The Pranking Wars
Author's Note: Hey everybody! This is new fic that I decided to start. I have so far not had much attention with Harry Potter and the Curse of the Gypsy, but this story can help explain some of the things in that story if you have read it. This is year one through their deaths for Lily and James. It has an interesting way of looking at Lily, and I hope you like it. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not nor have I ever owned Harry Potter or any character from these books. I own the plot of this story, and Cassy Reed. That is it. Okay, got that? Now you can't sue me.
Chapter Five
"So..." said James cautiously. "What do we do now?"
Lily looked around the tunnel, frowning. "I don't see another way out. There isn't any other tunnel except for this one, and it probably doesn't lead to anywhere else in the school."
"It leads to a dusty old warehouse in Hogsmeade." Sirius said absently as he ran his hands along the walls. "At least, that's what Don says."
"I can't believe this! Why do these things always happen when you guys are around! It's like I'm cursed." Cassy pouted, raking a hand through her hair.
"Everybody, just calm down!" Remus shouted as they began to raise their voices in irritation. All stopped to stare at the usually quiet boy. "Listen, we won't get anywhere this way. We just need to work together, as unpleasant as that may be. We're going to have to head to Hogsmeade. We'll work it out from there."
"But how?" Lily muttered. "I mean, I don't want to be caught outside of the school. I don't want to be expelled. I couldn't stand having to go back to muggle school, with my sister and her friends. Especially that creepy Vernon guy..."
"You won't get caught." James said calmly, looking down the tunnel. "I mean, my father didn't give me an invisibility cloak for nothing. What else would I use it for?"
"James, that cloak is only big enough for three people. And you still have to move really slow." Sirius pointed out, shaking his head.
"But...he could take us two at a time? Like, two of us could go first, and then James could come back and get the other two." Cassy said brightly. "Then...we'd all get back safely. I mean...that's all right, isn't it?"
James looked at them all and nodded. "I guess that's the only way to do it. Come on...we can go ahead and get things worked out when we get there. But it's going to be a long walk, so we had better get started."
They started down the steps of the tunnel, Sirius and James making sure to keep at least three steps in front of Remus and the red heads. They walked in silence, with only the light of their Lumos spells to light the path for them. James kept count in his head of all the steps, one hundred, then two hundred, but finally stopped. There were just too many of them.
Dust choked the entire chamber. Sirius cringed as a small group of spiders ran across his path. "Oy, afraid of itsy bitsy bugs, are you?" Cassy snorted.
"Hey, watch your..."
"Ouch!" James cried out as a loud thud resounded through the hollow chamber. All turned to look at him. He was rubbing the crown of his head, making his already messy black hair stand on end. "The door." He muttered, jerking a thumb towards the ceiling. A small wooden trap door was sitting in the middle of all the stone. James backed away when Lily ran towards it.
It opened quietly when she pushed on it. "Thank goodness." She muttered as she tried to hoist herself out of the hole. She couldn't do it.
"Aww...can't make it?" James nimbly jumped out of the tunnel and landed on the wooden floor of the dusty basement. Lily turned bright red when he reached down to give her a hand out of the door. She took it and let him pull her up.
Murmuring her thanks, she looked around, shuddering slightly at the unnumerable cobwebs. "Well, they couldn't take the time to clean up around here, could they?" she groused. "It looks like a giant dust bunny exploded."
"What's a dust bunny? Some sort of weird new creature Hagrid wants as a pet?" Sirius asked as he turned over a crate to peer philosophically into its depths.
"Erm...no...it's what muggles call those little clumps of dust that form under beds and places you're supposed to clean but forget to. Dust bunnies."
"Well, that's stupid." Sirius said in an odd tone. "Bunnies? Dust isn't cute, it's messy. Why not dust piggies?"
James snorted. "Sirius, you twit. You really are getting a major complex, you know. Really, lay off the pigs."
"When have I ever mentioned pigs?" Sirius said disgustedly. Just tell me..."
