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Chapter 4: Nightingale's Escapades

"Ouch, Al, you stepped on my foot!"

"It's not my fault!" He whispered angrily to Lily. "You should have moved your foot!"

"Oh, so you're blaming it on me?"

"Both of you shut it!" James hissed, his arm swinging out to hit whichever one of his siblings he could. As a result, Albus got hit in the gut, which made him stubble backwards and hit his head with Lily's.

The younger siblings protested and complained in whispers until James cut them off with, "Do you want us to get in trouble?"

The bickering was discontinued as they shuffled to the garden behind Hagrid's hut. Lily could already see the area set aside for Hagrid to grow his ginormous pumpkins for Halloween and Pine trees for Christmas. Closer towards the house, a chicken coop was protected with barbed wire and crates of different sizes were stacked against the wall, categorized as to what creatures they held. The box on the top began to move on its own as though something in it was moving.

"Over there," Al whispered pointing to the crate that looked as though it was going to fall. James checked the map in his hand with his lit wand before he nodded. He exterminated the light emanating from the tip of his wand and handed the map to Lily.

The boys slipped out from underneath the Invisibility Cloak, and to a witness, it would have appeared as though they came from nowhere into existence. Lily lit the tip of her own wand and watched the dot on the map labeled Ruebeus Hagrid that stayed in place in his hut.

The movement of a different dot caught her eye, and she noticed the dot Scorpius Malfoy headed in the direction of the Gryffindor common room. He even went and must have encountered the Fat Lady, the portrait who made sure that no one without authorization could enter.

Lily came back to her senses when she heard the boys muttering to themselves. Both held two crates with three Blast-Ended Skewerts in each crate. The nasty little things had a number of offensive mechanisms that had most of the students leaving Care of Magical Creatures with singe holes in their robes or their hands beginning to swell from the bites. "What is it?" She hissed.

The boys couldn't see her and stared at the air around her. "How're we supposed to carry these things around under the cloak? There's not enough room!" cried a dismayed Albus.

"James, do you know a disillusionment charm?" she whispered in hushed tones as a tremendous snore echoed faintly from the hut.

"Brilliant idea!" James muttered as he pulled out his wand. "I knew there was a reason we brought you!"

As James set to work on that, Lily noticed another set of crates on the other side of the chicken coop. These were made of a thick wire that you could see the creatures through. She recognized the dull Flobberworms that Hagrid had picked out for the younger students who wouldn't be able to handle the Blast-Ended Skewerts.

On an impulse, she checked behind her and saw that the boys, who were only half invisible, weren't paying any attention to her. She slipped over to the crates and picked up two. Immediately, she wished that she was stronger. The cases of Flobberworms had to have at least seven in each, and they were getting a head start on getting fat and doing nothing.

Once they had successfully made themselves invisible, they slipped back through the door and barely avoided Filch, the caretaker, as he patrolled the corridors. They hurried up the stairs and were almost to the Fat Lady, when Lily noticed on the Marauder's Map that Malfoy was just now moving away from the painting.

She warned her brothers in a whisper just before Malfoy rounded the corner. Of course, while he was walking towards them, she just had to trip on the hem of the Invisibility cloak that was made for much taller people than a thirteen-year-old girl. She stumbled, her feet pounding against the floor loudly, and she just barely managed to keep hold of the crates and keep the cloak covering her, although it might have slipped.

Scorpius Malfoy froze at the sound, probably thinking that it was Filch getting ready to round the corner, or his faithful cat, Mrs. Norris, ready to catch a student out of bed. Lily barely bothered to breath, she was so deathly scared.

After a moment, Malfoy cautiously padded over to where she was hiding, and gazed right at her with questioning, grey eyes. All of a sudden, a tap echoed from down the hall, far away, in the direction he had been heading. His head snapped up, and he muttered something about ghosts before slinking down the hallway. Before he got too far away, he hesitated and turned to the side, and she would've sworn that he winked at her.

Even after he left, her heart was racing and sweat had broken out on her forehead. She gasped a sigh of relief, thankful that nothing too confrontational had happened. A hand came out of nowhere and gripped her arm. "Come on," James growled. "We'd better get back before you trip even more."

