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A/N Internet was down for a while, so I couldn't update. But here's a double update to make up for it!

After changing out of their Quidditch robes, Hope and Cassie met Hermes and Regina on one of the moving staircases. It was a habit they had begun during their first year: it was a nice enough place to meet and it wasn't like they could all gather in one common room.

Cassie explained their rescue to their friends and how they had promised to go to his his party.

"A deathday party?" Hermes asked keenly. "I bet there aren't many living people who can say they've been to one of those. It'll be fascinating!"

"Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died?" Regina asked grumpily. "Sounds dead depressing to me..." She giggled at her pun, looked around to see if anyone had thought it was funny and, seeing they hadn't, frowned and went back to being grumpy.

"We also raided Filch's drawers."

"His underwear?" Hermes asked in disgust.

"No!" Hope smacked him for giving her that disturbing mental image. "His filing cabinets where he holds all the things he takes from students."

"Fred and George must have a big drawer." Regina mused.

"They do." Cassie reported.

"So did my father." Hope told them eagerly. Hermes turned to her with wide eyes.

"Filch kept some of your father's things?"

"Yeah. Look at this." She dumped all her new treasures on the landing and they all started poking through the pile in curiosity. Regina started playing with a self-spinning top that emitted sparks in the Gryffindor colors. Cassie immediately got trapped in a pair of Muggle Chinese hand-cuffs and Hermes had to rescue her. Hope flipped through the notebook and saw it was filled, cover to cover, with notes between him and what must've been very snarky friends of his. Among the notes were doodles of random things, including a snitch with the letters J.P and L.E sketched in the middle of it.

"What's this?" Hermes held up the plain piece of parchment.

"I don't know." Hope admitted, taking it from him. "But Filch had it, so it must be something." The parchment unfolded into a large piece of map, with several flaps. But Hermes was correct: it was all blank.

"Perhaps it has invisible messages on it." Cassie suggested. Then she looked down at her fingers, which were trapped in Chinese hand-cuffs again. Hermes sighed and reached over to rescue her once more.

"I have a revealer." Hermes announced once he had taken the hand-cuffs away from Cassie to prevent another entrapment. Out of his bag, he pulled out what appeared to be a bright red eraser. He rubbed hard over the parchment, but nothing happened.

"Maybe Filch just thought it looked suspicious." Regina suggested.

"Maybe..." Hope wouldn't deny she was a little disappointed if they really was nothing there.

"Here." Hermes took out his wand and pointed it at the parchment. "Aparecium." That time, something did happen. Words appeared on the cover of the parchment and they all gathered around to read the curvy handwriting:

Perhaps you could speak?

"And say what?" Hope questioned aloud. More writing replaced the former message:

Tell us something

"Like what?" Hope asked again, feeling rather annoyed the paper couldn't just tell her what it wanted from her.

Swear to us you're up to no good

"Uh... Maybe we shouldn't be trusting the talking piece of paper..." Cassie suggested nervously.

"It's not talking. It's writing." Regina pointed out. Cassie started at her.

"It's a piece of paper. It shouldn't be doing anything!"

"What, like staircases shouldn't move or portraits shouldn't speak?" Hope shot back at her dryly. She opened her mouth to argue, but didn't seem to have anything good to argue with, so she just clamped her jaw shut again.

"It's telling us to do bad things!" Hermes warned.

"It's just asking us to say we are." Regina corrected once again. Hope looked back down at the paper, which still displayed the same message.

"I swear we're up to no good?" It came out like a question. The writing disappeared and was replaced with one simple word:

Solemnly

"Solemnly?" Hope said aloud in confusion.

Solemnly swear

"I know swear words." Regina offered, raising her hand as if she was in class.

"No!" Hermes told her immediately.

"I think it means we're supposed to solemnly swear that we're up to no good." Hope informed her. That seemed to be the magic words. Dark ink appeared across the parchment and the four friends watched as new lines of words appeared.

Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs

Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief Makers

Are Proud To Present

The Marauders Map

Hope flipped it open. Inside there was a map of the entire castle, drawn out in detail, even showing parts of the grounds. Even more amazing than that, though, was that it showed all the people inside the castle. Moving footsteps showed their location while their names were displayed above in the same curvy handwriting.

The four marveled over the map, eyes glancing over the hundreds of names spread around the castle. Hope found herself and her friends on the map and, testing it, jumped up and moved a few steps up. The map showed her movement instantly.

"This is an advanced piece of magic!" Hermes gushed as Hope sat back down with them.

"I've never seen anything like it." Regina agreed.

"This could be very useful." Cassie added with a smirk.

"I know." Hope replied, marveling over it herself. Had her father created it or just used it? She flipped back to where the names 'Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs' were displayed. She had never heard of any great wizards with nicknames like those.

"Code-names." Regina told her with a smile. "To keep their identities a secret."

"Maybe they were spies." Cassie suggested, adventure twinkling in her blue eyes.

"Or just trouble-makers." Hermes pointed at the line below their 'code-names': Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief Makers.

"Or that." Cassie agreed, looking a little deflated.

"We should go back to our dormitories. It's almost time to lights-out." Hermes reminded them. Looking at the map, they could indeed see that Filch was beginning to make his rounds, trying to catch students lurking around after hours.

Quickly, they divided the spoils. Hope took the map and the notebook, while Hermes begrudgingly gave the Chinese hand-cuffs back to a curious Cassie and Hope gave the little toys to Regina. Then they separated and hurried back to their dormitories.

Once she was safe in their dormitory, Hope turned her attention back to the map.

"How do I turn it off?" She questioned no one in particular. Cassie gave her a look of 'how am I supposed to know' before she disappeared into the bathroom to shower. By the time Hope looked back down at the map, a line of writing had appeared.

Mischief managed?

Hope smiled; she knew the drill by then.

"Mischief managed." The map turned blank once more.

As she put the map in her trunk alongside her invisibility cloak and scrapbook, she had to smile. She had found a piece of her dad. Not been given, but found on her own. She put the notebook with the scribbles and doodles inside the trunk as well. Maybe it was a silly thing to keep, but she just liked it. A sign that her father had used to be silly and, most likely, not paying attention in class.

As she shut the trunk again, she smiled. Maybe she'd have to raid Filch's office more often...

A/N As much as I loved Fred and George giving Harry the map in the original books, I really wanted Hope to find something of her father's instead of always being given things. Besides, I liked the idea of there being an entire drawer full of weird little things that Filch had taken away from James.

I hope you enjoyed. The second part of the double update will be up momentarily. As always, please review and tell me what you think!