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"I don't see anything weird whatsoever." Lily leaned closer to the map, poring over it. "Every single person is in their dormitories, or at the least, in their common rooms. All the teachers are in their quarters as well. Everything is normal." She sighed. "It's been two hours. I need sleep." Her and Scorpius had stayed up late the previous night as well, looking over the Marauder's Map in the hope of seeing someone wandering around suspiciously, but to no avail. Nothing had happened since yesterday, when Rose had started them on this attempted-murder case.

"All right. You go to bed. I'll just stay up a bit longer. I need to revise my Potions essay, anyway." Scorpius groaned at the thought. Although their Potions teacher, Morag MacDougal, was fair, she had a habit of assigning a lot of work.

"The one that's due tomorrow?"

"The very same. Don't tell Rose, she finished it last week." He pulled out a long piece of parchment covered with notes, and a quill, and set them on the table. "See you, Lily."

"Bye." She slowly made her way up the stairs to the Slytherin fourth-year girls' dormitory. Her roommates, Daisy Zabini, Tori Nott, and Mina Francis, were already asleep, peacefully in their beds. She undressed and flopped into bed herself, the mystery of Sara Creevey still on her mind.

She hadn't known the girl that well. Not only was Sara a year younger, but also in Hufflepuff, and Lily didn't know many Hufflepuffs apart from those she was related to. She had seen her around, however, and she had always seemed pleasant enough, and nice to everybody. Lily had even seen her staying after classes to help clean up, since most of the practical lessons got messy. She couldn't imagine a girl like that having any dangerous enemies, especially ones who would actually want to kill her. Why, then, would she have been the victim of an attack?

She drifted off into a restless sleep, images pushing in and out of her mind. A broom jerking wildly. A body falling twenty feet to the ground. A girl, lying deathly still in a hospital wing bed. Sara Creevey, laughing and joking with a few friends. The pictures were all related to the same thing, and in her partially-dreaming state, she tried to make them form into something that would help them solve the mystery so that Rose would stop talking about it, but it didn't work.

"Did you see anything odd?" was the first question she asked Scorpius at breakfast.

"No. Some teachers patrolled a bit, but nobody met up with each other. Nothing suspicious at all." He sighed. "I'm not looking forward to telling Rose this. She had her heart set on solving this."

"We still could," Lily reassured him. Although part of her was still convinced it was risky and would lead to her being the next victim, another part of her also wanted to crack open the case. After all, her parents had such grand adventures while they were at school- finding the Sorcerer's Stone, the debacle of the Chamber of Secrets, competing in the Triwizard Tournament, forming Dumbledore's Army…the list went on and on. So far, what had Lily done? Played pranks, yes, and got more detention than anyone in her year, but that didn't exactly count. If they solved this, she would be known as 'one of the students who found the person who tried to murder Sara Creevey,' not 'Harry Potter's youngest kid'.

"Look, there's Rose now." Scorpius waved. "Hey."

"Did you two find anything?" Rose asked, sounding just like Lily had a couple of minutes before. Both Slytherins shook their head. "Damn it. It was a good idea to look at the Map, too. I'm going to visit Sara in the hospital wing today. You two should come. We're all trying to do this, not just me."

"We're the ones that stayed up until past midnight looking at that bloody map," Lily grumbled to Scorpius. Rose, still standing a couple of feet away, did not hear over the chattering of other students from all the House tables. Louder, she said, "Alright. I don't have detention yet, so I'm free right after classes."

"Lily Luna Potter doesn't have detention?" Tori Nott, sitting on Lily's other side, gasped. "I think that's a first. We've been here over a week and you haven't done a single thing yet."

Lily nodded. "It is a first. I need to do something before my reputation gets ruined." She cast in her mind for ideas. "I'll definitely have something before next week. This can't go any farther, me behaving. It's boring."

"I'll help," Scorpius said. "Rose, you in?"

"Mainly because you two need me as the 'bookish one' of the group, who actually has a bit of sense. Fine. I'll help with whatever devious plan you two have to get detention." She rolled her eyes. Rose wasn't as into the pranks as the other two, but went along mainly because they were her best friends and she didn't want to be left out. "But after we visit Sara. I want to see how she's doing," she added for the benefit of the people nearby. They had decided to keep it secret that they were trying to find the culprit, for the important reason that the adults would put a stop to it if they knew. While they could find their way around teachers with the help of the Cloak and the Map, it was easier if nobody expected them to do anything.

"Alright. That's a deal, then," Lily said. "We visit Sara Creevey, and then we plan a prank."

The day's classes seemed to drag by for Lily, even Care of Magical Creatures, which she enjoyed greatly because of Luna, who was one of her favorite people. Each hour seemed to last a day, as Lily was looking forward to both finding out details about Sara and planning the first prank of the year, which was always the most thrilling to plan. She wasn't paying full attention in her courses, which resulted in Professor Greengrass, the Charms teacher and Tori's mother, giving her extra practice on the Summoning Charm after she Banished the cushion instead.

Lily, Rose, and Scorpius met at the entrance to the Hospital wing. Madam Susan Bones, who now oversaw the hospital wing after Poppy Pomfrey's retirement four years prior, met them at the door. "Are you here to see Miss Creevey?"

"Yes," Rose said, stepping neatly in front of the other two. "We want to see how she's doing. We've been so busy and haven't had time, and we feel really bad." She put on her best sorrowful face. "Please let us see her. We won't be that long."

"You're lucky," Madam Bones replied. "She's awake, just woke up fifteen minutes ago, in fact. She's still eating a bit, but you should be fine. Go on in, but don't rile her up. You have twenty minutes."

The three quickly walked over to the last bed, where a small, fair-skinned girl with silvery-blonde hair lay. A small tray of food lay in front of her, and she was picking at it. She looked up as they approached. "Hi," she said quietly.

"I'm Rose," Rose said, "and that's Lily Luna and Scorpius. We were wondering…what happened? We heard that your broom had a curse placed on it, but nobody would tell us anything else." This was only a half-truth- they had heard several rumors, but most of them (like that Sara was 100 feet up, or that it had been someone on the opposite team) didn't make any sense and certainly were not true.

"It was fine at first," Sara said slowly, as if each word was hard to get out. "Then about halfway through the practice game, it started jerking me around. I was worried something was wrong with it, so I tried to land, but it was as if the broom had a mind of its own and wouldn't let me. I barely managed to get it down to…twenty, maybe twenty-five feet up before it finally threw me off because I couldn't hold on. Then I woke up here." She gave them a rueful smile. "I wish I could tell you more, but there really isn't anything else."

"That's still helpful," Rose, who had her thinking face on, said.

"Oh, and could you please not mention to any teachers what we asked you?" Lily added. "We're trying to find out who did this, but we know the teachers wouldn't let us. Or any adults, really," she said as an afterthought.

Sara nodded. "I suppose. But whoever it is seems dangerous."

"We know," Scorpius said. "We're going to be completely careful, and we have a few extra tools on our side. Hope you feel better soon."

"Thanks," Sara said.

Once the three left the hospital wing, calling goodbyes to Madam Bones so that she knew they had left, Lily turned to Rose. "Are we going to start on the prank now?"

"You two brainstorm ideas. I need to look something up in the library. I need to see if there is any way that the curse could have been set so that it didn't affect the broom for a while, or if the person had to have been at the practice match. Go on, we'll discuss the prank later. This is much more important." She dashed off, half-running.

"Well, I suppose we'll have to do this alone," Scorpius conceded. "Any ideas?"

"Maybe…" Lily grinned mischievously, and proceeded to tell Scorpius her plan.

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