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Chapter Eight – The Enchanted Moving Cloak

End of Chapter Seven

James felt warm and tingly and he was practically floating; this was the closest Lily had ever been to him. She was practically pressed into the back of his robes.

However, there was a more pressing matter at hand.

There was something in the bushes and whatever it was, it was advancing fast.

"BLOODY HELL!"

Start of Chapter Eight

They heard a rustle.

Then another rustle.

Then another rustle.

What was with all the rustling!

"Is it here yet?" James asked with his eyes shut.

"No," Lily whispered.

"Is it here now?" James asked with his eyes still shut.

"No," Lily whispered.

"Is it here now?" James asked with his eyes still shut.

"NO! Shut UP! !" Remus, this time, answered.

Lily, James and Remus stood as still as they possibly could.

The Kneazles scampered off into the bushes.

After standing like that for a few minutes…

They relaxed.

Until Lily started screaming, that is.

Emerging from the bushes was a ripped black cloak, edges fluttering slightly.

James laughed. "Lily, it's just an enchanted cloak-"

Remus whacked him "James, it's a Lethifold! We're going to die!"

And, it looked like, they were.

Lily looked fearfully at the Lethifold coming nearer and nearer to her. What's the spell to make them go away again?

She saw Remus get his wand out, but the Lethifold was just two feet away.

She tried to move, but was frozen in shock. Good lord, I never thought I would die this way – trying to hunt for Kneazles in the Forbidden Forest with Snape, Black, Remus, Potter and Malfoy! Great. Just great.

Suddenly the Lethifold was one foot away. Remus and James had started firing spells, but to no avail –

James looked in horror as the thing-Lethifold got closer to Lily.

"Stupefy!" Remus called out.

James was trying to think back to the day in fourth year when they were reading the excerpt from 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them…

The class was dully looking at their Care of Magical Creatures Professor – he forgot the name. James looked longingly at the red head in front of him as she answered the professor's question.

"Yes, Miss Evans?"

"Well, Professor, the earliest account of someone ever seeing a Lethifold was in 1782, with a man called Flavius Belby. He had pretended to be asleep when a Lethifold crept under the door. To make a long story short, he tried numerous amounts of spells until he was almost dead, but his Patronus won out in the end-

THAT WAS IT! A PATRONUS! James was brought back to life when Remus hit him.

James looked over to Lily to see that she was still frozen in shock.

Remus had continued wildly aiming spells but the closest he had gotten was to missing the Lethifold and turning Lily interesting shades of blue, which was no good, or making her dance wildly. He turned her back.

James fumbled for his wand, trying to think up a happy memory. When he first saw Lily and they became friends-

Lily was suffocating – going down down down into a deep darkness-

She could breath a bit better – what was going on? Was she dead? In heaven? Was there a heaven!

She opened her eyes. Far away, the Lethifold was fleeing from a ghost-like shape.

Of course! The Patronus Charm! She was so stupid.

She ran over to Remus, grateful. "Thanks so much for saving me, Remus!"

James looked at her, hurt.

Remus answered, "James saved you, Lily."

Lily turned pink.

"Oh, sorry," she said, turning away from Remus and giving James a grateful smile.

James felt his whole face heat up.

Darn.

He could hear Lily babbling to him.

"But what is your patronus?"

"A stag," he mumbled.

"But what made it choo-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH GET THEM OFF!"

Saved by the bell, James thought.

Then started laughing.

And cracking up.

The so-called bell was Malfoy.

Running around like a chook with its head chopped off.

And two Kneazles clamped on his butt.

And one on his head.

And three chasing him.

Lily snorted.

Remus laughed.

James fell to the ground laughing.

Only James and Remus noticed the 'stray' black dog chasing after Malfoy with a – ahem – limp.

The laughed more.

Remus conjured a camera and took a few pictures.

Only a few.

No, really.

They had just stopped laughing, and took their things when Lily stood up.

The surrounding Kneazles all ran to her (six of them, Malfoy had run to the castle and whacked them off, presumably) and jumped in her arms.

They started purring and fell asleep.

"See, aren't they cute!" She cooed, forgetting about everyone around her.

James found himself jealous of the Kneazle once more.

I have really got to stop getting jealous of Kneazles! He thought.

They all walked up to the castle, pausing once to laugh at Malfoy clutching his butt and his… well… ahem.

Lily snorted.

Remus took another picture, always the practical one.

James cracked up again.

Lily lay in bed, circles under her eyes. She had to give the Kneazles to McGonagall, but if she didn't have to she would have kept them… She drifted off to sleep.

It seemed like minutes before Tia woke her up.

"RISE AND SHUUU-INE!" Tia said, bouncing on the bed.

"Shuuuuu-ine? Tia, Tia. How many times do we have to tell you NOT to make up stupid words?"

"Knock knock, you girls decent?"

"Frank! Darling!" Tia jumped on him.

Sirius yelled. "FRANK! How come YOU are up THERE!"

"Because the girls asked me in, so I get to go up!"

"WHAT! Hey, NO FAIR! At least you don't have to ASK if they are DECENT! Be a GUY, dude!" Sirius yelled.

Frank rolled his eyes.

Lily mumbled, "He is a guy. At least he isn't a cross-dresser, Sirius!" And rolled over.

Frank looked interested. "What!"

James looked out the window.

Today was the day.

He would –

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