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CHAPTER 16

"The door to the astronomy tower always works with Alohoroma, what were you talking about?" Sirius asked James as he put on his invisibility cloak on again, leaving his head floating in the air,

"I want to see what Lily left behind,"

"What's the point? We're losing the perfect opportunity to bribe paintings for something that might just be a quill!"

"No, Lily would never risk getting caught out of bed for something like a quill," Remus said, "It's either something very important or valuable, but it's probably not valuable, since she would've told Professor McGonagall, so it's something very important to her and something she would rather kept secret,"

"Are you interested now, Sirius?"

"Of course I am, I'm interested with anything to do with secrets, let's go!"

They stole up the staircases after the disillusion spell was cast and they arrived at the astronomy tower without any strange encounters,

"Alohoroma," James whispered as he stuffed his cloak in his bag, and he pushed the door open.

The wind blew in a gentle way, making the night chilly, the moonlight of a crescent moon shining softly and the row of forgotten objects in the corner glinting,

"Why do they leave the forgotten objects here anyway? Why don't they bring it down to the Great Hall or something?" Remus asked, poking around the pile of brass telescopes,

"Maybe it's so that students learn not to loose things?" James said, picking up a rubber ball and examining it in interest, before pocketing it, "If it's so easy to recover things that are stolen, people wouldn't try so hard to not loose their stuff,"

"That makes sense..."

They poked around the pile of quills and brass telescopes and a surprisingly large amount of potions essay before coming upon a tattered notebook,

"I found it!" James shouted and held up the book in triumph, at the corner of the cover, in a delicate handwriting, is the words: Lily Evans.

"Yes!" Sirius whooped slightly louder than what is wise, then covered his mouth when they heard footsteps coming up the stairs, in a swift movement, James pulled out the invisibility cloak and covered the three of them, making sure that their feet is covered as well.

"Who's here?" Filch jumped in the room, and he narrowed his eyes at the empty tower, he then spotted the pile of forgotten things, "You won't get away this time!"

Filch started pulling items from the pile one by one, and then chucking them behind him, and the trio behind him edged towards the open door slowly, flinching whenever something Filch thrown came dangerously close to them, after edging away scrambling down the stairs, they tore off the invisibility cloak so they can breathe, then started walking across the hallway, reassured that Filch is still far behind them,

"What's that?" Sirius leaned onto James, making him stagger slightly,

"I don't know, it's too dark to see, just a notebook,"

"Maybe it's a diary, isn't that what girls do?"

"Yeah! And then we can know all her dark secrets!"

They were stopped by Remus, who stopped in his tracks abruptly and flew backwards and hid behind a wall at a corner, leaving James and Sirius to face their obstacle- Mrs Norris.

Mrs Norris, with a glint in her eyes that are way too human to be cat, meowed loudly and a second later, Filch appeared out of nowhere.

"Well well well, we got you now!" Filch laughed, "Dumbledore can't worm you guys out this time, first day of school!"

James and Sirius was scared by Filch the first time in their lives, for Filch is now laughing maniacally and muttering about shackles and hanging them by the wrist in the great hall,

"Professor Dumbledore! You can't let them get away this time, I want all the Prefects up and searching for
the other two!"

"Now, Argus, don't be unreasonable, it's the first day of school! No harms done, I think that you did a wonderful job, stopping them before they can do anything, you can go now, Argus,"

"But-"

"You can go now, Argus," Dumbledore gazed at him over his half-moon spectacles, and Filch stomped out unhappily, Mrs Norris growled, or the cat- equivalent of a growl, and stalked out behind her owner.

"Now, Mr Potter, Mr Black," Dumbledore turned to the two boys sitting on the chair which was solely occupied by anyone else, "What were you two really up to tonight?"

"Professor Dumbledore sir, we were merely having a nighttime stroll!" Sirius said, a bit melodramatically,

"You have to believe us, sir, we were merely enjoying the moonlight without worrying about anything else!"
Dumbledore doesn't seem to be convinced,

"We miss Hogwarts so much! We wanted to get familiar with it again!"

"Yeah! I just got kicked out of the Black family! I'm planning on changing my last name to Hogwarts, since Hogwarts is my second home... No, it's my only home now,"

"You got kicked out of your home?" Dumbledore wasn't as surprised as Sirius would like him to be, but he was surprised nevertheless, "Where are you staying over the summer,"

"That's what friends are for!" James said, "I let him camp out at my house, though my mum's not very pleased,"

"Not pleased at all," Sirius confirmed,

"I would imagine that your mom wouldn't be please by this," Dumbledore said, "You can go now, return to your dormitory and do not wander off, I don't want to call Filch to escort you back to your house,"

"Yes sir!"

They filed out the office and went straight back to their dorms, they know when to stop pushing their luck,

"I'm tired," Sirius yawned, "Let's look at Evans's notebook tomorrow,"

"Sure," James yawned and started changing into his pajamas, Remus is already asleep, having escaped Filch, "Good night,"

"Good night,"

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