Not the Lily You Know

Caught

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING YOU RECOGNISE THAT BELONGS TO THE WONDERFUL J.K. ROWLING!!!

I woke up at about seven to the annoying noise of my alarm clock. I groaned and draged myself out of bed to get dressed. As soon as I left my common room I was bombarded by Sirius Black trying to get into the common room to see Potter. That BASTARD nearly ran me over!! I decided to leave it because the way he was acting you would of thought Potter was dying or something.

"Did you return it?" Alice asked as I sat next to her in breakfast.

"Waa?" I said through my mouthful of porridge.

"The map" she whispered.

I swallowed, an evil grin crossed my face. Alice sighed "Lily"

"What?" I asked feigning innocence.

"You have to return it."

"Who says?"

"It's the right thing to do" Alice replied wearily.

"I will return it when they realise that it is gone"

Alice sighed "well I guess it's better than nothing"

At this moment The Marauders entered the Great Hall and I decided that I had finished my breakfast, and apparently so did Alice. Isabelle and Marlene had only just entered the Hall as we left. They were late sleepers.

I checked my schedule; Double Potions with the Slytherins, is it like tradition that the Gryffindors always have Potions with Slytherin? Because we always seem too. I sighed, it's not like I hate or am bad at Potions, it's just the Slytherins, including a certain Severus Snape who just happened to be my best friend up until fifth year when he called me a Mudblood. I headed absent mindedly towards the Potions dungeons with Alice.

Slughorn sighed with delight as he entered the room.

"Today we will be making a Befuddlement Potion" Slughorn proclaimed.

'Befuddlement Potion would be perfect if anyone saw us in the RoR when we didn't want them to' I thought. The potion its self was simple to make and it was even easier to nick five vials of the stuff with out Slughorn noticing anything.

After the boring potions lesson I had a free period, as did all my friends.

"Do ya wanna practise now? or wait till Wednesday?" Marlene asked.

We all whacked her lightly over the head for that useless remark.

"OW! Guys that hurt!" Marlene whined rubbing the back of her head.

"Oh it did not! You big baby! And of course we all want to!" Isabelle told her.

"Lets go then!" Alice yelled.

As we made our way to our different common rooms we were intercepted by two bickering Marauders. So by instinct we hid in the shadows praying that they did not see us. They didn't, however we managed to catch some of their conversation.

"-Prongs! How do you loose something like that map so easily! Next thing we know you'll be loosing that cloak too!" The voice of an obviously angry Sirius Black wafted towards us.

"I told you Padfoot, I don't know! And keep your voice down we're going to be heard!"

But we didn't manage to catch the rest of the conversation. We tried to get to our common rooms as quickly as possible to grab our instruments and shrink them so that they could fit in our pockets.

"We'll meet you there Lily" Said Marlene as they ran in a different direction to grab their instruments. As I waited by the RoR for them I couldn't help but wonder how we were going to get to perform in front of people and once it happened how we would deal with it. I smiled to myself at these thoughts. Just then Alice, Isabelle and Marlene came shooting round the corner and I started to pace in front of the wall thinking the same thing I thought last time.