Chapter eleven: Lord Voldermort
It was Sunday after noon, and James was sitting on the couch in the Gryffindor common room, his arms securely around Lily, talking to the gang. Sirius was there too; he also had his arm around Laura. Peter had gone off with his girlfriend again, but Remus was there, the only one missing from the usual six, was Lou, "Oh my gosh" She exclaimed running into the common room, and thrusting three papers in the direction of her friends.
"What?" Laura asked alarmed
"Something dreadful has happened" Lou said with a grim face on.
"What?" Remus asked urgently,
"Read the paper" Lou said sadly. For minuets there was silence, nothing but Lou's fidgeting made a sound, then Laura finished the story,
"Oh, my God" she said
"That is plain, plain, -" Laura cut off
"Evil" James finished for her, she nodded. "But who did it?" James asked,
"Some one called Lord Voldermort" Lou said quietly
"How do you know?" Sirius asked
"I asked Dumbledore if the rumours were true. He confirmed them and he said I needed to know the truth, and that it was a guy called, Lord Voldermort, more commonly know to Dumbledore, as Tom Riddle" Lou answered
"Tom Riddle?" James questioned, Lou nodded, "He won a special award for schools, bout thirty years back, what's he doing killing people?" James asked. The group shock their heads, "Donno" Remus said.
"I say we find more about this, Voldermort guy, and give him a piece of our mind" Lou said forcefully. Laura gave a week smile,
"Lou, you can't go up to a guy who just killed five highly skilled wizards for no reason, and demand he stops" Laura said kindly
"Yeah, I don't think he would listen." Remus pointed out
"And no offence, but I don't want the gang to be down to a duet. Well, not yet anyways" Lily said with a smile, Lou sat down, thinking hard, "Well, we have to do something, find out what his motive is, or something" Lou said, giving them a little smile, as if to say, please.
"Lou, I think you'll find that this is slightly more complicated than a play or film," Sirius told her. Lou thought for a moment,
"Fine, I'll do it my self" Lou said getting up and leaving the common room.
"Erm, she is going to still be like friends with us, isn't she?" James asked Lily, she nodded,
"Lou will come around, but she will find out something about Voldermort, she's done this before, you know, if we feel we cant help her with something, then she'll do it her self." Lily said. Lily was right in the fact that Lou wouldn't give up, and she was also right in the fact that she would remain friends with them, but Lou had withdrawn her self from the group slightly, only speaking when she needed to. By the third week back at school, the girls had made a special bond with the boys, and vice versa. Professor Midgeal informed them during Quidditch class, that there first Quidditch match would be held next week, and it was going to be Gryffindor, versus Slythrin. James was looking forward to creaming the likes of Malfoy, the Slythrin seeker, he was in the year above him at school, and James hated him. In Drama class, Professor Drummond told them what show they would be putting on, and in Music, Professor Flitz had also informed them that they were to be doing a musical concert, and that you could chose what instrument you want to play, "Phew, I thought I'd be stuck with the trumpet" Peter had said.
"Your lucky Lily, you've escaped Swimming for the while, but me and Lou, will embarrass you!" Laura said, going to Gryffindor Common room,
"I'll look forward to it" Lily said sarcastically. They all took there normal places on the couches, and talked, the usual arrangement, Sirius all over Laura, James all over Lily, Peter with Penny somewhere in the castle, Remus stuck on his own, and Lou in the Library, trying to find out about Voldermort.
"I don't want to do school tomorrow," Laura complained
"Me neither" Sirius complained,
"I hate Thursday" Laura said spitefully. The boys all looked at each other, for they all knew Friday was the night of the full moon, and that meant that the Marauders had to do a little trip to he Shrieking Shack. "I've done it" Lou said, disturbing James thought, she stood there, with an air of; I told you I could do it! Look on her face.
