Harry Potter and the Powerful Friendship Part 4

Author's note- Sorry it took so long to get this one up.

Disclaimer- Just the usually, I don't own any of the characters from the Harry Potter books.

Harry Potter and the Powerful Friendship Part 4

(Okay lets practice) Ron said. Looking down at the book Harry held in his hands.

It was the next day and Harry was holding the book with the secret of the Marauder's map.

Harry had stayed up all night looking over the spells in the book. Most of them looked easy but their were a few that we considerably hard. His father and his friends had thought about everything in case the map fell into the wrong hands.

[Okay to not appear on the map it says to point at the person or people that don't want to show up on the map and say Secretus Mapus and then say the peoples name.] Harry told them. Then Harry pointed his wand at himself Hermione and Ron and said "Secretus Mapus Hermione, Ron and Harry" Then he looked down at his Marauder's map and looked for himself and the others on the map. [ We're not here, it worked] He said giving the other two a high five. [Now if we want to get Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle into trouble we say] Harry Paused then said out loud. "Changus Mapus Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle" He looked back down at the map and saw that supposedly Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle were standing exactly where Harry, Hermione, and Ron were standing. [Now it sounds like if we want it to show up on all the maps, Wait, their was more then one map originally?] Harry looked at the other three and saw that they two looked surprised, then they shook their heads. [Okay, it looks like that spell should guard us from any maps of Hogwarts.]

(So shall we try the spells out tonight?) Ron said excitedly.

[Defiantly! Why else did we try so hard to find the spell? ] Harry replied

That night was an exciting one. Since it was a Saturday, and they had no school, they snuck out of the castle, known as Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, and went to Hogsmeade. First place they went to was Zonko's. Harry, who was the one with the money, bought enough Filibuster Fireworks, that started when they felt the vibration of noise to decorate the Slytherin Common Room in red and gold. Then they spent the rest of the time wandering around.

Then they got back to Hogwarts they went to their common room and made plans. When everyone had left Harry went upstairs and grabed the invisibility cloak and the Marauder's Map.

[You guys ready?] Harry asked.

(Yeah) Ron said excitedly.

{Okay I'll perform the charm.} Hermione said sounding like the know-it-all she was.

She quickly said the charm and they were off.

They reached the Slytherin Common Room in record time thanks to another charm Harry had learned. It made a path to follow on the map to the destination that you wanted and erased it as you went so you knew exactly where you were going.

When they were inside the common room Hermione quickly put a mute spell around the room so no one would hear them if they made any noise. Then they got to work.

Harry quickly put the gold and red fireworks in their correct places so when they went off they would say 'Gryffindor Rules' and since the mute spell was on they wouldn't go off until they had taken off the spell. Hermione then did a lasting spell so the fireworks would stay up for the next week.

While they were doing that Ron put red and gold fireworks around the room.

Then they quickly took off the spell and left as quietly as possible.

~Change of Point of View- The Professors~

~McGonagall~

The room was quiet where McGonagall sat correcting homework and watching the map that Dumbledore had given her along with the other professors. She had been put in charge of watching the map every night from 12:00 to 1:00 in the morning.

Each teacher had been given some time to watch the map and spells had been used to make it so whichever teacher was watching the map could not fall asleep until their time was up and some other teacher was watching the map.

The map was to watch if any student was out of bed at night in case there was an intruder during the night, but McGonagall and the others had a sneaky suspicion that it was mainly for Potter.

McGonagall let her eyes wander across the map. She saw that Dumbledore was pacing the office like he usually did at night. He claimed that it helped him sleep. Then her eyes moved to the dot labeled Sirius Black. All the professors had been told about his innocence and about the fight that he had had with his godson. McGonagall knew that the fight had hurt their connection deeply to anything that Harry knew about Voldemort's whereabouts, and of course Harry was the only one that could figure anything out without really putting himself in danger of anything worse then a headache.

McGonagall turned her attention back to the map, and saw three dots moving across the school from the Gryffindor Common Room to the Slytherin Common Room labeled Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle. She knew she had to take off twenty points off the house of whoever was out of bed. The three dots entered the Slytherin Common Room before the clock turned to one o'clock and went to bed herself.

~Sprout~

Sprout sat down to watch the map. Her turn consisted of one till two in the morning every night and it usually got pretty tiring. She sat down and watched the map. Her mind was wandering and she was planning tomorrow's lesson for the first years before long. When she looked down at the map again she saw three Slytherins crossing the school. She watched them as the entered the common room of the Gryffindors. What she saw then surprised her. The three dots labeled Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle changed to Potter, Weasley, and Granger.

"What! How could that of happened?" She said not realizing she had said it out loud. She quickly grabbed the map and walked to the Headmaster's office.

The three Gryffindors were out of their dormitories still so you could still see them on the map.

"You'll never believe this!" She said to Dumbledore, stuffing the map into his hands.

"What is it?" Dumbledore replied.

"It seems that Potter and his friends have found a way to get around the school without getting in trouble." Sprout told him.

"What!! How did they do that?" Dumbledore asked her.

"I don't know how they did it but their dots said that they were Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle, until they entered the common room and then the dots changed to Potter, Weasley, and Granger's." Sprout explained to him.

"Sounds like I need to have a chat with Mr. Potter." Dumbledore said looking down at the map, seeing that Potter was still out of bed.