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A/N: This chapter will be entirely from Lily's perspective, but for those who love 'the guys' the next chapter, "Marauders Night Out", will be the same events from James's perspective.
Chapter 5: Mysteries
The rest of her first week back at Hogwarts flew by very fast for Lily. The professors had already began to pile on the homework, saying that they needed to start preparing for their NEWTs as soon as possible, so Lily and her friends were kept busy. Even Sirius and James seemed to be working hard. Maybe they HAVE finally matured, Lily began to think to herself after they'd gotten through a whole week without a single incident. Lily made a point of stopping by Hagrid's hut everyday but so far there was no sign of him. Lily was a little worried, but she guessed that if something bad had happened to him, Dumbledore would have mentioned it.
Early into her second week, Lily was just returning from one of her visits to Hagrid's hut, thinking about all the arithmancy homework she had to do that night, when she walked into the common room to be greeted by a spectacular sight. Posters had been hung on the walls around the common room, ALL over the common room. Every spare inch of wall space had been covered. Lily took a closer look at the nearest poster, and started to feel a familiar anger rise inside her. The poster showed a picture of James Potter, dressed in his Quidditch robes, holding a broomstick. The posters had words zipping around the outside announcing that Quidditch tryouts would be held in two weeks. Lily might have been able to handle the posters everyplace if it wasn't for the fact that they had all been charmed to TALK. As soon as they caught sight of her, all the James's in the posters around her had begun to call out to her, telling her she should try out for the Quidditch team.
'Ever dreamed of being a chaser?'
'Come out to tryouts!'
'You'd be great, just give it a shot'
'Join the Gryffindor Team, be a winner!'
'We want YOU for Quidditch!'
And about another hundred voices called out to her all at once. The noise in the room was unbearable. Lily was furious. Any thoughts she had had about James and Sirius finally growing up had vanished. She marched into the common room and looked around for someone to yell at. She saw Sirius laughing and flirting with a bunch of fifth years,
"Yeah, you should definitely come and try out, I'd love to see your moves!" Sirius told a pretty blond girl, who promptly blushed and giggled.
"You know, it should have been you on those posters," said a cute little brunette coyly, "I mean James is great, but he's nothing compared to you."
"Well now you're just making me blush!" Sirius replied, without a hint of modesty. Lily marched right up to him, grabbed his arm, pulled him around to face her and angrily exclaimed,
"What is all this?!?!" She wildly motioned to the room.
"Ah, honey, you do care! I didn't mean to make you jealous, I was just talking to these lovely girls!" Sirius said, throwing his arm around her shoulder.
"I didn't mean that!" Lily exclaimed, throwing Sirius's arm off. "I meant all these POSTERS! What were you thinking?"
"Aren't they great? I really think they get the message across." Sirius said, looking around the room admiringly.
"No! They aren't great! I want you to take them down right now! How am I supposed to do any studying with all these James's yelling in my ear! And speaking of James, where is he anyways?"
"Right here," came a voice from behind her. Lily whirled around, "Well, I suppose you heard. I want you to take these posters down RIGHT NOW! And to think, I was even starting to think you had grown up a bit, and then you go and pull a stunt like this! I'm going to have a shower, and when I get back this all better be cleaned up!" Lily whirled around and began to march up to her room.
"Wait! Lily!" James called after her as he ran to catch up. Lily kept walking, so was still too mad to think straight. "look, Lily, before you run off would you please listen to me? I wasn't going to leave them up, I just thought it would be good for effect, let everybody know about Quidditch and give them a little fun in the process. If you haven't noticed, people around here have been a little tense lately. I just thought I'd try and boost moral, that's all." Lily had slowed down, and her anger began to dissolve. Maybe she had overreacted a little, but she wasn't about to admit that to James.
"Are you finished?" asked Lily coldly, too coldly she thought to herself.
"Yeah, I guess I am." James said coldly in a low even tone as he turned and walked away.
What's wrong with me? thought Lily. Why couldn't I just say I'm sorry, that maybe I acted a little rashly? Lily cursed herself as she sat on her bed in her room. Maybe James isn't the only one who needs to grow up, she thought miserably as she fell back onto the bed.