"Done what Lou?" Laura asked
"Found out about Lord Voldermort" Lou said, Lou then started to mention tons of facts about Tom Riddle, then about things called Death- eaters, which turned out to be supporters of evil people. "Death Eaters?" Lily asked Lou nodded. They asked Lou a lot of questions about the information she had dug up, but some questions she couldn't answer. By the next day, James was starting to get panicked; he didn't know what to tell the girls about Remus being a werewolf. He couldn't tell them, but he couldn't find a suitable excuse. Finally he decided to tell them that they needed to talk to Dumbledore. Lou looked at them strangely, but said nothing, James had the distinct impression Lou was taking everything in, from the fact they were trying to get away, to the fact it was the full moon, James put it down to nerves. When the girls finally believed their excuse, they all left for the hospital wing, as Remus had to go down to the Shrieking Shack with Madam Levinatra, the school matron. James had the cloak with him, and hid it up his top. When Remus was in the Whomping Willow, the entrance to the Shrieking Shack, James, Sirius and Peter all dived under the cloak, and made their way across the forest to the Whomping Willow. When they got there, they made sure no one was around, and they transformed, Peter turned into a rat, and pressed the notch making the tree that normally hit people, stop trying to hit them. Then Sirius and James transformed, James into a stag, and Sirius into a dog. They all entered the secret passageway, and were greeted by a werewolf, none of them seemed remotely surprised at this, but it had seemed, that Remus, the werewolf, had already transformed and ripped apart four chairs and a table. The rest of the night they spent time in the forbidden forest. When they got back, Remus was a human again, but his robes were torn, and he looked pale and sick. "God, it's freezing" He exclaimed, the others followed his lead, and transformed into humans,
"Your right, Moony" Sirius said,
"Lets get back up to the castle," Peter suggested
"Good idea" James told him. Madam Pomfry gave Remus a mug of hot coco, and a set of new robes; he was also told that he had to stay in the hospital wing for the rest of the morning. Remus, who was too tired to complain, agreed. James, Sirius and Peter made there way back to the Common room, to find it completely empty, they made there way back up to bed, and James fell asleep when his head hit the pillow. The next day James was woken up by voices around him, "What's the time?" he asked sleepily,
"Two thirty in the afternoon" Remus said. James got out of bed and dressed. There was something different about Remus, Sirius and Peter's expressions, they all seemed to be worried, "What's up?" James asked them.
"Lou knows" Remus said
"Lou knows what?" Jams asked yawning,
"That I'm a werewolf" Remus said sharply, James stopped yawning instantly, and fixed Remus with a stare, "You don't know that for a fact" James told him
"Yeah he does, tell him the story, Moony" Peter said
"I was in the hospital wing, it was about nine o'clock, and I had just woken up, I was drinking my potion to make me feel better, when Lou walked in, she asked how I was, and what was wrong with me, because she, Lily and Laura waited up till about two o'clock in the morning for us to return, she said she got worried when we didn't. Then she asked me what the potion was for, and I told her that it was for a spell someone cast on me last night, when we were out. She seemed to believe me at first, then she asked me if I noticed how beautiful the moon was last night, I might of given it away last night, because I said, no, but I said it a bit to fast, -" Remus said,
"-So, that doesn't mean she knows, she was just commenting on the moon," James told him cutting in,
"Let him finish" Sirius told him, James nodded,
"We then got on to the topic of an essay she had to do, for Defence against the dark arts, and she said it was to do with Bogart's, when she said this I got panicked, since she's in my DADA, class, and she would of seen what my Bogart was. I acted cool, until she asked me what mine was, I told her it was a crystal ball, then she casually said she thought it looked like the moon. Okay, I admit, by this time I was getting freaked out, most people, apart from you lot, think that it's a crystal ball, so I don't disagree, but she didn't. After she said that, she looked at me as if to say she knew, I think she was actually trying to tell by my face if I was a werewolf or not. We chatted casually for about I donno, half an hour, with no more hints of her thinking I was a werewolf, until she said that her friend was a werewolf, and that she had figured that they were. Okay, so I admit it, my face expression changed, she asked me what was up, and I told her it was because I didn't know any werewolf's, then she sighed, and I told her again that I didn't. Then she kinnda huffed and told me, 'to tell her for God's sake' since she had already figured was a werewolf, I told her time and time again that I hadn't a clue what she was on about, but she didn't listen. So I finally told her I was, and do you know what she did Prongs," Remus asked, "James shock his head, "She smiled, she didn't seem to care, she didn't give a crap." Remus explained. James looked at him funny, "She says she won't tell anyone, not even Lily and Laura. But that's not what bothers me; it's the fact that she knows, I mean. How could she? She's known me for what, one werewolf time, and she already knows!" Remus exclaimed. The boys talked about his subject for ages, until James got hungry, "Can we go down to the kitchens?" James asked. The others nodded and followed him out of the room. The conversation was the same down in the kitchens; they didn't bother about the house elves being there, because they were bound not to tell anyone any secrets.
