Mia’s Tutoring Part 2

On Sunday, Mia waited by the lake for Severus. She checked her watched; it was five minutes past twelve. She looked around again but she couldn’t see him.
What’s taking Severus so long? She thought.

Severus was watching the clock in the Slytherin’s dormitory, waiting for it to be a quarter to noon. Mulciber, Avery, and Yaxley ran over to the place where Snape was sitting
“Hey Snape,” said Mulciber, “Wanna play some wizards chess?”
Snape looked at the clock and saw that he had a half hour until noon.
“Let’s make this quick.” answered Snape.
Mulciber and Snape played wizards chess for a half hour until, to nobody’s surprise, Severus won. He looked up at the clock and saw that he had twenty minutes to get to the lake.
“This has been fun, but I really got to go.” Severus said as he got out of his chair.
“Oh come on, Snape!” said Avery, “One more go!”
“Really, I shouldn’t”
“I challenge you to a rematch!” said Mulciber.
Severus stopped dead on the spot; he could never turn down a challenge. He turned to Mulciber, smiling slightly.
“You’re on.”

“Mia, wake up!” said James, shaking Mia awake. Mia’s eyes shot open. She looked around and to her horror it was pitch dark.
“What time is it?” she asked, getting up quickly.
“It’s almost eleven o’clock.” answered James.
“How were you able to go through the corridor at this hour without getting caught?”
James held something up to show Mia; she looked at it for a moment and she knew.
“The Invisibility Cloak.” she whispered. “I thought Mum and Dad took that away from you.”
“Hey, I’m James, remember?” said James, smiling. Mia couldn’t return the smile; she looked at the ground with tears in her eyes.
“So I take it you were waiting for Severus Snape?” asked James. Mia looked up at James, shocked.
“How did you know?”
“I heard you two talking in the library yesterday. I’m sorry Mia.”
“You did something didn’t you?”
James opened his mouth in shock.
“Mia!” he said, “How can you possibly think that? I would never hurt you like that!”
Mia looked down again and started crying.
“I’m sorry James. I’m just so disappointed!”
James put his arms around Mia and hugged her tightly.
“Come on,” he said, “Let’s get you to bed.” He took off his bathrobe and put it around Mia’s shoulders.

“We had a deal, Potter.”
“Don’t worry Mulciber, I got your money.”
Mulciber held out his hand to James. James dug his hand in his pocket and pulled out some gold coins.
“There ya go.” He said dropping the Galleons into Mulciber’s hand, “Ten Galleons. I’ll give you another five if you make sure he stays away from her. But remember, one word to either Mia or Snape about this…”
“I know, I know, you’ll curse me. I got this, alright Potter?”