About a half hour later the two came back in.
"Jodie has given me some very important information, and because of what she told me you will all be safe." Dumbledore said with a smile.
"Thank you Jodie. Now, you should all go up stairs, and try to get some sleep. Lily, I would like you to stay overnight. You can leave in the morning. Now off you go!" Dumbledore said, as he pushed everyone out the door.
"Bye Lily!" they all said as they left.
The next morning Lily got up, dressed, and went to breakfast to join her friends.
"How are feeling?" Sirius asked.
"Much better!" She said with a smile.
"All of this 'Lord Dridaviel' stuff has put me in a bad mood! Is anyone in the mood for a prank?" Lily asked, cheering up at the thought.
"I am!" they all yelled at the same time.
"What did you have in mind?" Jodie asked eagerly, as an evil grin spread across Lily's face.
"Well, sense we already got snape, I say we go for Malfoy this time." Remus suggested
"I agree. Now this is what I'm thinking." Lily said.
They then leaned in and discussed their plan for pulling a prank on Lucius Malfoy.
The next day the school arrived back from Christmas break. Lily had decided to wait until the whole school was there to pull her prank.
The boys had taken care of everything, and now all they had to do was wait for Malfoy to come to breakfast.
"Here he comes!" Jodie said as she nearly burst out laughing.
"Okay time for the second step. Vocaltheria!" Lily muttered under her breath, as she pointed her wand at Malfoy.
At that moment, someone started singing, and the voice came from the general direction of Malfoy's butt....
"Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright
cause I only have eyes for you!"
Snape looked around, very confused.
"what?" he said as Lily started laughing.
"It worked!" Jodie exclaimed.
"And he hasn't got a clue!" Remus laughed.
"Singing boxer shorts! That was good Lily!" James exclaimed.
"Oh, we're not done with him yet!" Lily said.
"you did give it the truth potion didn't you?" Lily asked.
"yeah, but I don't think it will work on boxer shorts Lily." James said.
"It wasn't a real truth potion. It wouldn't work on people. It just a weak potion met for clothes." Lily commented, as she whispered yet another spell.
"Hello, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Malfoy's boxer shorts! Hey, Wendy Parker, Lucius has a big crush on you!
He talks about you all the time. He doesn't think anyone's around, but I am!" the boxer shorts said.
James, Sirius, Remus, Lily, and Jodie were now laughing very hard.
Malfoy turned bright red bright red, grabbed his butt to try and get the shorts to shut up, and ran out of the great hall.
Lily stopped laughing long enough to comment "That was good!"
"Yeah, tell me about it" James said through his laughter.
Sirius tried to say something, but gave up because he couldn't stop laughing.
One night a couple of weeks later, Lily sat by the fire place late at night when Remus hurried down the stairs, James and Sirius right behind him.
Knowing that the boys were up to something, Lily quickly ducked behind her chair.
"You better hurry Remus. You might not make it!" Sirius said urgently.
Just then, Madam Pomfrey burst into the common room.
Why is she here?
Lily thought to herself.
"Hurry, dear. We haven't much time." Pomfrey said quickly as she pushed Remus out the door.
What is going on?
Lily thought.
After James and Sirius went back up stairs, Lily sat up in her chair.
"There are way to many strange things going on at hogwarts." Lily commented to herself.
"Oh, well. Off to solve the newest mystery of why Remus left with the school nurse." she said with a sigh, as she ran out the door to follow him.
She got about half way down the hallway when the portrait hole opened again and Sirius stepped out.
Sirius' eyes widened
"Lily!" he exclaimed loudly.
"Shut up! Your going to get us into trouble!" Lily hissed as she came over to Sirius.
"Sorry. Where were you going?" Sirius questioned.
"Um, the library." Lily quickly lied.
"At 1:00 in the morning?" Sirius asked not believing her.
"Um, yeah. I was hoping to look in the restricted section." Lily said.
"Why?" Sirius asked.
"It's none of your business." Lily snapped continuing down the hall. If she could just ditch Sirius, she could still catch up with Remus.
"It won't work." Sirius called after her.
"what won't?" she asked, becoming very frustrated.
"Looking in the restricted section. The books scream when you open them. Believe me. I know. I've tried." He said with a smile.
"Oh, fine" Lily said, finally giving up. She would just have to solve the mystery some other way.
She turned around and headed back to her to dorm.
"were are you going now?" Sirius asked.
