"Tell me you see that too." (Wolfstar x Jilly) James and Lily have been dating for four months now, It's time to tell her their little animagus secret. But they are not good at hiding anything, actually.
“Tell me you see that too.”
Lily asked as she pointed towards the whomping willow, where a big black dog just easily passed through the motionless branches, carrying what seemed to be a few pieces of clothes inside his mouth.
“I’m not seeing anything besides the most beautiful girl on Hogwarts.” James replied, trying to change subject quickly.
“Then you may need to change your glasses, Potter. I definitely just saw a dog going inside the willow’s trunk. A big one. It’s impossible you saw nothing.” Evans insisted, standing up from the grass and leaving an apprehensive James behind as she stepped forward, aiming the willow.
“It’s dangerous to get close, Evans, what are you doing? Merlin, come back here woman.” The man rushed after her, darting himself in front of her before the girl actually reached the tree. “You’re going to be knocked out by those branches!”
“The dog just passed through it and not a single thing happened to it. Maybe the willow is enchanted? I don’t know, I’m gonna see it by myself.” She passed through him, ignoring the complaining and reaching for her wand on her back pocket.
“Lily c’mon, come back here, it’s almost midnight, we’re gonna get caught.” He begged, trying not to elevate his voice tone. Each step she took forward, James felt the despair grow. “Look, it’s moving, come back!” He had urgency in his tone, but Evans didn’t bother listening to him. She would definitely be thrown away by a punch of the willow’s branches.
On a last daring attempt, he leaped forward and grabbed her by the waist, raising the girl from the floor and walking fast away from the danger.
“What the actual hell, Potter? Leave me be, put me down now! I swear I’ll freaking stupefy you-” she stopped talking when James finally let her down, by falling and unintentionally tossing her on the grass. “What was that for?”
“The whomping willow is moving, can’t you see?” He pointed at the branches swinging gently with the night breeze. The teen fixed his glasses on his face, waiting for her to believe and let that go. But deep inside he knew Evans wouldn’t simply let that go.
“It’s moving now because you slowed me down. I can throw some petrifying spell on that or something, I wanna know what was that, and why the dog was carrying clothes to a hole on a trunk. If you’re not going with me, you can wait for me here.”
What a stubborn determined witch. No wonder James liked her so much. Well, he couldn’t help, the only thing preventing her from being knocked out by a tree was telling the truth. Or coming out with an incredible good lie. Either ways, she stopped midways when something happened.
“Did you rethink your-” James reached her and started the taunt, that died immediately when he saw the reason she stopped. Three figures were now leaving the willow’s hole, and one of that figures simply seemed to come out of nowhere, suddenly, when the other two were already a bit far. Lily seemed really shocked, but James knew that it were Peter turning from his rat form to his real form after Remus and Sirius passed.
“Oh shit.” he whispered. Now definitely there was no other way. The boys were getting closer and it was a matter of seconds until they saw Lily and James there, so he started explaining. “Okay, let’s… let’s sit down and get things clear.”
“The willow won’t attack because there’s a hidden knot you press with a branch or something small, and it makes the whole thing get really pacific. The dog carrying the clothes, well, it was Sirius. He was taking some clothes to Remus down there. The thing is, this is a secret passage that connects to the Shrieking Shack on Hogsmeade, and we’re going there once a month because Remus is a werewolf and gets confined in there so he won’t hurt people. We also found out that the presence of animals during the transformation actually makes the process less painful and stressful, so we all decided to become illegal animagi. Yeah, me too. And Peter, that becomes a rat. He’s the one pressing the knot and appearing out of nowhere, though.” he resumed, the look on Lily’s face was something between complete disbelief and pure amusement. By that time, before she could even say anything, the three boys reached the couple.
“What are you doing here?” asked Sirius, Remus had an arm around his neck as the long haired boy helped him walk. Remus looked really beaten up and weak. The full moon was just over.
“She knows, pads. Everything. I explain to you guys later, but for now can we all just go back inside? Maybe eat something and rest a little.” he sighed. “Tomorrow you all can yell at me for trying to have a romantic night.”
“A romantic night on the garden, next to the whomping willow, on a night after the full moon…” Remus muttered in a snarky tone, but laughed a little after.
“Yeah, fine, judge me.” James retorted, frowning.
“We are.” Lily finally said, a smirk crossing her lips. “I’m not telling anyone about it. Your secret is safe.”
“Thanks Evans. We appreciate.” Sirius replied, smiling back to her, then adjusting Remus over him to keep walking.
“I just wanted a-”
“Romantic night, yeah, we know prongs.” Peter completed as the five students walked back, laughing at James nonstop complaining.











