Thanks for the reviews and from Thursday I will be able to devote myself to this story wholeheartedly because my exams will be over!!! YAY for me. I also want to start a new one about Harry's time at Hogwarts but I guess I should finish this one first
Disclaimer: I do not, nor will I ever own Harry Potter that privelege is all J.K.Rowling's.
It was a month after Lily's unfortunate experience with the Marauders Map and she had decided to go exploring after curfew in the invisibility cloak one night. She passed an empty classroom where some strange sounds were issuing from. They sounded like moans? She paused and quietly opened the door and peeked in. The sight that met her eyes was somewhat strange. Two people were lying on a desk and looked like they were oh my god! They're doing it...in a classroom!
Then she saw who it was and almost laughed. Frank Longbottom and Alice Prewett had been friends of hers since they were first years and had fancied each other the whole time. It was about time they got together. She pushed down the overwhelming urge to do her prefect duties and tell them to get back to their common rooms and instead left them to whatever it was they were doing. She smiled to herself someone must have spiked my pumpkin juice this isn't like me at all!
She was ambling slowly back to the Gryffindor common room in the hopes of finding other interesting sights along the way when she heard footsteps rounding the corner. 'I told you Padfoot I checked the map before we left, there was no one around' That was James Potter's voice.
'Someone could have moved in that space of time Prongs you idiot' that was Sirius and also the moment three boys rounded the corner
'Look I told you there's no one here Padfoot, you're so paranoid!' James whispered at Sirius
Lily crouched in the shadows forgetting for a minute that she was in fact invisible. What were they up to now? Weren't they in enough trouble already? Another great idea surfaced in her mind, follow them!
'Seriously mate when are you gonna ask Evans for the cloak back? We need it!' Sirius cried in desperation, 'I hate that we have to be careful! No more spooking people in the hallways oh yeah and it's much harder to sneak out at night!'
'I'll ask her soon I just want to give her time' James replied avoiding Sirius's eyes.
'Just cause you fancy the pants off of the girl doesn't mean you can't ask her for your stuff back!' Sirius said
'I know I know I just...' James trailed off
'He just doesn't know how to talk to her!' Peter sniggered to himself
James looked angry and started walking faster, 'come on guys Moony's getting lonely'
Lily started, where was Remus? Again. He always seemed to be missing and he had been looking really pale lately. She was torn between heading back to the dorm room for a nice long sleep, which was something she hadn't had in a while, or finding out what the troublemakers were up to now. She chose the latter option obviously and followed the boys who had already disappeared around the corner. She had nearly walked to the end of the corridor when she heard scuffling from just behind her. She turned around just in time to see a piece of the wall slide back into place over what she presumed was one of the secret passages out of Hogwarts. If that went outside then she could just walk out the main door and hopefully she would spot them out on the grounds.
She hurried towards the main door which was now securely locked and pulled out her wand and muttered 'alohomora' and to door swung open. She supposed the caretaker would come and find out why the door was open pretty soon but, she giggled to herself, he would find no one. She hurried outside into the fresh night air and looked around for the boys. She had forgotten it would be so...dark and pulling out her wand and doing 'lumos' would slightly give away her presence. It was fortunate for her that Sirius, James and Peter decided to walk right past where she standing trying to decide what to do. She shook her head for a minute not believing her luck and then discreetly started to follow them.
They soon disappeared into the shadow of a tree and she gasped horrified after realising that it was the infamous Whomping Willow. She wanted to shout out to warn them but for some reason the tree wasn't moving. They had walked right under it though, they should be getting thoroughly...whomped by now. She waited for them to come out from under the branches but 5 or so minutes had passed by before she realised that they managed to slip past her somehow. 'Oh bloody hell' she whispered to herself 'what the bloody hell was I thinking coming out here?'
She was about to go back inside when she saw figures coming out from under the branches of the Whomping Willow but they weren't human. There was a dog, a rat and a stag. She gasped the stag was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, it's hide was silvery white and it shone in the light of the full moon. It tossed it's head in pride and this drew Lily's attention to the pair of magnificent antlers on it's head. Then she had to suddenly stifle a scream as a wolf leaped out from the shadows and pounced on the dog. However, the dog merely rolled over and barked. Lily was confused, this was the oddest assortment of animals she had ever seen together. What was going on? She stared intently at the group and suddenly noticed something that made her go cold to the bone.
She was staring at the wolf, it was different somehow. She looked at it's snout and suddenly something clicked in her mind. This wasn't just a wolf...this was a werewolf! She backed away slowly and when she reached the castle doors she panicked and ran the rest of the way back to the common room. Did Dumbledore know there was a werewolf roaming the grounds? Should she tell him? She lay down in bed absorbed in her thoughts until she drifted off into a sleep fraught with dreams about stags galloping towards her only to change into werewolves at the last minute. More than once she woke up screaming.
The next morning she staggered down to breakfast having only slept about 3 hours the whole night. Sitting at the nearest end of the Gryffindor table she concentrated on chewing and swallowing before noticing the absense of four certain marauders. She was up later than she normally would be which meant this should be the time that the lazy quartet would usually make it down to breakfast. Again her curiosity overcame here and she hurried upstairs to retrieve the invisibility cloak. I'm getting slightly addicted to this thing she sighed to herself I guess I will eventually have to give it back to James though. At the thought of James Potter a flush slowly crept into her cheeks, what was wrong with her? She didn't like James Potter, stupid git.
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