The rest of Easter break passed by in a flash. Teddy was kept much occupied with Vic's insistence to show him around the rest of London and hey, it wasn't as if he didn't enjoy it. He had to hand it to those Muggles, their paintings might not talk, their statues might not move but really, in the age of computers, nothing was impossible when done in digital...at least that's what Roy had said.

Those Muggles sure knew how to make the most of what they had. No wonder Roy seemed to enjoy the Muggle world more and now that Teddy had had a taste of it he had to agree that it was very interesting.

Unfortunately, that didn't mean that the wizarding world wasn't front and foremost in Teddy's life. This was bad considering that with the adventure and excitement, Teddy and Vic had completely neglected the rest of their Easter homework.

"This sucks!" Teddy grumbled on the floor of his room in Gryffindor Tower.

"Cheer up Ted," Vic supplied, feeding Fuzz a small bit of cheese "At least Roy got us the books. Now all we have to do is write it,"

"Says the guy who's busy feeding a Puffskein," Teddy muttered, rolling his eyes, "Think I can be like Roy and skip herbology? Then I don't have to do the homework,"

Vic shrugged as a response and went back to his history essay while Teddy sighed and started on his herbology. For the next two hours there was complete silence except for the rustle of paper and the scratching of quills on parchment. As the moon rose higher and higher in the sky the boys lit candles but other than that they were motionless.

Finally, as Teddy finished his Potions assignment, they were done.

"Finally," Teddy groaned, head flopping forward to pool in his arms.

"That wasn't so bad. What time is it?" Vic asked as he set about returning all his work to his school bag.

"I dunno. Past ten by now," Teddy mumbled as he too began putting away his things.

"Think Xavia's gonna be in tomorrow?"

Teddy suddenly looked up and Vic gave a mental wince. He shouldn't have mentioned Xavia. Not until tomorrow at least.

"I dunno, is she in her office?"

"Wait, Ted. No. We should get to bed," Vic said reaching to grab Teddy's arm but Teddy waved him off and instead took out the Marauder's Map.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Teddy muttered, pointing his wand at the map as Vic sighed in defeat.

"I'll just put the stuff away th-"

"She's in her office!" Teddy shouted and it took Vic a good three seconds to recover from his interruption and process what Teddy had just said.

"...WHAT?!"

"She's in her office! Look!" Teddy whispered having just realized that their shouting could get them into trouble so late at night.

"But I thought she wasn't allowed in the school until at least holidays were over," Vic whispered urgently back as he took in the little dot that was indeed in Xavia's office.

"Come on, let's go."

"What? Now? Ted! Wait!" Vic shouted but the turquoise haired boy was already out the door.

"...We are so screwed..."

"What the bloody hell do you think you can do? Ted?" Vic asked having caught up with Ted as he navigated a series of interconnected passageways with the help of the Map.

"Catch her in the act,"

"And how the bloody hell are you gonna do that?!"

"It'll come to me,"

Vic sighed, where was Roy when you needed him?

"Oh yeah, probably sleeping in his dorms like every normal student right now!" Vic thought to himself.

"What's she doing?" Teddy asked as they exited the passageway and moved to stand behind a stone pillar down the hall from Xavia's office.

Vic, dragged out of his musings by Teddy's voice quickly looked over.

The moon wasn't nearly full enough to be able to illuminate the corridor and to Vic, all he saw was a dark blob moving slightly here and there accompanied by the faint sound of rattling.

"She can't get in?" Vic asked, perplexed, it shouldn't be so hard to get into your own office after all.

"No, that can't be it, her dot was definitely in her office a few minutes ago," Teddy whispered, taking out his Map once more only to be grabbed by Vic.

"Screw that! Hide!"

Instantly the boys flattened themselves behind the pillar as Xavia, having finished whatever it was that she was doing, headed back down the corridor towards the stairs.

When she had rounded the corner the two boys poked their heads out once more.

"Why isn't she using the Floo?" Teddy whispered and Vic shrugged.

"It's probably being monitored."

"Then how'd she get in?"

And again, Vic could only shrug.

With a frustrated huff Teddy's grip on the Map tightened. It was too dark to read it but they couldn't just let Xavia slip through their fingers again.

"Let's go,"

"Are you sure that's a good-"Vic started only to have Teddy disappear into the shadows of the corridor.

Vic rolled his eyes and followed only to suddenly slam into Teddy's back who had stopped suddenly. With a sense of dread, Vic looked up. Right into the eyes of

"...Headmistress McGonagall?" Teddy asked but the Headmistress, looking pissed beyond belief, ignored the question.

"And what are you boys doing here so late at night?" she said in a deadly whisper and Vic and Teddy instinctively took a step back but McGonagall was too quick. In a flash, Teddy found the Map he was holding snatched out of his hands.

"I'll be taking this. Now get back to your rooms both of you. Ten points from Gryffindor," McGonagall said tersely and Vic opened his mouth to protest but Teddy jerked his arm away.

