Chapter 11: - Actions and consequences
They waited for over fifteen minutes, the bell to signal the end of the class had rung but no one moved not even Bellatrix Black who had stated very loudly that if the Gryffindors wanted to fight then it should be the Gryffindors who had to stay behind and miss dinner not the 'innocent' Slytherins. But all the same she still waited, apart from Bellatrix moaning the rest of the class was very silent.
Lily felt her stomach churn but it wasn't from hunger, James and Sirius sat with their heads hung while Alice and Frank were helping Remus onto a near by stool as Amy and Dymphna cooed over the two boys. Lily tried to look around for something to take her mind off the pending doom of when Professor Toll returned, lily saw Peter Pettigrew crawling out from under his desk looking a little pale but otherwise completely unscathed. The seconds seemed to crawl past which is usual when you're dreading something to happen.
When Professor Toll finally did return she wasn't alone, she entered the classroom looking even more annoyed then Lily had ever seen her before and following behind her was Professor McGonagall and Professor Viveridan the head of Slytherin house. Lily's stomach churned again she hadn't thought that Toll would fetch the heads of their houses and by the looks of it neither had James and Sirius but now seeing McGonagall's mouth narrowing to a small slit she should really have expected it.
"Never in all my years!" Professor Toll said still sounding a little hysterical has she shook her head. Professor Viveridan did lots of shouting at them telling them all that he was extremely disappointed in everyone, Lily wished that McGonagall would shout too but she just stared at them her eyes flashing dangerously and her mouth narrowing even more, finally McGonagall asked the question that Lily knew had to be coming,
"Who started this fight?" the Gryffindors looked at each other, none of them wanted to say anything, it wasn't because they wanted to protect James and Sirius the girls were far beyond caring about what happened to them now, it was manly due to the fact that none of them wanted to give the Slytherins the satisfaction of getting any of them into trouble,
"I would like to know" Viveridan said drawing Lily's attention back to him "What exactly did happened. Two of your class mates are seriously injured and letters of explanations will have to be written to their parents"
'Two!' Lily thought, Miriam wasn't seriously injured she'd only got a split lip! You can't die of a little cut on your lip! But even at Viveridan's strange words no one spoke, not even the Slytherins.
"Very well then" McGonagall said crossing her arms in front of her "If none of you are willing to inform us what happened then this entire class will be held responsible," At this all the Slytherins led by Bellatrix Black burst out with an explanation of what had happened.
"One at a time, one at a time" Viveridan said raising his hand "Please Professor" It was Bellatrix Black that had spoken "I saw the whole thing Sir" Lily doubted that very much, Bellatrix had sat at the front of the class with the rest of the Slytherins while all the Gryffindors where as far back in the class has they could get,
"It was James Potter and my cousin Sirius Black that started the fight Professors, they just attack poor Severus without any reason, and then their friends" here Bellatrix dramatically turned and pointed at Lily, Frank and Remus "started to attack poor Antonin and Walden while Miriam Artemis helped"
Lily gasped at this blatant lie the rest of the Gryffindors yelled in protest but McGonagall and Viveridan cut them off,
"That will do!" Viveridan yelled the corner of his lips curling into an evil smile, Lily knew he must love this he hated the Gryffindors and particularly Miriam,
"They should all be expelled sir" Bellatrix added smiling up at her head of house,
"Thank you Miss Black but weather or not any or all of these pupils will be expelled is deemed by the headmaster and by myself"
Expelled! Lily's stomach churned again she couldn't be expelled! Could she? She'd only been at Hogwarts for over a week and it wasn't like she'd done anything wrong, she had tried to help stop the fight!