So with his hand still gripping the top of her arm, he roughly pulled her back to the common room. Lily took off her cloak in front of the fat Lady and breathlessly said, "Dumbledore!"

"Oh, Lily!" the painting exclaimed softly. "A boy was here –"

"Please let me in!" She begged, not caring at the moment.

The Fat Lady gave an exasperated huff. "Well, fine then. See if I tell you about him later on!" And she swung open, letting the siblings scramble through the hole.

James quickly made him and Albus visible again, revealing the six crates they had gathered between them. Lily stuffed the cloak and the map (with a whispered, "Mischief Managed") in the biggest pocket of her cloak.

"What are those?" Albus asked, the first to notice her crates.

Lily blushed. "I-I found some flobberworms and thought they might make an excellent addition." James grabbed her into a bear hug, squeezing out all the air she had managed to get into my lungs.

"Do you see what a brilliant trouble-maker of a sister she is?" He asked excitedly to Al who had a smug grin at her discomfort.

"You won't have one for long unless you—let go!" She gasped, pushing against James.

The boys laughed quietly at her expense before turning to their plans. "Okay," James muttered. "We'll keep the Skewerts in my room for now; the boys will be less likely to freak if they find out."

"You can't be serious," Lily stated. "You'll burn the dormitory down if you put creatures with the ability to create fire in an enclosed space that's worse than a garbage dump!"

Al chuckled as James aimed a light punch to her arm. "What about the flobberworms?" he asked, returning to mischief.

"Um, I can keep those in my room," Lily volunteered. "If we get caught, those are my idea."

"I'll keep three crates of Skewerts in my room," Albus finished. "We'll dump them in the classrooms right before breakfast is over."

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The next morning, the Potters sat together again, their heads leaning towards each other as they discussed something in whispered tones. To anyone who knew anything about the Potters, it was obvious that something that would ruin their day was about to come.

Lily looked over her schedule when Professor Longbottom gave it to her with a knowing smile. "I have Potions with Slughorn first. What do you have?"

"Defense Against the Dark Arts," James stated, trying to configure it into their plans.

"I have Transfiguration," Albus grumbled, clearly disappointed that he would have to start with his worst subject.

"Those are all great classes for us to dump some worms," Lily whispered, "but I think we should each do at least two classes. Umm, I think we should do Muggle Studies, Ancient Runes and Arithmacy."

The boys nodded. "Muggle studies is close to Transfiguration; I'll do that one."

"Ancient Runes is closest to the dungeons, so Lils can do that, and I'll get Arithmacy."

They all nodded. "We should have some extra flobberworms though and maybe a few skewerts, so maybe we can toss them in the bathrooms," Lily planned enthusiastically.

"Brilliant idea!" Albus congratulated.

They all gazed at their watches as the time to leave quickly approached. Suddenly Lily stood up as though she was furious, her face even reddening a bit. "Merlin, James! You're such a toe-rag!" She shouted, as though mad at him, attracting the eyes of a few across the Great Hall, especially Gryffindors.

She strutted out of the Hall with the same gait as when she was mad. Albus almost immediately followed behind her, looking as though he was going to calm her down. When they were away from anyone who would care, Lily pulled out three crates and handed them to him which he promptly walked away with.

James came along next and he also took three boxes before turning away with a subtle nod. Lily checked her charmed bookbag for the three boxes that were hers (they had adjusted the creatures into easily dividable boxes), looking into the deep space that was too large for the bag. Aunt Hermione had given her the idea and helped her with the charmed bag just a little.

She immediately set of for Ancient Runes class, heading up one floor. She glanced around the deserted hallway, careful of any teachers. When she came upon the closed door, she noticed someone with platinum blonde hair leaning against the wall, with his book bag slung over his shoulder.

"Malfoy," she greeted, surprised.

His grey eyes looked up and found her emerald ones. "Potter, you don't have this class."

She huffed. "Is the teacher here yet?" When he shook his head she asked, "Is the door locked?"