"O-kay..." Cassy interjected, rolling her eyes. "As helpful as this conversation is, I'd really like to get back to Hogwarts before classes start Monday. I don't wish to spend the rest of my life in a dusty basement."
James nodded. "Yeah. Right. Listen, I'll take Lily and Cassy first, and then Sirius and Remus can come afterwards..."
"No." Remus stated, glaring at Sirius. "I won't be stuck...alone...with the both of you. I'd rather be a werewolf or something..." he said, with an odd glint in his eyes.
"Yeah...like that would ever happen. Loopy, a werewolf." Sirius practically rolled on the floor laughing. Remus simply shrugged.
"Okay...okay, then I'll take Cassy and Remus first, followed by Lily and Sirius. That okay?"
"Yeah." Remus and Cassy nodded quickly, leaving Lily to stare at them in open-mouthed shock.
"Sorry." Remus grimaced apologetically. "But it's every man for himself."
"Thanks a lot." She murmured, slanting Remus and Sirius a dark glance.
"Don't worry." Sirius assured her. "I won't bite. Well...only a little bit." James snorted loudly.
"I keep telling you, Sirius, leave the jokes to me. I'm the funny one here. You're just the oddball sidekick."
"Please tell me I'm dreaming." Lily muttered.
"Okay...okay, that's enough of that. Cassy is right, we'd better get back to our rooms before it gets really late. I don't want to get caught any more than you do. Sisal has it out for me, and I have the feeling she'd do anything to get me working in that dungeon of hers for an hour or ten." James rolled his shoulders. "Okay, Cassy and Remus...we're going to have to get close..."
"Oh goody." Remus snorted as he and Cassy huddled up on either side of James. "This is going to be fun."
"Shut up." James sighed. "Just lay off it for a while and we'll all get out of this without any broken bones."
"Yeah, he's right." Lily muttered, eliciting odd stares from all of them. "Well, he is." She said quietly. "I mean, we just need to get back and forget about all of this. And besides...now, at least we have something in common..."
"And what would that be, wise one?" Sirius said, rolling his eyes.
"A...common enemy." James said, realization dawning on him. "Snape...echh. We really must get him back for this."
"Even I'm with you on that, as long as it doesn't backfire." Remus said darkly.
"Wow, three whole sentences without abusing one another...a record." Cassy noted dryly. "But, of course, I agree with all of you. First, though, we need to get back. So why don't we start, oh invisible one?"
James sneered as he tossed the invisibility cloak over their shoulders. Sirius and Lily watched as their friends disappeared, and the faint sound of their footsteps and occasional whispers as they faded through the stairwell.
Lily glanced over at Sirius, who was sitting on top of a large crate, staring back up at the ceiling. He seemed to be paying special attention to a spider that was dangling by a silvery thread on the wall.
"Hmm...well, what have you been up to?" Lily asked. Sirius turned to look at her, raising a brow in question. "Sorry," Lily said, shrugging. "That's the way my mum always taught me to break an awkward silence." Sirius just stared at her before breaking into snorting laughter.
"Sorry..." he said after a moment, wiping a tear from his eyes. "I just...well, everything is just so odd. Really, I never expected this, at all."
"Yeah. And I did." Lily retorted, sitting on the only other crate in the room. She sighed. "I really am going to do something to that greaseball when we get back to the castle."
"What?" Sirius smirked. "Bore him to death with facts from Hogwarts: A History?"
"I'll have you know that some facts in that book are very interesting. Did you know that the west wing on the third floor was actually built by Mildred the..."
Sirius interrupted her with a loud snore. She glanced over and saw him with his head hanging back, lolling to the side. He jerked up after a moment and looked over at her. "Oh...oh, sorry. I didn't disrupt your story, did I?"
"Ha ha...very funny." She said sarcastically. "Original, really. I'd give that an A plus."
"A what?"
"Muggle thing. It's how they grade papers in school. An F is the lowest you can get, and the A the highest. Really good marks get plusses---so you can get A plusses, and that is the best grade you get."
