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Chapter 16

After the terrible Quidditch incident everyone felt very depressed. Especially Katie. Her brother's funeral was scheduled for the following Sunday and Katie missed the weekend and the Monday from school. But to everyone's surprise she was back again for the Tuesday. Yes, she was depressed and yes, she didn't talk much but she was still there and everyone thought she was very brave.

James and Sirius came up with lots of plans to cheer people up and finally settled on their master plan. A midnight adventure. They suggested this to Remus, Peter and Katie along with Gemini and Lily.

"It's going to be tonight. We'll meet in the common room at exactly midnight. Anyone who objects will have me and James to answer to!" Lily looked over to Gemini. She knew what Lily was thinking, she didn't want to go along but she didn't want to be the spoilsport of their fun. She would have to go.

All day their minds were on the adventure. This affected their concentration and finally Professor Dreamstone lost her patience. "Will you lot stop daydreaming about the weekend and concentrate on the work? Honestly, kids these days! Lily and Gemini I would have expected more of you than this childish behaviour!"

Soon the bell rang for the end of the last lesson for the week and James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Lily, Gemini and Katie rushed outside as quickly as they could. They all went to the common room to finalise their plans but Peter decided to go to the toilet. He returned a few minutes later with a huge smirk on his face and James noticed.

'Why is he smiling?' James thought, 'well smiling's not really the word, he's smirking. Why's he so happy?' Then a horrid thought struck him, 'what if he's told someone? I knew we couldn't trust him! The evil, double-crossing…' James was interrupted from his thoughts by Sirius prodding him quite hard in the arm, "OW! What?" he asked, a little irritated at being poked.

"I said, should we take some food from dinner with us so we can have like a midnight feast?" James thought for a second before nodding his head in approval. They would have to sneak some food from dinner or something as none of them had any food on them.

Lily got up and headed towards the girls' dormitory, 'why do they always have to do really daring things? What if we get caught? They might chuck us out, then I'd have to go back to a muggle school and do really boring subjects like maths!' she couldn't get the picture of Petunia smirking at her as she came home in tears out of her mind. She shook her head in frustration, 'but they won't get caught' she thought. She would make sure of it. She wouldn't let Sirius or James or anyone put a step out of line.

She thought about it for a while longer until Gemini and Katie came up together laughing at something. Lily felt hurt, Gemini was her best friend. NOT KATIE'S!!! As they came over to her Lily felt herself becoming hot in the face and couldn't meet eyes with Katie.

"Are you looking forward to tonight?" Katie asked before continuing again "I am. I've never had a midnight adventure before. I'm so hyper and I haven't had a taste of chocolate at all! Isn't that weird!" She paused for breath and Lily decided to interrupt. "As long as we don't get caught I'm up for it."

Katie looked at her as if she was going mad. "But not knowing whether or not you're going to get caught is part of the fun! I think I might go get changed now. I hate wearing black all the time, it's so depressing. Don't you think the uniform should be pink, or purple or something? It would be more vibrant at least and warming. Or maybe we could choose our own uniform, I know what, I'm going to write a letter to Professor Dreamstone and ask her about changing the uniform, I'm sure she'll agree. What do you think?" she peered at both Lily and Gemini expecting them both to agree with the dull uniform and congratulate her for thinking of the idea.

Gemini spoke first, "erm…I think that…well I think it's a great idea!" she said and put on a fake smile to try and shut Katie up.

"Yeah, I wish I'd thought of that. You're so clever" Lily said unenthusiastically, however Katie didn't catch the tone and seemed satisfied with the answers so she started jumping around madly back towards her own bed.

When she was out of earshot Lily whispered, "she's strange, don't you think?"

"A bit," replied Gemini, "But good strange. She's really quite funny and I think James might fancy her!" Lily was annoyed to find that James fancied such a strange person, but didn't express her feelings.

Later that evening, down in the Great Hall, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Gemini and Katie each carried a bundle of food in their laps. Lily had refused to do so as she didn't want to be spotted and the thought of doing as Sirius and James said made her decline their offer immediately. She didn't want to follow their orders, she wasn't someone they could boss around. She fumed silently as James and Katie laughed at something Sirius had said. She returned back to the conversation at her end of the table and listened as Gemini said, "Where do you think we're going tonight then?"

Lily thought and said, "Somewhere where we won't get caught I hope!"

Gemini drank some pumpkin juice and said, "Yeah, but it has to be exciting." Lily tucked a strand of hair behind her ear before saying, "I don't care where we go. I just don't want to be caught after only three months. I really don't want to show Petunia that I couldn't even last here for half a year. She was so against me coming here. She'd probably laugh and say I'm not clever enough to go to a normal school, let alone a wizarding school."

They talked and ate some more and left the hall with Sirius, James, Peter, Remus and Katie.

In the common room they were left alone. They chose to sit in the corner with the comfy chair by the fireplace as it was getting colder now approaching Christmas.

James began to speak "Well, so we're all agreed. We're meeting here at midnight or later, depending on what time people leave the common room. Eat the food. Also we're going to the Slytherin common room to play a prank on them. Especially Snivellus!" there was a mad gleam in his eyes.

Sirius spoke, "I think that we should knock on the entrance and run! It would be really fun and we wouldn't get caught!" Lily liked that idea, it was simple and nothing would go wrong, hopefully.

