#silent pockets

@jegulus-microfic December 9, Word count 213

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James’s pockets were filled with as many sweets and bottles of butterbeer as they could carry. Sirius had figured out how to put permanent silencing charms on all their pockets. It had come in useful quite a few times. 

He had the Marauders Map out while they snuck back up to Gryffindor Tower. He scanned the surrounding corridors. He paused his scanning when his eyes landed on the little scroll labelled Regulus Black. He watched as he climbed the staircase up to the Astronomy Tower. He wondered why Regulus would be going up there at this hour. It was way past the time Astronomy classes were held, and no one else was out of bed, as far as he could see for it to be a secret rendezvous. 

James let the others get a few steps ahead of him before he pulled his invisibility cloak out from under his robes and swung it around himself. He got all the way to the end of the corridor and around the corner before he heard Sirius ask where he’d gone. 

He hurried up the staircase to the Astronomy Tower, keeping his footsteps as light as possible. He checked the map one last time to make sure Regulus was still there and pushed the door open.