Lily wasn't left to ponder this thought for long before McGonagall continued
"Mr Wilkes, you said you where closest please tell us what happened" Wilkes story was that he and Severus where quietly mixing their potion when for no reason at all James and Sirius had jump on him and Severus, but in Wilkes version of events he tried bravely to defended his friend from the attacks but was knocked out by Sirius and only came round when Professor Toll had entered the class room, Lily couldn't believe the lies the Slytherins told each one got worse and worse Evan Rosier and Rabastan Lestrange even said that they saw Lily, Miriam, Frank and Remus provoking a fight from MacNair and Dolohov and that the Gryffindors had took the opportunity of Tolls absence to incite the attacks and that MacNair and Dolohov where just innocent bystanders.
Lily really couldn't believe how the Slytherins where able to create such lies. Finally it was the Gryffindors turn to tell the professors their version of the events. Lily was glad to see that every one in Gryffindor stayed as near to the reality of events as much as possible. Lily, Alice, Amy and Dymphna told McGonagall how they had stayed out of the fight and how Frank and Remus where trying to help defuse the situation and how Miriam had only been trying to stop MacNair from hitting Remus and how Lily had tried to stop MacNair from hitting Miriam.
"Well?" McGonagall said turning to look at James and Sirius "Would you two like to tell us why you attacked Mr Snape and Wilkes?" James muttered something about Severus insulting him, From the way that James said this Lily guessed that he was lying but Sirius backed him up, McGonagall seemed to know that the boys had lied has her eyes flashed dangerously and her mouth if possible narrowed even more.
"Very well if you believe that that was a necessary reason to do what you did then you must accept the punishment for your actions" McGonagall said sounding even more angrier then Lily had ever heard her before, "Fifty points each will be deducted from you for your behaviour and not only that but you will all serve a detention"
"All?" Frank asked sounding unnaturally timid,
"Yes Mr Longbottom, although you Mr's Lupin, MacNair, Dolohov, Miss Evans and Miss Artemis' intentions may have purely been to help your friends you nevertheless were involved in this fight and so will have to suffer the consequences of it!"
Everyone turned to look at James and Sirius, Lily couldn't believe that she could possibly disliked them any more then she already did but now she knew that she had been very wrong, Sirius and James where becoming two people that Lily actually thought she would end up hating.
"Detention!" Roared Amanda has the first years entered the common room, the class had been sent straight back to their common rooms without any dinner, mainly because they had been so long with the professors after the bell had rang that the evening meal had been over for an hour. When they had reached Gryffindor tower Amanda was already in hysterics trying to find out where the first years had gone to Amanda, who's voice was still hoarse raged at them when the first years climbed in thought the portrait hole, she demanded to know where they had been and when they had finally told her she couldn't believe it,
"You what!" she said running her hands through her hair looking utterly mad,
"We had to stay behind in potions because we'd been fighting" Peter repeated, Lily closed her eyes Amanda hadn't said 'what' because she hadn't understood what they had said she'd said it because she couldn't believe what they had told her, but obviously peter hadn't understood this.
Amanda closed her eyes and breathed heavily, the entire common room was full again everyone was whispering excitedly anticipating the magnificent show which Amanda's rage always promised,
"So let me understand this" Amanda said trying to sound calm "After all that I've told you over the past week, you still get yourself involved in a fight with the Slytherins?" here a few of the older students cheered, none of the Gryffindors really liked the Slytherins, "You've got yourselves detentions and you've lost Gryffindor one hundred points!" Amanda sighed and finally as Lily had expected Amanda's rage broke
"DON'T YOU CARE WHAT YOU'VE DONE? DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO RECOUP THOUSE HUNDRED POINTS THAT YOU'VE LOST US!!!"
"Well actually it's three hundred house points" said Richard Goodman the fifth year prefect,
"What?" Amanda said spinning round to face him "three hundred, McGonagall wouldn't do that, would she?" Lily saw Amanda pale has the reality of what had happened struck, the other students in the common room fell silent and they all stared at the first years in disbelief,
"Well" Richard continued sounding a little nervous now as all the Gryffindors eyes turned to look at him "McGonagall would probably have said something like they had to suffer the consequences of what they had done?" Lily guessed that Richard had experience of punishments from their head of house before, "Three hundred!" Amanda screamed collapsing onto the nearest chair "Three hundred house points!"
