Lily frowned at him, looking uncomfortable.
Moody bristled at the interruption. "This isn't a place for your opinions, Black. If
you've got a problem with it, then you can joyfully take it upon yourself to be the one to
tell us who the actual Death Eaters are."
Sirius growled at the tone that Moody had taken with him. "I can give you a bloody
list right now: Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange, Crabbe, Goyle,
Mulciber, Wilkes, Avery, Alecto and Amycus Carrow, Regulus Black, and Severus bloody
Snape! Would you like it in alphabetical order next?"
Lily visibly recoiled, and Mia reached out to take her hand, offering a sympathetic
smile. She knew that her friend had long since cut ties with Snape, but it had to be a sad
reminder to hear how far the man had fallen. A part of Mia desperately wanted to tell Lily
that Snape would redeem himself one day; that, despite all his flaws—and there were
many—he would die a hero.
"Proof, Black! We need proof!"
"At least half of that list has tried to kill one of us at any given point in the past few
years!" Sirius replied angrily. "I suppose we'll just let the bodies start piling up instead.
Would you prefer I tagged the corpses as 'proof' or 'evidence,' sir?"
The meeting was adjourned the moment that Sirius and Moody began screaming in
one another's faces. Sirius, the unstoppable force, met Moody, the immovable object.
Before any blows were exchanged, Edgar and Kingsley had taken Moody into another
room to calm him down, while James and Remus physically removed Sirius to the front
porch so he could let himself cool off in the winter air.
While the boys handled a fuming Sirius, Mia and Lily began solidifying plans to
celebrate Christmas a few days early since they would all be too busy on Order missions to
enjoy it on the actual day. Lily, who had finally begun to feel at home in Potter Cottage,
had apparently bought boxes upon boxes of decorations, a giant Christmas tree, and a
goose that she was planning on cooking for their whole family—which unfortunately
included Peter. When James returned, he questioned whether or not Lily knew how to
actually cook a goose. Out of all of them, Lily was likely the most qualified to cook anything