"To bed" Lily replied shortly. She was still a little mad at Sirius for ruining everything.
"O-okay" Sirius said, following her back through the portrait hole.
"By the way, what were you doing?" Lily asked.
"Um, nothing." Sirius responded.
"Yeah, right" Lily said, as she walked up the stairs, and went to bed.
Remus didn't come back for a couple of days. After Lily thought about it, she remembered him disappearing a couple of times before. Lily ran up stairs, and pulled out her calender. she wrote down all the times she could remember him going. They happened about once every month, but other than that, Lily couldn't make any connections between the dates that Remus disappeared on.
It was, indeed the strangest situation Lily had ever been in.
After that Remus didn't go any where, until one night, about a month later.........
He ran out the door, about 9:00 one night.
Lily seemed to be the only one to notice, but sense James and Sirius were sitting there, Lily couldn't follow him.
Suddenly Lily realized something. She looked out the window into the night sky.
"Oh! I can't believe I didn't see it before!" and with that Lily ran up to her dorm and started looking through one of her many books.
Finding what she was looking for, she hurried back down the stairs, and tossed the book in James' lap.
"Remus is a werewolf!" Lily exclaimed quietly.
Sirius and James turned very pale.
"Wh-what would give that idea" James said slowly.
"Oh, come on Potter! Read this. It tells about the symptoms of werewolves. Remus has them all!" Lily whispered.
"Th-that's not true!" Sirius replied.
"How stupid do you think I am? Really, there's no point in covering for him now. I know he's a werewolf!" Lily continued.
"don't tell Jodie!" Sirius blurted out.
"Why?" Lily asked in surprise.
"Because Remus really likes Jodie, and he thinks she won't like him if she founds out" James answered.
"Give Jodie more credit than that. Remus should tell her" Lily said.
"Well, that's not our decision, and it's not yours either. Please don't tell her." Sirius responded.
"Y-You don't hate Remus now, do you?" James asked slowly.
"Of course not! Why would I?" Lily questioned.
"Well, a lot of people are afraid of werewolves." James said.
"I'm not" Lily replied as Jodie came walking up.
"Hey guys! What are you talking about?" Jodie asked.
"NOTHING!" all three of them yelled, causing the entire common room to turn and look at them.
"you guys are acting weird!" Jodie commented as she sat down beside Lily.
"So, were is Remus?" she asked, noticing that he was not at the table with everyone else.
"Um, uh, well....."
"Hmmmmm, I, um..."
"Uh, let's see, um...."
Lily, James and Sirius mumbled.
"Uh, he's not feeling so good" James managed to say.
"He sure does get sick a lot. Is he gonna be okay?" Jodie asked with a concerned look on her face.
"Um, yeah! He'll be just fine. Hey James why don't we go check on him now?" Sirius said, making up an excuse to leave the room.
"Yeah! We should do that. See you later!" James replied as the boys ran up the stairs.
Lily could have killed them. Now she had to deal with Jodie's question all by herself.
"What does he have?" Jodie asked.
"I, uh, don't exactly know. Guess what?" Lily asked, trying desperately to change the subject.
"What?" Jodie responded.
"I'm, uh, I'm going out with Sirius" Lily lied.
Sirius is going to kill me!
Lily thought, regretting the lie she just told.
"That's great!" Jodie said with a smile.
"When did he ask you out?"
"Oh, about an hour ago" Lily said, forcing a smile on her face.
What am I going to tell Sirius? Maybe he could play along with it. Then we could pretend to break up. That could work!
Jodie went on and on about how great it was that Lily and Sirius were going out.
"Um, Jodie, could you excuse me for a moment? I don't feel so well either." Lily lied yet again.
"I hope your not catching what Remus has." Jodie said.
"Oh, I'm sure I'll be fine" Lily said weakly, then ran up to her dorm to think of a plan.
I'll just explain everything to Sirius, and I'm sure he'll understand.
She thought doubtfully.
Later that night, Lily went back to the common room to find to find Sirius before Jodie said anything to him.
He was sitting in a chair by the fire, apparently struggling through his potions homework.
"Sirius can I talk to you?" Lily asked.
"Sure" he mumbled, a look of great concentration on his face as he flipped through the pages of the book propped open on his lap.
Lily sat down, and looked around the common room to make sure no one was listening.
"I have something to tell you, and I know your going to be mad, but I had to do it and......" Lily started, but was interrupted by Sirius.
"Just tell me." he said, looking up from his homework.