Sirius started laughing. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. How do muggles come up with these things?"
Lily shrugged. "It isn't stupid to them, I guess. I was a muggle, or so I thought, for as long as I could remember. Of course, everybody always thought I was a bit odd."
"Can't imagine why." Sirius said, smiling widely.
"Oh...enough of this. How long has James been gone, now?" Sirius looked down at his wrist before he realized he didn't wear a watch. "Erm...maybe fifteen minutes. I dunno. How long does it take to walk to and from the castle?"
"Depends on which way you go. I'm willing to bet he went by Hagrid's cabin. If that's the case it's twenty minutes there and back." She sighed. "I'm tired."
"Me too. Peter Pettigrew was trying to get me and James to let him copy our Transfiguration essay today on Animagus. Finally, when we wouldn't let him, he tried to give James and I tails. He ended up giving Patrick Finnigan a hairy backside, and nothing else. I believe by now Finnigan might have finally let him down out of the Divination tower." He laughed loudly, remembering the ordeal.
"Oh, well..." Lily furrowed her brow, trying to understand what to make of the situation. "That's different. Why do you hang around with Pettigrew anyways? He doesn't seem to be your type."
"Well, it's more like he hangs around James and I. That's okay though...he's funny, even though I don't think he means to be. He always knows how to tick off the Slytherins, even though none of it is intentional."
Lily frowned and opened her mouth to speak but then snapped it shut without saying anything. After a long moment she shrugged and leaned back, staring at the door. She and Sirius sat in silence watching. Before long a faint scratching was heard on the stairs.
James appeared out of thin air. That is to say, his head did. The rest of him remained under the cloak, so that only his head was visible to Lily and Sirius. "An interesting look." Sirius commented. "Though I thought you'd rather hide your face than your manly physique."
"Ha ha, Sirius." James snorted. Everybody knew well that James was not only quite skinny for his age, he was rather short and had the family trait of knobbly knees. "Why don't we do something about you? I hear Sisal needs somebody to test out that new potion she's developing. Would you like to try it?"
"Oh sure...and then I'll go skipping along in the roses with my dear friends Snape and Malfoy, and we can sing happy little songs all night."
"Wow...I have to agree with James, that was a pretty bad joke." Lily commented.
"Hey!"
"Heh...you think that's bad? You should hear the strokes of genius he gets at three in the morning." James mumbled, so that Sirius could only just hear.
"Where do you get off insulting me? You are just jealous!"
Lily and James both snorted. "Jealous of what?" They said simultaneously.
"Of my infinite intelligence. Come on, you know you want it..."
"Enough." Lily said, her eyes bright and merry. "I think we've done enough of this. Let's just get back, okay? You two can battle it out in our nice cozy common room."
"Sound's like a plan to me." James muttered. "Let's go."
Lily and Sirius huddled up close to James as he threw the cloak over the three of them. Lily looked down at her hand---it wasn't their. She could feel herself, and the light touch of the cloak, but when she looked down she saw only the floor. It was unsettling.
"Yeah...you have to get used to it." James muttered. "We'd better get going. Walk slowly."
They all made their way cautiously through the warehouse and into Hogsmeade. Liy took a quick glance around. In most of the houses, the lights were extinguished. Only in the tavern nearby was there any real light. Lily flinched at the familiar voice inside.
"That's Hagrid all right." James snorted. "Had a little bit too much to drink. What a surprise."
"Someday that's really going to get him in trouble." Lily said, grimacing. "I mean, what if he does something illegal, or dangerous? Like buy a Dragon's egg, or a basilisk or something?"
"I wouldn't doubt it." Sirius shuddered. "To think, what would happen to us. At least he isn't Care of Magical Creatures teacher, or anything like that. I shudder to think of those poor children..."
The three of them nodded, agreeing for a change on that one fact. They continued on, passing a few people by as they made their way to the castle. After a long moment they passed through the gates and onto Hogwarts grounds. Lily gave a long sigh of relief. "Almost there." She said happily. And she jumped out of her skin when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"I don't think so, Miss Evans."
