A/N: Thank you guys so much for your reviews! I'm glad you guys liked that chapter and I'm pretty sure there will be better ones to come. James was doing homework because that's who he is…sorry to thistlemeg for not being able to get a chapter out on her birthday, February 22. Hope this one's content makes up for its belatedness. Please, read and review and I could not be happier with my 39 reviews, but I have a craving for them and if you feel just a tad bit generous, then please review! Hither we go!
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If Time is All We've Lost
Chapter 7 - Bruised Purple
"Whenever I call you friend,
I begin to think I understand,
Anywhere we are, you and I
will always be, ever and ever.
I see myself within your eyes."
Life was slowly entering back into its stupor and the next five months passed in an unchanging blur. Lily and James had become little more than friends. Unfortunately, the unwelcome advances from Snape were just as awful as ever, and he even seemed like he had got the idiotic impression that when Lily said 'No' it meant 'Make more passes at me.'
Narcissa's sudden departure left most of the Gryffindor house in quite a shock, but Narcissa was very indifferent about the whole affair. Lucius was know giving her gifts and Arabella and Lily seriously thought that he would be proposing anytime now.
Potions classes were now becoming one of the most dreaded times of the week. Snape was just as awful as ever and Lucius was now taking Narcissa's decision as a reason to make fun of the Gryffindor house. He noted that they must have thrown out Narcissa because she was the only one that would ruin their reputation of always having ugly and stupid students.
It got so bad one time that Sirius and James decided to take drastic action. They were having a particularly bad day because they could not get the Marauder's Map to work. They had all tried to get it back to normal, and Peter had even tried an anti-dark arts spell. What was really odd was that he didn't answer when Remus asked him where he had learned such an advanced spell.
Rhubat had split them up into pairs, which, unlike his usual wretched self, weren't quite that bad. Well, except for Lily who was paired with Snape, but he had placed Arabella and Sirius together and James and Raquel.
They were making an Alert Glow potion, which enabled them to see where either tragic had occurred or was about to take place. Lily seriously didn't understand why they were making it, it seemed very useless. And with Snape, although very good at potions, or so he seemed, breathing down her neck, it wasn't exactly fun. James, Raquel, Arabella, and Sirius were all fed up with Snape and when they saw Snape lean in to kiss her, James and Sirius both threw their Octopus pancreas's at him. Lily saw them flailing at her just in time to duck. The two octopus innards hit Snape full in the face.
There was a bit of an uproar after everyone realized what had happened. Lucius and Sirius were about to hurl curses at each other. Ruth Mascen was trying to help Lily up. When Snape had gotten the realization that he wasn't kissing Lily, he had ended up kicking her stool over. Lily had hit the back of her head and was lapsing in and out of consciousness.
"Silence!" Rhubat roared. "Mr. Black and Mr. Malfoy, take your seats. Miss Mascen, leave Miss Evans alone. Miss Brice, escort Mr. Snape up to the hospital wing." He turned to examine what had happened, not taking any notice to Lily, still lying on the floor.
"What about Lily, sir?" Arabella asked desperately.
"She's fine," he smirked unpleasantly. "If she can work her magic at the ball, I don't see why she can't do it unconsciously." There was the loud sound of snickers from the Slytherin side of the room.
Underneath the nearest table, Narcissa slipped Arabella a potion. Arabella went straight to Lily, forcing the liquid into her mouth, which she clumsily drank. In a few minutes, Lily was up and rubbing a huge bruise that was appearing on her head.
"Let's see here," again, that scathing smirk of Rhubat's had come back on his face. "James Potter for throwing the specimen at Mr. Snape, 50 points from Gryffindor and 2 weeks detention." It was almost sickening to see his smugness creep upon his face as he approached Lily. "And for you, Miss Evans, 20 points, and 2 weeks detention for obviously knowing what was going on."