"But we don't even have a hundred points yet" several voices said sounding very angry
"Term only started last week!" others called in disbelief,
"We'll never be able to make up for that loss even if we win the Quidditch cup!!!" cried Calvin Skinner the sixth year Quidditch captain, at this even more angry voices shouted at the first years,
"How could they" Some cried "Don't they have any loyalty" even Mundungus Fletcher who was notorious for losing Gryffindor lots of points was now baying for the first years blood.
"I think it would be best if you go to your dormitories" Gideon said to the first years looking around at the other students nervously has he shepherded them up to the dormitory stairs,
"But what about Miriam" Lily asked,
"Don't worry about her, just get to your rooms and stay there",
"But-"
"I'll find out for you" Gideon added as he pushed Lily onto the girls dormitory stairs
"I'll let you know when I find out about her just keep your door locked!"
Locked! Lily thought has Alice grabbed her arm and pulled her up the stairs towards their dormitory,
"They wouldn't really do anything would they" Amy asked nervously has she looked back down the stairs towards the common room,
"Of course they wouldn't" Alice said trying to laugh as though the whole thing had been a big joke, But if that was the case Lily thought then why was Alice still trying to hurry them all up the stairs? The girls could hear angry shouts from the common room and Gideon's voice trying to calm the other students,
"Lets not wait around to find out" Dymphna said pulling on Amy's arm, the girls broke into a run, dashed into their room and bolted the door,
"That's not going to last long!" Alice said pulling her wand out and pointing its tip at the doors lock and saying "Perennis Adhaero" the lock shimmered and glowed gold,
"That's so cool" Dymphna said sitting down on her bed panting a little
"It's the Everlasting seal" Alice said putting her wand away smiling "Dad uses it on his study door to keep me and James out"
"Does it actually work?" Amy said eyeing the still glowing lock suspiciously,
"Yes it does. Only the caster can break it" Alice said sounding a little hurt. The girls spent the next hour sitting on their beds talking about what had happened in potions class, the injustice of Lily, Frank, Remus and Miriam having points deducted and having to serve detentions, and the fact that Miriam was still missing. MacMikelmouse had been scratching at the dormitory door wanting to get out ever since the girls had started discussing Miriam's absences,
"Do you think he knows something's wrong?" Amy asked picking the little kitten up,
"Of course he does" Dymphna said her stomach rumbling "He can see she isn't here can't he",
"I know but do you think that he knows she was injured" Amy said trying to restrain the little kitten as he struggled against her,
"Well Kneazle's are supposed to get really attached to their owners" Alice said idly tapping her wand on her footboard,
"Maybe we should let him out, you know to stretch his legs?" Amy said has she put Mac onto her bed where he cried loudly and dashed back to the door scratching it again.
"I think he'll be better off in here then out there" Lily said voicing for the first time her concerns "I mean Gideon seemed to be really worried about our safety!"
"I know but they wouldn't really do anything would they?" Amy's question was immediately answered by several of the older girls heading off to their dormitory above the first years. They banged loudly on the first years door and called out rude things and calling them traitors, the first time this happened it made the first years jump and scream in fright, but after the third group of older students did the same thing it became almost like a background noise.
Lily lit the nearby candles and sighed she didn't know why he girls where still awake, they had nothing to stay up for it was almost half nine, most of the older students had gone to bed and it was obvious that Miriam wasn't going to be coming back to the dormitory tonight, even Mac had resided himself to this point, after he'd scratched the door and hissed at them to let him out he settled himself in front of the door his little head resting on his large font paws as his huge eyes looked at them all. Lily thought as she looked at the little kitten that it was a good job that looks couldn't kill because she was sure that with how Mac was looking at them all now with his lion like tail trashing against the stone floor they would have all been dead by now.