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"A week's detention? With James and Sirius?!" Cassy stared at Lily in disbelief. Lily miserably nodded, staring at the food on the plate in front of her. "But...how did you get caught? I mean, you were wearing the cloak, right?"
"Yeah. We were wearing the cloak. The only thing we can think of is that maybe she had some sort of way of looking at where every person in the castle was...but nothing like that exists, right? I mean, if it did, those demented boys would have already gotten their hands on it, wouldn't they have?"
"I think so." Cassy sighed. "Do you know what you have to do?"
"Scour the Potions room from top to bottom." She grimaced. "And that's after we've all been learning Atrocious Infusions. I swear, there are going to be rat's tails smeared from ceiling to floor, especially after Pettigrew takes charge of his own potions."
Cassy grimaced. "Oh, I feel so sorry for you. You think you're going to make it?"
"I'll certainly try. But there's something we've got to do first."
"And what's that?"
"Get back at that slimy haired, good for nothing..."
"Snape?"
"Exactly."
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Severus glanced over at Lily and Cassy. The redheads were talking in low, excited whispers, and kept glancing over in his direction. Similarly, to his other side, Sirius and James were talking nonchalantly, over anything from Quidditch to the latest candy concoctions. However, they too kept sliding their gaze in his direction.
"Lucius, do you think..."
"Leave me alone, brat." Lucius snapped. "Can't you see I'm busy?" He was talking a sour looking blonde who had a cold look on her face. "Narcissa, what do you..."
"Isabelle?" His sister turned to look at him, smiling brightly. She was standing next to Donovan Black, and they were talking in low, animated tones. "Do you think..."
However, nobody heard what Severus said. There was a loud explosion from the other side of the room. Everybody turned to look at what had happened. Sirius paled even whiter than his pasty skin was already, so that he appeared quite gray indeed.
'Oh lord, am I in for it.' he thought as he frantically stood and rushed out of the hall.
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Author's Note: Hey everybody! This is new fic that I decided to start. I have so far not had much attention with Harry Potter and the Curse of the Gypsy, but this story can help explain some of the things in that story if you have read it. This is year one through their deaths for Lily and James. It has an interesting way of looking at Lily, and I hope you like it. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not nor have I ever owned Harry Potter or any character from these books. I own the plot of this story, and Cassy Reed. That is it. Okay, got that? Now you can't sue me.
Chapter Five
"So..." said James cautiously. "What do we do now?"
Lily looked around the tunnel, frowning. "I don't see another way out. There isn't any other tunnel except for this one, and it probably doesn't lead to anywhere else in the school."
"It leads to a dusty old warehouse in Hogsmeade." Sirius said absently as he ran his hands along the walls. "At least, that's what Don says."
"I can't believe this! Why do these things always happen when you guys are around! It's like I'm cursed." Cassy pouted, raking a hand through her hair.
"Everybody, just calm down!" Remus shouted as they began to raise their voices in irritation. All stopped to stare at the usually quiet boy. "Listen, we won't get anywhere this way. We just need to work together, as unpleasant as that may be. We're going to have to head to Hogsmeade. We'll work it out from there."
"But how?" Lily muttered. "I mean, I don't want to be caught outside of the school. I don't want to be expelled. I couldn't stand having to go back to muggle school, with my sister and her friends. Especially that creepy Vernon guy..."
"You won't get caught." James said calmly, looking down the tunnel. "I mean, my father didn't give me an invisibility cloak for nothing. What else would I use it for?"
"James, that cloak is only big enough for three people. And you still have to move really slow." Sirius pointed out, shaking his head.
"But...he could take us two at a time? Like, two of us could go first, and then James could come back and get the other two." Cassy said brightly. "Then...we'd all get back safely. I mean...that's all right, isn't it?"
James looked at them all and nodded. "I guess that's the only way to do it. Come on...we can go ahead and get things worked out when we get there. But it's going to be a long walk, so we had better get started."