They went back up to Gryffindor common room at about five o'clock, by that time, Lily, Laura and Lou were sitting by a table and chairs, there heads buried above tons of books and pieces of parchment. Sirius went over to them, "Doing homework on a day like this, don't you have better things to do?" Sirius asked them,
"Like what?" Laura asked him looking up from her parchment, that had a lot of writing on it,
"Well, you could be kissing me for one thing" Sirius said, before kissing her on the lips. Lou rolled her eyes and went back to her parchment. Lily put down her parchment and picked up her book, no sooner had Lily picked it up, did James snatch it out of her hands, "James, give that back, I've got work to do" Lily said smiling,
"Animagi: how to become your favourite creature" James read out loud,
"Give it back, were doing Professor Macgonnagal homework that you obviously haven't done, remember, she asked us all to research on Animagus and find a creature we would all like to become, and explain the steps of how we would do it." Lily reeled off,
"Oh that, we've done it" Sirius said offhandedly.
"Oh" Lou said, "Well you can help us then, I've never meet an Animagus before" Lou said, staring at them with that smile that said, please Lily, and Laura were now giving the smile too,
"Sure" Peter said, smiling.
"That's me done" Laura said half an hour later,
"So what do you want to be?" Sirius asked her,
"A unicorn" Laura said simply
"You'd suit that, unicorns are beautiful creatures, just like your self" Sirius said kissing her again.
"I want to be a Palomino Horse" Lily sad, putting down her quill, Lou did the same, but Lou started to pack her stuff away,
"Great choice" James said, kissing her as well. Lou, who had finished didn't say what she wanted to be, "What do you want to be, Lou" Remus asked her. [I]He hadn't spoken to her directly since the accident in the Hospital wing[/I] James thought.
"Oh, nothing special, just a black cat" Lou said simply, Remus looked at her,
"Yeah, I could see you being that" He told her and she laughed. After dinnertime, the group were back in the common room, minus Peter, because he stayed with his girlfriend.
"You know, I think I might give it a try," Laura said offhand,
"Give what a try?" Sirius asked her
"Becoming a Unicorn. I mean, imagine it, it would be so cool" Laura said dreamily
"Yeah, and It would be a challenge" Lou said
"Yeah, and it would also be illegal" Lily said sternly
"Yeah, but that's what makes it so good, it's a challenge with all to risk" Laura told her
"Come on Lily, we do things together, we always have" Laura said
"Well this is one thing you can do without me," Lily said, standing her ground
"Lily! You love challenges, come on, it will be fun, I mean imagine it, you could go wherever you wanted, and know one but us lot would know who you were" Lily begged.
"Well I guess, it would be cool" Lily said
"Remember back when we were eleven, and you told us that what ever big thing we were ever going to do, we were going to do it together, no matter what" Laura told her, "I mean, you don't want to back out of your promise now, do you?" Laura added, Lou smiled,
"Okay, Okay, you got me, fine, I'll do it" Lily said. The girls grinned, and hugged each other.
"What do you guys think?" Laura asked the guys,
"I think its cool" James said, thinking they could go out with them on the full moon. The others nodded,
"Great idea" Sirius said,
"Cool" Remus said. The boys spent the rest of the weekend helping and deciding whether to tell the girls they were Animagus. They finally decided not to, well, not unless they asked them directly. The thing good thing about the girls studying to become Animagus is that they got more time to pull pranks on Slytherin's, and explore Hogwarts a bit more. James was walking back from the Quidditch pitch where he liked to mull things over in his head, "Bloody things, why cant they keep their magical objects to themselves" James herd Filth the caretaker say. James pressed his ear against the door of Filtch's office and listened, there was a gap in the keyhole and James peered through, he saw Filtch wrap up two objects, one that he was wrapping was a mirror, a delicate, beautiful, small mirror. James didn't know what magical powers it held, but what ever they were, they would be great, for Filtch was a Squib, and he hated the students and magic. Pulling out his wand, James made a bucket and mop fall over about three meters away, causing the contents to fall, spill and to make a huge noise, "Ahhh" Came Filtch's voice from inside his office, James stood back, then when Filtch was busy cleaning up the mess, James snuck into his office, grabbed the mirrors and legged it up the stairs and into the Gryffindor Common room. Laura, Lily and Lou were at their usual place, studying to become Animagus', James gave Lily a quick kiss and went up to his room, wanting to find out what the mirrors could do. James sat on his bed, and pulled out his wand. He tapped the mirrors (After he had unwrapped them) with his wand, nothing happened. James sat there, saying various spells, looking all over the mirror for clues, but the only one was: ' Made by, Graham and Andrew, founders of, 'Best, Pals', even this wasn't really a clue, but James had the feeling that it was to be used between best friends, "There you are mate, Lily told me you were up here" Sirius said, walking into the room," What you doing?" He asked, eyeing the mirrors on his bed,