Lily opened her lips to let out an indignant plea, but Rhubat silenced her. "Be glad it isn't more." The Gryffindors were glaring at Rhubat. Lily tried her best to complete the potion with the splitting migraine she had to deal with.
When the bell rung, all her friends had to help her to the hospital wing where Madam Pomfrey made a tremendous fuss over her injury. Soroya was staring at Lily's other maladies. There were cuts down her left arm where she had landed on a broken bottle.
"What kind of professor would keep a student in class that was in this kind of condition?" Madam Pomfrey hustled over to shoo them off. "Out, OUT! She needs immediate care if she is to be at school tomorrow!"
As they all scrambled out of the hospital wing and towards dinner, they couldn't believe what suspicions the last potions class had brought. They sat down to steak and kidney pie. They all poked at their food, but never had a chance to eat a bite.
First it was the Slytherins skirting over. They were all laughing, except Narcissa. James looked her straight in the eye and saw the pain and fear she held for her sister. He turned to see that most everyone at the table had noticed as well.
"She didn't want to go to Slytherin," Remus whispered. "Something or someone forced her to leave, because, by the way she looks, she's not exactly thrilled."
James had started to dwell on the words that he had overheard Lily say about and to Minerva, and he had no doubt that Remus was doing the same.
"Why is Rhubat so ruthless to her?" Raquel breathed. "Do you think it has something to do with Snape?"
"Of course it does," said Gus easily. "Rhubat obviously knows that his nephew isn't getting what he wants and he's willing to punish or hurt all that stand in his way."
As soon as Gus finished his sentence, Lily walked up to the table. "I'll be up in the common room. I really need to talk to Raquel, Soroya and Arabella. There's something about this whole thing that I think I've just figured out."
Lily took a single slice of bread and then set off toward the common room. Raquel noticed a few of the Slytherins, mainly Lucius, Lankin, Snape(who had just been released from the hospital wing as well) Marion Brice, and Narcissa, who was apparently hiding in the back, had started to slither(A/N: couldn't resist the pun!) over to the Gryffindor table.
"Have we hurt your precious Lily?" Lankin said, his lips curling into an awful smile.
"Or have we wandered onto uncharted territory?" Lucius teased; James's blood was almost at it's boiling point.
"She's fair game," Snape said. The octopus parts had seemed to give a very nasty, pink rash.
"What do you know about love or caring for other people?" Soroya said, placing her hands on her hips.
"That's not the point, got it, Miss Ghandi?" Lucius said and several gasps followed the insult.
"You wouldn't dare speak to anyone like that, Malfoy, I thought your parents taught you respect?" Remus sputtered.
"Sticking up for your girlfriend, Lupin? I was taught to show respect to those who deserved it, not muggle-lovers and mudbloods." Lucius's words rolled off his tongue as if he was using Avada Kadavra on them.
That was it, James's breaking point was finally broke. James made a promising jump at Lucius, but Lucius saw it coming, and moved just in time to have James fall at his feet. This had brought a new wave of happiness for the Slytherins.
"James Potter, exactly where you'll get with your attitude…at my feet, begging for mercy," Lucius chuckled gleefully.
"You wish," James said shortly. It was then that Professor Rhubat came over to break up the little argument that was going on.
"Gryffindors, leave unless you want more points taken away from your house, and Potter, I expect you and Miss Evans at my office promptly at 8:00 P.M., no exceptions, every night for the next two weeks. Now leave before you are missed!"
With scowls on every single one of their faces, the Gryffindors started to the Common Room. The Slytherins began to disappear as well. As soon as all of the students were out of the Great Hall, Rhubat raised his wand to wave the lights out.
He stopped at the door and muttered "Perfect," and then the light disappeared from the hall as he muttered "Nox," to his wand. He turned on his heel and seemed to be scurrying somewhere before his appointed detentions with Lily and James.