They started down the steps of the tunnel, Sirius and James making sure to keep at least three steps in front of Remus and the red heads. They walked in silence, with only the light of their Lumos spells to light the path for them. James kept count in his head of all the steps, one hundred, then two hundred, but finally stopped. There were just too many of them.
Dust choked the entire chamber. Sirius cringed as a small group of spiders ran across his path. "Oy, afraid of itsy bitsy bugs, are you?" Cassy snorted.
"Hey, watch your..."
"Ouch!" James cried out as a loud thud resounded through the hollow chamber. All turned to look at him. He was rubbing the crown of his head, making his already messy black hair stand on end. "The door." He muttered, jerking a thumb towards the ceiling. A small wooden trap door was sitting in the middle of all the stone. James backed away when Lily ran towards it.
It opened quietly when she pushed on it. "Thank goodness." She muttered as she tried to hoist herself out of the hole. She couldn't do it.
"Aww...can't make it?" James nimbly jumped out of the tunnel and landed on the wooden floor of the dusty basement. Lily turned bright red when he reached down to give her a hand out of the door. She took it and let him pull her up.
Murmuring her thanks, she looked around, shuddering slightly at the unnumerable cobwebs. "Well, they couldn't take the time to clean up around here, could they?" she groused. "It looks like a giant dust bunny exploded."
"What's a dust bunny? Some sort of weird new creature Hagrid wants as a pet?" Sirius asked as he turned over a crate to peer philosophically into its depths.
"Erm...no...it's what muggles call those little clumps of dust that form under beds and places you're supposed to clean but forget to. Dust bunnies."
"Well, that's stupid." Sirius said in an odd tone. "Bunnies? Dust isn't cute, it's messy. Why not dust piggies?"
James snorted. "Sirius, you twit. You really are getting a major complex, you know. Really, lay off the pigs."
"When have I ever mentioned pigs?" Sirius said disgustedly. Just tell me..."
"O-kay..." Cassy interjected, rolling her eyes. "As helpful as this conversation is, I'd really like to get back to Hogwarts before classes start Monday. I don't wish to spend the rest of my life in a dusty basement."
James nodded. "Yeah. Right. Listen, I'll take Lily and Cassy first, and then Sirius and Remus can come afterwards..."
"No." Remus stated, glaring at Sirius. "I won't be stuck...alone...with the both of you. I'd rather be a werewolf or something..." he said, with an odd glint in his eyes.
"Yeah...like that would ever happen. Loopy, a werewolf." Sirius practically rolled on the floor laughing. Remus simply shrugged.
"Okay...okay, then I'll take Cassy and Remus first, followed by Lily and Sirius. That okay?"
"Yeah." Remus and Cassy nodded quickly, leaving Lily to stare at them in open-mouthed shock.
"Sorry." Remus grimaced apologetically. "But it's every man for himself."
"Thanks a lot." She murmured, slanting Remus and Sirius a dark glance.
"Don't worry." Sirius assured her. "I won't bite. Well...only a little bit." James snorted loudly.
"I keep telling you, Sirius, leave the jokes to me. I'm the funny one here. You're just the oddball sidekick."
"Please tell me I'm dreaming." Lily muttered.
"Okay...okay, that's enough of that. Cassy is right, we'd better get back to our rooms before it gets really late. I don't want to get caught any more than you do. Sisal has it out for me, and I have the feeling she'd do anything to get me working in that dungeon of hers for an hour or ten." James rolled his shoulders. "Okay, Cassy and Remus...we're going to have to get close..."
"Oh goody." Remus snorted as he and Cassy huddled up on either side of James. "This is going to be fun."
"Shut up." James sighed. "Just lay off it for a while and we'll all get out of this without any broken bones."
"Yeah, he's right." Lily muttered, eliciting odd stares from all of them. "Well, he is." She said quietly. "I mean, we just need to get back and forget about all of this. And besides...now, at least we have something in common..."
