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Chap 2

Sixth year:

The wind was blowing strongly and the castle building was even colder than usual. Lily walked along the corridor in a tight huddle with her friends Amelia and Chrissie. The students were distinctly downtrodden as they crept about the castle these days, their numbers depleted with the onslaught of Voldemort's latest attacks. Sons and daughters were leaving every week to comfort remaining members of their families. The headmaster, Professor Dippet, was trying unsuccessfully to keep up morale but the students were still cold, depressed and distracted. Lily, however, was not so easily upset. Her parents, being muggles, were safe from harm and she was putting all her energies into comforting others. Most of her energy was going into organising extra defence against the dark arts lessons for Professor Dippet, who wanted the school to be as well prepared as possible for outside of Hogwarts.

One evening, after an extra DADA lesson, Lily was passing the end of a corridor when she saw a hand floating in mid air. She made her way slowly towards the floating hand with her arm outstretched, finally bumping into a warm object. She moved her hand upwards and a gruff voice said,

'please remove your hand from my face Evans.'

'James,' Lily breathed, glad it was nothing more ominous. 'What the hell are you doing creeping around under an invisibility cloak at this time? You know it's against school rules to be out of the common room after lessons these days.'

'Yes, I know, but unfortunately I'm in a rather sticky situation at the moment. Please hear me out before giving me a detention.'

'OK, this had better be good.'

'well, we were stealing potion ingredients from Professor Fern's office,'

'What!'

'when I heard him coming from down the corridor. I was the lookout, cause of the invisibility cloak, so I told the others to hide in a secret passageway just off this corridor with the porlocksbane and frocklewart. But the plan went kinda wrong because they took the wrong door and stepped into a vanishing closet instead. I can't get them back... I've been trying for an hour.'

'you idiots. People are dying in the outside world and you're still stealing things from school closets. What were the ingredients for anyway?'

'I said I'd tell you what happened, not my life's story.'

'fine, you're gonna get in so much trouble as it is. We better try and get them out because it can be dangerous to be stuck in one of those things for too long.'

'OK, what shall I do with all these?' said James, with a handful of magical ingredients.

'Oh no, you are so dead, some of these are restricted by the ministry. What were you going to do with them?'

'I told you, it's none of your business. I'll put them down here. This is the closet..'

'POTTER! EVANS! what do you think you're doing!'

'oh shit.'

'out of your tower at this time of night? you are in serious trouble. I expected better of you Lily, and you Potter, well this will add to your record.'

'Professor, I was just questioning Potter on why he was out at this time, he seems to have been concocting some more mischief.'

'Lily, there is no way of worming your way out of this one, I can see all those ingredients behind you from my store cupboard.'

'But Professor...'

'I'm sorry Lily but my opinion is final, detention for both of you,' and with that, Professor Fern, the potions master, swept away.