next to James, Sirius and Peter at the table and ate. ".. That's why I went to Dumbledore's this morning and told him about my dream. Then we're off together to look for Moony!" Wormtail stared at her with open mouth, crown and paw nodded appreciatively. “But how are we going to investigate when we're being watched all the time?” James was right, it was almost impossible, but they had to try. There was sure to be a way, after all, Hogwarts had enough secret passages and not for nothing they were all Animagi.

Exactly one week later, Nojiko was walking nervously through the dormitory, thinking about the note! At midnight in the field, should she go? She didn't know how to get out, and even if she did, wasn't the risk too great? She was actually an adventurous person, but for some reason she was panicking.But if she didn't go, she would never know! It was probably Snape or Longbottom or one of the other guys. She wanted to believe that, but she couldn't. On the spur of the moment, she went into the common room, crossed it with a suspicious look at Professor Slughorn, and then snuck into the boys' dormitory. The Potions Master was talking to Lily and Malia, which meant he was busy even longer.

She looked around, there was paw and crown sitting together playing with a snitch. "Typical boys ..." she said loudly and the two turned around in surprise. "Hey Sun, what are you doing here?" Sirius grinned at her, she didn't answer but went to the two friends. "Well, paw, she's longing for you! Should I go?" James was pretty cheeky. Fortunately, Nojiko had no time, otherwise she would have given him a small blow on the head! “I have to go outside urgently, are you coming with me?” She quickly described the story with the letter and the chocolates. At the words of secret admirers, jealousy flared up in Sirius' eyes, which made Nojiko smile.

"All right, we'll come with you!" James grabbed the cloak and the three disappeared under it. “Just how do we get out of here?” Nojiko whispered to her friend's question: “Let that be my worry!” The three sneaked downstairs, Remus had meanwhile joined the group around Slughorn and nodded interested. They tried to get across the room as quietly as possible until they were standing next to Frank Longbottom. He was sitting by the fireplace, that might be nasty, but her only option. With a small wink, Sunny sent a flame onto the boy's cloak, who immediately began to scream. Slughorn looked around alarmed and when he understood what had happened, Frank was already running towards the exit, closely followed by the invisible Marauders. The student wanted to go to a bathroom, threw open the door and disappeared.With him, Padfoot, Krone and Sunny left the room and smirked at each other!
A short time later, Slughorn stormed into the hallway and followed Frank into the nearest bathroom while the three friends made their way outside, giggling. A couple of times they held their breath because they met one of the ghosts or teachers, but they made it to their secret passage. She opened the statue and slipped inside, threw off the invisibility cloak, and took a deep breath. “How do we get back?” Padfoot grins and said “I already know what, come on now!” They ran through the hallway, onto the grounds to the playing field. “It's midnight sharp!” But no one was watching, not one student was on the Quidditch pitch. They waited a while, but when no one showed up after half an hour, they went back disappointed. They were cold, Nojiko had snuggled close to Sirius and was still shivering. She wondered why no one had turned up and what this letter meant! Didn't he make it or was it a joke?

On her way back Nojiko could swear that someone was watching her, but when she turned around no one was to be seen. They parted ways in front of the castle wall, the two boys slipped in through the secret passage and Nojiko began to carry out Sirius' plan. She transformed into a phoenix and flew all the way to the open window in the common room. There she waited for a signal and when she heard Sirius' voice in her head saying "Come on, honey!", She fluttered in and started attacking Slughorn. He screamed and hit at the penetrating phoenix so that he didn't even notice how the door opened and closed again. Nojiko distracted him a little and then, when she was sure that her friends were upstairs, flew out again and to the window in her dormitory. Everyone was already in bed and it was easy for them to transform.When she went to her bed, she was almost hit! There was a note there, the handwriting was the same as on the letter in the chocolate box and it readI said alone!

She trembled and looked around fearfully, no, definitely couldn't sleep here. She felt panic rising, how could that be? She went to the front door, it was locked - from the outside, from Slughorn! He probably wouldn't be making any more visits, so she could leave without worry. She transformed into her phoenix again and clawed the letter. She flew out and into the other dormitory, where James and Sirius were talking quietly while the others were asleep. They were somewhat horrified when the white bird landed on their bed and put the letter down. Sirius took it and read the note through when Nojiko became herself again. “I'm not staying there any longer!” James, who had now also taken a look at the lines, simply said, “Then welcome to the boys dormitory and good night!” He pulled the covers up to his chin and yawned heartily. Nojiko, on the other hand, snuggled up against Sirius and fell asleep a short time later.