"And what would that be, wise one?" Sirius said, rolling his eyes.
"A...common enemy." James said, realization dawning on him. "Snape...echh. We really must get him back for this."
"Even I'm with you on that, as long as it doesn't backfire." Remus said darkly.
"Wow, three whole sentences without abusing one another...a record." Cassy noted dryly. "But, of course, I agree with all of you. First, though, we need to get back. So why don't we start, oh invisible one?"
James sneered as he tossed the invisibility cloak over their shoulders. Sirius and Lily watched as their friends disappeared, and the faint sound of their footsteps and occasional whispers as they faded through the stairwell.
Lily glanced over at Sirius, who was sitting on top of a large crate, staring back up at the ceiling. He seemed to be paying special attention to a spider that was dangling by a silvery thread on the wall.
"Hmm...well, what have you been up to?" Lily asked. Sirius turned to look at her, raising a brow in question. "Sorry," Lily said, shrugging. "That's the way my mum always taught me to break an awkward silence." Sirius just stared at her before breaking into snorting laughter.
"Sorry..." he said after a moment, wiping a tear from his eyes. "I just...well, everything is just so odd. Really, I never expected this, at all."
"Yeah. And I did." Lily retorted, sitting on the only other crate in the room. She sighed. "I really am going to do something to that greaseball when we get back to the castle."
"What?" Sirius smirked. "Bore him to death with facts from Hogwarts: A History?"
"I'll have you know that some facts in that book are very interesting. Did you know that the west wing on the third floor was actually built by Mildred the..."
Sirius interrupted her with a loud snore. She glanced over and saw him with his head hanging back, lolling to the side. He jerked up after a moment and looked over at her. "Oh...oh, sorry. I didn't disrupt your story, did I?"
"Ha ha...very funny." She said sarcastically. "Original, really. I'd give that an A plus."
"A what?"
"Muggle thing. It's how they grade papers in school. An F is the lowest you can get, and the A the highest. Really good marks get plusses---so you can get A plusses, and that is the best grade you get."
Sirius started laughing. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. How do muggles come up with these things?"
Lily shrugged. "It isn't stupid to them, I guess. I was a muggle, or so I thought, for as long as I could remember. Of course, everybody always thought I was a bit odd."
"Can't imagine why." Sirius said, smiling widely.
"Oh...enough of this. How long has James been gone, now?" Sirius looked down at his wrist before he realized he didn't wear a watch. "Erm...maybe fifteen minutes. I dunno. How long does it take to walk to and from the castle?"
"Depends on which way you go. I'm willing to bet he went by Hagrid's cabin. If that's the case it's twenty minutes there and back." She sighed. "I'm tired."
"Me too. Peter Pettigrew was trying to get me and James to let him copy our Transfiguration essay today on Animagus. Finally, when we wouldn't let him, he tried to give James and I tails. He ended up giving Patrick Finnigan a hairy backside, and nothing else. I believe by now Finnigan might have finally let him down out of the Divination tower." He laughed loudly, remembering the ordeal.
"Oh, well..." Lily furrowed her brow, trying to understand what to make of the situation. "That's different. Why do you hang around with Pettigrew anyways? He doesn't seem to be your type."
"Well, it's more like he hangs around James and I. That's okay though...he's funny, even though I don't think he means to be. He always knows how to tick off the Slytherins, even though none of it is intentional."
Lily frowned and opened her mouth to speak but then snapped it shut without saying anything. After a long moment she shrugged and leaned back, staring at the door. She and Sirius sat in silence watching. Before long a faint scratching was heard on the stairs.
James appeared out of thin air. That is to say, his head did. The rest of him remained under the cloak, so that only his head was visible to Lily and Sirius. "An interesting look." Sirius commented. "Though I thought you'd rather hide your face than your manly physique."
"Ha ha, Sirius." James snorted. Everybody knew well that James was not only quite skinny for his age, he was rather short and had the family trait of knobbly knees. "Why don't we do something about you? I hear Sisal needs somebody to test out that new potion she's developing. Would you like to try it?"