"I'm trying to figure out how these work" James told him, then he went into the story of how he found and got them, Sirius picked one up, and walked around the room, this was his way of thinking, walking around a room. "So, what do you think it does?" Sirius asked, James was just about to answer his question, when something on the bed, more specifically, on his mirror got a hold of his attention, in the mirror had just appeared Sirius's face, and instead of just hearing Sirius's voice from where he was standing, he herd it from the mirror, "Erm, well, go outside, look at the mirror and I'll tell you!" James directed, Sirius looked at him strangely, and opened his mouth, but James said, "Just do it" Sirius obeyed. "I'm outside, Prongs" Sirius said, but this time, he could only hear, and see Sirius, through the mirror,
"I know, look at the mirror" James said to his mirror,
"Whoa, awesome" Sirius said again through the mirror. Sirius came back through and was looking gob-smacked, "That mirror is so cool" Sirius said, James agreed.
"You know, I think its trying to tell us something" Sirius told James, James looked puzzled, "What?" He asked,
"Have you never noticed that it's our middle names that are on the back of this mirror, Graham and Andrew?" Sirius asked him, James turned his mirror over and observed, so it was, for his name was, James Andrew Potter, and Sirius's was Sirius Graham Black. "That's freaky" James said, looking closer, "Made by Best Palls" James said quietly. The rest of the week, the Marauders, minus Peter quite a few times, were always pulling pranks, yeah, James missed Lily, but now she was his girlfriend, it seemed he didn't care about being with her as much, especially not when they were pulling pranks on the Slytherin's, for he knew for a fact, Lily wouldn't approve of this. Laura might have, but he doubted weather Lou would. So in the long run, he was happy they were trying to become Animagi.
It was Sunday after noon, and James was sitting on the couch in the Gryffindor common room, his arms securely around Lily, talking to the gang. Sirius was there too; he also had his arm around Laura. Peter had gone off with his girlfriend again, but Remus was there, the only one missing from the usual six, was Lou, "Oh my gosh" She exclaimed running into the common room, and thrusting three papers in the direction of her friends.
"What?" Laura asked alarmed
"Something dreadful has happened" Lou said with a grim face on.
"What?" Remus asked urgently,
"Read the paper" Lou said sadly. For minuets there was silence, nothing but Lou's fidgeting made a sound, then Laura finished the story,
"Oh, my God" she said
"That is plain, plain, -" Laura cut off
"Evil" James finished for her, she nodded. "But who did it?" James asked,
"Some one called Lord Voldermort" Lou said quietly
"How do you know?" Sirius asked
"I asked Dumbledore if the rumours were true. He confirmed them and he said I needed to know the truth, and that it was a guy called, Lord Voldermort, more commonly know to Dumbledore, as Tom Riddle" Lou answered
"Tom Riddle?" James questioned, Lou nodded, "He won a special award for schools, bout thirty years back, what's he doing killing people?" James asked. The group shock their heads, "Donno" Remus said.
"I say we find more about this, Voldermort guy, and give him a piece of our mind" Lou said forcefully. Laura gave a week smile,
"Lou, you can't go up to a guy who just killed five highly skilled wizards for no reason, and demand he stops" Laura said kindly
"Yeah, I don't think he would listen." Remus pointed out
"And no offence, but I don't want the gang to be down to a duet. Well, not yet anyways" Lily said with a smile, Lou sat down, thinking hard, "Well, we have to do something, find out what his motive is, or something" Lou said, giving them a little smile, as if to say, please.
"Lou, I think you'll find that this is slightly more complicated than a play or film," Sirius told her. Lou thought for a moment,
"Fine, I'll do it my self" Lou said getting up and leaving the common room.
