Written for Hogwarts' Around the World Event: Iraq - (object) Invisibility Cloak.
Word count: 216
Invisibility Cloak
"You have an Invisibility Cloak."
"Yes?"
Lily shook her head, blinking slowly in disbelief. "No, I mean, you have an Invisibility Cloak. You. An Invisibility Cloak. And you had it while you were at Hogwarts."
James nodded cautiously, shrugging. Spread atop his knees, the Cloak pooled like shimmering liquid—it seemed too fluid, too mesmerizing somehow, to be made of actual fabric; and yet it was real. Lily could see that it was real. For some reason, that made Lily start to laugh, a desperate and slightly maniacal kind of laughter.
James rolled his eyes at her, but his lips twitched up in a smile as well. "Yes, me, at Hogwarts," he replied.
"Well, at least that finally explains how you always managed to get away with the things you did there," Lily said, half laughing, half snorting now.
James pouted. Honestly, those sound out of Lily's mouth shouldn't sound so endearing to him. "I'll have you know that we got away with it because we were amazing," he corrected.
Unimpressed, Lily arched a judging eyebrow at him. "And I'm sure the Clock didn't help with that, at all."
James lasted about thirty seconds before Lily's teasing gaze made him start squirming, and half that before he confessed. "Yes, alright, the Cloak helped. A bit."