bear. Lily just had to laugh, it was actually kind of cute for Sirius to sleep with it. But obviously Sirius didn't think so, for he burst in the door at that exact second and shouted just one word-
"SNUFFLES!!!!!" he yelled, running towards his precious teddy bear. Sirius and James started fighting over the bear and Lily decided it was now or never. She stood on a chair and then practiced the levitation charm that she had learned the earlier day. "Wingardium Leviosa!" Of course, this was much harder than the feather that she had levitated before, but see seemed to have some sort of skill in charms because her chair rose to the ceiling with her sitting on it. Lily sat on one of the lower ceiling beams and the chair dropped to the ground. She then realized what a dire situation she was in: she didn't know how she was going to get herself down from there, and she wasn't even sure if Sirius and James realized she was up here, they were still fighting on the groud. The bear had been practically ripped in half and Sirius seemed very unhappy about this.
"HELP!" she yelled. Both boys looked up. "My chair went all possesed, and I am stuck up here. Help me, please help me!"
"Don't worry Lily, I'll get you down!" said Sirius. He realized that he had to work together with James to get Lily down. It appeared that James already had a plan though, he whispered something in Sirius' ear and they ran out the door. Suddenly Lily got really worried, what if they had left her here? What if they didn't come back and she was stuck here until the morning. It would take a lot of explaining, and somehow she didn't think that the Hogwarts staff would really fall for the possesed chair explanation.
Lily stopped worrying as two people on broomsticks came flying through the door to the great hall at great speed. Oh, they were really stupid to go flying like that through the school, but it didn't matter to much to her right now. James and Sirius sped over to her and James motioned for her to get on his broomstick. Soon her feet were firm on the ground.
"Yeah, who's the best?" said James, giving Sirius a high-five.
"I think that would be us," gloated Sirius. At that moment they just realized what they had just done. "But don't think this means were friends or anything."
"Why would I be friends with you?" asked James. But there was no answer to that question, because just at that moment the caretaker walked through the door and saw the three first years standing around.
"Three students, out of bed and out of bounds. I don't think you even have to ask what I am going to do about this, detention for all three of you."
***
Two days later, Lily, Sirius and James had thought that their detentions had been forgotten about, but that obviously wasn't the case as they each recieved an owl during dinner telling them when they would serve their detentions.
Miss Evans,
You will be serving detention tonight at ten PM. Please meet me in the astronomy tower then and you will find out what you will be doing.
Sincerly,
Professor McGonagall
"Man, I was hoping they forgot about these," said James. "I have to go out to the greenhouse at ten."
"I have to go to the quidditch field. Where do you have to go Lily?" asked Sirius as he turned over to Lily.
"Astronomy tower," she replied. "I wonder what I'm going to have to do."
"Do you even want to know?" asked James. Lily nodded her head yes. She worried about this the rest of the day during her potions class and while she was doing her homework. Finally it was twenty until ten, and Lily left the common room for the astronomy tower.
"It's nice to see you Lily, though I am very disapointed that such an intelligent student would do such a stupid thing. You will be cleaning all the windows and telescopes in this tower by hand, no magic allowed," said Professor McGonagall, handing her towels and a substane that reminded Lily of muggle Windex. Lily took them and started scrubbing. Professor McGonagall left the room.
It took Lily hours before everything was bright and shiny, and she was very happy to retreat to the common room. When she got there she found James waiting for her, or that's what she thought.
"Oh, it's just you. Do you know where Sirius is?" asked James. This suprised Lily.
"No, are you actually talking to him?" asked Lily.
"Not yet," said James. At that point Sirius walked through the portrait hole and saw them sitting on the couch.
"Hey Lily. I bet you had fun, I sure did pruning the quidditch field with a ruler and a pair of scissors," said Sirius, colapsing on one side Lily.
"Hey Sirius, I have something for you," said James. Sirius gave James a weird look, but was too intrigued to not see what James had for him. James pulled out a teddy bear that Lily recognized as Snuffles. Where it had before been ripped and losing stuffing it was now repaired. Sirius could hardly believe his eyes.
"Snuffles! How, why, when did.." Sirius didn't even know what to say.
"I had to watch plants in the green house, you know, make sure they didn't kill each other. Well, it was dull work so I took my cloak, snuck out and got the bear. I sewed it in there while I was waiting. I don't know exactly what I did to you but whatever it is I'm sorry," said James. He then extended his hand, "Friends?"
"I'm sure you probably didn't even know that your dad had my father fired so that he could give his best friend a job," said Sirius. He then shook James hand. "Friends."
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Chapter Three-A's and Some Time in Detention
"Lily, Lily, oh LILY!" bellowed a voice that Lily quickly recognized as Sirius'. She looked over at the clock on her bedside table. It was 4:30 in the morning. Lily threw on her green velvet robe and went downstairs, hoping that it would be something important this time. Sirius was standing in the common room with loony tunes boxers and no t-shirt.