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Later that night Lily was sitting in the common room, trying to finish as essay for her History of Magic class. She was stuck on the third paragraph, not knowing what to write next. She set her quill down and sighed as she sunk back into the chair she was sitting in. She looked around the room. She was one of the only people still up. There were two sixth year boys playing chess in one corner, and a third year who looked little she'd fallen asleep on one of the more comfortable chairs, her Defence Against the Dark Arts book still lying open on her lap. She looked down at the ground and something caught her eye. It was a wrinkled piece of paper. Picking it up she noticed it was one of the posters that had been placed all around the room. She was about to throw it out, but something stopped her. Instead she opened it up, smoothed it out and looked at the picture of James. She found herself smiling. James looked so good all dressed up in his Quidditch robes, she thought. The James in the picture looked back at her and smiled. It was unlike any smile she'd seen from James before. It was a real smile, genuine and happy, not one of those cocky, half-grins he normally has, she thought, but a sweet, secret, caring smile, like he's smiling just for me. Lily felt like she could look into those big brown eyes of his forever. She smiled, and looked around, making sure no was watching her. She quickly folded the poster in half and stuck in into her transfiguration textbook. Then, feeling much happier, she picked up her quill and began to write again.
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The rest of the week was pretty uneventful for Lily. She was still trying to avoid James. She didn't really know what to say to him. She was sorry she had overreacted in the common room, but she didn't know how to tell him, so she just avoided the whole thing altogether. She was sitting in the common room with Emma and Frank trying to think of how to approach him, when she suddenly realised something.
"Where's Alice?" Lily asked, looking around.
"I don't know." Emma replied, looking just as confused. "Come to think of it, I haven't seen much of her at all this past week. I wonder what she's been up to?"
"Oh!" said Sirius, "I know what's going on!"
"Do you always listen to other people's conversations?" Lily asked.
"No," said Sirius smiling, "you're just special!"
"So, what's going on with Alice?" asked Emma, excitedly.
Sirius lowered his voice, and leaned in towards them, "She's been running off to meet with a secret boyfriend," he said seriously. Lily, Emma, and Frank all looked at him like he was crazy. "It's the truth!" Sirius said, looking hurt that they didn't believe him "Honestly! I saw her heading outside with some guy, I don't know who he is, some Ravenclaw, I think, or maybe a Hufflepuff, I'm not really sure..."
"Alice with a Hufflepuff! That's ridiculous!" said Frank, a little too sharply.
"I'm telling you, mate, I saw it!" Sirius insisted as he got up and wandered aimlessly up the stairs to the guys dorm.
"Ridiculous!" Frank mumbled under his breath, but a little less confidently than before.
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Lily was straightening up the common room after she'd stopped a pillow fight between a bunch of second and third years when Emma burst into the room, dragging a very angry-looking Frank.
"You'll never guess what we just saw!" exclaimed Emma. "Sirius was right! Alice does have a secret boyfriend! We were walking down the hall and we saw Alice come in with some guy. And she smiled and said... and said... Frank what did she say?"
"thank you for everything" Frank replied numbly, looking glum.
"Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's what she said, and he said 'no problem! Same time tomorrow?'" squealed Emma, "and I heard her say 'sure sounds good' then we had to hide because she started walking towards us, and I didn't want her to think we were spying on her or anything. Do you think we should let her know we know? I wonder why she wouldn't want us to know in the first place?" Emma asked.
"I don't know. But I think we should wait until she tells us, I mean she's obviously keeping it a secret for some reason." Lily replied thoughtfully. Emma reluctantly nodded in agreement,
"I guess you're right." She said, sounding only slightly disappointed.
"What do you think Frank?" Lily asked, Frank looked a little dazed and didn't seem to hear. "Frank?"
"hmmm? What? Oh, yeah, uh, we shouldn't say anything, wait for her to confess, I agree."
Just than Alice walked into the room, looking very happy. She had a huge grin on her face,
"Hey guys!" She said, sitting down.
"Hi Alice, where have you been?" Emma asked expectantly.
"Oh I was, um..., ah..., just in the library..." Alice stammered.
The four friends sat working in silence for most of the night. Frank appeared to be brooding and he wouldn't even look at Alice. When she tried to ask him a question he'd just give her a one-word answer and go back to his work. Finally Alice couldn't stand it anymore and asked him what was wrong.
"Nothing! Nothings wrong! I'm going to bed!" Frank replied and stomped off to his dorm, sounding very much like something was wrong. Alice looked at Emma and Lily, looking bewildered, but they just shrugged.
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Lily stood in front of James, she had finally worked up the courage to apologize.
"James, I am so sorry about yelling at you. I know I overreacted, I promise I'll try to control my temper better in the future."