"Erm, she is going to still be like friends with us, isn't she?" James asked Lily, she nodded,
"Lou will come around, but she will find out something about Voldermort, she's done this before, you know, if we feel we cant help her with something, then she'll do it her self." Lily said. Lily was right in the fact that Lou wouldn't give up, and she was also right in the fact that she would remain friends with them, but Lou had withdrawn her self from the group slightly, only speaking when she needed to. By the third week back at school, the girls had made a special bond with the boys, and vice versa. Professor Midgeal informed them during Quidditch class, that there first Quidditch match would be held next week, and it was going to be Gryffindor, versus Slythrin. James was looking forward to creaming the likes of Malfoy, the Slythrin seeker, he was in the year above him at school, and James hated him. In Drama class, Professor Drummond told them what show they would be putting on, and in Music, Professor Flitz had also informed them that they were to be doing a musical concert, and that you could chose what instrument you want to play, "Phew, I thought I'd be stuck with the trumpet" Peter had said.
"Your lucky Lily, you've escaped Swimming for the while, but me and Lou, will embarrass you!" Laura said, going to Gryffindor Common room,
"I'll look forward to it" Lily said sarcastically. They all took there normal places on the couches, and talked, the usual arrangement, Sirius all over Laura, James all over Lily, Peter with Penny somewhere in the castle, Remus stuck on his own, and Lou in the Library, trying to find out about Voldermort.
"I don't want to do school tomorrow," Laura complained
"Me neither" Sirius complained,
"I hate Thursday" Laura said spitefully. The boys all looked at each other, for they all knew Friday was the night of the full moon, and that meant that the Marauders had to do a little trip to he Shrieking Shack. "I've done it" Lou said, disturbing James thought, she stood there, with an air of; I told you I could do it! Look on her face.
"Done what Lou?" Laura asked
"Found out about Lord Voldermort" Lou said, Lou then started to mention tons of facts about Tom Riddle, then about things called Death- eaters, which turned out to be supporters of evil people. "Death Eaters?" Lily asked Lou nodded. They asked Lou a lot of questions about the information she had dug up, but some questions she couldn't answer. By the next day, James was starting to get panicked; he didn't know what to tell the girls about Remus being a werewolf. He couldn't tell them, but he couldn't find a suitable excuse. Finally he decided to tell them that they needed to talk to Dumbledore. Lou looked at them strangely, but said nothing, James had the distinct impression Lou was taking everything in, from the fact they were trying to get away, to the fact it was the full moon, James put it down to nerves. When the girls finally believed their excuse, they all left for the hospital wing, as Remus had to go down to the Shrieking Shack with Madam Levinatra, the school matron. James had the cloak with him, and hid it up his top. When Remus was in the Whomping Willow, the entrance to the Shrieking Shack, James, Sirius and Peter all dived under the cloak, and made their way across the forest to the Whomping Willow. When they got there, they made sure no one was around, and they transformed, Peter turned into a rat, and pressed the notch making the tree that normally hit people, stop trying to hit them. Then Sirius and James transformed, James into a stag, and Sirius into a dog. They all entered the secret passageway, and were greeted by a werewolf, none of them seemed remotely surprised at this, but it had seemed, that Remus, the werewolf, had already transformed and ripped apart four chairs and a table. The rest of the night they spent time in the forbidden forest. When they got back, Remus was a human again, but his robes were torn, and he looked pale and sick. "God, it's freezing" He exclaimed, the others followed his lead, and transformed into humans,
"Your right, Moony" Sirius said,
"Lets get back up to the castle," Peter suggested
"Good idea" James told him. Madam Pomfry gave Remus a mug of hot coco, and a set of new robes; he was also told that he had to stay in the hospital wing for the rest of the morning. Remus, who was too tired to complain, agreed. James, Sirius and Peter made there way back to the Common room, to find it completely empty, they made there way back up to bed, and James fell asleep when his head hit the pillow. The next day James was woken up by voices around him, "What's the time?" he asked sleepily,
"Two thirty in the afternoon" Remus said. James got out of bed and dressed. There was something different about Remus, Sirius and Peter's expressions, they all seemed to be worried, "What's up?" James asked them.