"Okay. Jodie kept on asking questions about Remus, and she wouldn't stop. So to change the subject I kind of told her that we were going out." Lily said, her face turning bright red.
"Now we have to pretend we are or she'll know I lied to her, and I really don't want her to be mad at me...." She started, but Sirius cut in yet again.
"Why pretend?" he asked with a small grin.
"Y-you mean..a-are you.." Lily stuttered.
"Yes, I'm asking you out" Sirius said, blushing slightly.
"So- what do say?" he asked.
"Okay" Lily said with a smile.
"Good. Now we don't have to pretend." Sirius replied with a laugh.
"Hey, what's up?" James asked as he came to sit by Lily and Sirius.
"Not much" Lily replied.
"Lily, do think I could talk to Sirius for a minute.....you know, alone?" James asked.
"Sure. See you two later!" Lily said as she went off to finish her transfiguration homework.
"What's up James?" Sirius asked.
"Well, I've noticed that you and Lily have been getting, uh, closer lately." James said carefully.
"Yeah, what's your point?" Sirius asked slowly.
"I was just wondering........do you like Lily?" James Questioned hurriedly.
"Yes, I guess I do. Considering she's my girlfriend, don't you think I should?" Sirius asked smugly, happy to see the shocked look on James' face.
"I-I'm sorry, what did you say? She's y-y-your"
"She's my girlfriend. What, have you suddenly developed a stuttering problem?"
Sirius asked, quite happy at how bothered James seemed to be.
"Okay, I'm going to go then" James said absolutely speechless, as he got up and walked to his dorm.
"What was that about?" Lily asked as she came back down the stairs with her transfiguration homework.
"Oh, nothing" Sirius said with a smile, remembering the look on James' face.
All though James would never admit it, Sirius knew that he liked Lily. He also knew that as James' best friend, he shouldn't enjoy torturing him, but he thought it was James' fault. What right did he have to like Lily when Valerie was his girlfriend?
"So are you almost done with your transfiguration homework?" Lily asked as she put the finishing touches on her's.
"Are you kidding?" Sirius asked with disbelief.
"Uh, no" Lily said.
"It's not due till Monday, and you think I already have it done? Ha! You don't know me very well." Sirius commented as he shook his head.
"Jodie has given me some very important information, and because of what she told me you will all be safe." Dumbledore said with a smile.
"Thank you Jodie. Now, you should all go up stairs, and try to get some sleep. Lily, I would like you to stay overnight. You can leave in the morning. Now off you go!" Dumbledore said, as he pushed everyone out the door.
"Bye Lily!" they all said as they left.
The next morning Lily got up, dressed, and went to breakfast to join her friends.
"How are feeling?" Sirius asked.
"Much better!" She said with a smile.
"All of this 'Lord Dridaviel' stuff has put me in a bad mood! Is anyone in the mood for a prank?" Lily asked, cheering up at the thought.
"I am!" they all yelled at the same time.
"What did you have in mind?" Jodie asked eagerly, as an evil grin spread across Lily's face.
"Well, sense we already got snape, I say we go for Malfoy this time." Remus suggested
"I agree. Now this is what I'm thinking." Lily said.
They then leaned in and discussed their plan for pulling a prank on Lucius Malfoy.
The next day the school arrived back from Christmas break. Lily had decided to wait until the whole school was there to pull her prank.
The boys had taken care of everything, and now all they had to do was wait for Malfoy to come to breakfast.
"Here he comes!" Jodie said as she nearly burst out laughing.
"Okay time for the second step. Vocaltheria!" Lily muttered under her breath, as she pointed her wand at Malfoy.
At that moment, someone started singing, and the voice came from the general direction of Malfoy's butt....
"Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright
cause I only have eyes for you!"
Snape looked around, very confused.
"what?" he said as Lily started laughing.
"It worked!" Jodie exclaimed.
"And he hasn't got a clue!" Remus laughed.
"Singing boxer shorts! That was good Lily!" James exclaimed.
"Oh, we're not done with him yet!" Lily said.
"you did give it the truth potion didn't you?" Lily asked.
"yeah, but I don't think it will work on boxer shorts Lily." James said.
"It wasn't a real truth potion. It wouldn't work on people. It just a weak potion met for clothes." Lily commented, as she whispered yet another spell.
"Hello, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Malfoy's boxer shorts! Hey, Wendy Parker, Lucius has a big crush on you!
