In the corridor

"Ouch, Prongs, watch where you put down your freaking foot!" Said Sirius out loud, which earned him a smack over the head.

"Shh, Padfoot, we are almost there." Whispered Remus, before the other two had time to really start a fight.

They could see on the map that the dot was still there, slowly walking back and forth.

When they came to the corridor, they saw a little boy, "a first year", thought Remus, "but why haven't I seen him, I am supposed to be a prefect."

Remus mentally slapped himself, especially when he saw that the kid was a Gryffindor.

"Let's take of the cloak." He said while he started to pull it off, but they still stood a bit away so that the boy couldn't see them, but they could see him.

"What is he doing?" James quietly asked his friends, when the little boy started to look around inside his robes, and then took out a parchment, which he held his wand over.

"It looks like he has the map…" Remus slowly began, but was interrupted by Sirius.

"Moony, we all know that it can't be the map, since I got it right here." He held it up right before his friend eyes.

"Don't you think that I know that it is a ridiculous thought, but I only said that it looked like he has the map." Remus answered, very annoyed.

"You guys?" James suddenly spoke, tugging on the other twos sleeves. "Look at that!"

They looked once again at the boy, but it didn't look like the same person. His hair had turned red and his breathing had quickened.

"Maybe we should go and check on him?" James slowly said after a minute of silence, and the other two nodded in agreement.

They walked up to the boy, who wouldn't take his gaze from the parchment in his hand, but they could tell that he had gone paler and his entire body had started to shake.

In a moment of impulse Remus, the responsible one, knelt down in front of the boy and asked.

"Are you ok, would you like us to take you back to the common room?"

The little boy looked up from the parchment and in to his eyes, before he suddenly fainted.

Remus quickly caught him before he crashed, then he looked at his friends, who stood dumbstruck beside him.

James then realised that he had to help his friend, so together they lay the little body on the floor, and then looked at Sirius, who had picked up the thing the boy had tightly held in his hand.

"Padfoot, what is that?" James and Remus asked at the same time.

"It's The Marauder's Map."