AFTER 8 PM
Thinking carefully back to earlier in the evening, he tried to focus on what Lily had told him before he'd gone off and had to be tossed out. Brows furrowed and he recounted the conversation as best as he could.
"Well she started by saying that she saw Sirius go off with Lucius Malfoy, of all people. I didn't really like the sound of that, but then she told me how she'd asked you about it, and what Sirius said and did, and just..." He felt his anger rising again so he had to put a quick plug on it. Pounding the floor with a fist seemed to help.
"I just can't — well it's mad, isn't it? Tell me it's mad, that it didn't really happen!" James looked pleadingly up at his mate, hoping that maybe there was an easy explanation to all of this, that maybe it had been a big gag. Even if Malfoy was involved, maybe they'd just found a way to play a horrible joke. Anything but the truth.