"Look out!"

"Hide!"

Three boys ducked behind a tall plant just barely making it out of sight before the caretaker, Mr. Flipman, saw them.

"That was close." a boy with messy black hair and wire-rimmed glasses said, emerging from behind the plant.

"Wormtail! Get Off OF ME!" yelled one of the other two boys. "Prongs! Get Wormtail off of me NOW!"

Prongs looked behind the plant to see Wormtail laying on Mooney's stomach, struggling to get up. Prongs reached down to offer his hand to Peter just as he elbowed Mooney in the groin.

"Ow!" said James flinching. "That's gotta hurt."

As Mooney rolled onto his side clutching his legs and moaning James and Peter could just make out the words kill and Peter.

"Should we look at the map and see how close we are?"

"Right you are Wormtail." James said pulling a tattered looking roll of parchment out of his pants pocket. He unrolled it to reveal a map. There were three dots on the map labeled 'Peter Petigrew', 'Remus Lupin' and 'James Potter'. There was also another dot up in the top left corner labeled 'Sirius Black'.

"There he is." James said in an excited yet quiet voice. "Nice of you to join us Mooney."

Remus just grunted and sat down next to Peter.

"But how are we going to get from here to there with out being seen?" Peter asked in a kind of worried tone.

"With this!" James pulled out an old looking cloak out of his pack pocket and held it up so they could see.

"I thought Padfoot had that." Remus said for the first time in a while.

"Mooney my friend," James said leaning over and putting his arm around Remus' shoulder. "What you don't know can't hurt you."

"So you don't know how you got it from Padfoot." He said dryly.

"Not a clue. It was in Sirius hand when he left and the next time I saw it, it was in my trunk." James explained.

"Um, guys. Sirius."

"Oh, ya, right." James said looking at the map. "I think we should take.." He thought for a minute. "This way."

The boys all agreed. James rolled up the map and put it back in his pocket. Then the boys pulled out there finger revolvers again and headed down the corridor.