Turbulence

Chapter Fifteen - Truth

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Lily, Morgan and Louise were huddled together at the bottom of a tree at the edge of the forest when Dumbledore arrived accompanied by Professor McGonagall. Lily heard them before she saw then. She heard a twig snap and jumped up in alarm only to find a seething Professor McGonagall storming towards them, followed by a very calm Professor Dumbledore who was holding up his midnight blue robes, stepping of branches and roots.

"Miss Evans! What were you thinking, coming out here without permission? Who knows what could've happened to you three! I am deeply disappointed in you. In all my years, I have never seen such disgraceful behaviour from a Head Girl! You -," Professor McGonagall rambled, throwing her arms around.

"Minerva, please. Contain yourself." Dumbledore said coolly.

"Contain myself? Albus, do you know what these girls have just done?" Professor McGonagall cried.

"We may never find out if you keep scolding them. Now, Minerva, please let me talk to Miss Evans about the events of tonight." Dumbledore sighed.

The whole time, Lily had been looking at her feet, a tear dripping of the end of her nose. Professor McGonagall was right. She was stupid for dragging everyone into this mess. How could she not have seen it was a full moon tonight? And it had been all her idea.

"Miss Evans?" Dumbledore said softly.

Lily looked up through her tears. "Yes, sir."

"Could you please tell me what you made you venture out here tonight?"

"Well - well, I decided it would be a fun sort of b-break. You see, we're all kind of feeling the pressure, sir. Many of the people I know are being affected by You-Know-Who. We three and the Marauders thought it would be fun to come out here and you know..." Even as she was saying it, she knew how stupid it sounded. She regretted this idea entirely.

"Please, sir. It's not just Lily's fault, we all agreed." Louise said quietly, grabbing hold of Lily's hand tightly.

"Yeah, it's just as much our fault as it is hers." Morgan added, takin hold of Lily's other hand.

Another tear leaked out of Lily's eye. How was she so lucky to have friends like these? She really didn't deserve them. Or James, she thought to herself bitterly. She was so ashamed.

"That's very kind of you two but what I would like to know is where Mr Potter, Black and Lupin are?" Dumbledore asked curiously.

"Well, they are in the - ah - Shrieking Shack, sir." Morgan answered uneasily.

"How did that come to be?" Dumbledore asked.

Lily took a deep breath. "We last saw them at Zonko's, sir. We left them there and went to a shop further down the street. When we came back they were gone. We figured they'd gone to another store so we searched for them but couldn't find them anywhere. Anyway, we were going to go back through the passage-way James showed us but Honey Jukes was closed."

Lily had to tell Dumbledore about the passage-way otherwise there would've been a massive gap in their story. She glanced at the girls uneasily.

"All the stores were closing and we were starting to panic when we heard someone or something scream so we headed towards it. We came out of this forest and saw - and saw Remus - transforming into a - into a -," Lily couldn't say it. Poor, poor Remus. She couldn't even imagine how painful the transformation must be.