Soon the girls mutually decided that they should all go to sleep and had just changed into their pyjamas and nightdresses, when a tapping was heard at the dormitory door,
"Psss" said a voice "Gideon asked me to give you something, open up" It was the voice of Dorcas Meadows a fifth year prefect. At the noise from the stairwell Mac jumped up facing the door crying to be let out again and Alice slowly walked to the door pointing her wand at the lock and muttered "finite" the glowing stopped and Alice opened the door, struggling to hold Mac back
"Gideon asked me to give you this" Dorcas said as she pushed the door wide and entered the dormitory, she placed a box on the nearest bed and turned to leave, she reach the doorway and turned on her heels "Gideon also asked me to tell you that your friend is going to be ok but it's best that she stays in the hospital wing tonight" Dorcas turned to leave,
"What about Severus?" Lily called after her,
"What? Oh the boy your friends beat up, don't worry about him Madam Pomfrey's the best healer there is" with that Dorcas left,
"Oh no!" Alice squeaked as Mac broke free from her grasp and shot out of the dormitory Lily tried to chase after him but Dymphna held her back,
"He'll be Ok Lily don't worry about him"
"I didn't mean to let him get out" Alice said sadly has she closed the door and resealed it with the Everlasting seal charm, Lily put her arm around Alice and tried to cheer her up,
"I bet he's gone hunting, he'll be back when he's had enough" Lily hoped she was right because she didn't want to tell Miriam that they'd lost her pet. But all thoughts of Miriam and Mac was pushed out of her mind as Dymphna opened the box that Gideon had sent them, It contained chocolate éclairs, faerie cakes Sandwiches and a flask of pumpkin juice, a note inside read:
Thought you'd be hungry, just don't tell Amanda!!! Gideon
Lily hadn't realised how hungry she actually was but at the sight of the food her stomach rumbled,
"I love him so much!!!" Dymphna said ecstatically biting into an éclair.
They waited for over fifteen minutes, the bell to signal the end of the class had rung but no one moved not even Bellatrix Black who had stated very loudly that if the Gryffindors wanted to fight then it should be the Gryffindors who had to stay behind and miss dinner not the 'innocent' Slytherins. But all the same she still waited, apart from Bellatrix moaning the rest of the class was very silent.
Lily felt her stomach churn but it wasn't from hunger, James and Sirius sat with their heads hung while Alice and Frank were helping Remus onto a near by stool as Amy and Dymphna cooed over the two boys. Lily tried to look around for something to take her mind off the pending doom of when Professor Toll returned, lily saw Peter Pettigrew crawling out from under his desk looking a little pale but otherwise completely unscathed. The seconds seemed to crawl past which is usual when you're dreading something to happen.
When Professor Toll finally did return she wasn't alone, she entered the classroom looking even more annoyed then Lily had ever seen her before and following behind her was Professor McGonagall and Professor Viveridan the head of Slytherin house. Lily's stomach churned again she hadn't thought that Toll would fetch the heads of their houses and by the looks of it neither had James and Sirius but now seeing McGonagall's mouth narrowing to a small slit she should really have expected it.
"Never in all my years!" Professor Toll said still sounding a little hysterical has she shook her head. Professor Viveridan did lots of shouting at them telling them all that he was extremely disappointed in everyone, Lily wished that McGonagall would shout too but she just stared at them her eyes flashing dangerously and her mouth narrowing even more, finally McGonagall asked the question that Lily knew had to be coming,
"Who started this fight?" the Gryffindors looked at each other, none of them wanted to say anything, it wasn't because they wanted to protect James and Sirius the girls were far beyond caring about what happened to them now, it was manly due to the fact that none of them wanted to give the Slytherins the satisfaction of getting any of them into trouble,
"I would like to know" Viveridan said drawing Lily's attention back to him "What exactly did happened. Two of your class mates are seriously injured and letters of explanations will have to be written to their parents"
'Two!' Lily thought, Miriam wasn't seriously injured she'd only got a split lip! You can't die of a little cut on your lip! But even at Viveridan's strange words no one spoke, not even the Slytherins.
