A/N: This is what I think likely happened when Sirius tried to get Snape killed by telling him how to get near Lupin under a full moon. Set in Marauder's/MWPP era, in their 6th year. Lily's POV.
I thought this was one piece of history that needed some filling in. I hope I'm accurately representing the characters and their (possible) relationships at this time. Please read and review.
I should also note that I've done a slight tweaking of The Most Ancient and Noble Black Family Tree. So I guess the story now falls under the category of A/U (alternate universe). But it doesn't widely affect the plot, and it is only a minor character (who I'm starting to quite enjoy writing!) that gets tweaked into the story, so I hope I am right in believing that the purists will forgive me? ;-)
A great big "Hello" and "THANK YOU" to everyone who has read it and everyone who has reviewed. (Again, sorry about the delay! I think I've got back into the story again, so hopefully I'll get the next chapter up soon!) (The Habs won the game tonight, so I'm breathing a little easier and can focus on other things...such as fanfiction!....for the time being.)
(And sorry for the ever-increasing length of this author's note. I just never know when to shut up!)
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The three remaining Gryffindors stood staring at each other, in shock. The Map had drifted to the floor beside the silvery fabric that Lily had noticed James holding.
After a moment Lily bent down to retrieve the Map. Her face was transfixed in amazement as she took in the detailed lines that drew the Common Room, the corridor outside, the stairs leading downwards, and all of the school and grounds. No, wonder those guys get away with everything! ... With a map like this, you could go anywhere in the castle!
Peter and Tibby had leaned in to look at the map as well. "There's James!" Peter pointed one of his stubby fingers at a moving dot labeled 'James Potter'.
"It looks like he's heading outside," said Lily, as her eyes travelled ahead of James' moving figure on the map, out towards the grounds. "And look! There's Snape! He's just got outside!"
They watched in horror as they saw Snape slowly making his way towards the Whomping Willow.
"We've got to do something! We've got to go after them as well!" Said Lily.
"No!" cried Tibby and Peter in unison. "It's too dangerous for us to go out there." said Tibby
Lily made to leave anyways, "I'm not going to stand around waiting for them to get killed!"
Tibby grabbed Lily's arm to stop her from going. "Well getting yourself killed isn't going to help matters, now is it? We should have stopped James from going," said Tibby, "it won't do any good if he catches up with Snape but gets attacked too!"
A jolt of panic and horror, and a feeling Lily couldn't quite explain was suddenly present in her stomach. We have to do something! But what?
"I don't think we have to worry about James, too much..." said Peter in a strained voice, as though he was holding himself back from saying something else.
"What do you mean?" demanded Lily. "He's in as much danger as Snape if he goes after them!"
"James knows how to....handle himself around a werewolf, okay?"
"He knows how to Handle himself around...? Look, we can't just stand here." Said Tibby. "We should go and get help."
"Dumbledore." whispered Lily. She started quickly for the portrait hole. "I'm going to go get Dumbledore." and clambered out past the Fat Lady.
She was immediately followed by Peter and Tibby. She turned around to face them. "Look, we should probably split up. I'll go and tell Dumbledore what's happened and you two go and get Madam Pomfrey....I assume she knows about Remus too?" she directed her question towards Peter who nodded.
"Right." With that she turned around and sprinted off down the corridor towards Dumbledore's office.
I just hope Dumbledore will be able to do something.
Lily suddenly felt a little childish running to the Headmaster's office. Running to a teacher to make everything better...seemed like something she would have done as a first- or second-year student. But there's nothing else to be done. None of us can go out there, to stop Snape or James from getting hurt without running the same risk ourselves.
Lily felt a little ashamed that Potter was out there risking his neck when the rest of them just ran to the teachers. Then she remembered what Peter had said "James knows how to handle himself around a werewolf..." Fine. I'm not going to worry about James Potter... She thought this with a slight bitterness. But in any case, I need to do the right thing. And the right thing is to tell Dumbledore.
She felt more determined when she reached the hidden entrance to Dumbledore's office. "Treacle Tart" she said, gasping for air and clutching a stitch in her side. In the back of her mind she made a mental note to exercise more as the staircase appeared and she found her way into the office.
I don't know if telling Dumbledore will help anything....but if anyone can help, it's him.
Still breathless, she knocked on the door.