"It's OK Lily, don't worry about it." James said smiling down at her, looking into her eyes.
"I just don't know what comes over me, I just can't help myself and- " Lily was talking very fast and James put a hand on her shoulder to calm her down.
"It's alright, I forgive you" he said, smiling again, squeezing her shoulders to let her know he meant it.
"But-" began Lily.
"Lily! Look at me!" James commanded in a soft, soothing voice. Lily stopped talking and looked up at James, who was looking down at her, smiling just for her, just like he seemed to be in the picture. "I said it's alright" James mumbled softly as he moved his hand from her shoulders to place it on her cheek. He took a step closer, Lily's heart jumped into her throat and her pulse began to race, she barely remembered to breath as he began to run his hand slowly through her hair. "Lily, you... are... so beautiful" James said, barely whispering as he stared into Lily's eyes. Lily took a step closer, she couldn't believe this was happening, here, now, with James Potter. But as the warmth from his body came closer, all doubts were erased from her mind. Their faces were now only inches apart, she could feel his warm breath on her face, could see his lips, looking so inviting. She tilted her head up and moved in closer as she closed her eyes, and just as their lips were about to touch, a loud, maniacal laughter suddenly rang out all around them. James backed away from Lily and she opened her eyes to see that James was laughing to. He now had his arm around Erin, who was the source of the first laugh.
"Can you believe... she actually thought... you'd want her!" Erin gasped between laughs. James and Erin continued to laugh, Lily felt her face getting warm she tried to turn to run away but every direction she turned to, there were Erin and James, laughing at her and holding onto each other. Finally they began to walk away but their laughs were still ringing loud and clear. Lily tried to chase them, but her feet seemed glued to the ground.
"Wait!" she called. "Where are you going? Where are you taking him?"
"Away from you!" Erin shouted back, laughing even louder, sounding evil, insane. Then suddenly the laugher changed, it was now a man's voice, evil, sinister, dark. Voldemort's voice.
"I'm going to take him away from you, Lily!" Voldemort's laugh rang out in the space all around her, getting louder and louder until Lily felt that she was being suffocated by it.
"Lily!" the voice began to call, "Lily!" suddenly the voice became clearer, a girls voice again, but kind, friendly, Alice, Alice! Lily opened her eyes to see Alice sitting on her bed, shaking her. "Lily! Good you're awake! Are you OK?" She asked sounding concerned. "You looked like you were having a bad dream." Lily smiled,
"It didn't start out that way," she mumbled to herself.
"What's that?" Alice asked.
"Nothing. I mean I'm fine, what's wrong with you? What are you doing up in the middle of the night?" Lily asked stretching as a sleepy Emma was just waking up on the other side of the room.
"What's going on?" Emma asked groggily, climbing out of bed and trudging over to Lily's.
"Well," began Alice "I was downstairs, I fell asleep on the couch, but something woke me up. I sat up and looked around but couldn't see anything so I was about to go back to sleep when I heard the portrait door being opened. I peeked over the back of the couch and looked at the door, I still couldn't see anybody, but I saw the door swing shut. I decided I should find out was going on, so I quickly slipped out the door and looked down the hall, I couldn't see anyone and was about to go back inside when I heard voices. Actually, I heard Sirius, and James, I'm sure it was them, Merlin knows they talk enough for me to know the sound of their voices! Well, they sounded like they were only a few feet in front of me, but I couldn't see anyone. Sirius said something like 'Wormtail, you git, watch where you're stepping that was my foot' then I heard James say 'shhhh! Do you want Filtch to catch us?'. I walked in their direction for awhile, but since I couldn't see them, I don't know where they went, so I just came back up here." Alice finished and looked up at Lily and Emma. "So what do you think? How were they invisible?"
"Well, they could have figured out how to make some sort of invisibility potion, maybe" suggested Emma, yawning.
"I don't know, but it seemed like they were walking awfully close together." Emma replied uncertainly.
"Maybe it was an invisibility shield, like a bubble, that only works for a small area ..." Lily offered. "Or some sort of blanket or cloak... I'm not really sure, but at least we have some idea of how they've been managing to sneak around the school all these years without getting caught!"
"I wonder what they were going out for tonight?" Emma asked, yawning again and rubbing her eyes.
"I don't know" Lily said thoughtfully "but I plan to ask them in the morning!"
End of chapter 5
Thanks again to everyone who reviewed! You're the best!
