Not the Lily You Know

Easter Holiday Break: Return of The Students

We searched the rest of the whole bloody day and still found nothing, not even a Death Eater.

It was about 10 o'clock at night when we got back to Hogsmeade and we were all completely dead on our feet.

"Did any of you find anything?" I yawned as we began to walk towards the gates.

"No." they replied, just as tired as I was, Henry even more so.

"We'll have to go tomorrow, but I think we should sleep in instead of getting up so early," Peter suggested wearily.

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea," Isabelle yawned.

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Time flew, days would go by without even a clue as to where Lily could be, but every so often we'd find something, something like a Death Eater, or a dumpster in a different position everyday.

But we were still getting no closer to finding Lily, and even Alice was beginning to give up hope of ever finding her.

The Ministry had finally sent out Aurors two days ago, even though it had been a whole week since she was taken.

They've been giving daily reports to Dumbledore, who in turn told us, though nothing had actually been uncovered yet.

Yesterday they'd posted a missing poster, a reward of 500 Galleons to whoever found her and 100 Galleons for information leading to her finding.

"It's disgusting that they put a price on her head! Utterly revolting!" Marlene had roared when she read the paper that morning.

We were down at breakfast now and we pretended not to notice the whispers coming from all around us. You see, most parents had sent their kids back to Hogwarts immediately when they caught wind of what happened to Lily at my place, knowing that no where was safe besides Hogwarts if my parent's house was broken into, but, of course, they didn't know she was taken from my garden.

The day that everyone came back was, obviously, yesterday, and people couldn't seem to stop talking about it, whispering about her, chattering about what we were planning on doing about it, and even openly asking us what happened.

"That's none of your business." Alice had glared.

"What're we going to do?" Sirius groaned, thumping his head onto the table.

"We haven't found a single thing!"

"We have!" Isabelle defended.

"Like what?" Sirius cocked an eyebrow at her, raising his head.

"That Death Eater."

"Who didn't know anything about where she was, even after we cast multiple truth spells on him and gave him Vertiserum." Sirius added pessimistically.

"Fine." she sighed.

"Stop picking at your food James," Marlene reprimanded, finally noticing me doing exactly that.

"Sorry, mother." I muttered, dropping my fork.

A brief ghost of a smile flickered across Marlene's face, but it was gone within a millisecond.

"So, what's our plan for today?" I asked wearily, I was seriously tired of waking up so early and going to bed so late without a single good thing happening.

"We're all staying today, research some of the spells we found to try and get around them, you know, maybe sleep a bit." Sirius yawned.

I nodded and stood up, not hungry anymore I walked out of the Great Hall, receiving curious stares from most of the student body, but I didn't care, I didn't care about much these days.

Sirius and Remus tried to get me to play a game of Quidditch with them but I refused, I heard them talking to each other in worried tones the next time I saw them.

"James." Isabelle sighed as she caught me on my way back to the common room, she'd staying up the lastest out of all of us so I was actually surprised she was up at all.

"What?" I grunted.

"We can't go around like this, we're going to find her soon, I can feel it." Isabelle said certainly.

"How do you know that?" I scowled.

"I just do." Isabelle said before she released my arm, walking away without another word.