Why weren't you in Class?

By: SotMoon*

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.

Authors Note: I am so terribly sorry I haven't added a Chappie in a few days, but it's baseball season, and I'm a freak for baseball…so…yeah! Here's the next Chappie of the Story. Hee-Hee.

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            The few days after Christmas Lily sat in bed., her eyes blood-shot and brown bags under her eyes. She could hardly sleep after all the dreams she had. Lily shook the covers off of her legs, and walked over to her mirror. She sighed as she looked at herself; she went to the bathroom and then proceeded to get ready to go to breakfast.

            As Raven and Lily went down to eat breakfast, Lily told Raven about her dream, and about the book and what all had happened. This took along time, but they still had along way to go with Raven pregnant. Raven was in full pregnancy and was due in about five weeks. Her belly was now quite large, and her mood swings had already kicked in. She ate more—though Lily read that you don't have to eat a lot when you're pregnant.

            Raven nodded as they walked down the stairs as Lily talked, one hand resting on her lower back, and the other on the rail as she walked down. When they finally arrived at the hall, and sat down Lily finished her story, as she put a few sausages on her plate.

            "So…what do you think of it?" Lily asked nervously as she looked at Raven. Raven was chewing on a piece of sausage, and was looking at Lily—surveying her.

            "Well," Raven began after she swallowed her food. "I think that the dream wasn't anything, I believe it was just your subconscious thinking about the Hag before you went to bed, so you dreamed about her."

            Lily shrugged and looked around. There was no sign of any of the Marauders. Lily ate more, then looked at her magical watch, and saw that Breakfast was to be over in five minutes, and then class was to begin. Lily ate her breakfast faster, and when she was done the Bell Rang.

            Lily and Raven walked to their Regular classes, but the Marauders' weren't at any of their classes. Lily asked a Professor where they were at, and the Professor said that they were all ill. Lily arched an eyebrow, and then silently began to take her notes as usual. As the day slowly dragged on Lily wondered what the boys were up to, since they rarely missed the chance to make fun of Snape in Potions class.

            At the end of classes Lily grabbed her book bag, and slung it over her shoulder and slowly began her decent to the Gryffindor Tower, Raven puffing behind her. When inside the common room, Lily slung her back into a corner, and walked up the stairs to the Boy's Dormitories. Lily kicked open the door and arched an eyebrow.

            All of the Marauders were sitting huddled around a single piece of parchment, their eyes alive with mischief, and their eyes sparkled with glee, like a child who found a piece of candy. When Lily opened the door they all jumped and then smiled nervously.

            "Hello, Lils." James said as he came up and hugged Lily, he spun her around in the hug, and motioned with one of his arms to get rid of the paper. Lily noticed, and took out her wand.  James jumped for the paper, but Lily said "accio" before he had time to get there. The parchment flew through the air, and into Lily's pale hand.

            "What is this, James?" Lily asked looking at the paper, she sat down on Remus' bed, and looked at the parchment closely. It was a normal piece of parchment to Lily, no spots nor anything written on it—it was also very tough, and seemed it would not rip easily. Lily's eyes narrowed in suspicion. "What is it James?" She repeated.

            James grabbed the piece of paper back from Lily, and sat it on the table. Lily walked over and looked at James. James shifted his feet a bit, and then cleaned his glasses.

            "It's a map." James said as he smiled a bit. Lily picked it up again, and then arched an eyebrow. James nodded, and Lily shook her head.

            "You…missed class for a piece of PAPER?" Lily yelled. James winced, and Raven came into the room, her hand on the small of her back. Lily breathed in, and pushed her bangs out of her face. Her face slowly beginning to come back to it's normal pale color, instead of the red color it became when she was angry.

            James sighed, and sat down Lily in a chair, he took out his wand and set the tip apon the paper and said: "I solemnly swear I am up to no good."  The parchment suddenly wasn't plain anymore, a map formed. Lily noticed that it was a map of Hogwarts, with all the hidden passageways on it. Including the Caretakers' Passages in it. The map led all the way to the borders of Hogsmede.

            "It also shows anyone who is moving around," James said as he pointed to one of the corridors and it showed that Severus Snape, and Lucius Malfoy were prowling about the second floor corridor.

            "That's cool," Raven said as she chewed on a Banana. Sirius looked like he was about to cry, that was his banana he'd saved up. Sirius used to have a hoard of bananas but Raven had slowly eaten them all.

            "Well, I must go," Remus, said briskly as he walked to the door. "It's a full moon, you know." He said as an undertone, and went out the door. Everyone waved good-bye, and then studied the map for a little while more. Lily and James argued whether James should keep the bathroom part of the map on there.

            "That's gross, James! Take that out!" Lily growled as she looked down and saw that Goyle had been in the bathroom for forty-five minutes. "Take it off, now!"

            "But—" James whined, but one look from Lily's face told him that the discussion was over. "Fine…"

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AN2: Hey everyone! I'm sorry; this Chappie is so tiny, but aye. Hope you liked it!