A/N: This chapter will be entirely from Lily's perspective, but for those who love 'the guys' the next chapter, "Marauders Night Out", will be the same events from James's perspective.
Chapter 5: Mysteries
The rest of her first week back at Hogwarts flew by very fast for Lily. The professors had already began to pile on the homework, saying that they needed to start preparing for their NEWTs as soon as possible, so Lily and her friends were kept busy. Even Sirius and James seemed to be working hard. Maybe they HAVE finally matured, Lily began to think to herself after they'd gotten through a whole week without a single incident. Lily made a point of stopping by Hagrid's hut everyday but so far there was no sign of him. Lily was a little worried, but she guessed that if something bad had happened to him, Dumbledore would have mentioned it.
Early into her second week, Lily was just returning from one of her visits to Hagrid's hut, thinking about all the arithmancy homework she had to do that night, when she walked into the common room to be greeted by a spectacular sight. Posters had been hung on the walls around the common room, ALL over the common room. Every spare inch of wall space had been covered. Lily took a closer look at the nearest poster, and started to feel a familiar anger rise inside her. The poster showed a picture of James Potter, dressed in his Quidditch robes, holding a broomstick. The posters had words zipping around the outside announcing that Quidditch tryouts would be held in two weeks. Lily might have been able to handle the posters everyplace if it wasn't for the fact that they had all been charmed to TALK. As soon as they caught sight of her, all the James's in the posters around her had begun to call out to her, telling her she should try out for the Quidditch team.
'Ever dreamed of being a chaser?'
'Come out to tryouts!'
'You'd be great, just give it a shot'
'Join the Gryffindor Team, be a winner!'
'We want YOU for Quidditch!'
And about another hundred voices called out to her all at once. The noise in the room was unbearable. Lily was furious. Any thoughts she had had about James and Sirius finally growing up had vanished. She marched into the common room and looked around for someone to yell at. She saw Sirius laughing and flirting with a bunch of fifth years,
"Yeah, you should definitely come and try out, I'd love to see your moves!" Sirius told a pretty blond girl, who promptly blushed and giggled.
"You know, it should have been you on those posters," said a cute little brunette coyly, "I mean James is great, but he's nothing compared to you."
"Well now you're just making me blush!" Sirius replied, without a hint of modesty. Lily marched right up to him, grabbed his arm, pulled him around to face her and angrily exclaimed,
"What is all this?!?!" She wildly motioned to the room.
"Ah, honey, you do care! I didn't mean to make you jealous, I was just talking to these lovely girls!" Sirius said, throwing his arm around her shoulder.
"I didn't mean that!" Lily exclaimed, throwing Sirius's arm off. "I meant all these POSTERS! What were you thinking?"
"Aren't they great? I really think they get the message across." Sirius said, looking around the room admiringly.
"No! They aren't great! I want you to take them down right now! How am I supposed to do any studying with all these James's yelling in my ear! And speaking of James, where is he anyways?"
"Right here," came a voice from behind her. Lily whirled around, "Well, I suppose you heard. I want you to take these posters down RIGHT NOW! And to think, I was even starting to think you had grown up a bit, and then you go and pull a stunt like this! I'm going to have a shower, and when I get back this all better be cleaned up!" Lily whirled around and began to march up to her room.
"Wait! Lily!" James called after her as he ran to catch up. Lily kept walking, so was still too mad to think straight. "look, Lily, before you run off would you please listen to me? I wasn't going to leave them up, I just thought it would be good for effect, let everybody know about Quidditch and give them a little fun in the process. If you haven't noticed, people around here have been a little tense lately. I just thought I'd try and boost moral, that's all." Lily had slowed down, and her anger began to dissolve. Maybe she had overreacted a little, but she wasn't about to admit that to James.
"Are you finished?" asked Lily coldly, too coldly she thought to herself.
"Yeah, I guess I am." James said coldly in a low even tone as he turned and walked away.
What's wrong with me? thought Lily. Why couldn't I just say I'm sorry, that maybe I acted a little rashly? Lily cursed herself as she sat on her bed in her room. Maybe James isn't the only one who needs to grow up, she thought miserably as she fell back onto the bed.
