Chapter 5

36 agents were sent from the Ministry. They were divided up into teams, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Over All.

In the first four teams, there were 7 people in each. They stayed in the dorms with the students from each year in each house. In a male was assigned to an age group, they would stay in the boys dorm, If a girl, the girl dorms. They would also attend classes, eat, and study with their age group. If an attack was thrust upon any one from a specific group, the agent there would report to the Over All.

The Over All group consists of 8 people who took care of the overall student body. They ate at a table set up at the back of the great hall, and ran regular rounds around the castle and grounds. Dumbledore had converted unused classrooms into bedrooms so that students could reach one from almost any given point in the castle in 15 minutes or less.

After Breakfast, the entire Gryffindor house gathered in the common room to listen to Professor McGonagall, who stood in front of the fire, 7 robed witches and wizards standing in a V shape behind her, their arms crossed behind their back and their faces staring emotionlessly forward.

"These people you see behind me are the 7 ministry agents sent to protect you. They will be treated with no less than the up most respect, and confidence you would show to your own. Do I make myself clear?"

A few people nodded their heads, some agreed out loud. McGonagall waited until everyone made some sign of acceptance before moving on.

"Each year has one agent sent to protect them specifically. These witches or wizards will be shadowing you. Anything they say will happen immediately, anything they ask of you will be preformed. Are we in agreement?"

Once again she waited for response. As soon as she was satisfied, she pulled out a scroll from the depths of her robes.

"When I call your year, you will listen to the instructions and follow them to the letter.
First years: go to the dormitories of the girls of your age. In a few moments your agent will come up and introduce themselves, set out roles that will be followed, and then you will show them the castle. Second years do the same except for the boys dorms, third year female dorms as well, forth female, fifth years male dorms and sixth female and seventh male. If I hear of any of these personals being mistreated in anyway, they will be subject to which ever punishment professor Dumbledore and I see fit. Understood?"

Everyone agreed and made their way upstairs. Lily and Gemma entered the 5th year boys' dorm and had mirror looks of slight disgust on their faces.

"It's called cleaning. Ever heard of it?" Gemma asked to Sirius and James who were already playing exploding snaps in the corner.

Lily didn't even bother talking to them. She simply pulled out her wand, flicked her wrist and muttered a spell under her breath. A whitish haze sprayed from her wand and enveloped the room. When it evaporated, the room was spotless, with the slight scent of rain.

"That is awesome! Teach it to me?" Remus asked excitedly as he leaped into the room, Pettigrew shuffling in behind him.

"Tough luck with that one" Michelle said walking into the room, "She'll proubrally just tell you the book it's in and then leave you to your own devices. Lily gasped offend and a little embarrassed because that as exactly what she had planned to do.

"I will not" She said to Michelle who was now lounging casually on one of the beds next to Lupin. "I'll tell him how." Walking over to him, she pulled her wand back out of her pocket. "It's the left flick wand movement, the words are Corellius Monone, got it?" he nodded flicking his wrist and practicing the words.

"This is going to be so cool guys!" Adrian said as she practically bounced in the room. "We have a guy agent, which means that not only is he smart, brave but proubrally cute and available."

All of the guys paused at their various activities and looked at her as though she had sprouted another head. Lily laughed and Gemma rolled her eyes.

"I know right!" Michelle shrieked and ran over to clasp her hands. "I hope we do get a cute one; there were a few that would qualify as scary looking. Except for that one farthest back, on the left side, you know the one?"

"Yes! He is soooo cute!"

"You guys are soooo weird!" James said with the same tone they had been using.

"And there is something wrong with you. Sorry" Adrian said giving a delicate shrug of her shoulders.

"Knock it off, both of you" Lily said finally standing up. "You both have problems. Deal with it"

"Agreed, but who doesn't?" Everyone turned their head at the new voice from the doorway. James, Sirius, Michelle and Adrian mouths all dropped open. Lupin looked up and stared, Peter made a strange noise and Gemma face turned blank.

Lily stayed in complete shock.

Standing at the door was a 6' buff man with shaggy brown hair and piercing green eyes. His square jaw line was relaxed and his muscular arms folded easily across his chest.

