Professor McGonagall sat down to face Sirius, Remus, and Peter. She put her face in her hands and after she had recomposed herself, she sat up and looked at them. She sighed and then began, Alright, each of you please give me an explanation of your view of these events. Mr. Lupin, you may begin first, and please give a detailed account of what you have witnessed.

Remus closed his eyes and breathed in deeply before he began. Well, James, Sirius, Peter and I had just finished breakfast and we were deciding what we were going to do with our last day at Hogwarts. After some discussion, James had noticed that Lily had not come down from the dormitories yet, so we decided to return here and wait for her so that we could all do something together.

He paused and thought a little about the chronological order of the events, which in his mind, seemed to have happened years ago, instead of only an hour. When we had entered the Common Room, it was deserted, as everyone was outside enjoying the summer day. So we sat down and waited for her to come down from her dormitory.

In about half an hour, both James and Sirius were becoming impatient. During one of the brief intervals in which we were not speaking, we heard... a blood curdling scream. We all froze. I thought it sounded far off and was maybe coming from the grounds. But James recognized Lily's voice and ran to the stairs and started working a complex spell to allow us to use the stairs. I ordered Peter to go get you, and turned to the stairs, which James and Sirius were almost finished with.

As they had finished the spell, we heard another sound, but it was no scream. It was a loud, echoing bang. We froze again, and as James asked what that was, I had realized what it had been and answered his question. A gun shot. At this realization, we all ran up the stairs to Lily's dorm.

Remus paused, and frowned a look of pure disgust that mingled with loathing. We reached her room and James threw open the door. The sight that laid before us caused us to pale. Snape was standing over Lily, with two wands pointing at her. For a few split seconds, he continued his spell on her... no ordinary hex, but a curse, an Unforgivable Curse... the Cruciatus Curse.

Professor McGonagall had a pure look of horror clash onto her face as Remus finished this last sentence. She did nothing but widen her eyes as Remus continued with his account of the happenings. Sirius and Peter listened to their friend's version of what had happened. The way Remus told the story... he made it sound a hundred times worse. Sirius thought that in any other situation, he would have marveled at Remus' storytelling skills. But at the moment, he could do nothing but listen to the hard, cold facts of what they had witnessed. He felt a pang of misery for James and Lily, for this incident must have been a thousand times more hurtful then how he, Sirius, perceived it. He noticed that Peter had almost stopped breathing altogether, as he had not been present for the upcoming events. Sirius then returned from his thoughts to listen to Remus tell his share.

We stood there horrorstruck at the scene in front of us. Snape was standing over Lily, he had a bloody left arm, indicating that he had been shot with the gun that lay on the floor next to Lily, who at that moment was being tortured. We were too shocked to do anything of sense, such as disarm Snape. Before we could even begin to think of doing that, he had noticed our presence and had pulled off the curse, or curses actually, to face us.

Lily lay in a heap on the floor crying. James shouted at Snape to tell him what he did, but Snape only smirked. I was going to help Lily, but as I took a step near her, he raised both wands again, one pointed at Lily, and one pointed at us. He warned us that if we took another step towards Lily or himself, that Lily would die. So we stood still, and watched as Snape tossed Lily's wand away from our reach and onto Lily's bed. He then stood between us and Lily with his back to her and his wand pointed at us. In that moment, we realized that Lily had also noticed what... horribly stupid thing he had done, and her eyes flickered to her wand. We all knew in an instant that she was going to crawl over and retrieve her wand. So James started to stall Snape.

Remus paused again. He seemed as though the weight of the world was on his shoulders, and most probably, he did hold the weight of the magical world at the moment. Far too great a burden for anyone, and Professor McGonagall seemed to notice this. She gave him an encouraging look, but did not say anything so as not to ruin his train of thought. Remus sighed deeply and continued.

James asked Snape again what he had done to Lily. Snape, that evil cretan, he then asked if we would like a demonstration. Of course, he gave no time for reply. No, he struck down Sirius with that same horrible curse! Remus shouted this last part, and then he winced as if this story was causing him physical pain to tell. He continued anyway. Immediately James told Snape that we would not need such a demonstration, and Snape, with a last contemptuous glance, pulled off the curse. I helped Sirius stand up again and Snape then gave an account of how he had blackmailed another Slytherin into finding the password to our dormitory.

Remus broke off again, and was breathing a little harder than usual from his last outbreak. Then as he thought of what happened next, you could almost see a smile form on his face. While Snape was rambling on about his so-called magnificent work, Lily had been crawling towards her bed to retrieve her wand. Soon she had reached her wand, grabbed it, and slid of the bed and back onto the floor, unnoticed by Snape. We tried not to watch her, so as Snape would not get suspicious and turn around, and she crawled back up behind him. ...Unfortunately, suddenly Snape had stopped talking and we saw his eyes narrow. He could see Lily's reflection in James' glasses. Luckily, as Snape whirled around, Lily was quicker, and she hit him with the Full-Body Bind. Snape then fell over.

After this had happened, we were still in some shock about the whole incident so we just stood there as Lily slowly got up. We watched her as she walked over to her gun and picked it up. Then she suddenly pointed it at Snape. We all ran over to her and James held onto her as both Sirius and I got the gun out of her hand without getting anyone shot. James told her that Azkaban would be better for him than dying and that he didn't want her to go to Azkaban for shooting Snape. At this she stopped struggling, and James let her go. Her eyes then rested over the scene, and she slid down the wall and onto the floor. She burst out crying and James went to comfort her. Minutes later, you and Peter burst through the door... and now we are back to this.