Later that night, Lily set her alarm for midnight, when she would wake Gemini and unfortunately Katie. She lay down on her bed and soon fell asleep. Not long after she heard a loud beeping noise coming from under her pillow. She woke up and brushed away the sleep. She decided to wake Gemini up first and went over to her bed.

"Gemini" she whispered. Gemini didn't even flicker an eyelid. "Gemini, wake up!" she tried again. Gemini rolled onto her side this time. Lily decided to use a different tactic this time and prodded Gemini. This time Gemini did wake up and said, "what time is it? It's still dark! It can't be morning yet!"

"Gemini, the midnight adventure. Wake up please!" Lily was getting very frustrated now. Finally Gemini woke up properly and got out of bed unhappily. "Who's stupid idea was this anyway?" she wondered.

She climbed out of bed groggily and tripped over her slippers. She fell to the floor and woke up Katie. 'oh no' thought Lily 'now she's awake!' Katie put on her soft, pink dressing gown and bounded over towards Gemini and Lily.

"Er..Gemini? what are you doing on the floor?" she asked anxiously.

"Well I thought I'd just crawl under my bed to sleep, Katie." Seeing Katie's wide-eyed expression she quickly added "joke…it was a joke!"

"Oh" replied Katie and waited for Gemini to get off the floor. Together they went down the stairs to find James, Sirius and Remus already there. Gemini asked them where Peter was and Sirius told her that he wouldn't wake up so they decided to leave him as he'd only be a drag anyway.

Quietly they brought out the food they had collected from dinner and put them onto the centre of the floor where everyone dug in. It didn't take long to finish the food as James and Sirius took most of it for themselves.

Soon they decided to search for the Slytherin common room. They wandered around slowly thinking of where to look. Lily was scared but tried not to shoe it. Unfortunately James saw and waited for her as the others walked off.

"You scared Evans?"

"No, why should I be?"

"Because you're a goody two shoes and you don't want to be told off for anything. Am I right?"

"…No" faltered Lily. "I'm not scared." James looked at her with a challenging glare.

"Ok, prove it!"

"What?"

"I said, prove that you're not scared!"

Lily's heat began to beat really quickly and she felt even more terrified than before. "Why should I have to prove it?"

"Chicken! You're a chicken!" James began in a mocking voice.

"Shut up! All right, I'll prove it. How?"

"I think that you should be the one to knock on the door of the Slytherin common room." Lily's heart skipped a beat. She couldn't do that. She'd get into trouble and thrown out of Hogwarts. But she couldn't say no either or else he'd torment her for the rest of her life at the school. She thought about it for a while, she decided to say yes and seeing the shock on his face would be satisfactory.

"Yes I will then" she noted that he looked mildly surprised at first but quickly recovered himself by saying "okay then" and rejoined Sirius.

They neared towards the Slytherin common room. They could see the gargoyle. The keeper of the Slytherin common room. He was fast asleep and Lily would hate to wake him.

"Go on then" whispered Sirius. Lily crept quietly towards the portrait and raised her hand. She tapped quickly on the picture and ran away to hide round the corner where the others were.

She looked to see what had happened and saw that the gargoyle had woken up and had such a fierce face that Lily was too frightened to laugh.

"That was good"

"Wow! You actually did it!" said James turning to her and she found herself smiling, "well I said I would, didn't I?"

They decided to head back to Gryffindor tower so they turned around and collided with someone. They someone was a very tired looking Professor Dreamstone. She looked extremely angry and they all looked at their feet.

"What are you doing out of bed?" she asked sternly.

"We thought we'd take a look around" replied Sirius, flashing her a 'we didn't do anything bad' grin. It didn't work.

"You are all in detention. Don't gasp at me like that! It was your own fault! Luckily one person had enough sense to stop this and report to me what you were planning." She said. Everyone became suspicious of each other and spoke together.

"Was it you?"

"Who told?"

"It was you I bet!"

"I knew we couldn't trust you!"

"Be quiet!" Professor Dreamstone cried, "for your information it wasn't any of you that told me, it was a clever student."

"Who was it professor?" asked James.

"I don't think that concerns you Mr Potter, now, all of you go to bed!" she escorted them back to the Gryffindor tower where they were left to squabble over who had told.

Lily didn't have enough energy to join the row. She was thinking about how stupid she'd been to go along with this stupid plan. If she had said no in the first place none of this would be happening. She couldn't deal with it any more and got up from the floor where they'd been sitting and headed towards her dormitory.

Soon after Gemini and Katie followed leaving the boys to decide who it was.

"I know who it was" said Remus calmly. James and Sirius sat bolt upright and waited for him to continue. "It was Peter I bet. Who else knew about this?" his voice sounded bitter.

James thought about this and said "It all makes sense now." Sirius and Remus looked at him, confused.

"What makes sense James?" asked Sirius curiously.

"Earlier on, when we were talking about what to do, he disappeared and came back smirking at us. I knew he'd do something like this! How could we have been so stupid as to trust him? We're going to do something, he won't get away with this!"

"Yeah, but we can't do anything about it now. I think we should all go to bed and talk it over with the girls tomorrow morning." Said Remus yawning. He got up and walked up the stairs to the boys' dormitory. Sirius and James followed and as soon as their heads hit their pillows they fell asleep.

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