He talks about you all the time. He doesn't think anyone's around, but I am!" the boxer shorts said.
James, Sirius, Remus, Lily, and Jodie were now laughing very hard.
Malfoy turned bright red bright red, grabbed his butt to try and get the shorts to shut up, and ran out of the great hall.
Lily stopped laughing long enough to comment "That was good!"
"Yeah, tell me about it" James said through his laughter.
Sirius tried to say something, but gave up because he couldn't stop laughing.
One night a couple of weeks later, Lily sat by the fire place late at night when Remus hurried down the stairs, James and Sirius right behind him.
Knowing that the boys were up to something, Lily quickly ducked behind her chair.
"You better hurry Remus. You might not make it!" Sirius said urgently.
Just then, Madam Pomfrey burst into the common room.
Why is she here?
Lily thought to herself.
"Hurry, dear. We haven't much time." Pomfrey said quickly as she pushed Remus out the door.
What is going on?
Lily thought.
After James and Sirius went back up stairs, Lily sat up in her chair.
"There are way to many strange things going on at hogwarts." Lily commented to herself.
"Oh, well. Off to solve the newest mystery of why Remus left with the school nurse." she said with a sigh, as she ran out the door to follow him.
She got about half way down the hallway when the portrait hole opened again and Sirius stepped out.
Sirius' eyes widened
"Lily!" he exclaimed loudly.
"Shut up! Your going to get us into trouble!" Lily hissed as she came over to Sirius.
"Sorry. Where were you going?" Sirius questioned.
"Um, the library." Lily quickly lied.
"At 1:00 in the morning?" Sirius asked not believing her.
"Um, yeah. I was hoping to look in the restricted section." Lily said.
"Why?" Sirius asked.
"It's none of your business." Lily snapped continuing down the hall. If she could just ditch Sirius, she could still catch up with Remus.
"It won't work." Sirius called after her.
"what won't?" she asked, becoming very frustrated.
"Looking in the restricted section. The books scream when you open them. Believe me. I know. I've tried." He said with a smile.
"Oh, fine" Lily said, finally giving up. She would just have to solve the mystery some other way.
She turned around and headed back to her to dorm.
"were are you going now?" Sirius asked.
"To bed" Lily replied shortly. She was still a little mad at Sirius for ruining everything.
"O-okay" Sirius said, following her back through the portrait hole.
"By the way, what were you doing?" Lily asked.
"Um, nothing." Sirius responded.
"Yeah, right" Lily said, as she walked up the stairs, and went to bed.
Remus didn't come back for a couple of days. After Lily thought about it, she remembered him disappearing a couple of times before. Lily ran up stairs, and pulled out her calender. she wrote down all the times she could remember him going. They happened about once every month, but other than that, Lily couldn't make any connections between the dates that Remus disappeared on.
It was, indeed the strangest situation Lily had ever been in.
After that Remus didn't go any where, until one night, about a month later.........
He ran out the door, about 9:00 one night.
Lily seemed to be the only one to notice, but sense James and Sirius were sitting there, Lily couldn't follow him.
Suddenly Lily realized something. She looked out the window into the night sky.
"Oh! I can't believe I didn't see it before!" and with that Lily ran up to her dorm and started looking through one of her many books.
Finding what she was looking for, she hurried back down the stairs, and tossed the book in James' lap.
"Remus is a werewolf!" Lily exclaimed quietly.
Sirius and James turned very pale.
"Wh-what would give that idea" James said slowly.
"Oh, come on Potter! Read this. It tells about the symptoms of werewolves. Remus has them all!" Lily whispered.
"Th-that's not true!" Sirius replied.
"How stupid do you think I am? Really, there's no point in covering for him now. I know he's a werewolf!" Lily continued.
"don't tell Jodie!" Sirius blurted out.
"Why?" Lily asked in surprise.
"Because Remus really likes Jodie, and he thinks she won't like him if she founds out" James answered.
"Give Jodie more credit than that. Remus should tell her" Lily said.
"Well, that's not our decision, and it's not yours either. Please don't tell her." Sirius responded.
"Y-You don't hate Remus now, do you?" James asked slowly.
"Of course not! Why would I?" Lily questioned.
"Well, a lot of people are afraid of werewolves." James said.
"I'm not" Lily replied as Jodie came walking up.
"Hey guys! What are you talking about?" Jodie asked.
"NOTHING!" all three of them yelled, causing the entire common room to turn and look at them.
