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"A Chat With Dumbledore"
"A friend is someone who can see the truth and the pain in you, even when you are fooling everyone else"
Sirius stepped up to the stone gargoyle and muttered the password ("fizzing whizbee") before entering the great stone staircase that led to Dumbledore's office. Once at the top of the moving stairs he knocked on the wooden door.
"Come in." Called a muffled voice from behind the door. Sirius cautiosly opened the door. "Ah, Mr. Black, how nice of you to come see me." Said Dumbledore, and the twinkle in his eye was as bright as ever.
"Sir," began Sirius, "I came to talk to you about Lily." Sirius stopped for a moment to gauge the headmaster's reaction.
"Go on..." Dumbledore encouraged.
"Well sir, something...happened, and I don't know how I know but somethings wrong with her." Siriuss then proceeded to spill out the entie story about cleaning under her bed and how she hadn't been the same yet.
"Mr Black, " began Dumbledore, "I would never invade a student's privacy, or betray their trust unless I thought that it was absolutely necessary." At this Sirius turned green. He was certain the Dumbledore was going to call Lily in their at once and she would be very upset with him for talking to Dumbledore about her behind her back. Noticing Sirius's look he quickly continued, "However, in Miss Evan's case I can tell that you are a very good friend and you simply want to help her out. I know what it is that Miss Evans had under her bed. It has to do with her little sister and her mother." Sirius was very shocked at this. Lily never said anything about her mother and her little sister if she could help it. He didn't know exactly what had happened, but it was pretty much an unspoken agreement between the gang that the topic was off limits.
"Please sir, what was there?" Asked Sirius in earnest.Now he really knew that Lily must be going through something terrible.
"That much is not for me to say." Said Dumbledore. Sirius began to interupt,
"But sir.."
"However," Dumbledore continued shutting Sirius up rather quickly, "I will advise you to go to this store next Hogsmed visit." With that he handed Sirius a slip of paper with the name "Melodies" on it. "I believe that Miss Evans could use some music in her life," he winked. Still confused, Sirius thanked the Professor for listening to him and stumbled out of Dumbledore's office.
That night, Sirius tossed and turned. He didn't know whether or not to involve somone else in this.
James would be too emotional about the whole thing. He was deeply infatuated with Lily, if not in love with her and he would be torn to bits to think that there was something wrong and he was not the first to notice it. Shaking that idea out of his head, Sirius thought maybe he could ask Remus his opinion about it. But as he glanced over at Remus's bed he quickly shook that idea out of his mind too. Theglow of the moon illuminated poor Remus's face through the open bed curtains, and even as dark as it was in the rest of the room was, Sirius could see the bags under his eyes. The poor guy had more then enough of his own problems to deal with. Sirius wouldn't even think of asking Peter, who as hard as he tried was often more trouble then he was help. That only left the girls, and Sirius would rather not involve them seeing as they were busy with the planning of Lily's party and he wasn't as close to them as he was the Lily and the guys. "I'll just have to go to this shop." He thought to himself as he pulled the slip of paper off his bed side table and re-read it for the millionth time. "Melodies...hmm..." And with that last thought in mind Sirius drifted off to sleep.