A/N - Hey guys! This chapter was a bonus chapter because you asked for who put the gillyweed in Lily's boyfriend's lunch. And no, I'm not planning on telling you who Lily's boyfriend is.
Disclaimer: I'm not J. K. Rowling, I wouldn't be sitting here struggling through pre-algebra if I'm her.
CHAPTER 13
"So who do you think put Gillyweed into Lily's boyfriend's lunch?"
The four Marauders are sitting in the common room, the lazy afternoon sun shining through the windows.
"I don't know, last time I was there, I saw the giant goldfish tub in the place of a bed with the curtains drawn around it," James said, remembering his last visit to the hospital due to his broken nose,
"It's a good idea though,"
"Yeah..." James said and seems to be thinking about something, "Let's go find out who put it in? And how on earth did he or she get their hands on the gillyweed?"
"Potter?" Lily showed up beside the four boys, "Do you know who put the gillyweed in his lunch? We're still trying to figure out, but the house elf wouldn't say anything,"
"No..."
"Well, I thought that you would have some idea," Lily said, and from her bag took out a heavy library book,
"It says here that Gillyweed is very rare and it's not in the student's supply closet in the potions classroom,"
"So it's Slughorn?" Peter said,
"Don't be ridiculous, why on earth would Slughorn do that?"
"I dunno..."
"Anyway, I asked Professor Slughorn, and he said that none of the Gillyweed in his own personal supply closet had gone missing, so the prankster must've brought them themselves." Lily said, closing the book,
"But who on earth would bring such advanced potions ingredience to Hogwarts?" James asked,
"I wonder..." Remus started saying, but didn't continue,
"What did you say?" James asked,
"Oh, nothing, I said that I think you two should go and find out, since it's a good idea, the mind of a prankster would be better at catching a prankster than a..."
"It's ok, Remus, call me whatever you want,"
"A tattle tale?"
"Fair enough," Lily said, and turned to James, "Potter, you in? We'll catch him or her!"
"Count me in!" James said happily, the thought of Lily spending time with him willingly was exhilirating,
"I want to-" Peter started saying but was abruptly put to a stop by a well placed kick in the shin,
"Come on, Evans, Let's go," James said and ran through the portrait hole, Lily struggling to keep up behind him,
"Slow down!"
"Oh, Sorry," James said, and purposefully slowed down to a more reasonable pace, "I'm used to running around with Padfoot, Filch at my heels,"
"Padfoot?"
"Sirius, I'm Prongs, Remus is Moony, and Peter is Wormtail,"
"How on earth do you guys come up with these names?"
"...I have no idea." James said, his eyes floating up to the ceiling,
"Oh well," Lily said, "Where are we heading?"
"I'm not sure..." James said, "Maybe sitting on the armchair with my knees to my chin will help?"
"What?" Lily asked uncertainly, "Are..are you talking about Sherlock Holmes?"
"Yeah," James said, a bit sheepishly, "Isn't that what he does?"
"Yeah... I'm just surprised that you read books,"
"I didn't read them, the previous owner of the video recorder was crazy about them,"
"Video recorder?"
"Nothing!" James said abruptly, gazing around trying to find the invisible video recorder, Lily narrowed her eyes suspiciously but didn't pursue the subject.
"OK, so whoever it is, he or she must be very good at potions to have such advance potions ingredients at this time or year," Lily said,
"Yeah, a prankster don't usually use potions ingredients, since they are too stable and too predictable, also, a real and true prankster will try to make everything themselves with a secret recipe,"
"Right, so off we go to the potions classroom,"
"Why?"
"We can go ask Slughorn who is the best at Potions in out year, and then we can try to deduce it,"
"Why do we need to find Slughorn to do that? The people best at Potions in our year is you and... Sniv-Snape."
"Lily!" Snivellus-Snape came in sight at the worst possible moment, Lily had beed trying to run away from the fact that Snape is the only one who could do that, but there's no turning back now,
"Gillyweed? Seriously?" Lily said, wishing with all her mind that Snape would deny it and say that it wasn't him, Snape seems taken aback, he probably thought that his plan was flawless,
"Lily, I can explain!" Snape said, and all doubt in Lily's mind vanished instantly, Lily glared darkly at Snape, and turned around, grabbed James by the wrist, and ran away, back to the comfort of her bed where she can cry away all her hopes of reviving her friendship with Snape.
I tried to space it out a bit, did it work?
I thought that it's going to be pretty obvious it's Snape even without this chapter, but still.
Check out my other stories! "James and Lily's troublesome honeymoon" may look boring in the first few chapters, but it's better in the end. AND it's my very first fanfic.
If you want something light-hearted, try the one-shots or "Letters to the Famous Harry Potter"