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"Have you seen Gwen?"
"Nope Lilly I haven't," Scarlet answers looking at her green nail varnish worried that it's beginning to chip. She hasn't seen Gwen since watching the quidditch game from the crowds and she was very impressed by James' skill on his broom, and wonders if she should try to get him to invite her to The Three Broomsticks. They are off to Hogsmeade next month and she needs someone to go with since Sirius moved on from their brief and almost too passionate affair.
"This is important I haven't seen Gwen for hours," Lilly snaps out of concern for her missing friend. Gwen is impulsive and often set to self-destruct.
"She's with Snape," James sighs.
"What?"
"She stopped Prongs from attacking him and then they scarpered," Sirius answers. "You don't think he's soft on him, do you?" His you sounds more like a ya, which annoys Scarlet because he's a lot more upper class than he acts anyone would think he was common.
"What Snape?" Lilly doesn't want to seem too judgemental not until Gwen has a chance to defend herself but how can anyone like Snape with his acid tongue and oily charm? In fact Snape is a living embodiment of all that is wrong with the Slytherins.
"No I meant Wormtail!" Sirius sneers nudging Peter with his elbow making Lilly question why Peter always puts up with being the butt of most of Sirius' jokes.
"Yeah she can't get enough of me," Peter smiles dumbly. That must be why he doesn't mind being the joke because he's so stupid that he can't see that his so called friends are laughing at him rather than with him.
Meanwhile by the lake under a tree Gwen curls up in Severous' arms. She has never been as content as she is now and tells him as such. He smiles kissing her forehead and telling her that she is very sweet both literally and figuratively.
Lilly waits for her in the common room in front of the fire reading through her History of Magic text book because despite of the boring Professor it's actually quite interesting especially to Muggle-born Lilly. Reading the text book is like exploring a secret world that is just hers and has nothing to do with her hateful sister who would never know that there was a Goblin war. It isn't that she wants to be separated from her Muggle roots but everyone else seems to take all those things for granted and Lilly never wants that.
"What are you doing still up?" Gwen asks.
"I'm allowed unlike you, didn't you get spotted?" Lilly asks as she puts her book on the table face down so she doesn't lose her place.
"Nah, apparently all the Prefects are too busy doing their homework to be patrolling tonight," Gwen smiles sweetly not even one of Lilly's lectures can wipe away the happiness that she has she has been brewing all day. "I'm off to bed, see you in the morning."