There was no possible way.

"I take it your our agent?" James said in a rather small voice.

"Aye, that would be me." He said with a thick Irish accent.

Was it really?...

"So exactly who are you?" Sirius asked, gaining his voice and arrogant aura back.

"That agent sent to protect you. I'll be sleeping here." He waved his wand and a bed identical to the others except slightly larger appeared near the door. "Attending your classes, study sessions, meals and anything else is exactly where I'm assigned to be. 'Course, I'll be in the back, the unnoticed, not interfering unless mortal danger is about to strike you."

"Yes," Michelle said, "We know that much, but who are you?"

Maybe it was….

The strange man turned his humorous eyes at Lily.

It couldn't be, but it must…

"You already know, don't you Lily-bear?"

Every head in the room whipped over to look at her. Some of them made noises of confusion but she ignored them. She looked at him, tilting her head this way and that. It was definitely him; he had that say dimple in the cheek, the cleft in his chin, the crows' feet around his eyes. She smiled and tried to contain her excitement. It really was him. She hadn't seen him in years, and had missed him horribly. Unable to contain it any longer, she ran across the room and embraced him with so much strength he almost fell over.

"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh! Your actually here! I haven't seen you in ages, Dec, how come you didn't write, or, or or anything!"

He laughed and pet her hair

"Good to know you missed me Lila'"

She pulled back and frowned suddenly, pulling back her fist to rap his chest continually.

"Hey! Knock that off, I'm a government official!"

"No you're not; you're Dec-i-bear." Satisfied with herself she hugged him again. Rocking against his chest.

"I'm sorry, but would you mind enlightening the rest of us?" James asked from the bed where he was still sitting.

"Of course, sorry, Lily, Why don't you explain? There's a couple o' spells that need to be preformed to the girls dorms, I'll go see to it?"

As soon as he had left, Lily turned to the rest of them who were staring at her with mixtures of confusion, excitement, curiosity and, in James case, a little bit of jealousy. Lily sighed, and walked over to the bed he had summoned, sitting down; she tried to think of the best way to tell the story.

"When I was a kid, my parents would both work. Their hours barely over lapped each other, leaving a 4 hour difference where there was no one to watch me and my sister. So my mum hired teenaged Declan." She motioned to the girls' dorm across the hall. "Every year, from September to June, he would leave, but he would always come back during the summer."

"He went to Hogwarts then?" Lupin asked from the corner where he was going through a dresser.

"Yes but we had no clue at the time, I didn't know about magic."

"Ok then what?" Michelle probed

"Well, he was the best person that ever watched us. He was like that big brother that was always there. He would play games with us, and make cookies and watch TV and give us embarrassing nick names, and then one year, when he was seventeen, he was with us for about half way into the summer before he left." Lily broke off; talking about it forced her to remember. He was her first friend, it was strange with him, she knew he was different, at least in the way she was, but Lily was always so confused why he couldn't tell her. She hadn't even put 2 and 2 together and got the fact he was a wizard until just now.

"I feel stupid now, it makes so much sense. He's a wizard. When he left it was to train and become a government official. He must have realized I was a witch a long time ago. He's real name is Declan O'Malley, Irish obviously, he's awesome. This is awesome!"

Michelle and Adrian seemed to agree, as did Lupin and Sirius, Peter was still in the corner and for some reason James looked like he was going to hit something. Before Lily could ask what was wrong, Declan came back in.

"Alright, So There is a certain amount of rules you've got to listen to, and then a special treat that should make your day. Why don't you sit on down and I'll tell you both?"

They all sat down in various positions on the beds, floor and against walls.

