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Chapter 15: Scolded?
Harry sat in the Gryffindor common room listening to his housemates' theories about where the snake has come from. He was relieved when almost everyone agreed that the incident had probably been a Slytherin prank. After most of the house had gone to bed, Harry checked his watch. "It's an hour until curfew," he told his friends. "I'm going to get my cloak and start looking for Nagini."
"Be careful not to get caught," Hermione warned. "One of the teachers in the Order might have recognized her."
"I know." Harry went up to the dorm, pulled out his cloak, and tucked it inside his robe before quietly slipping down the stairs and out the portrait hole.
Harry had wondered up and down seemingly endless corridors for a half an hour when someone suddenly grabbed his arm and dragged him into the DADA classroom, slamming the door behind them.
"What were you thinking!" his mother demanded.
"What?" he looked at his parents and the other Marauders in confusion.
"What possessed you to let Nagini loose in the castle?"
"I didn't let her loose," he explained, "she just got out of my bag during dinner."
"You took her to dinner?"
"She was hungry."
Harry waited patiently for the next ten minutes while Lily explained just how disappointed she was that he would do something that foolish; she even hinted that it had been almost stupid enough to have been one of his dad's pranks. "I had better not catch you doing something like that again," she concluded.
"Don't worry, you won't," he assured her. You won't catch me at least, he thought.
"Good. I'm going to bed. Coming, James?"
"In a moment, dear. I'd like a few words with our son first."
"Don't be long," she said as she left.
James watched his wife until she disappeared around a corner then turned to his son and friends. They all stared at each other until the Marauders suddenly roared with laughter.
"Good job, Harry!" Sirius clapped him on the shoulder.
"An act of Marauder proportions," Remus congratulated.
"That's my boy," James messed his hair. "Your excuse was a little weak, but I think your mother bought it."
Harry was enjoying their praises too much to tell them he hadn't lied to his mother. "Thanks." He checked his watch, ten minutes until curfew, "I have to find Nagini."
"Don't worry, she's hiding here in my desk," James opened the bottom drawer and Nagini slowly slid out. "The two of you had better get to bed."
"Right." Harry laid the snake over his shoulders then covered them both with his Invisibility Cloak before slipping out into the dimly lit corridor and silently making his way back to the Gryffindor tower.
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