~In the Gryffindor Common Room~
When Arabella, Soroya, and Raquel arrived in the Common Room they went straight up to the false wall that hid the 'secret' Heads entrance to the Common Room. The boys kept rather quiet and to themselves as they worked on their homework. Every one in a while Gus would ask Sirius to explain a wand movement or James would tell Remus how to kill off a crab-eating shrub.
But back in the Heads Room, it was totally different. Lily was telling her suspicions to the girls and they were listening without a peep.
"I've got this feeling that Rhubat is a death-eater, but its more than a hunch," Soroya's already large hazel eyes widened even more. "While I was in the hospital wing, I had a meeting with the Sight. It was very clear, and it had a form of Rhubat with the dark mark on it. The Sight has been wrong before so I want to check it. Will you guys come down to the library with me on the Saturday after my detention finishes up?"
"Yeah, sure I will," said Raquel and Soroya nodded in agreement.
"I will, but I want to know why after your detention is over?" asked Arabella, apparently very puzzled about it.
"If I find something out before my detention is over, he may discover that I'm cottoning on. And there he has plenty of chances to get to me, with James only there. I can't bring you with me there, so I think we should wait after my sentence." Lily finished, awaiting the girls' response.
"We don't tell the boys, got it?" said Arabella, and everyone in the room answered in agreement.
"They might be more of a hassle," Raquel said, with her usual smirk.
"I'll make the invisibility potion, earlier on Friday night, that way we won't waste any time," Soroya announced, and with that they all left, and within an hour, Lily and James had started their two-week work.
Nothing out of the ordinary happened over the past two weeks. They were unable to use magic of course, but neither one complained when they had to stew giblets in rose water. On the last Tuesday left in their sentence, they had to search for blue and greenbonnet flobberworms for pickling and on Wednesday night, they had to go in the Forbidden Forest, hoping to find enough aconite to replenish Rhubat's personal storage.
The last day brought the most excitement of that whole week, but it wasn't the fun type of excitement.
Lily had just finished putting the label on some Chimera hairs and James was rinsing out some jars that had once contained a putrid mixture of freshwater trout bones and violet seeds.
"Professor," Lily said, a tiny bit cautiously. "Which shelf do I need to put the Chimera hairs on?"
Instead of answering her simple question, Rhubat grabbed her left wrist, the one that was holding the jar, and twisted painfully, crushing her hand between his strong, spindly fingers.
James looked up instantly at what was going on as soon as he hear the glass jar break and the shards of glass, although Rhubat didn't seem to notice that James was staring at the actions he had taken towards Lily.
"You marry my nephew," Rhubat threatened, "or you don't marry at all!" He took a hippogriff talon and cut a slash on the fourth finger of her left hand. He flung her into an overloaded shelf, which landed on her foot, since she had tried to avoid it. Bleeding and broken, Lily did her best to stand up.
Rhubat looked at James as if he'd just noticed that James was in the same room as he was.
"Potter!" Rhubat snarled. "If you dare speak a word of this to anyone, you fate with be worse than hers, that's not a threat, but a promise."
And with that, Rhubat swept out of the dungeons. James helped Lily up to the hospital wing once again. When Madam Pomfrey asked how Lily had twisted her ankle and cut her lower finger, James said that she had fallen on one of the trick steps.
Tut-tutting about the safety of students, Madam Pomfrey left to get her bottle of Skele-Mend. Lily motioned for James to come nearer to her bed.
"James," she whispered. "Thank you for all that you've done so far, but I must ask you to put your life in danger. Tell Sirius, Arabella, Gus, Raquel, Remus, and Soroya what really happened. You have my promise that no harm will come to you because of it. Tell Arabella, Soroya, and Raquel that I will be back tomorrow and that the plan is still on."
"Mr. Potter!" Madam Pomfrey practically squealed. Lily gave James a small smile as he was being shoved out by the nurse.
James did as he was instructed, although very puzzled about what they all meant. He thought that maybe this could be the time when the Marauder's Map would start working again. It was the only way that the boys could see what the girls had planned for that night. But the sinking feeling of doubt kept pounding in James's stomach.