"Lou knows" Remus said
"Lou knows what?" Jams asked yawning,
"That I'm a werewolf" Remus said sharply, James stopped yawning instantly, and fixed Remus with a stare, "You don't know that for a fact" James told him
"Yeah he does, tell him the story, Moony" Peter said
"I was in the hospital wing, it was about nine o'clock, and I had just woken up, I was drinking my potion to make me feel better, when Lou walked in, she asked how I was, and what was wrong with me, because she, Lily and Laura waited up till about two o'clock in the morning for us to return, she said she got worried when we didn't. Then she asked me what the potion was for, and I told her that it was for a spell someone cast on me last night, when we were out. She seemed to believe me at first, then she asked me if I noticed how beautiful the moon was last night, I might of given it away last night, because I said, no, but I said it a bit to fast, -" Remus said,
"-So, that doesn't mean she knows, she was just commenting on the moon," James told him cutting in,
"Let him finish" Sirius told him, James nodded,
"We then got on to the topic of an essay she had to do, for Defence against the dark arts, and she said it was to do with Bogart's, when she said this I got panicked, since she's in my DADA, class, and she would of seen what my Bogart was. I acted cool, until she asked me what mine was, I told her it was a crystal ball, then she casually said she thought it looked like the moon. Okay, I admit, by this time I was getting freaked out, most people, apart from you lot, think that it's a crystal ball, so I don't disagree, but she didn't. After she said that, she looked at me as if to say she knew, I think she was actually trying to tell by my face if I was a werewolf or not. We chatted casually for about I donno, half an hour, with no more hints of her thinking I was a werewolf, until she said that her friend was a werewolf, and that she had figured that they were. Okay, so I admit it, my face expression changed, she asked me what was up, and I told her it was because I didn't know any werewolf's, then she sighed, and I told her again that I didn't. Then she kinnda huffed and told me, 'to tell her for God's sake' since she had already figured was a werewolf, I told her time and time again that I hadn't a clue what she was on about, but she didn't listen. So I finally told her I was, and do you know what she did Prongs," Remus asked, "James shock his head, "She smiled, she didn't seem to care, she didn't give a crap." Remus explained. James looked at him funny, "She says she won't tell anyone, not even Lily and Laura. But that's not what bothers me; it's the fact that she knows, I mean. How could she? She's known me for what, one werewolf time, and she already knows!" Remus exclaimed. The boys talked about his subject for ages, until James got hungry, "Can we go down to the kitchens?" James asked. The others nodded and followed him out of the room. The conversation was the same down in the kitchens; they didn't bother about the house elves being there, because they were bound not to tell anyone any secrets.
They went back up to Gryffindor common room at about five o'clock, by that time, Lily, Laura and Lou were sitting by a table and chairs, there heads buried above tons of books and pieces of parchment. Sirius went over to them, "Doing homework on a day like this, don't you have better things to do?" Sirius asked them,
"Like what?" Laura asked him looking up from her parchment, that had a lot of writing on it,
"Well, you could be kissing me for one thing" Sirius said, before kissing her on the lips. Lou rolled her eyes and went back to her parchment. Lily put down her parchment and picked up her book, no sooner had Lily picked it up, did James snatch it out of her hands, "James, give that back, I've got work to do" Lily said smiling,
"Animagi: how to become your favourite creature" James read out loud,
"Give it back, were doing Professor Macgonnagal homework that you obviously haven't done, remember, she asked us all to research on Animagus and find a creature we would all like to become, and explain the steps of how we would do it." Lily reeled off,
"Oh that, we've done it" Sirius said offhandedly.
"Oh" Lou said, "Well you can help us then, I've never meet an Animagus before" Lou said, staring at them with that smile that said, please Lily, and Laura were now giving the smile too,
"Sure" Peter said, smiling.
"That's me done" Laura said half an hour later,
"So what do you want to be?" Sirius asked her,
"A unicorn" Laura said simply
"You'd suit that, unicorns are beautiful creatures, just like your self" Sirius said kissing her again.
"I want to be a Palomino Horse" Lily sad, putting down her quill, Lou did the same, but Lou started to pack her stuff away,
"Great choice" James said, kissing her as well. Lou, who had finished didn't say what she wanted to be, "What do you want to be, Lou" Remus asked her. [I]He hadn't spoken to her directly since the accident in the Hospital wing[/I] James thought.
"Oh, nothing special, just a black cat" Lou said simply, Remus looked at her,
"Yeah, I could see you being that" He told her and she laughed. After dinnertime, the group were back in the common room, minus Peter, because he stayed with his girlfriend.