"Very well then" McGonagall said crossing her arms in front of her "If none of you are willing to inform us what happened then this entire class will be held responsible," At this all the Slytherins led by Bellatrix Black burst out with an explanation of what had happened.
"One at a time, one at a time" Viveridan said raising his hand "Please Professor" It was Bellatrix Black that had spoken "I saw the whole thing Sir" Lily doubted that very much, Bellatrix had sat at the front of the class with the rest of the Slytherins while all the Gryffindors where as far back in the class has they could get,
"It was James Potter and my cousin Sirius Black that started the fight Professors, they just attack poor Severus without any reason, and then their friends" here Bellatrix dramatically turned and pointed at Lily, Frank and Remus "started to attack poor Antonin and Walden while Miriam Artemis helped"
Lily gasped at this blatant lie the rest of the Gryffindors yelled in protest but McGonagall and Viveridan cut them off,
"That will do!" Viveridan yelled the corner of his lips curling into an evil smile, Lily knew he must love this he hated the Gryffindors and particularly Miriam,
"They should all be expelled sir" Bellatrix added smiling up at her head of house,
"Thank you Miss Black but weather or not any or all of these pupils will be expelled is deemed by the headmaster and by myself"
Expelled! Lily's stomach churned again she couldn't be expelled! Could she? She'd only been at Hogwarts for over a week and it wasn't like she'd done anything wrong, she had tried to help stop the fight!
Lily wasn't left to ponder this thought for long before McGonagall continued
"Mr Wilkes, you said you where closest please tell us what happened" Wilkes story was that he and Severus where quietly mixing their potion when for no reason at all James and Sirius had jump on him and Severus, but in Wilkes version of events he tried bravely to defended his friend from the attacks but was knocked out by Sirius and only came round when Professor Toll had entered the class room, Lily couldn't believe the lies the Slytherins told each one got worse and worse Evan Rosier and Rabastan Lestrange even said that they saw Lily, Miriam, Frank and Remus provoking a fight from MacNair and Dolohov and that the Gryffindors had took the opportunity of Tolls absence to incite the attacks and that MacNair and Dolohov where just innocent bystanders.
Lily really couldn't believe how the Slytherins where able to create such lies. Finally it was the Gryffindors turn to tell the professors their version of the events. Lily was glad to see that every one in Gryffindor stayed as near to the reality of events as much as possible. Lily, Alice, Amy and Dymphna told McGonagall how they had stayed out of the fight and how Frank and Remus where trying to help defuse the situation and how Miriam had only been trying to stop MacNair from hitting Remus and how Lily had tried to stop MacNair from hitting Miriam.
"Well?" McGonagall said turning to look at James and Sirius "Would you two like to tell us why you attacked Mr Snape and Wilkes?" James muttered something about Severus insulting him, From the way that James said this Lily guessed that he was lying but Sirius backed him up, McGonagall seemed to know that the boys had lied has her eyes flashed dangerously and her mouth if possible narrowed even more.
"Very well if you believe that that was a necessary reason to do what you did then you must accept the punishment for your actions" McGonagall said sounding even more angrier then Lily had ever heard her before, "Fifty points each will be deducted from you for your behaviour and not only that but you will all serve a detention"
"All?" Frank asked sounding unnaturally timid,
"Yes Mr Longbottom, although you Mr's Lupin, MacNair, Dolohov, Miss Evans and Miss Artemis' intentions may have purely been to help your friends you nevertheless were involved in this fight and so will have to suffer the consequences of it!"
Everyone turned to look at James and Sirius, Lily couldn't believe that she could possibly disliked them any more then she already did but now she knew that she had been very wrong, Sirius and James where becoming two people that Lily actually thought she would end up hating.