"Nice pajamas," said Lily sarcastically. A huge grin was plastered on Sirius' face. This was NOT good, he was up to something.
The last week had been the greatest, most amazing yet weirdest week of Lily's life. She had done well in all of her new classes and had a lot of new friends at Hogwarts. It was quite strange, though, first of all because she was in a new word practicing magic with completly new people. She had felt very stupid when the mail came by owl the first day and she ducked her head as if the owls were going to attack her. But she had quickly gotten used to that.
Then there was the whole Sirius vs. James problem. Lily could hardly stop herself from laughing out loud whenever they would start to fight. They would be extremly rude to each other, then one of them would say something that would impress the other one, and that person would have to pretend like they weren't impressed. It was amazing that they still hated each other, Lily thought that they could be best friends if they just dropped it.
"So Lils, remeber last night when I tried to turn James' face green?" asked Sirius.
"How could I forget?" asked Lily, knowing that he was going to try and pull yet another prank on James.
"Well, I figure that if I'm really quiet I'll be able to sneak into his room and perform the charm," said Sirius.
"Oh, because I thought that if you didn't run into his room, jump on his bed, knock over the bedside table and set off his exploding snap game you could sneak into his room and perform the charm," replied Lily with a yawn.
"That too. Anyway, the charm is kinda hard and since you are the best one of us at charms..." started Sirius.
"You want me to do it." finished Lily with a frown. She didnt want to get herself into trouble.
"Not exactly. You just have to make us silent and then follow me into the room and make sure I don't do anything stupid," explained Sirius.
"Oh, because who would think that sneaking over into someone elses' dorm, probably going through their stuff like last time and then turning their face green would be stupid?" asked Lily sarcastically. Sirius put on a puppy dog expression and pushed out his lower lip. "Alright, what's the charm?"
"Oh thank you thank you thank you, Lily you're the best I love you! Thank you thank you thank you!" exclaimed Sirius, giving her a huge hug. Lily didn't seem too amused.
"That's nice. Now if you could please get off of me," Sirius quickly walked over to the other side of the room. "Thanks. Hum, this isn't too hard. Just a different wrist movement, that's probably your problem. You were just sending sparks?"
"Uh-huh. Wow you're good Lily," said Sirius.
"I know. Well, hold on a second, SILENCIO," Lily jumped up and down and threw the book at Sirius. It was completly quiet. Sirius tried to say something to Lily, but Lily held up her hand and grabbed a piece of parchment and a quill that way laying on one of the common room tables.
"You're silent, I can't hear you, obviously. We'll have to communicate using this," wrote Lily, handing the paper to Sirius. He quickly wrote something.
"O I C. U follow me, k?" it read in his suprisingly neat handwriting. Lily nodded and they walked over towards the boys dormitories. Lily had been there the night before, when Sirius had attempted this same prank, but that hadn't worked out too well. Professor McGonagall had heard the noise and Lily had barely gotten to her own dormitory when the professor had walked in through the portrait hole and rushed up to see what had happened. Luckily for Sirius, he had bolted out of there so fast that James hadn't seen his attacker and no one had gotten in trouble.
"Going 2 do charm. Stay back or u turn green 2." wrote Sirius. Lily walked back to the door and Sirius silently said the charm. Green spread all over James' body, and got on his sheets and pillows also. Sirius laughed and walked back to meet Lily, but he tripped into James' trunk, sending James' belonging flying onto the floor.
"Sirius, pick this stuff up or James will know we were here!" wrote Lily.
"Yeah, like he's not gonna figure that someone was here by the lovely green shade of his face! Help me!" wrote Sirius. Lily started picking things up and then looked over at Sirius. He picked up a silvery cloak and made an inaudiable gasp. "U know what this is?" he wrote. Lily shook her head no. "It's an invisibility cloak. They're really rare. Man, I wish I had 1 of these."
"Maybe it's time for you to become friends with James so you can use it," wrote Lily. Sirius wrote something back, which was completly the oppisite of what Lily was thinking he would say. On the paper he had only written one word.
"Maybe."
***
"Hey Lily, you know you love me," said James sweetly. Lily turned to look at him in all of his green glory.
"Good morning gorgeous," she said with a laugh.
"Well hello darling, lovely day isn't it. Would you happen to know the counter curse that will change me back to my original color?" he asked in a sing-song voice.
"I'm suprised you don't know it, you're the one that is so smart," said Lily. James quickly disagreed.
"Not at charms, I'm horrible at them. Please Lily, you know you want to," said James. Lily couldn't help but laugh at this situation.
