its been a while since I've updated! pre-school stuff has kept me so busy! anywyas, enjoy chapter 6!

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James and Henry enjoyed the next day very much. Not only did they have fun thinking of noble, heroic stories as to how their faces were red and swollen, but the way that the world seemed better when they weren't fighting was much more glorious.

"So you know, I couldn't just let that poor muggle get hurt!" Henry said to a pretty Ravenclaw girl in Transfiguration class. "So I just ran into the fire, I was completely out of my mind! I had no idea what had come over me."

"Funny." The girl's companion scoffed. "And where exactly are muggles in this area?"

Henry silently opened and closed his mouth a few times, trying to find the right words to say. Instead he just turned and faced forward in his chair.

James laughed and elbowed Henry in the ribs lightly. "Nice one…but don't tell it to any smart ones or they'll know!"

Henry laughed as well. "So have told Audrey any story yet?"

"I'm thinking of one, a really good one! One that's so awesome, and yet completely foolproof."

Henry turned around. Audrey was quickly walking up the aisle towards her desk. "Think fast, man! Here she comes."

"Oh, crap." James swore under his breath. He hid his face in his arms, hoping that Audrey wouldn't notice him.

Unfortunately, she did.

"James?" She stopped. "What happened to you?"

He looked up into her worried eyes. "Ah…ah…"

Luckily, Damek emerged from his office. Audrey quickly ran to her desk.

James slouched in his chair. "Whew. Close call."

As Damek started explaining the day's assignment, Henry whispered to James. "So you still after Damek?"

"Yeah." James replied. "Audrey is helping me now."

"Really?"

"Yeah. What? You wanna help out now?"

"No…I still think you're crazy."

"Is something wrong? Potter? Solomon?" Damek was looking right at them, as well as the entire class.

"No sir." Henry shook his head.

"10 points from Gryffindor." Damek smirked before going back to explain how to transfigure a rat into a teacup.

Henry and James continued in lower voices. "We're trying to find a way to break-in to Damek's office. We need to see that letter."

"Break-in?" Henry looked at James like he had gone crazy. "No one can break into Damek's room. He's…well…Damek! I swear, man, that guy is from hell."

"Yeah, but right now, we got nothing." James sighed. "Too bad an answer won't just fall from the sky…"

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During lunch, a group of delivery owls swooped in through the large windows of the great hall. They dropped packages and envelopes over the students, who caught them from below.

One barn owl, carrying a large package, landed right in James's plate.

"Ah! Stupid owl!" He took another look at the owl. "Oh! It's my dad's owl!" He untied the package from its foot and opened it. Inside was another box and on top of it was a small letter. James picked up the letter.

Open this later when you are away from everyone else. Do not let anyone but your closest friends see. Use it well.

-Dad

P.S- How's Professor Longbottom doing?

"From your dad, huh?" Henry smiled. "You want to go open it right now?"

They looked at each other, smiled, and started running. They burst through the doors and up the changing stairs. They arrived in the empty common room and flung themselves down on the floor, completely out of breath.

James pulled out the second box and ripped it open. A mass of shimmering cloth spilled out onto his lap. He stood up and unfurled it like a flag.

"What's that? Some kind of cape?" Henry stared at it.

"Looks like it."

Henry looked at Harry's note. "He says to 'use it well'…he wants you to wear it often?"

James put the cloak over his shoulders. "How do I look?"

Hanry's swollen face was gaping and he was pointing dumbly at Harry's body.

"That bad, huh?" James laughed.

"In…in…invisible!"

"What?" James looked down at himself. He couldn't see anything from his shoulder's down. "I'm invisible!" He beamed. "Awesome! It's like some, invisibility cloak!"

"That's so cool!" Henry added. "Think of what we could do with that!"

James slowly turned to Henry. "Like sneaking into Damek's office."

"Even with this, it's still a crazy." Henry shook his head.

But James wasn't listening. "I have to find Audrey!"

James searched the entire school, but he couldn't find her.

"She's probably in the Hufflepuff common room." Henry said. "Give it up, you'll see her later anyways."

James took his advice and stuffed the cloak into his bag.

It was after class that James finally met Audrey. They were coming into the great hall at the same time for dinner.

"Audrey!" He whispered and gestured for her to come to him. They went away from the flow of students and stood in a quiet spot.

"James! Is something wrong?"

"No." He reached into his bag and pulled out the Invisibility Cloak. "Look at this." He draped the cloak over himself.

Audrey gasped as he disappeared from her sight.

"Awesome, huh?" James pulled the cloak off. "It's exactly what we need!"

She looked uneasy.

"What's wrong, Audrey?"

"Nothing." She replied. "I guess I'm just a bit worried about this whole thing."

James was heartbroken. He wanted to get emotionally close to her, and this plan was the perfect way to…but now she wanted out.

"It's okay if you don't want to do it." James forced a weak smile. "I can go on my own."

"Henry's not helping you?" She looked up at him. "I thought that…well, since you got over your fight…"

"No, he still doesn't believe me." James sighed. "But, hey…" He stopped.

Audrey's eyes were watery.

"I-I'm sorry!" James was completely confused. "I didn't mean to make you cry!"

Audrey's face turned bright pink. She wiped her face in embarrassment with the sleeve of her robes and walked away, leaving James standing by himself.

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"I lost her."

James was lying in his bed above the covers. His hands were behind his head and he was staring at the high ceiling of the dormitories.

Henry frowned but didn't say anything.

"I guess I'll never find out who Damek's spying on."

Henry took a shaky breath. "I'll go."

"What?"

"I said I'd go with you!"

James sat up. "Really?"

"Yeah." Henry loosened his tie. "I still don't believe it, but I'll go."

James smiled and fell back onto the bed, feeling much happier. He closed his eyes for a moment, and then opened them again. "Hey, Henry."

"Yeah?"

"Remember when we beat the hell out of each other in Leary's class."

"Oh yeah. What about it?"

"Remember that spell you used? Levicorpus?"

Henry nodded slowly.

"Where did you learn it?"

"Why do you care?" Henry looked at him suspiciously.

"No, it's not like that." James sat up again. "I just remember my dad said something about it a long time ago."

Henry didn't reply.

"Where did you learn it?" James demanded.

"Well, since it matters so much to you." Henry sighed. "It was that time last week in Vesperelli's class, when I had to borrow some mandrake roots. I went to one of the cabinets in the back of the dungeon and I got the roots. But before I closed it, I noticed this dusty, little bottle tucked into the corner or the cabinet. It had a letter attached to it that said, 'please listen to me.' I took the vial and went back to my seat."

James's eyes widened. "It was a memory?"

"Yeah."

"So I'm guessing that whoever's memory that was, used that spell?"

"You could say that."

"Do you still have it?"

Henry shuffled over to his school bag and pulled out a small vial. "I carry it with me all the time."

"I swear man, you act like a woman sometimes. All sentimental and stuff." James took the vial from him and held it up to the dim light. He turned it, watching the pearly liquid inside glow. "Who did it belong to, Henry?"

"A man named Severus Snape."