"Yeah, and don't bother to try to unlock it. It's guarded against Alohomora."

Lily's lips turned down in disappointment. "So you think that I'm not smart enough to get in? That stings, Malfoy."

His brow furrowed in confusion as she knelt down before the doorknob. She pulled out a bobby pin from her hair that made her long, frizzy bangs fall into her face. Her hair had been sleek and smooth the day before because she had charmed her hair to be controllable like Rose did with the hair she had inherited from her mother. However, Lily didn't have the patience for that every morning, so she usually pulled it back into a wavy ponytail. Sometimes the messy, unruly hair she had inherited from her father wasn't always incredibly hot.

She blushed as she pushed the hairclip into the lock and began to fiddle with it. She shouldn't suddenly be worried about her frizzy hair as if it was something to be afraid of. She smiled when she heard the click of the lock being undone.

Scorpius's eyes grew wide as she stood up and opened the door which swung inward to the classroom. "You didn't think I could do it did you?"

He made a move to follow her into the classroom, but she spun around and stopped him from entering. "Unless you're willing to get a year's detention, I suggest that you stay put." And then she slammed the door in his face.

Lily looked around the fairly regular-looking classroom. She pulled her crates out of her bag. Immediately, she dumped a third of the flobberworms out and the scattered to various places under the desk. Then she carefully took one of the crates of Skewerts and placed a few under empty desks, one back with the spare books, a couple around the teachers desk, and charmed one up to the chandelier so that it might fall.

After admiring her work for maybe a second, she stuffed the boxes back into her bag and raced out, locking the door behind her. Malfoy was still standing there, and the stunned look returned. She saw three other Slytherins headed towards the class. Lily turned to her companion and spoke in rushed words. "Listen; please don't tell anyone that anyone came into this classroom. I have to go!"

She raced down the corridor, not bothering to pay attention to Malfoy calling her name. She dove into the next girls' bathroom and threw a few flobberworms before she backed out again. When Lily was sure no one was looking, she dodged into the boys' bathroom as well, giving a temporary home to the creatures.

There were bathrooms in the dungeons as well and she repeated the plan before entering Slughorn's Potions class. To her great relief, no one was there yet, but they would be soon. She dumped the rest of the flobberworms and Skewerts and left the room. She glanced to her left and right, and, seeing that no one was there, she ran in any direction, slowing when she passed people. When the crowds thickened, she found her Ravenclaw friends.

"Lily!" Lizzy called as she and Kayla each grabbed one of her arms and began leading her down to the dungeons and potions class. "What happened with you and James? And why are you so out of breath?"

Lily tried to calm her breath and smiled. "You know me and James. We get into a lot of stupid fights. Anyways, I just had to run to clear my head. Am I late for class?"

Kayla giggled. "No, not yet. What did you fight over this time?"

Lily feigned disgust, "Ugh, he was being such an idiot. He ruined my whole breakfast by pouring syrup and ketchup on my breakfast." She shuddered.

"Eww," the girls moaned.

"You get used to it when you have brothers, but it never ceases to annoy me." The girls laughed to themselves until a girl's scream rang out in the frigid dungeons.

They all exchanged confused glances before they broke into a run towards the potions classroom. One boy in their year, a Gryffindor named Ian Cross, already was covered in tiny scorch marks and had a swollen finger. The girl who had screamed, another Ravenclaw, Kara Patil was hiding in a corner from an approaching Skewert.

Professor Slughorn's reaction had to be the funniest though. He waddled around the room, sweat pouring down his face, as he unsuccessfully attempted to get rid of the creatures. Some students were even standing on the desks, hoping that skewerts didn't climb.

Lily snickered before adding a girly squeak of her own that mingled with Kayla's and Lizzy's. But she didn't linger until she dove into the chaos. She was slow in stunning the Skewerts and left the flobberworms, knowing they would only scare them.

It took nearly half an hour for them to stun all of the creatures, taking a marvelous chunk out of their class time. By the time they had gotten all of them, Slughorn was a horrible shade of violet-red. "Whoever did this is going to get detention for the whole year, even expulsion! I will not take this kind of behavior in my class!"

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