"Alright," said Lily. She opened up her Standard Book of Spells Grade One and checked to see the counter curse. A moment later James looked quite like himself again, except he had a weird greenish tint to his skin tone.
"So what should I do to get back at Sirius?" asked James. "I know for a fact that he still sleeps with his teddy bear. I could take some of the engorging potion we're going to make in potions today and make the teddy bear really big. Then I can put the teddy bear in the great hall with a sign that says 'I belong to Sirius' around his neck. I know it will be easy to get the bear. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get down to the Great Hall in the middle of the night without anyone seeing me..."
"Why don't you just use the invisibility cloak?" asked Lily. Once the words were out of her mouth she knew that she had made a huge mistake.
"You know about my invisibility cloak?" said James, more of a question than a statment.
"Kinda," said Lily slyly. James didn't seem too happy about this.
"And how do you 'kinda' know about my invisibility cloak? Were you 'kinda' there when Sirius 'kinda' cursed me and 'kinda' knocked all my stuff over and 'kinda' put it back in my trunk the wrong way?" asked James.
"Kinda," said Lily.
"I thought you were my friend! How could you help him do that?" asked James.
"Because you are both my friends. Why don't you just talk to him? Then you guys don't have to go around being mad at each other," said Lily. James thought about this for a minute and then responded.
"He's the one who started it, he's going to have to end it. You're going to come down to the great hall with me tonight, right?" asked James.
"I don't want to get in trouble," said Lily.
"There's enough room for you to hide under the invisibility cloak with me. It will take just a little while, I promise," said James.
"I guess," said Lily. "Come on, let's get some breakfast."
***
"So Sirius, here's the plan," said Lily, throwing her arm around his shoulder in hopes to make a two person huddle.
"There's a plan?" he said in a confused yet interested tone.
"Yeah, tonight in the Great Hall, be there or be square," said Lily. Sirius raised his eyebrow.
"Wait a sec, you, little miss never-likes-to-break-a-rule Lily, are telling me that you are going to sneak into the great hall tonight, after hours, to pull an outrageous prank and then kiss me for hours underneath the Ravenclaw table," Lily gave him the Look. "Um, I might have added that last part, kinda, but you were hinting at it hun. You, me, great hall," and Sirius made a couple of kissy noises. Lily smacked him.
"Don't. Ever. Say. Anything. Like. That. Again," Lily stated slowly.
"Ok your highness. Really though, what is this little plan?" he asked. Lily actually did have a plan, one that both boys weren't aware of, and she thought that it was the perfect way for them to become friends, but she didn't want to tell either one of them her plan. That would spoil everything.
"You're going to play a little prank on James," she said nonchalantly. Sirius still had that confused look.
"What happened to, 'Pranks will get you in so much trouble, you're going to get expelled, I can't believe I'm friends with both of you,'" asked Sirius, finishing his overly exagerated yet still acurate impersonation of Lily.
"I guess one would be okay. And you are getting my help, so if I were you I wouldn't question it. It's going to be really good, I swear," she said. Sirius contemplated this and figured that she was right.
"So what exactly does this plan involve?" he asked after a few moments.
"You'll see. Just be in the Great Hall tonight, I'll meet you there, and don't let the caretaker find you or he'll hang you from your ears in one of the dungeons," said Lily. She then walked away, as if hanging people by their ears was the most normal thing a person would have to do for punishment.
***
"Ouch, Lily that was my toe!" James half whispered.
"And that was my hair," responded Lily a little bit more quietly.
"Oh no, your hair, how horrible!" James said sarcastically, now speaking in a normal voice.
"Shut up before some one hears us! The invisibility cloak doesn't stop people from hearing you, you know that right?" asked Lily, shifting her position under the cloak so that she could walk more easily. She was walking with James down to the Great Hall, hoping that they wouldn't get caught. So far this didn't seem as great of a plan as she thought it would be. She might be caught, and she was worried about Sirius. He didn't have the protection of the cloak, he might be in big trouble right now and her plan wouldn't work.
"Shhhhh, I think I just heard someone," said James. Lily quickly turned behind her and sure enough she saw Sirius standing behind them at the end of the hallway. If James saw Sirius now it would mess things up, so Lily stalled James, trying to make him not look behind him.
"I see someone, up ahead. Look, right there!" exclaimed Lily. James stopped mid-turn and looked ahead of him.
"Are you sure? I don't see anyone," said James skeptically. Ok, so plan A didn't work, it was time to move on to plan B.
"Yeah, I'm sure. Oh, it's scary being in the castle so late at night like this, I don't really like the dark," said Lily, shivering. James looked at her, worried that she really was afraid. Lily felt a little guilty but she needed her plan to work.
"Don't worry Lils. Just close your eyes and give me your hand, I'll guide you over there, it will work fine I promise," said James. Lily obliged and James concentrated on the path ahead of them. Luckily he didn't look behind him and soon they had entered the great hall.