"you guys are acting weird!" Jodie commented as she sat down beside Lily.
"So, were is Remus?" she asked, noticing that he was not at the table with everyone else.
"Um, uh, well....."
"Hmmmmm, I, um..."
"Uh, let's see, um...."
Lily, James and Sirius mumbled.
"Uh, he's not feeling so good" James managed to say.
"He sure does get sick a lot. Is he gonna be okay?" Jodie asked with a concerned look on her face.
"Um, yeah! He'll be just fine. Hey James why don't we go check on him now?" Sirius said, making up an excuse to leave the room.
"Yeah! We should do that. See you later!" James replied as the boys ran up the stairs.
Lily could have killed them. Now she had to deal with Jodie's question all by herself.
"What does he have?" Jodie asked.
"I, uh, don't exactly know. Guess what?" Lily asked, trying desperately to change the subject.
"What?" Jodie responded.
"I'm, uh, I'm going out with Sirius" Lily lied.
Sirius is going to kill me!
Lily thought, regretting the lie she just told.
"That's great!" Jodie said with a smile.
"When did he ask you out?"
"Oh, about an hour ago" Lily said, forcing a smile on her face.
What am I going to tell Sirius? Maybe he could play along with it. Then we could pretend to break up. That could work!
Jodie went on and on about how great it was that Lily and Sirius were going out.
"Um, Jodie, could you excuse me for a moment? I don't feel so well either." Lily lied yet again.
"I hope your not catching what Remus has." Jodie said.
"Oh, I'm sure I'll be fine" Lily said weakly, then ran up to her dorm to think of a plan.
I'll just explain everything to Sirius, and I'm sure he'll understand.
She thought doubtfully.
Later that night, Lily went back to the common room to find to find Sirius before Jodie said anything to him.
He was sitting in a chair by the fire, apparently struggling through his potions homework.
"Sirius can I talk to you?" Lily asked.
"Sure" he mumbled, a look of great concentration on his face as he flipped through the pages of the book propped open on his lap.
Lily sat down, and looked around the common room to make sure no one was listening.
"I have something to tell you, and I know your going to be mad, but I had to do it and......" Lily started, but was interrupted by Sirius.
"Just tell me." he said, looking up from his homework.
"Okay. Jodie kept on asking questions about Remus, and she wouldn't stop. So to change the subject I kind of told her that we were going out." Lily said, her face turning bright red.
"Now we have to pretend we are or she'll know I lied to her, and I really don't want her to be mad at me...." She started, but Sirius cut in yet again.
"Why pretend?" he asked with a small grin.
"Y-you mean..a-are you.." Lily stuttered.
"Yes, I'm asking you out" Sirius said, blushing slightly.
"So- what do say?" he asked.
"Okay" Lily said with a smile.
"Good. Now we don't have to pretend." Sirius replied with a laugh.
"Hey, what's up?" James asked as he came to sit by Lily and Sirius.
"Not much" Lily replied.
"Lily, do think I could talk to Sirius for a minute.....you know, alone?" James asked.
"Sure. See you two later!" Lily said as she went off to finish her transfiguration homework.
"What's up James?" Sirius asked.
"Well, I've noticed that you and Lily have been getting, uh, closer lately." James said carefully.
"Yeah, what's your point?" Sirius asked slowly.
"I was just wondering........do you like Lily?" James Questioned hurriedly.
"Yes, I guess I do. Considering she's my girlfriend, don't you think I should?" Sirius asked smugly, happy to see the shocked look on James' face.
"I-I'm sorry, what did you say? She's y-y-your"
"She's my girlfriend. What, have you suddenly developed a stuttering problem?"
Sirius asked, quite happy at how bothered James seemed to be.
"Okay, I'm going to go then" James said absolutely speechless, as he got up and walked to his dorm.
"What was that about?" Lily asked as she came back down the stairs with her transfiguration homework.
"Oh, nothing" Sirius said with a smile, remembering the look on James' face.
All though James would never admit it, Sirius knew that he liked Lily. He also knew that as James' best friend, he shouldn't enjoy torturing him, but he thought it was James' fault. What right did he have to like Lily when Valerie was his girlfriend?
"So are you almost done with your transfiguration homework?" Lily asked as she put the finishing touches on her's.
"Are you kidding?" Sirius asked with disbelief.
"Uh, no" Lily said.
"It's not due till Monday, and you think I already have it done? Ha! You don't know me very well." Sirius commented as he shook his head.