The night came and Soroya's potion worked perfectly. They had decided to go to the library and into the books which kept a current list of death-eaters. Only those willing to seek, respect, and praise it could actually work it. That was something that they thought even Dumbledore didn't know.
They snuck down to the library without making a sound. James, who had told the boys of his feeling, had woken them all up and they were know staring silently and unblinkingly at the piece of parchment. Peter, unfortunately, was no where to be found, but, knowing him, they had all figured that he had made his way into Hogsmeade for a late night butterbeer, as he hated to deal with the house elves.
Lily pulled out the book and began to read just as the invisibility potion began to wear off. The boys vaguely noticed Raquel, Soroya, and Arabella all crowded around the table that Lily was sitting at.
Lily began to read the last names. "There's McNair, Drumes, Charter, Wordren, and… what! There's supposed to be the names of the other 30 known death-eaters. It's been ripped ou…" before Lily could finish her proclamation, the all too familiar spindly fingers clasped tightly around her mouth.
"No more being heroine, Miss Evans," said Rhubat's evil sneer. "You and your friends have a little appointment with the Dark Lord Voldemort himself, and, from what I understand, he'll be most delighted to see you, and to talk to you…among other things." And that smirk reappeared, which always seemed to pop up at times that were the very worst for Lily and, practically, anyone else.
All the boys tore for the door, James grabbing the map and the Invisibility Cloak, for the library. Voldemort had exactly what he wanted, the plan was going as smoothly as he had first planned it almost 7 years ago, but it was getting it that was going to be hard.
A/N: That was a really good chapter, well I thought it was. For all my lovely reviewers I give you a bottle of tears from a clown and chalk. I hope that thistlemeg had a very enjoyable birthday! I hope that you all had a very enjoyable February 26th! Love ya, as always! I should be working on chapter 8 soon (it's bound to be the best chapter yet!) and it will be no short explanation of what's going on with Voldemort. This was the chapter that inspired me to write the whole thing! Anywho, Love and Thanks, Epequa ;)
Useless Information: Yay! Another Quote! "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Ziggy
Disclaimer: The real authors, J.K. Rowling and Marion Zimmer Bradley, get paid in dollars and pounds. I get paid for using their characters and/or plot in reviews from people I don't know. THANK YOU PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Time is All We've Lost
Chapter 7 - Bruised Purple
"Whenever I call you friend,
I begin to think I understand,
Anywhere we are, you and I
will always be, ever and ever.
I see myself within your eyes."
Life was slowly entering back into its stupor and the next five months passed in an unchanging blur. Lily and James had become little more than friends. Unfortunately, the unwelcome advances from Snape were just as awful as ever, and he even seemed like he had got the idiotic impression that when Lily said 'No' it meant 'Make more passes at me.'
Narcissa's sudden departure left most of the Gryffindor house in quite a shock, but Narcissa was very indifferent about the whole affair. Lucius was know giving her gifts and Arabella and Lily seriously thought that he would be proposing anytime now.
Potions classes were now becoming one of the most dreaded times of the week. Snape was just as awful as ever and Lucius was now taking Narcissa's decision as a reason to make fun of the Gryffindor house. He noted that they must have thrown out Narcissa because she was the only one that would ruin their reputation of always having ugly and stupid students.
It got so bad one time that Sirius and James decided to take drastic action. They were having a particularly bad day because they could not get the Marauder's Map to work. They had all tried to get it back to normal, and Peter had even tried an anti-dark arts spell. What was really odd was that he didn't answer when Remus asked him where he had learned such an advanced spell.
Rhubat had split them up into pairs, which, unlike his usual wretched self, weren't quite that bad. Well, except for Lily who was paired with Snape, but he had placed Arabella and Sirius together and James and Raquel.
