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Dedicated: to Sama Claus!

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What her father would have said Aly didn't know. The commotion of the next morning totally discarded whatever odd feeling she had about the Slytherin's.

As she entered the common room, Aly was greeted with a foul smelling odor. Before she could figure out where it came from she was hit by a foul purple goo. It completely covered her from head to toe. As she reached up and wiped it away from her eyes, her insides burning with a controlled anger, she saw Sirius and James come flying across the room. They both froze and James slipped on a rug. Both of the boys wore a look of horror.

"Aly, oh, we are so sorry," Sirius started, "We weren't aiming at you. Honest."

Aly, her anger that was still harbored for Sirius from the day before, suddenly whipped out her wand and stunned him. He fell backwards and James jumped up, his wand out, ready to defend his friend.

He didn't make a move though. Sirius stood up and faced Aly. He pushed James' wand down and whispered, "No, this is my issue."

"Oh, yeah right." Aly snapped.

Sirius just raised his eyebrows at her and both shouted out spells at the same time. The bright white gleam from Aly's struck the sparkling black of Sirius' and they erupted with a boom. The occupants of the common room, the Gryffindor tower, and the classrooms surrounding it fell. The spells had seemed to have a bad mixture when met because there, in the side of the Gryffindor common room, was a humungous hole.

As Aly and Sirius, both panting hard, stared at the hole, dust settling around them, Lily came running over.

"Oh-my-gosh! What did you do?!" she screeched.

"What? This?" Aly asked notioning to the hole.

"Yes, that!" Lily yelled eccentrically.

"Just a small misunderstanding," she replied calmly.

"A small misunderstanding? A SMALL MISUNDERSTANDING?!" Lily screamed, "It's snowing in our common room and it's just because of a 'small misunderstanding'?"

"My goodness!" McGonagall gasped as she entered the common room. "What happened? Explain yourselves!" she started her deep penetrating stare at Aly, who was still covered in purple goo and Sirius who was standing next to her looking very guilty.

"It was a small misunderstanding," Lily explained trying to keep the rage in her voice to a minimum.

McGonagall turned on her, "'A small misunderstanding'? That's what led to the destruction of the school building?"

"Lily had nothing to do with it, Professor," Aly cut in.

"Yeah, it was all our fault," Sirius said stepping forward.

Both girls and the professor turned in shock at this confession.

"See, we were experimenting with this stuff called silly putty. It's a muggle toy. It's kinda like—"

"I'm aware of what it is," McGonagall snapped.

"Well, we wanted to make it bounce." Sirius continued, "Unfortunately, everything we added just made it too wet or not wet enough and it never had the right consistency to bounce."

McGonagall made a noise of impatience.

"Well, Remus suggested that we try a simple jumping potion. Since it makes humans jump higher we thought maybe it would work on silly putty. It worked," he added brightly.

"How very nice," McGonagall barked.

"Well, it got away from us and landed on Aly here. That's why she covered in it. So I tried to clean it up and so did she and we ended up making some weird blast and that's – what happened," he concluded.

McGonagall stared at him for a moment, then at Aly, and finally said, "Fine, I'll take that story. Although, I know there is no way a simple cleaning charm would have caused – this!" she shook her hand at the hole and her glasses fell to the side. "You, Mr. Black, Mr. Potter, Mr. Lupin, and Miss Dumbledore will receive detention. My office, tomorrow night." She turned and walked away. At the portrait hole, she waved her wand and all the pieces flew back into place. She 'huffed' and with that, she left.

"Well, that wasn't hard to fix. Why did we have to get detention for that?" James commented.

"Because," Lily rounded on him, "You started all of this and therefore need to be punished."

His eyebrows contracted, "I started all this?"

"Yes, you had the silly putty didn't you?"

"But you gave it to me," he snipped back, "So technically, this is all your fault."

"My fault? I had no idea that you could take something as harmless as silly putty and use it to cause such havoc."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

Lily and James glared at each other and after a moment of silence James said, "Well," he started to stutter, it was as if he suddenly realized that it was Lily he was talking to, "I—well, you."

"Shut it, Potter."

"Make me," James hollered suddenly regaining his nerve.

"Both of you, be quiet," Aly said rubbing her temples. Her head ached and she had a horrible feeling that her weird vision as going to appear soon.

"Are you alright?" Lily asked kindly, her motherly voice taking over in an instance.

"Yeah, I just need to go lie down."

"Alright," Lily said grabbing Aly's elbow. "Let's go,"

She pulled Aly up the stairs to the dormitory leaving James, still angry, and Sirius, wearing a look of concern, in their wake.

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ok, that's short, but there you go. review for me! :o)