the_debt_of_time

Mia shook her head as she reached for her wand, casting a Warming Charm over
everyone. "It doesn't matter. A jinx like that wasn't put on it before you picked it up. It was
put on while you were flying."
"Someone did this to her on purpose?" Mary asked with wide eyes.
"Maybe it was an accident," Lily mumbled.
"Maybe we should tell Dumbledore." Sirius moved to stand up, holding his hand
out to Lily to help her to stand. She looked at it suspiciously for a moment before taking
it.
Peter gaped. "What? Why?"
"I.. ." Sirius hesitated. "I think Death Eaters are being recruited still. And that was
an initiation."
"What?" James shouted before getting to his feet.
"When.. ." Sirius paused and groaned, rubbing the bridge of his nose. "Fuck.
When I was attacked last summer, someone mentioned that they were doing things wrong
with me. They were trying to brand me first and let me prove myself later. Proving yourself
amongst Death Eaters means killing someone," he explained, ignoring the looks of shock
provided by Frank, Alice and Mary, "specifically a Muggle, a blood-traitor, or a Muggle-
born."
Mia nodded in understanding. "That's why Alecto and Amycus came after you and
Jamie."
"It was Snivellus," James declared. "I know it!"
"Don't you dare, Potter!" Lily snarled. It was clear to everyone at Hogwarts that Lily
Evans and Severus Snape were no longer friends, but Lily was not the type of person to
see someone innocent blamed for something they might not have done just because James
had a bad history with him.
"Jamie, it's not Snape," Mia said before her brother rushed off to do something
stupid.
"How can you be so sure?" he asked her, ignoring Lily's glares.
"Because if he was planning on joining the Death Eaters and had his pick of
Hogwarts, he would have jinxed yours or Sirius's brooms! Not Lily's!"
"Then who the hell did it?" James demanded, pacing back and forth along the bank,
running a hand through his wet hair and shaking the water out of it.