Dumbledore being Dumbledore, let the twins go without so much as a detention; once they had explained what had happened. Filch was disgusted by the lack of punishment, but was reluctant to disagree with Dumbledore's decision. Gleefully, the twins headed back to their common room.
Sitting down, George placed the parchment they had found in Filch's office on the table. Lee came over to them. "What's that for? Are you writing to someone?" he asked.
Fred gave Lee a brief explanation. "Oh, so we want to find out what's so special about this particular parchment" Lee's quick mind quickly grasped the situation.
George pulled out his wand, tapping it against the parchment thoughtfully. "My name is George Weasley" he said suddenly, holding his wand to the parchment.
Suddenly, letters began to appear across the parchment. A stick-figure appeared, with a speech bubble which read "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"
Fred, George and Lee read this with confused expressions. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" Fred read aloud.
Suddenly, the parchment began to change, patterns and shapes appearing until the parchment displayed a map of Hogwarts. But this was no ordinary map.
"Wait, there's little footprints walking around; with people's names!" George exclaimed in astonishment.
"This is so cool!" Lee breathed.
"Hey, there's no wonder Filch confiscated this! Just think, we could sneak around Hogwarts and never be caught because we'd know where everyone was!" Fred looked gleeful.
"Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are proud to present; The Marauders Map" George read out the bold lettering at the very top of the page. "I wonder who they are, or were, they could be dead I suppose; we don't know how old this map is"
"They must have known Hogwarts well, to have created this" Fred mused.
"Well they probably went to this school" Lee pointed out.
"Well whoever they were, they must have been pretty clever to have made this!" George shrugged, still looking at the map in awe.
"Shall we tell the girls about this or not?" Lee asked.
Fred looked thoughtful. "I think we should keep it to ourselves for the time being" he mused. "What do you two think?"
"I agree" George replied, Lee was nodding in agreement.
"How do we make this blank again?" George pondered. "There must be a way..."
"There is!" Lee pointed at the Gryffindor common room, marked on the map. Where their three names were marked, was a speech bubble. This one read "Mischief managed"
The three boys looked amused. "Oh that is perfect!" Lee laughed.
"Mischief managed!" the three of them said in unison. Immediately, the map faded and the parchment returned to appearing blank.
Milly, Jessica and Angelina came into the common room at this point; looking curious when they saw the three boys sitting around a seemingly blank piece of parchment.
Angelina questioned them on this and, completely straight-faced, Fred replied that he was going to write a letter. On this note, the three boys headed up to their dorm; somehow managing to hold back their laughter until they collapsed through the door.