That night after dinner, remus brought the marauders up to the room of requirement, claiming that he had something that they could definetly add to their list of interesting things about their professors, well that was an understatement to him at least.
"so why did you drag us all the way up here moony?" Sirius asked.
"I told you Padfoot I think I found something out about Harry and them."
"well lets here it then moony" James said intrigued. His Professors were one mystery that he definetly wanted to solve.
"okay well then…" Moony proceeded in telling them of the entire incident, up til when he left Harry in the hallway to join them at dinner.
"that makes no sense, how could they be talking about snape as if he does not know what he did" Sirius asked.
"well he might not remember what he did while under the Imperious Curse" Peter said dumbly.
"Peter do you remember what you did when you were under the curse" James asked.
Peter nodded.
"well theres your answer" james replied rolling his eyes at his friend who could be a tad bit of an airhead.
"okay well how about this then how about we just ask them about it tomorrow in detention?" Sirius said.
"I guess we could, I mean the worst they can do is not answer or give us a detention" Remus reasoned.
"okay agreed then tomorrow we ask them, and hopefully get an answer" James said.
The following night while in detention:
The boys were about half way through there punishment, to write a three page essay on their favorite prank that they ever accomplished.
The professors were grading papers, every once and awhile they had to act the age of the rest of the professors, which meant that they had to commit to grading stupid essays while really they should be focused on other things such as coming up with better and more thorough lesson plans that could actually help the person rather than just given them a grade on information they looked up in a book from the library about something stupid like how to tell the difference between a fairy and a grasshopper.
The boys sat there and all looked up catching each others eyes, it was hightime that they asked their professors about all this confusion.
"um…Harry" Remus started nervous about the reaction the professors would take to him overhearing their conversation.
"yes mo- Remus" Harry said mentally kicking himself for almost jeopardizing their cover, to bad that had already happened.
"well um, yesterday after class, I had forgotten my bag here in the classroom" Remus stopped for a minute to make sure that they were following.
"yes that is right, I found it and returned it to you on the way to dinner, so whats the problem" harry asked obviously missing the problem, the big problem.
"well the thing is that I came back for it right after class and sort of over heard your conversation with Draco and Ginny about Snape and that, well we", remus continued shakily, while indicating his fellow marauders around him, "we were just wondering what that all meant as it made absolutely no sense, I mean for one thing snape already knows what he did in class yesterday, and secondly the only people I know that call snape, snivellus are us marauders" remus finished.
Harry stood next to ginny and Draco, all were shocked and disappointed that they had been stupid enough to have such an important and classified conversation in such a place where things could very easily be overheard, or so the marauders proved.
They were shocked that their cover had been blown and they had barely even been here a month.
With some quick thinking Ginny stepped up to explain their predicament, "oh well yesterday you heard us talking about a snape, but not your class mate severus but his father snape senior, you see we played that same incident on him at a convention once and we were just lost in memories.
And as for the calling of Snivellus, we have been here long enough to pick up the lingo" Ginny replied with a smirk and a confident posture.
The marauders sat their with looks of mild confusement, while that story made sense it also seemed a little out of sorts but they would leave it for now, they had answered their questions and it seemed reasonable enough so for now the conversation was left their, though their curiousity was still incredibly high, they would figure this mystery out if it was the last thing they did, it was to intriguing to just leave alone.
Draco stood with a smile on his face for a number of reasons, one he found it highly amusing that the marauders had bought their lie, two he found it comical that Ginny could think up such a lie so quickly and fool so many people, but it was mainly their for the pure look of shock that Harry's face seemed to reflect, yes this he found utterly hilarious.
Harry stood their his eyes round and big, and his mouth hanging open, never had he seen anyone lie so smoothly, even Sirius couldn't pull it off and according to a lot of people he was a qualified liar. Merlin he loved that woman.
The boys left twenty minutes, later already forgetting the whole event though they kept it in the back of their minds to analyze later, but for now the kitchen awaited for their bellies were hungry after all their hard work put into their essays that involved a vast amount of things including one very pink Snivellus and one very big sign complete with graphics.
During the whole panic attack involving the defense teachers and the marauders, lily evans was walking outside down by the lake. She loved to stroll along the waters edge it was especially calming after a huge row with James Potter but she had not been down there walking the banks for that reason this year yet, not once.
It was around 8:30 at night and the sun had set and darkness had crossed the sky. Stars lit it up brilliantly and the moon showed big in the sky, though it was not full it was getting there.
Lily continued her walk currently thinking about her latest transfiguration essay, wondering if she had done well or not when she heard a rustling in the bushes.
While it was probably just a student couple out for a nights snog, she still decided to take cover behind a close by bush, you could never be to careful especially not in these times.
Crouched down behind the bush and peered through the thicket standing there was a blonde haired man, one that she seemed to recognize, though he seemed different, older. It was lucius Malfoy, he had graduated two years previously though she was sure that he could not have aged that much in so little time, and if he did well than she was not looking forward to the future.
She did not dare to move, she knew that lucius Malfoy was not a person to be messed with, back in his school mates he would taunt and tease her for being a mudblood, now that he was out of school and most likely a death eater she doubted that he would hesitate to hex her.