They were making an Alert Glow potion, which enabled them to see where either tragic had occurred or was about to take place. Lily seriously didn't understand why they were making it, it seemed very useless. And with Snape, although very good at potions, or so he seemed, breathing down her neck, it wasn't exactly fun. James, Raquel, Arabella, and Sirius were all fed up with Snape and when they saw Snape lean in to kiss her, James and Sirius both threw their Octopus pancreas's at him. Lily saw them flailing at her just in time to duck. The two octopus innards hit Snape full in the face.
There was a bit of an uproar after everyone realized what had happened. Lucius and Sirius were about to hurl curses at each other. Ruth Mascen was trying to help Lily up. When Snape had gotten the realization that he wasn't kissing Lily, he had ended up kicking her stool over. Lily had hit the back of her head and was lapsing in and out of consciousness.
"Silence!" Rhubat roared. "Mr. Black and Mr. Malfoy, take your seats. Miss Mascen, leave Miss Evans alone. Miss Brice, escort Mr. Snape up to the hospital wing." He turned to examine what had happened, not taking any notice to Lily, still lying on the floor.
"What about Lily, sir?" Arabella asked desperately.
"She's fine," he smirked unpleasantly. "If she can work her magic at the ball, I don't see why she can't do it unconsciously." There was the loud sound of snickers from the Slytherin side of the room.
Underneath the nearest table, Narcissa slipped Arabella a potion. Arabella went straight to Lily, forcing the liquid into her mouth, which she clumsily drank. In a few minutes, Lily was up and rubbing a huge bruise that was appearing on her head.
"Let's see here," again, that scathing smirk of Rhubat's had come back on his face. "James Potter for throwing the specimen at Mr. Snape, 50 points from Gryffindor and 2 weeks detention." It was almost sickening to see his smugness creep upon his face as he approached Lily. "And for you, Miss Evans, 20 points, and 2 weeks detention for obviously knowing what was going on."
Lily opened her lips to let out an indignant plea, but Rhubat silenced her. "Be glad it isn't more." The Gryffindors were glaring at Rhubat. Lily tried her best to complete the potion with the splitting migraine she had to deal with.
When the bell rung, all her friends had to help her to the hospital wing where Madam Pomfrey made a tremendous fuss over her injury. Soroya was staring at Lily's other maladies. There were cuts down her left arm where she had landed on a broken bottle.
"What kind of professor would keep a student in class that was in this kind of condition?" Madam Pomfrey hustled over to shoo them off. "Out, OUT! She needs immediate care if she is to be at school tomorrow!"
As they all scrambled out of the hospital wing and towards dinner, they couldn't believe what suspicions the last potions class had brought. They sat down to steak and kidney pie. They all poked at their food, but never had a chance to eat a bite.
First it was the Slytherins skirting over. They were all laughing, except Narcissa. James looked her straight in the eye and saw the pain and fear she held for her sister. He turned to see that most everyone at the table had noticed as well.
"She didn't want to go to Slytherin," Remus whispered. "Something or someone forced her to leave, because, by the way she looks, she's not exactly thrilled."
James had started to dwell on the words that he had overheard Lily say about and to Minerva, and he had no doubt that Remus was doing the same.
"Why is Rhubat so ruthless to her?" Raquel breathed. "Do you think it has something to do with Snape?"
"Of course it does," said Gus easily. "Rhubat obviously knows that his nephew isn't getting what he wants and he's willing to punish or hurt all that stand in his way."
As soon as Gus finished his sentence, Lily walked up to the table. "I'll be up in the common room. I really need to talk to Raquel, Soroya and Arabella. There's something about this whole thing that I think I've just figured out."
Lily took a single slice of bread and then set off toward the common room. Raquel noticed a few of the Slytherins, mainly Lucius, Lankin, Snape(who had just been released from the hospital wing as well) Marion Brice, and Narcissa, who was apparently hiding in the back, had started to slither(A/N: couldn't resist the pun!) over to the Gryffindor table.
"Have we hurt your precious Lily?" Lankin said, his lips curling into an awful smile.
