Finding The Map

A/N

You guys were awesome. You gave me so many reviews and suggestions so without any further ado the baby's name is.

Leo (Lilyhermioneevans, james4lily) Orion (grannyHPfan)

I also fell in love with some other names that I wanted to use so they're will be other characters using the suggestions as names. If the contributor has any preference to which house please tell me.

Austin, (sweetlurs) Ayden, (Wealeylover357573) Ryan, (Abg) Jacob, (Tickemepink21) Oliver, (SerinityRose016)

"Hey you guys are back late." Lily commented as they walked through the door. It was almost four o'clock. Lily had left them at the Three Broomsticks almost three hours ago.

"Why weren't you at Hogsmeade? According to the message on James's forehead you were with your sister." Remus asked. The other two weren't actually talking at the moment.

"I had to do some homework." Lily lied. She actually had done it when she left them so at least they couldn't catch them in that lie. "Did you see Lily and Lisa?"

"And Alexis." Remus added. "But what do you meant we're back late?"

"Didn't you leave Lily three hours ago?"

"How do you do that?" James was instantly alert.

"Freaky twin thing?" Lily offered. The other three looked doubtful. "Owl." She tried again. The others relaxed at her explanation. "Anyway what were you doing?"

"Looking for Wormtail actually." Sirius said with some concern. "We haven't seen him since yesterday. Have you?"

"Nah. He wasn't here when I came back." Lily answered, praying that that was true.

"I'm just worried that a Slytherin got to him." James voiced everyone's fears. "It's not like he can stick up for himself that well with the four of us gone."

"I think we're only left with one option Prongs." Sirius said, glancing at Remus and James. "Tonight."

"Maybe we can catch him while he's patrolling." James said hopefully.

"Or get detention for us and all future descendants." Remus said with a sigh.

"You're too pessimistic." James said. "Lighten up. How are the Marauders going to get beat by a squib." James laughed then looked oddly at Lily. "You're wearing an earring." He said.

'Shit' Lily though. "I know." She said aloud. "Don't you like? New muggle style. Boys wear one earring on their ear."

"The same earring as your sister?" Sirius asked.

"How the hell did you remember that?" Lily asked. "Never mind. But yeah. She gave it to me. You like?"

"No." James, Sirius, and Remus chorused. Lily sighed and took off the earring. It was sometimes a good thing that guys were dense.

"Anyway what are you guys talking about?"

"The Marauder's Map." James answered like it should be the most obvious thing in the world.

"Huh?"

"The Marauder's Map." Sirius repeated.

"It's a map of Hogwarts. It can tell you where everyone is and what passageways there are." Remus explained. "But only if you know the passwords."

"Wormtail got it confiscated last year." James continued the explanation. "We didn't bother to take it back because we know this school better then anyone. We had the cloak so it lacked a purpose. Besides he would know it was us."

"So how are you going to make it look like someone else?" Lily was still confused on the purpose of this map. I guess you have to see it to believe it.

"That is where the genius of the plan comes in." Sirius began. He walked over to his trunk and pulled out an old bit of parchment. "I made this one act like the map would if you don't say the password. Sine Filch is one of the dim-witted people to ever limp around in Hogwarts he won't know the difference. That way we can find Wormtail and administer some payback."

"Spooky." Lily mocked.

"Quidditch practice." James abruptly announced.

"What?" Sirius and Lily stared at him.

"Quidditch practice." James repeated. "We haven't had one in a while. At least four days. And our first game is in two weeks. Slytherin. We have to practice so we can mortify them in front of the school. Again. You coming?" He asked. Already leaving the room. Lily and Sirius sighed and grabbed their brooms. Lily knew she would be hurting after this.

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Lily had been right. She was hurting way more then the last quidditch practice. James had been so stressed about Peter that he decided exercise was the best way to get rid of it. They had run double the amount of laps they had last time. Then they had done drill, after drill, after drill, after yet again another drill. She was very close to killing Potter, as was the rest of the quidditch team. Most particularly Cassie. After practice she had raised a vote of having James kicked off as Captain of the team. James had given her another lap.

Lily sat down on the couch. "We missed dinner." She told James and Sirius. It was almost 10 o'clock. Curfew.

"So." Sirius said. He turned to face Remus, who of course, was reading. "You coming."

"Sure." Remus set down the book and stood up. Sirius turned back to face Lily.

"Kitchens." He explained. Lily sighed and got off of the comfortable couch. She was really looking forward to relaxing.

"What about the rest of the team?" She asked when they had left the common room.

"They will have to starve." James told her unapologetically. Lily smiled at his bluntness. "So did you ever sneak away to the kitchens at Gwent?" Lily didn't answer. James waved a hand in front of her face. "Harry?"

"Yeah." Lily replied.

