The Marauders Era

Demon Goblin Mutant

The two days following up to Saturday felt like the slowest ones yet during this semester, or at least that's what Cassie thought. James and Lily had hardly been seen together; however, whenever one saw the other, their faces would heat up, and they immediately turned on their heels and went the opposite direction.

Seeing as it was Saturday, all Hogwarts students who would normally be wearing the school uniform had now exchanged them for their casual clothes. Something that was quite a relief to Cassie as it would make it easier for her to blend in and not stick out like a sour thumb sneaking around the halls.

During the last days, the same thoughts had continuously been circling her mind. What did she write to him? Why on earth did she write to him? and though she was a bit embarrassed to say it out loud, thank god she hadn't drunken away all of her brain cells back then and actually had the wits about her to say Saturday instead of a school day.

It would have been slightly trickier to sneak out of the castle between divination and defense against the dark arts.

However, being friends with a group of infamous pranksters did give her some advantage when sneaking out. Finding them, though, had been a little harder than she imagined, or at least finding the right marauder.

She could have asked her brother or Remus as they were the two she had seen the most; she supposed she could have asked Peter too, seeing as he had been easier to find. Yet, it wasn't really them she needed.

James Potter had probably been the hardest boy to find at Hogwarts in the last two days, as he had never been in one place too long.

When she had first asked Remus, he told her that James had gone to the quidditch pitch earlier that day; however, when she came there and found Sirius flying around on a broom, he told her that James went to Hagrid.

When Cassie went to Hagrid, she was told that he had returned to the castle just minutes before her, which almost made the girl want to rip her head off. Although she was a chaser on the quidditch team, it wasn't a past time of hers to go spend her morning chasing after her friends. However, she did manage to catch up with him just before he entered the common room.

"Thanks for this, James, really. I don't want to take the chance of getting detention with Filch, again..."

He smiled while handing her the cloak and the map. The map had been easy enough to borrow; it had been the cloak that had needed some persuading. James trusted her with his life; it wasn't that.

However, she might have accidentally misplaced the cloak on the floor one night when they were out and about, which ended in Cassie plus the Marauders, or rather the marauders excluding Remus, as he was keeping watch on the map, crawling and feeling around the corridor floor for an hour or two after curfew.

"No problem, just try not to lose the cloak. It's easy to misplace, as you might know." He grinned at her for a moment before a somewhat nervous look covered his face as he ran his hand through his hair. He was quiet for a while before he started talking.

"How's Lily? I haven't seen her around much."

She gave him a comforting smile though thinking of her friend made her let out a slight sigh.

"She's hiding out in the library. I don't know who's trying to avoid who more, you or her." She looked away for a moment while running her fingers through her hair before looking back at him. «Why don't you just talk to her? I mean, you didn't mean it did you?"

"Of course not!" he burst out so sudden that Cassie, whose eyes were now wide opened, looked almost startled. "I... What if she hates me now? I shouldn't have said anything."