"Detention!" Roared Amanda has the first years entered the common room, the class had been sent straight back to their common rooms without any dinner, mainly because they had been so long with the professors after the bell had rang that the evening meal had been over for an hour. When they had reached Gryffindor tower Amanda was already in hysterics trying to find out where the first years had gone to Amanda, who's voice was still hoarse raged at them when the first years climbed in thought the portrait hole, she demanded to know where they had been and when they had finally told her she couldn't believe it,
"You what!" she said running her hands through her hair looking utterly mad,
"We had to stay behind in potions because we'd been fighting" Peter repeated, Lily closed her eyes Amanda hadn't said 'what' because she hadn't understood what they had said she'd said it because she couldn't believe what they had told her, but obviously peter hadn't understood this.
Amanda closed her eyes and breathed heavily, the entire common room was full again everyone was whispering excitedly anticipating the magnificent show which Amanda's rage always promised,
"So let me understand this" Amanda said trying to sound calm "After all that I've told you over the past week, you still get yourself involved in a fight with the Slytherins?" here a few of the older students cheered, none of the Gryffindors really liked the Slytherins, "You've got yourselves detentions and you've lost Gryffindor one hundred points!" Amanda sighed and finally as Lily had expected Amanda's rage broke
"DON'T YOU CARE WHAT YOU'VE DONE? DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO RECOUP THOUSE HUNDRED POINTS THAT YOU'VE LOST US!!!"
"Well actually it's three hundred house points" said Richard Goodman the fifth year prefect,
"What?" Amanda said spinning round to face him "three hundred, McGonagall wouldn't do that, would she?" Lily saw Amanda pale has the reality of what had happened struck, the other students in the common room fell silent and they all stared at the first years in disbelief,
"Well" Richard continued sounding a little nervous now as all the Gryffindors eyes turned to look at him "McGonagall would probably have said something like they had to suffer the consequences of what they had done?" Lily guessed that Richard had experience of punishments from their head of house before, "Three hundred!" Amanda screamed collapsing onto the nearest chair "Three hundred house points!"
"But we don't even have a hundred points yet" several voices said sounding very angry
"Term only started last week!" others called in disbelief,
"We'll never be able to make up for that loss even if we win the Quidditch cup!!!" cried Calvin Skinner the sixth year Quidditch captain, at this even more angry voices shouted at the first years,
"How could they" Some cried "Don't they have any loyalty" even Mundungus Fletcher who was notorious for losing Gryffindor lots of points was now baying for the first years blood.
"I think it would be best if you go to your dormitories" Gideon said to the first years looking around at the other students nervously has he shepherded them up to the dormitory stairs,
"But what about Miriam" Lily asked,
"Don't worry about her, just get to your rooms and stay there",
"But-"
"I'll find out for you" Gideon added as he pushed Lily onto the girls dormitory stairs
"I'll let you know when I find out about her just keep your door locked!"
