Chapter Seventy-Two
Intervention
And I keep waiting for you to take me
You keep waiting to save what we have
So I'll make sure to keep my distance
Say, "I love you," when you're not listening
And how long can we keep this up, up, up?
(Distance - Christina Perri)September 3rd, 1977Mia, in fact, had not fed the twin Tele-Portkey to the giant squid. She did, however,
enjoy the few moments of hysteria her statement caused as Lily went into Head Girl mode.
She ordered James and the other boys to get on their brooms and rush toward the lake to
save the potentially-digested Slytherin Princess.
Only Remus and Sirius stood behind with Mia.
"You'd think after knowing you for six years they could tell when you're lying
through your teeth," Remus said, shaking his head as Mia looked on proudly at the chaos
she had created, arms delicately folded across her chest and a satisfied smile on her face.
"Zabini had it coming. Besides, Jamie gave me detention; he can squirm a little,
thinking that his sister fed a Slytherin to the squid."
"Where'd you actually leave the twin Tele-Portkey?" Sirius asked with a smirk.
"In the lake," Mia admitted with a grin. "The shallow end. Not very deep. The water
will ruin those robes of hers before she has a chance to react and save them."
When James, Lily, and the others caught back up with Mia—after spotting a
drenched and fuming Elora Zabini storming back from the other side of the lake—Lily
regretfully issued Mia two more detentions with McGonagall and took away twenty points
from Gryffindor.