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Later that night Lily was sitting in the common room, trying to finish as essay for her History of Magic class. She was stuck on the third paragraph, not knowing what to write next. She set her quill down and sighed as she sunk back into the chair she was sitting in. She looked around the room. She was one of the only people still up. There were two sixth year boys playing chess in one corner, and a third year who looked little she'd fallen asleep on one of the more comfortable chairs, her Defence Against the Dark Arts book still lying open on her lap. She looked down at the ground and something caught her eye. It was a wrinkled piece of paper. Picking it up she noticed it was one of the posters that had been placed all around the room. She was about to throw it out, but something stopped her. Instead she opened it up, smoothed it out and looked at the picture of James. She found herself smiling. James looked so good all dressed up in his Quidditch robes, she thought. The James in the picture looked back at her and smiled. It was unlike any smile she'd seen from James before. It was a real smile, genuine and happy, not one of those cocky, half-grins he normally has, she thought, but a sweet, secret, caring smile, like he's smiling just for me. Lily felt like she could look into those big brown eyes of his forever. She smiled, and looked around, making sure no was watching her. She quickly folded the poster in half and stuck in into her transfiguration textbook. Then, feeling much happier, she picked up her quill and began to write again.
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The rest of the week was pretty uneventful for Lily. She was still trying to avoid James. She didn't really know what to say to him. She was sorry she had overreacted in the common room, but she didn't know how to tell him, so she just avoided the whole thing altogether. She was sitting in the common room with Emma and Frank trying to think of how to approach him, when she suddenly realised something.
"Where's Alice?" Lily asked, looking around.
"I don't know." Emma replied, looking just as confused. "Come to think of it, I haven't seen much of her at all this past week. I wonder what she's been up to?"
"Oh!" said Sirius, "I know what's going on!"
"Do you always listen to other people's conversations?" Lily asked.
"No," said Sirius smiling, "you're just special!"
"So, what's going on with Alice?" asked Emma, excitedly.
Sirius lowered his voice, and leaned in towards them, "She's been running off to meet with a secret boyfriend," he said seriously. Lily, Emma, and Frank all looked at him like he was crazy. "It's the truth!" Sirius said, looking hurt that they didn't believe him "Honestly! I saw her heading outside with some guy, I don't know who he is, some Ravenclaw, I think, or maybe a Hufflepuff, I'm not really sure..."
"Alice with a Hufflepuff! That's ridiculous!" said Frank, a little too sharply.
"I'm telling you, mate, I saw it!" Sirius insisted as he got up and wandered aimlessly up the stairs to the guys dorm.
"Ridiculous!" Frank mumbled under his breath, but a little less confidently than before.
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Lily was straightening up the common room after she'd stopped a pillow fight between a bunch of second and third years when Emma burst into the room, dragging a very angry-looking Frank.
"You'll never guess what we just saw!" exclaimed Emma. "Sirius was right! Alice does have a secret boyfriend! We were walking down the hall and we saw Alice come in with some guy. And she smiled and said... and said... Frank what did she say?"
"thank you for everything" Frank replied numbly, looking glum.
"Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's what she said, and he said 'no problem! Same time tomorrow?'" squealed Emma, "and I heard her say 'sure sounds good' then we had to hide because she started walking towards us, and I didn't want her to think we were spying on her or anything. Do you think we should let her know we know? I wonder why she wouldn't want us to know in the first place?" Emma asked.
"I don't know. But I think we should wait until she tells us, I mean she's obviously keeping it a secret for some reason." Lily replied thoughtfully. Emma reluctantly nodded in agreement,
"I guess you're right." She said, sounding only slightly disappointed.
"What do you think Frank?" Lily asked, Frank looked a little dazed and didn't seem to hear. "Frank?"
"hmmm? What? Oh, yeah, uh, we shouldn't say anything, wait for her to confess, I agree."
Just than Alice walked into the room, looking very happy. She had a huge grin on her face,
"Hey guys!" She said, sitting down.
"Hi Alice, where have you been?" Emma asked expectantly.
"Oh I was, um..., ah..., just in the library..." Alice stammered.
The four friends sat working in silence for most of the night. Frank appeared to be brooding and he wouldn't even look at Alice. When she tried to ask him a question he'd just give her a one-word answer and go back to his work. Finally Alice couldn't stand it anymore and asked him what was wrong.
"Nothing! Nothings wrong! I'm going to bed!" Frank replied and stomped off to his dorm, sounding very much like something was wrong. Alice looked at Emma and Lily, looking bewildered, but they just shrugged.
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Lily stood in front of James, she had finally worked up the courage to apologize.