Locked! Lily thought has Alice grabbed her arm and pulled her up the stairs towards their dormitory,
"They wouldn't really do anything would they" Amy asked nervously has she looked back down the stairs towards the common room,
"Of course they wouldn't" Alice said trying to laugh as though the whole thing had been a big joke, But if that was the case Lily thought then why was Alice still trying to hurry them all up the stairs? The girls could hear angry shouts from the common room and Gideon's voice trying to calm the other students,
"Lets not wait around to find out" Dymphna said pulling on Amy's arm, the girls broke into a run, dashed into their room and bolted the door,
"That's not going to last long!" Alice said pulling her wand out and pointing its tip at the doors lock and saying "Perennis Adhaero" the lock shimmered and glowed gold,
"That's so cool" Dymphna said sitting down on her bed panting a little
"It's the Everlasting seal" Alice said putting her wand away smiling "Dad uses it on his study door to keep me and James out"
"Does it actually work?" Amy said eyeing the still glowing lock suspiciously,
"Yes it does. Only the caster can break it" Alice said sounding a little hurt. The girls spent the next hour sitting on their beds talking about what had happened in potions class, the injustice of Lily, Frank, Remus and Miriam having points deducted and having to serve detentions, and the fact that Miriam was still missing. MacMikelmouse had been scratching at the dormitory door wanting to get out ever since the girls had started discussing Miriam's absences,
"Do you think he knows something's wrong?" Amy asked picking the little kitten up,
"Of course he does" Dymphna said her stomach rumbling "He can see she isn't here can't he",
"I know but do you think that he knows she was injured" Amy said trying to restrain the little kitten as he struggled against her,
"Well Kneazle's are supposed to get really attached to their owners" Alice said idly tapping her wand on her footboard,
"Maybe we should let him out, you know to stretch his legs?" Amy said has she put Mac onto her bed where he cried loudly and dashed back to the door scratching it again.
"I think he'll be better off in here then out there" Lily said voicing for the first time her concerns "I mean Gideon seemed to be really worried about our safety!"
"I know but they wouldn't really do anything would they?" Amy's question was immediately answered by several of the older girls heading off to their dormitory above the first years. They banged loudly on the first years door and called out rude things and calling them traitors, the first time this happened it made the first years jump and scream in fright, but after the third group of older students did the same thing it became almost like a background noise.
Lily lit the nearby candles and sighed she didn't know why he girls where still awake, they had nothing to stay up for it was almost half nine, most of the older students had gone to bed and it was obvious that Miriam wasn't going to be coming back to the dormitory tonight, even Mac had resided himself to this point, after he'd scratched the door and hissed at them to let him out he settled himself in front of the door his little head resting on his large font paws as his huge eyes looked at them all. Lily thought as she looked at the little kitten that it was a good job that looks couldn't kill because she was sure that with how Mac was looking at them all now with his lion like tail trashing against the stone floor they would have all been dead by now.
Soon the girls mutually decided that they should all go to sleep and had just changed into their pyjamas and nightdresses, when a tapping was heard at the dormitory door,
"Psss" said a voice "Gideon asked me to give you something, open up" It was the voice of Dorcas Meadows a fifth year prefect. At the noise from the stairwell Mac jumped up facing the door crying to be let out again and Alice slowly walked to the door pointing her wand at the lock and muttered "finite" the glowing stopped and Alice opened the door, struggling to hold Mac back
"Gideon asked me to give you this" Dorcas said as she pushed the door wide and entered the dormitory, she placed a box on the nearest bed and turned to leave, she reach the doorway and turned on her heels "Gideon also asked me to tell you that your friend is going to be ok but it's best that she stays in the hospital wing tonight" Dorcas turned to leave,
"What about Severus?" Lily called after her,
"What? Oh the boy your friends beat up, don't worry about him Madam Pomfrey's the best healer there is" with that Dorcas left,
"Oh no!" Alice squeaked as Mac broke free from her grasp and shot out of the dormitory Lily tried to chase after him but Dymphna held her back,
"He'll be Ok Lily don't worry about him"
"I didn't mean to let him get out" Alice said sadly has she closed the door and resealed it with the Everlasting seal charm, Lily put her arm around Alice and tried to cheer her up,
"I bet he's gone hunting, he'll be back when he's had enough" Lily hoped she was right because she didn't want to tell Miriam that they'd lost her pet. But all thoughts of Miriam and Mac was pushed out of her mind as Dymphna opened the box that Gideon had sent them, It contained chocolate éclairs, faerie cakes Sandwiches and a flask of pumpkin juice, a note inside read:
Thought you'd be hungry, just don't tell Amanda!!! Gideon
Lily hadn't realised how hungry she actually was but at the sight of the food her stomach rumbled,
"I love him so much!!!" Dymphna said ecstatically biting into an éclair.