"Rule number one; curfew is now strictly 11, unless I say otherwise, and, I will if a good need pops up, which a kitchen run totally does." Sirius and James insubordinate expressions were wiped out as soon as Declan said that last part. "Rule two; I'm responsible for you, so before doing anything stupid, check with me first and I can help you do it in a way you won't get hurt as bad" The boys were definitely starting to like this guy "Rule three; the Over All group is in charge. If I say something and they say differently, check with me and then do what they say. Also, new rules may pop up later, and they will be enforced as well. "Monster protocol; if you see, hear or feel anything abnormal or strange, I should be alerted immediately. If the organism you encounter is aggressive or violent is any way what so ever, find the nearest officer and tell them. If you can't find any officer, go to the nearest bedroom of a member of the Over All, the rooms are protected by certain spells that will protect you until someone else comes along. In the room of these personals there is also a floating orb near the door; touch that and help will come immediately. Any misuse or mistreatment of this protocol will result in suspension or possibly even by being expelled from the school and grounds permanently. Understood?"

Almost everyone blinked and let that sink in. Those rules and protocols made this seem a lot more realistic, no longer like some simple issue that would be fixed without harm or accident in a few days.

"Wow" Lupin was the first one to speak. James and Sirius nodding their head in agreement. Expulsion was a lot more to think about than a few days of detention.

"You said there announcement? A good one?" Adrian said, and the other girls nodded their head in agreement. " What is it?"

"Ahh," he said, his face turning back from strict agent into humorous Dec-i-bear. "Yes, the first doss of spells will require all of us agents, so no one will be able to supervise students, as a result of that; the entire student body, come tomorrow morning, will be shipped off for a weekend at home."

"Seriously?" Michelle screamed in excitement jumping up and down with Adrian "We get the whole weekend off? That is awesome!"

Michelle wasn't the only one who was excited. James and Sirius we're already planning it out, how Sirius would stay at his house. Lupin looked glad but a little hesitant, seeing how it was a full moon. Peter was smiling a little, his mouse like features dominating his face in the dark corner. Gemma was also grinning from ear to ear, her pixie like face practically glowing. Lily seemed to be the only one unhappy by the news.

Later that night, the girls all returned to their dormitories to get ready for tomorrow. Michelle and Adrian were busy packing, arguing about what to bring, what to leave, and whether or not to bring this blouse or those jeans. Gemma was sitting in the windowsill, reading a letter she had sent home.

"What are you going to do Gemma?" Lily asked from where she was laying on her bed. Gemma looked up at her sad expression.

"My parents are spending the weekend at my Aunt Julies house this weekend, she just had her baby and mum's going to take care of her. That's where I'll be going to. With James to his parents' house."

Lily nodded, that made perfect sense, them being cousins and all. She would have a nice surprise break.

"What about you, lily?" she asked, she could sense that something was wrong, but what she wasn't sure.

"I… I have absolutely no idea." She sat up, sighing and shaking her head. "My parents are gone to London for some conferences with work. My sister is staying at her friend's house and I…. don't know." She groaned and put her face and hairs into her hands. This was a down side of being a witch, few normal friends, a sister who hated you and nowhere to go one surprise holidays.

Gemma was staring to grow an evil smile on her face, an even more evil idea forming in her head.

"Lily" she said sweetly, her best friends looked up at her and grunted softly "Why don't you come with me?"

"What?" She really looked at her now, her head reeling." Come with you where?"

"To the Potters"

"Potters? As in James potter?"

"Yes, they're good, down to earth people; they'd love to have you. Mum and dad are taking the guest room, but you could sleep in the living room with me, you can have to couch. "

It was a bad idea, Lily knew. But what other option did she have? There had to be something else other than the Potters, she decided to back out of it mannerly.

"I don't want to impose."

"Don't be silly you won't! This will be so much fun if you can" she pulled out a paper and started writing a note to James parents. "They live practically down the street from this rec center, so on Friday we can go and swim there, on Saturday I know their planning a BBQ in the backyard, then we can comne in and watch movies all night because on Sunday we can sleep in and maybe go to church it will be so much fun!

Gemma squealed again, and before Lily could voice her strong discomfort about it, she gave the letter to her owl and opened the window to let it fly out.

A few hours later, a response came. Lily Evans would officially be spending the weekend at the Potters.

MUAHAHAHAHA that ending sounds kind of evil huh? This chapter was really long 2,700 words plus and about 6 pages, I proubrally should have broke it into two but I hope you like it! The next chapter is going to be awesome! Please review and tell me what you think!

PEACE
LIZIES