"Ok, now I just have to engorge this teddy bear and we can get out of here," said James, sitting down and taking out a battered bear. Lily just had to laugh, it was actually kind of cute for Sirius to sleep with it. But obviously Sirius didn't think so, for he burst in the door at that exact second and shouted just one word-
"SNUFFLES!!!!!" he yelled, running towards his precious teddy bear. Sirius and James started fighting over the bear and Lily decided it was now or never. She stood on a chair and then practiced the levitation charm that she had learned the earlier day. "Wingardium Leviosa!" Of course, this was much harder than the feather that she had levitated before, but see seemed to have some sort of skill in charms because her chair rose to the ceiling with her sitting on it. Lily sat on one of the lower ceiling beams and the chair dropped to the ground. She then realized what a dire situation she was in: she didn't know how she was going to get herself down from there, and she wasn't even sure if Sirius and James realized she was up here, they were still fighting on the groud. The bear had been practically ripped in half and Sirius seemed very unhappy about this.
"HELP!" she yelled. Both boys looked up. "My chair went all possesed, and I am stuck up here. Help me, please help me!"
"Don't worry Lily, I'll get you down!" said Sirius. He realized that he had to work together with James to get Lily down. It appeared that James already had a plan though, he whispered something in Sirius' ear and they ran out the door. Suddenly Lily got really worried, what if they had left her here? What if they didn't come back and she was stuck here until the morning. It would take a lot of explaining, and somehow she didn't think that the Hogwarts staff would really fall for the possesed chair explanation.
Lily stopped worrying as two people on broomsticks came flying through the door to the great hall at great speed. Oh, they were really stupid to go flying like that through the school, but it didn't matter to much to her right now. James and Sirius sped over to her and James motioned for her to get on his broomstick. Soon her feet were firm on the ground.
"Yeah, who's the best?" said James, giving Sirius a high-five.
"I think that would be us," gloated Sirius. At that moment they just realized what they had just done. "But don't think this means were friends or anything."
"Why would I be friends with you?" asked James. But there was no answer to that question, because just at that moment the caretaker walked through the door and saw the three first years standing around.
"Three students, out of bed and out of bounds. I don't think you even have to ask what I am going to do about this, detention for all three of you."
***
Two days later, Lily, Sirius and James had thought that their detentions had been forgotten about, but that obviously wasn't the case as they each recieved an owl during dinner telling them when they would serve their detentions.
Miss Evans,
You will be serving detention tonight at ten PM. Please meet me in the astronomy tower then and you will find out what you will be doing.
Sincerly,
Professor McGonagall
"Man, I was hoping they forgot about these," said James. "I have to go out to the greenhouse at ten."
"I have to go to the quidditch field. Where do you have to go Lily?" asked Sirius as he turned over to Lily.
"Astronomy tower," she replied. "I wonder what I'm going to have to do."
"Do you even want to know?" asked James. Lily nodded her head yes. She worried about this the rest of the day during her potions class and while she was doing her homework. Finally it was twenty until ten, and Lily left the common room for the astronomy tower.
"It's nice to see you Lily, though I am very disapointed that such an intelligent student would do such a stupid thing. You will be cleaning all the windows and telescopes in this tower by hand, no magic allowed," said Professor McGonagall, handing her towels and a substane that reminded Lily of muggle Windex. Lily took them and started scrubbing. Professor McGonagall left the room.
It took Lily hours before everything was bright and shiny, and she was very happy to retreat to the common room. When she got there she found James waiting for her, or that's what she thought.
"Oh, it's just you. Do you know where Sirius is?" asked James. This suprised Lily.
"No, are you actually talking to him?" asked Lily.
"Not yet," said James. At that point Sirius walked through the portrait hole and saw them sitting on the couch.
"Hey Lily. I bet you had fun, I sure did pruning the quidditch field with a ruler and a pair of scissors," said Sirius, colapsing on one side Lily.
"Hey Sirius, I have something for you," said James. Sirius gave James a weird look, but was too intrigued to not see what James had for him. James pulled out a teddy bear that Lily recognized as Snuffles. Where it had before been ripped and losing stuffing it was now repaired. Sirius could hardly believe his eyes.
"Snuffles! How, why, when did.." Sirius didn't even know what to say.
"I had to watch plants in the green house, you know, make sure they didn't kill each other. Well, it was dull work so I took my cloak, snuck out and got the bear. I sewed it in there while I was waiting. I don't know exactly what I did to you but whatever it is I'm sorry," said James. He then extended his hand, "Friends?"
"I'm sure you probably didn't even know that your dad had my father fired so that he could give his best friend a job," said Sirius. He then shook James hand. "Friends."
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