She listened carefully making sure that she was fully aware of what was going on around her.
"Lucius what brings you here" the voice of Bellatrix Black asked.
"I have received word from the master that the dark lord is going to be putting his plans into action soon enough, he still has not told me the exact date just be ready for action around December" Lucius whispered though with him it sounded more like a hiss.
"of course I can't wait to put them in their place" Bellatrix said, with an evil grin spread on her foul face.
"well I must be leaving you will be sure to spread the word"
"but of course, my regards to the master, tell him that we are greatly looking forward to this opportunity and be sure to thank him to" Bella said menacingly, she would enjoy this December she knew that for sure.
Lily sat frozen to the spot behind the bush, whatever this plan was it was not going to be good, that alone was enough to give anyone quite a shock, but then she had also just found out that Bellatrix Black was in fact a death eater, not that she did not think as much before it was just that now it was confirmed, not to mention the others that were supposedly at the school once again she had been foolish to think that Hogwarts carried no evil there was evil here and everywhere and with her growing maturity she would come to realize that not even Hogwarts was safe no matter how many wards protected it.
She waited for five or so more minutes as the two death eaters parted there ways, Lucius headed towards the gates, and Bella heading towards the castle.
Lily knew that she needed to tell somebody, but she did not dare to trouble the headmaster or McGonagall. In the end she decided that she might want to talk with Harry, Draco, and Ginny as it was in fact their area of expertise The dark arts and all that, and they seemed to know a great deal about situations such as this, yes they were the best choice.
She hurried up to the castle, all thoughts of an evening walk by the lake forgotten.
She arrived outside their office, and politely knocked on the door.
"come in" she heard them laugh.
She opened the door to see her three professors casually lounging about their office, feet on their desks, throwing candy at one another or chewing on big wads of Drooble's best blowing gum.
"oh hey lily" Ginny called, the first to notice who in fact had entered their workplace.
"h-hi"
"whats up"
"um… well you see I was out on the grounds just now and well I saw what I thought was Lucius Malfoy who graduated a few years ago but he looked well beyond twenty years old, and then Bellatrix Lestrange met up with him and they were discussing something that their 'lord' was going to put through in December and well I just thought that It might be of importance" Lily rambled, unsure as to what their reactions would be.
Draco seemed especially upset at this news, at the mention of Lucius his face instantly turned into a frown and It only deepened as she continued.
Harry's face as well as Ginny's lost their smiles and was replaced with a scowling loathing look that uttered hate.
They sat their like this mulling this over for a few minutes in their minds before Draco spoke up, " Don't worry lily, that problem will be dealt with as soon as possible and as for December just be on the lookout nothing has been confirmed yet we will speak to Dumbledore of this he will surely know what to do." Draco said determined.
He truly knew that when this was over his father would be dead, and as for him he hoped it was soon, the amount of pain the man caused in itself was worth a hundred deaths.
"thanks guys, well I better be off, I have patrol with Potter" she said spitting the name Potter out with disgust, while rolling her eyes to show her feelings about the situation.
"well have fun, oh and some advice lily. Give james a chance he is not as bad as you think he is" Harry said, a knowing smile on his face.
"yeah all that and my arse" she replied before realizing what she said and flushing with embarrassment.
"I will just pull a Dumbledore and pretend I didn't hear that" Harry chuckled.
Lily left the room with a certain apprehension and fear about what December might bring, and reminding herself once more about how stupid she had been to be naïve enough to think that Hogwarts was shielded of evil that no death eaters were here and no future ones either, that it was safe incredibly foolish on her part.
"oy lily wait up" somebody called from behind.
She stopped in her step and turned around, to find James Potter running to catch up to her from the other end of the corridor.
She waited as she had patrol duty with him, and he soon approached her.
"sorry I'm late I got tied up" He said breathlessly.
"its okay" she replied in a quiet voice still thinking about the current topics on her mind.
They walked along for a good ten minutes, before James grew frustrated with the silence, "lily is something wrong you seem really quiet tonight"
"hmm"
"Lily are you even listening to me"
Lily snapped out of her thoughts, "yeah sorry I just have a lot on my mind"
"care to share" he asked friendly.
Lily spent the rest of the evening discussing what had happened on the grounds and in the defense office with james and their view of the war and how things were going with it.
Lily was greatly surprised at how passionate james was about helping the light side, she even found the conversation enjoyable which surprised her even more.
Throughout the conversation lily came to realize that Harry might have been right james was not as bad as she thought, in fact she would even go as far as to say he was a very interesting person, with an opinion of his own and a cause in mind.
Their patrol eventually ended and they walked back to the deserted common room.
"Good night James it was good talking," Lily spoke and she pecked him lightly on the cheek before rushing off to her bed.
In her wake stood James Potter, standing unmoving, still his hand touching his cheek were Lily Evans had just kissed him.
He finally moved about ten minutes later to his bed shocked at what the night had unfolded, while hoping that this was a turn in his relationship with Lily, and that he had a chance after all.
A.N. so what did you think, I finished my homework and painting and felt so accomplished that I decided to write the chapter so what did you think of it? Please give a review and tell me what you thought PLEASE
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