"Or have we wandered onto uncharted territory?" Lucius teased; James's blood was almost at it's boiling point.
"She's fair game," Snape said. The octopus parts had seemed to give a very nasty, pink rash.
"What do you know about love or caring for other people?" Soroya said, placing her hands on her hips.
"That's not the point, got it, Miss Ghandi?" Lucius said and several gasps followed the insult.
"You wouldn't dare speak to anyone like that, Malfoy, I thought your parents taught you respect?" Remus sputtered.
"Sticking up for your girlfriend, Lupin? I was taught to show respect to those who deserved it, not muggle-lovers and mudbloods." Lucius's words rolled off his tongue as if he was using Avada Kadavra on them.
That was it, James's breaking point was finally broke. James made a promising jump at Lucius, but Lucius saw it coming, and moved just in time to have James fall at his feet. This had brought a new wave of happiness for the Slytherins.
"James Potter, exactly where you'll get with your attitude…at my feet, begging for mercy," Lucius chuckled gleefully.
"You wish," James said shortly. It was then that Professor Rhubat came over to break up the little argument that was going on.
"Gryffindors, leave unless you want more points taken away from your house, and Potter, I expect you and Miss Evans at my office promptly at 8:00 P.M., no exceptions, every night for the next two weeks. Now leave before you are missed!"
With scowls on every single one of their faces, the Gryffindors started to the Common Room. The Slytherins began to disappear as well. As soon as all of the students were out of the Great Hall, Rhubat raised his wand to wave the lights out.
He stopped at the door and muttered "Perfect," and then the light disappeared from the hall as he muttered "Nox," to his wand. He turned on his heel and seemed to be scurrying somewhere before his appointed detentions with Lily and James.
~In the Gryffindor Common Room~
When Arabella, Soroya, and Raquel arrived in the Common Room they went straight up to the false wall that hid the 'secret' Heads entrance to the Common Room. The boys kept rather quiet and to themselves as they worked on their homework. Every one in a while Gus would ask Sirius to explain a wand movement or James would tell Remus how to kill off a crab-eating shrub.
But back in the Heads Room, it was totally different. Lily was telling her suspicions to the girls and they were listening without a peep.
"I've got this feeling that Rhubat is a death-eater, but its more than a hunch," Soroya's already large hazel eyes widened even more. "While I was in the hospital wing, I had a meeting with the Sight. It was very clear, and it had a form of Rhubat with the dark mark on it. The Sight has been wrong before so I want to check it. Will you guys come down to the library with me on the Saturday after my detention finishes up?"
"Yeah, sure I will," said Raquel and Soroya nodded in agreement.
"I will, but I want to know why after your detention is over?" asked Arabella, apparently very puzzled about it.
"If I find something out before my detention is over, he may discover that I'm cottoning on. And there he has plenty of chances to get to me, with James only there. I can't bring you with me there, so I think we should wait after my sentence." Lily finished, awaiting the girls' response.
"We don't tell the boys, got it?" said Arabella, and everyone in the room answered in agreement.
"They might be more of a hassle," Raquel said, with her usual smirk.
"I'll make the invisibility potion, earlier on Friday night, that way we won't waste any time," Soroya announced, and with that they all left, and within an hour, Lily and James had started their two-week work.
Nothing out of the ordinary happened over the past two weeks. They were unable to use magic of course, but neither one complained when they had to stew giblets in rose water. On the last Tuesday left in their sentence, they had to search for blue and greenbonnet flobberworms for pickling and on Wednesday night, they had to go in the Forbidden Forest, hoping to find enough aconite to replenish Rhubat's personal storage.
The last day brought the most excitement of that whole week, but it wasn't the fun type of excitement.
Lily had just finished putting the label on some Chimera hairs and James was rinsing out some jars that had once contained a putrid mixture of freshwater trout bones and violet seeds.
"Professor," Lily said, a tiny bit cautiously. "Which shelf do I need to put the Chimera hairs on?"