"Never mind." James gave up. He walked faster to catch up to Sirius. "Who exactly is planning to pull this off tonight?"

"You and I distract him and Harry and Remus will take our map back." Sirius said.

"Why am I doing the actual stealing? As Headboy I probably shouldn't be getting in that much trouble." Remus complained.

"Because Filch hates us more." James answered for Remus. "So he's more likely to be distracted for us. The only person you could sufficiently distract is McGonagall."

"Hey." Remus objected.

"Or Slughorn." Sirius continued as if Remus hadn't said anything.

"Anyone could distract Slughorn." Lily spoke from experience. As the new guy she had distracted Slughorn last week when James and Sirius were trying to pull off a prank. In the end Flitwick had caught them so it hadn't mattered.

"We're here." Remus announced to change the topic.

"A bowl of fruit." Lily said doubtfully. Remus reached forward and tickled a pear. To Lily's amazement it turned into a doorknob. "Hogwarts is weird." She said shaking her head as she stepped through the doorway.

An hour later Sirius and James finished eating to their heart's content. "Ready to go." Sirius said through a mouthful of his last desert.

"Finally," Lily muttered as she stood up. For the last half hour she had been sitting there watching them eat. James and Sirius took off in one direction and Remus and Lily went the other. Remus was leading the two of them. They walked in silence for the next ten minutes.

"This is it." Remus said. Lily looked at the place where they had arrived. There was a huge list attached to the door. Everything was covered in filth and dust. The antique wooden desk was covered with pieces of paper. Lily looked closer and realized the majority of them had a Marauders name on them. They were all dated in the last two years. She saw file cabinets bearing their names too. Remus had paused by the door and was looking at the list. "We put most of these up here," He said with a laugh.

Lily finally looked at it. It said Things banned at Hogwarts in bold across the top. "Why are Bubbling Bubbles banned at Hogwarts?" She asked with interest. It didn't seem like those were harmful things.

"We once filled every classroom with them." Remus explained. "Every time a teacher tried to say anything related to schoolwork one would pop and two more would appear in it's place. Third year I think." He stopped looking at the list and walked over to a cabinet. Items confiscated from James Potter was written on the top.

"Didn't you say it was taken from Peter?" Lily questioned. She looked around for his cabinet before realizing there wasn't one.

"Wormtail never got his own box. All of the stuff taken from him was lumped in with one of our things. Apparently Filch doesn't see him as much as a threat." Remus told her. He resumed digging through the box. Lily walked over to one labeled with Sirius's name and started rifling through it.

"Here," Lily announced. She pulled out the map and Remus put the parchment Sirius had given him in it's place.

"Detention!" Lily heard shrieking outside of the office.

"Time to leave." Remus stated the obvious. He walked/jogged out the door and Lily followed behind. As she turned the corner she could see James and Sirius walking next to Filch. More like being dragged next to Filch. If Lily wasn't afraid of being caught she would have laughed. They were both taller and stronger then the caretaker so seeing them dragged like that was purely comical. Lily wasn't exactly sure why they were taking it.

She and Remus only walked for about five minutes before Remus pulled her into an empty classroom. He sat down on one of the desks and sat the map down next to him. He motioned Lily over to the map. He tapped it with his wand and writing started to scroll across it.

Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present

The Marauder's Map

"You want to add your name?" Remus asked. "You already are a part of everything else."

"No thanks." Lily declined. She was worried that adding her name might reveal that she was not in fact a Messrs., but a Misses.

"Your choice." Remus said with a shrug. He opened the parchment to reveal a map of Hogwarts. Lily gasped when she saw the detail. Every single dot contained a name written next to it. Every single passageway she had been shown recently was there as well as several that she didn't know about. This piece of magic was beyond even her abilities. For a brief minute she toyed with the idea that they were better at magic then she was and that Sirius had taken it easy on her in the duel. But only for a brief moment. "Here he is." Remus said triumphantly. Then he paused and shook his head.

"What?" Lily asked.

"That's our dorm room." Remus said, clearly puzzled. "He must have gotten back the minute we left. Weird." He began to close the map when something caught his eye. He unfolded the map and leaned down. His finger traced a name before he turned to Lily. "Hey Harry. Walk over there a second." Lily shrugged and complied. Remus stared at the map before testing it with his wand. He turned back to face Lily.

"Lily Evans." He announced, with one finger out.

A/N

Yeah. Someone finally found out. Is he going to tell everyone? Is Lily going to die? Is the author laughing her head off 'cause she loves cliffies so much? Thanks again for the reviews and the names I got last time. Some of the characters will appear in the next chapter. But the baby's name won't be for a while. So if you absolutely can't stand the name tell me and I might change it. Well I'm off to a school orientation. Ciao.