"Come on Vic. We'd better get going,"

Vic sighed and took a deep breath to stop his need to yell and silently followed Teddy down the hall. He could practically feel the Headmistress' glare on the back of his head but what concerned him the most was Teddy's reaction, surely after so much coaxing to 'let's do this' and 'let's do that' he could have put up a better fight!

"What's the matter with you Ted?"

"What do you mean?" Teddy responded automatically.

"Well, normally you would have said something..." Vic went on gesturing wildly to put emphasis on the point.

"...I don't think that's McGonagall," Teddy started and Vic raised his eyebrow.

"Then who do you think it was?"

"Xavia."

Now it was Vic's turn to pause.

"...Okaaay...umm how?"

"Remember those Death Eaters always said stuff about Polyjuice Potion? I bet you that was Xavia. I didn't say anything because there was like a fifty fifty percent chance it really was McGonagall...and if it was her then we'd be screwed," Teddy whispered even though there was really no one in this part of the castle so late at night.

"Yeah, she let us off easy but she took our Map," Vic complained and Teddy suddenly realized the seriousness of the situation.

"Maybe we can get Roy to draw a new one and then we can charm it back up again," Teddy offered and Vic nodded.

"Well, let's just go to bed. We'll ask Roy about it in the morning."

Unfortunately, having gone to bed so late, Teddy and Vic didn't get a chance to talk to Roy before breakfast because they were too busy sleeping in.

Bursting through the door of the Potion's classroom, Teddy and Vic realized that their spots up at the front had been compromised by two Slytherin girls and Roy gave them an apologetic glance for giving up their seats. Instead, they flopped down in the two remaining seats at the back of the class before Snape had the time to sneer at them.

"This sucks. I told you we should have just gone to bed." Vic sighed, pooling his head in his arms as Teddy got out his homework.

"Homework, Sage?" Snape drawled and Vic instantly jerked upright.

"Uh? Oh. Yeah. Sorry professor," Vic said hastily as he struggled to take out his Potion's homework. Meanwhile, as Teddy passed over his own homework, Snape handed back their previous assignments.

"Hey, look at that Vic, a solid A!" Teddy said happily, displaying his assignment to a Victor who was busy scowling at his B.

"Aww come on, cheer up. It's not that bad."

"I guess...I'll probably kick your ass in Astronomy anyways."

For the rest of Potions class, Teddy and Vic were much too busy with trying to perfect their Boil Cure Potions to really think of anything else.

And as Transfiguration and History passed they were thrown head first back into Teddy's comfortable wizarding world. To be honest, after a week of learning about Muggle technology, Teddy found it difficult to shift back in to the proper mindset and as a result he found that the snuffbox he had transfigured from a mouse still had fur and whiskers.

The rest of the day was also spent like that. History, Herbology and Astronomy were lecture subjects and as a result Teddy's mind kept wandering to thoughts like "I wonder what subjects Muggles get taught?" and "are they allowed computers in class like how we're allowed wands?"

How was it that Roy was able to so easily shift from one world or another?

It wasn't until Teddy walked into the Defense classroom that he remembered to even ask Roy about the recreation of the Marauder's Map. However, explaining would take a while and not wanting to get in trouble by his own father, he discreetly slipped a note that simple said "need to talk after class. Remind me."

When class finally ended and all three boys had victoriously received "A"s in their previous Defense assignments they made for the common rooms to get ready for dinner and once again, met up by the Astronomy Tower.

"Yeah, I can redraw the map but I don't know how to charm it," Roy said as the three boys made their way to the dinner table.

"You mean with all those books you read there's nothing in there?" Teddy asked. He'd been pretty sure that Professor Sloane had given Roy almost every single charms book in existence by now.

"Not that I remember...and I remember a lot," Roy said, frowning to himself and shifting through his large mental catalogue of facts.

"Whatever charm that thing used was either dropped from the curriculum or never put in in the first place. Professor Sloane only gave me books used in the curriculum. You might have to ask your dad," Roy went on and Teddy frowned, he did not want to have to tell his father that he'd gotten his map confiscated.

"Nah, let's do some research. It's got to be in the library somewhere right?" Teddy asked hopefully and Roy shrugged.

"Yeah but don't you have homework?" Roy asked and Teddy sighed in defeat.

"To mix studying and school on top of plotting out all of Hogwarts and researching the charms needed to conceal the map and track the people. How had his father done it?"

"I can probably look it up when you guys are in Herbology and Astronomy," Roy offered and Teddy brightend.

"If you could do that it'd be great!"

"You know. I think the Professors are gonna fail you if you don't start showing up for your classes Roy," Vic interrupted but Roy waved his brother off.

"If I fail two of the eight classes I won't have to repeat the year."

"Yeah but you'll be held back in that class," Vic pointed out only to sigh in annoyance when Roy simply shrugged.

"It's not like I really need an OWL for those subjects anyways,"

"Whatever, if you want to skip subjects up until fifth year when you can finally drop them then go right on ahead," Vic sighed as he grabbed Teddy and went off to the opposite ends of the Great Hall where their fellow Gryffindors sat.

"See you later Roy!" Teddy called out from behind his back and Roy gave a casual wave in response.