"Oh sure...and then I'll go skipping along in the roses with my dear friends Snape and Malfoy, and we can sing happy little songs all night."
"Wow...I have to agree with James, that was a pretty bad joke." Lily commented.
"Hey!"
"Heh...you think that's bad? You should hear the strokes of genius he gets at three in the morning." James mumbled, so that Sirius could only just hear.
"Where do you get off insulting me? You are just jealous!"
Lily and James both snorted. "Jealous of what?" They said simultaneously.
"Of my infinite intelligence. Come on, you know you want it..."
"Enough." Lily said, her eyes bright and merry. "I think we've done enough of this. Let's just get back, okay? You two can battle it out in our nice cozy common room."
"Sound's like a plan to me." James muttered. "Let's go."
Lily and Sirius huddled up close to James as he threw the cloak over the three of them. Lily looked down at her hand---it wasn't their. She could feel herself, and the light touch of the cloak, but when she looked down she saw only the floor. It was unsettling.
"Yeah...you have to get used to it." James muttered. "We'd better get going. Walk slowly."
They all made their way cautiously through the warehouse and into Hogsmeade. Liy took a quick glance around. In most of the houses, the lights were extinguished. Only in the tavern nearby was there any real light. Lily flinched at the familiar voice inside.
"That's Hagrid all right." James snorted. "Had a little bit too much to drink. What a surprise."
"Someday that's really going to get him in trouble." Lily said, grimacing. "I mean, what if he does something illegal, or dangerous? Like buy a Dragon's egg, or a basilisk or something?"
"I wouldn't doubt it." Sirius shuddered. "To think, what would happen to us. At least he isn't Care of Magical Creatures teacher, or anything like that. I shudder to think of those poor children..."
The three of them nodded, agreeing for a change on that one fact. They continued on, passing a few people by as they made their way to the castle. After a long moment they passed through the gates and onto Hogwarts grounds. Lily gave a long sigh of relief. "Almost there." She said happily. And she jumped out of her skin when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"I don't think so, Miss Evans."
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"A week's detention? With James and Sirius?!" Cassy stared at Lily in disbelief. Lily miserably nodded, staring at the food on the plate in front of her. "But...how did you get caught? I mean, you were wearing the cloak, right?"
"Yeah. We were wearing the cloak. The only thing we can think of is that maybe she had some sort of way of looking at where every person in the castle was...but nothing like that exists, right? I mean, if it did, those demented boys would have already gotten their hands on it, wouldn't they have?"
"I think so." Cassy sighed. "Do you know what you have to do?"
"Scour the Potions room from top to bottom." She grimaced. "And that's after we've all been learning Atrocious Infusions. I swear, there are going to be rat's tails smeared from ceiling to floor, especially after Pettigrew takes charge of his own potions."
Cassy grimaced. "Oh, I feel so sorry for you. You think you're going to make it?"
"I'll certainly try. But there's something we've got to do first."
"And what's that?"
"Get back at that slimy haired, good for nothing..."
"Snape?"
"Exactly."
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Severus glanced over at Lily and Cassy. The redheads were talking in low, excited whispers, and kept glancing over in his direction. Similarly, to his other side, Sirius and James were talking nonchalantly, over anything from Quidditch to the latest candy concoctions. However, they too kept sliding their gaze in his direction.
"Lucius, do you think..."
"Leave me alone, brat." Lucius snapped. "Can't you see I'm busy?" He was talking a sour looking blonde who had a cold look on her face. "Narcissa, what do you..."
"Isabelle?" His sister turned to look at him, smiling brightly. She was standing next to Donovan Black, and they were talking in low, animated tones. "Do you think..."
However, nobody heard what Severus said. There was a loud explosion from the other side of the room. Everybody turned to look at what had happened. Sirius paled even whiter than his pasty skin was already, so that he appeared quite gray indeed.
'Oh lord, am I in for it.' he thought as he frantically stood and rushed out of the hall.
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