"You know, I think I might give it a try," Laura said offhand,
"Give what a try?" Sirius asked her
"Becoming a Unicorn. I mean, imagine it, it would be so cool" Laura said dreamily
"Yeah, and It would be a challenge" Lou said
"Yeah, and it would also be illegal" Lily said sternly
"Yeah, but that's what makes it so good, it's a challenge with all to risk" Laura told her
"Come on Lily, we do things together, we always have" Laura said
"Well this is one thing you can do without me," Lily said, standing her ground
"Lily! You love challenges, come on, it will be fun, I mean imagine it, you could go wherever you wanted, and know one but us lot would know who you were" Lily begged.
"Well I guess, it would be cool" Lily said
"Remember back when we were eleven, and you told us that what ever big thing we were ever going to do, we were going to do it together, no matter what" Laura told her, "I mean, you don't want to back out of your promise now, do you?" Laura added, Lou smiled,
"Okay, Okay, you got me, fine, I'll do it" Lily said. The girls grinned, and hugged each other.
"What do you guys think?" Laura asked the guys,
"I think its cool" James said, thinking they could go out with them on the full moon. The others nodded,
"Great idea" Sirius said,
"Cool" Remus said. The boys spent the rest of the weekend helping and deciding whether to tell the girls they were Animagus. They finally decided not to, well, not unless they asked them directly. The thing good thing about the girls studying to become Animagus is that they got more time to pull pranks on Slytherin's, and explore Hogwarts a bit more. James was walking back from the Quidditch pitch where he liked to mull things over in his head, "Bloody things, why cant they keep their magical objects to themselves" James herd Filth the caretaker say. James pressed his ear against the door of Filtch's office and listened, there was a gap in the keyhole and James peered through, he saw Filtch wrap up two objects, one that he was wrapping was a mirror, a delicate, beautiful, small mirror. James didn't know what magical powers it held, but what ever they were, they would be great, for Filtch was a Squib, and he hated the students and magic. Pulling out his wand, James made a bucket and mop fall over about three meters away, causing the contents to fall, spill and to make a huge noise, "Ahhh" Came Filtch's voice from inside his office, James stood back, then when Filtch was busy cleaning up the mess, James snuck into his office, grabbed the mirrors and legged it up the stairs and into the Gryffindor Common room. Laura, Lily and Lou were at their usual place, studying to become Animagus', James gave Lily a quick kiss and went up to his room, wanting to find out what the mirrors could do. James sat on his bed, and pulled out his wand. He tapped the mirrors (After he had unwrapped them) with his wand, nothing happened. James sat there, saying various spells, looking all over the mirror for clues, but the only one was: ' Made by, Graham and Andrew, founders of, 'Best, Pals', even this wasn't really a clue, but James had the feeling that it was to be used between best friends, "There you are mate, Lily told me you were up here" Sirius said, walking into the room," What you doing?" He asked, eyeing the mirrors on his bed,
"I'm trying to figure out how these work" James told him, then he went into the story of how he found and got them, Sirius picked one up, and walked around the room, this was his way of thinking, walking around a room. "So, what do you think it does?" Sirius asked, James was just about to answer his question, when something on the bed, more specifically, on his mirror got a hold of his attention, in the mirror had just appeared Sirius's face, and instead of just hearing Sirius's voice from where he was standing, he herd it from the mirror, "Erm, well, go outside, look at the mirror and I'll tell you!" James directed, Sirius looked at him strangely, and opened his mouth, but James said, "Just do it" Sirius obeyed. "I'm outside, Prongs" Sirius said, but this time, he could only hear, and see Sirius, through the mirror,
"I know, look at the mirror" James said to his mirror,
"Whoa, awesome" Sirius said again through the mirror. Sirius came back through and was looking gob-smacked, "That mirror is so cool" Sirius said, James agreed.
"You know, I think its trying to tell us something" Sirius told James, James looked puzzled, "What?" He asked,
"Have you never noticed that it's our middle names that are on the back of this mirror, Graham and Andrew?" Sirius asked him, James turned his mirror over and observed, so it was, for his name was, James Andrew Potter, and Sirius's was Sirius Graham Black. "That's freaky" James said, looking closer, "Made by Best Palls" James said quietly. The rest of the week, the Marauders, minus Peter quite a few times, were always pulling pranks, yeah, James missed Lily, but now she was his girlfriend, it seemed he didn't care about being with her as much, especially not when they were pulling pranks on the Slytherin's, for he knew for a fact, Lily wouldn't approve of this. Laura might have, but he doubted weather Lou would. So in the long run, he was happy they were trying to become Animagi.