Instead of answering her simple question, Rhubat grabbed her left wrist, the one that was holding the jar, and twisted painfully, crushing her hand between his strong, spindly fingers.
James looked up instantly at what was going on as soon as he hear the glass jar break and the shards of glass, although Rhubat didn't seem to notice that James was staring at the actions he had taken towards Lily.
"You marry my nephew," Rhubat threatened, "or you don't marry at all!" He took a hippogriff talon and cut a slash on the fourth finger of her left hand. He flung her into an overloaded shelf, which landed on her foot, since she had tried to avoid it. Bleeding and broken, Lily did her best to stand up.
Rhubat looked at James as if he'd just noticed that James was in the same room as he was.
"Potter!" Rhubat snarled. "If you dare speak a word of this to anyone, you fate with be worse than hers, that's not a threat, but a promise."
And with that, Rhubat swept out of the dungeons. James helped Lily up to the hospital wing once again. When Madam Pomfrey asked how Lily had twisted her ankle and cut her lower finger, James said that she had fallen on one of the trick steps.
Tut-tutting about the safety of students, Madam Pomfrey left to get her bottle of Skele-Mend. Lily motioned for James to come nearer to her bed.
"James," she whispered. "Thank you for all that you've done so far, but I must ask you to put your life in danger. Tell Sirius, Arabella, Gus, Raquel, Remus, and Soroya what really happened. You have my promise that no harm will come to you because of it. Tell Arabella, Soroya, and Raquel that I will be back tomorrow and that the plan is still on."
"Mr. Potter!" Madam Pomfrey practically squealed. Lily gave James a small smile as he was being shoved out by the nurse.
James did as he was instructed, although very puzzled about what they all meant. He thought that maybe this could be the time when the Marauder's Map would start working again. It was the only way that the boys could see what the girls had planned for that night. But the sinking feeling of doubt kept pounding in James's stomach.
The night came and Soroya's potion worked perfectly. They had decided to go to the library and into the books which kept a current list of death-eaters. Only those willing to seek, respect, and praise it could actually work it. That was something that they thought even Dumbledore didn't know.
They snuck down to the library without making a sound. James, who had told the boys of his feeling, had woken them all up and they were know staring silently and unblinkingly at the piece of parchment. Peter, unfortunately, was no where to be found, but, knowing him, they had all figured that he had made his way into Hogsmeade for a late night butterbeer, as he hated to deal with the house elves.
Lily pulled out the book and began to read just as the invisibility potion began to wear off. The boys vaguely noticed Raquel, Soroya, and Arabella all crowded around the table that Lily was sitting at.
Lily began to read the last names. "There's McNair, Drumes, Charter, Wordren, and… what! There's supposed to be the names of the other 30 known death-eaters. It's been ripped ou…" before Lily could finish her proclamation, the all too familiar spindly fingers clasped tightly around her mouth.
"No more being heroine, Miss Evans," said Rhubat's evil sneer. "You and your friends have a little appointment with the Dark Lord Voldemort himself, and, from what I understand, he'll be most delighted to see you, and to talk to you…among other things." And that smirk reappeared, which always seemed to pop up at times that were the very worst for Lily and, practically, anyone else.
All the boys tore for the door, James grabbing the map and the Invisibility Cloak, for the library. Voldemort had exactly what he wanted, the plan was going as smoothly as he had first planned it almost 7 years ago, but it was getting it that was going to be hard.
A/N: That was a really good chapter, well I thought it was. For all my lovely reviewers I give you a bottle of tears from a clown and chalk. I hope that thistlemeg had a very enjoyable birthday! I hope that you all had a very enjoyable February 26th! Love ya, as always! I should be working on chapter 8 soon (it's bound to be the best chapter yet!) and it will be no short explanation of what's going on with Voldemort. This was the chapter that inspired me to write the whole thing! Anywho, Love and Thanks, Epequa ;)