"James, I am so sorry about yelling at you. I know I overreacted, I promise I'll try to control my temper better in the future."
"It's OK Lily, don't worry about it." James said smiling down at her, looking into her eyes.
"I just don't know what comes over me, I just can't help myself and- " Lily was talking very fast and James put a hand on her shoulder to calm her down.
"It's alright, I forgive you" he said, smiling again, squeezing her shoulders to let her know he meant it.
"But-" began Lily.
"Lily! Look at me!" James commanded in a soft, soothing voice. Lily stopped talking and looked up at James, who was looking down at her, smiling just for her, just like he seemed to be in the picture. "I said it's alright" James mumbled softly as he moved his hand from her shoulders to place it on her cheek. He took a step closer, Lily's heart jumped into her throat and her pulse began to race, she barely remembered to breath as he began to run his hand slowly through her hair. "Lily, you... are... so beautiful" James said, barely whispering as he stared into Lily's eyes. Lily took a step closer, she couldn't believe this was happening, here, now, with James Potter. But as the warmth from his body came closer, all doubts were erased from her mind. Their faces were now only inches apart, she could feel his warm breath on her face, could see his lips, looking so inviting. She tilted her head up and moved in closer as she closed her eyes, and just as their lips were about to touch, a loud, maniacal laughter suddenly rang out all around them. James backed away from Lily and she opened her eyes to see that James was laughing to. He now had his arm around Erin, who was the source of the first laugh.
"Can you believe... she actually thought... you'd want her!" Erin gasped between laughs. James and Erin continued to laugh, Lily felt her face getting warm she tried to turn to run away but every direction she turned to, there were Erin and James, laughing at her and holding onto each other. Finally they began to walk away but their laughs were still ringing loud and clear. Lily tried to chase them, but her feet seemed glued to the ground.
"Wait!" she called. "Where are you going? Where are you taking him?"
"Away from you!" Erin shouted back, laughing even louder, sounding evil, insane. Then suddenly the laugher changed, it was now a man's voice, evil, sinister, dark. Voldemort's voice.
"I'm going to take him away from you, Lily!" Voldemort's laugh rang out in the space all around her, getting louder and louder until Lily felt that she was being suffocated by it.
"Lily!" the voice began to call, "Lily!" suddenly the voice became clearer, a girls voice again, but kind, friendly, Alice, Alice! Lily opened her eyes to see Alice sitting on her bed, shaking her. "Lily! Good you're awake! Are you OK?" She asked sounding concerned. "You looked like you were having a bad dream." Lily smiled,
"It didn't start out that way," she mumbled to herself.
"What's that?" Alice asked.
"Nothing. I mean I'm fine, what's wrong with you? What are you doing up in the middle of the night?" Lily asked stretching as a sleepy Emma was just waking up on the other side of the room.
"What's going on?" Emma asked groggily, climbing out of bed and trudging over to Lily's.
"Well," began Alice "I was downstairs, I fell asleep on the couch, but something woke me up. I sat up and looked around but couldn't see anything so I was about to go back to sleep when I heard the portrait door being opened. I peeked over the back of the couch and looked at the door, I still couldn't see anybody, but I saw the door swing shut. I decided I should find out was going on, so I quickly slipped out the door and looked down the hall, I couldn't see anyone and was about to go back inside when I heard voices. Actually, I heard Sirius, and James, I'm sure it was them, Merlin knows they talk enough for me to know the sound of their voices! Well, they sounded like they were only a few feet in front of me, but I couldn't see anyone. Sirius said something like 'Wormtail, you git, watch where you're stepping that was my foot' then I heard James say 'shhhh! Do you want Filtch to catch us?'. I walked in their direction for awhile, but since I couldn't see them, I don't know where they went, so I just came back up here." Alice finished and looked up at Lily and Emma. "So what do you think? How were they invisible?"
"Well, they could have figured out how to make some sort of invisibility potion, maybe" suggested Emma, yawning.
"I don't know, but it seemed like they were walking awfully close together." Emma replied uncertainly.
"Maybe it was an invisibility shield, like a bubble, that only works for a small area ..." Lily offered. "Or some sort of blanket or cloak... I'm not really sure, but at least we have some idea of how they've been managing to sneak around the school all these years without getting caught!"
"I wonder what they were going out for tonight?" Emma asked, yawning again and rubbing her eyes.
"I don't know" Lily said thoughtfully "but I plan to ask them in the morning!"
End of chapter 5
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