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Chapter 13

The making of the map

Sirius, Remus, Katie and Peter went to the hospital wing after lessons that day. They were all worried about James. Peter was crying and going on about James dying everyone knew, well hoped that he was wrong. Lily and Vicky didn't visit James though they were busy in the library Katie muttered something about 'extra homework'

"HEY JAMES!" Sirius shouted at James who was sitting in bed reading a book. He instantly got warning glares form Madame Coo. "Sorry! I meant hey James!" he whispered. James chuckled and put down his book. He was reading Quidditch through the ages by Kennilworthy Whisp for something like the millionth time. The edges were curling and there were potion stains on the cover. It didn't matter to James though, he could read it over and over again, and it was his favourite book.

"Feeling better?" asked Katie sitting on his bed.

"Yes, but she won't let me out!" James said, glaring at Madame Coo who was pouring potions into vials and stacking tem on the shelves.

"So what happened?" Sirius asked sitting next to Katie.

"I'm not sure, I know this is going to sound really stupid, but I think I had a vision!" he said. The others looked at each other and shrugged. They were silent until Remus asked, "what did you see?"

"Well I saw a boy that had my hair and Lily's eyes, don't laugh Sirius Black! He had a scar on his forehead. I also kept seeing the map! It was amazing and it showed the school and positions of everyone in it and all the secret passages! I think it was telling me to make it!" the others looked puzzled. "Do you think it can be done?" he asked.

"Well, it probably can but the spells would be extremely complex" Remus answered slowly.

"I think we should try." James said.

"I think that you fell asleep in divination and had a beautiful dream!" Sirius said and the others laughed.

"I'm serious you guys!" James said earnestly.

"No James…." Sirius began but was cut off by Katie " Sirius Black! Don't you dare finish that sentence! Or I'll… I'll…. I'll…"

"You'll be my girlfriend?" he asked hopefully.

"GET LOST!" she shouted.

"Excuse me! You've all been in here enough times to know that you should be quiet in the hospital wing!" Madame Coo said and shooed them all out.

Remus dragged Katie down to the library to look through books with him. They were looking for spells. They had resolved to try and make the map. Remus and Katie, who were joined by Vicky and Lily, searched through all of the books in the library that they could possibly think of. They searched for drawing spells, showing spells and paints spells, but they had no luck, they simply couldn't find them. They would've asked Mr Drufus Snoop, the school librarian if they could look in the restricted section but he would've got suspicious.

Defeated the four of them went back to the common room, where James and Sirius were sat reading a book and looking excited.

"Look what James found! It's a movement spell! He thought he'd seen it before" Sirius said excitedly

"You mean that we searched though most of the library for NO REASON!" Katie moaned.

"It was interesting though! I hadn't seen half of those books!" Remus said.

"You would think that!" Katie said folding her arms.

"It seems quite complex" Lily said looking over James' shoulder at the book "but I'm sure it can be done"

"Well I think we should have a go! I mean I'm sure that that's what the vision was telling me to do. We need a map of the school now, with all the secret passages on that we found. We can easily nick one from the head's office. And we need to charm the paint so that it moves and we need to put a bit of ourselves into the map!" James said excitedly.

"WHAT?" exclaimed Vicky.

"You know, like the sorting hat" James tried to explain.

"I'm not doing that!" said Vicky.

"Well the girls don't have to do it, just us guys, alright?" Peter looked worried at the thought of putting a bit of himself into a map.

They all started work immediately. James and Sirius copied a map from Dumbledore's office onto a blank piece of parchment and Remus and Lily charmed paint and went over it all, this meant that the map could now move, become invisible and show instructions. Then all seven of them worked on the difficult task of putting a bit of themselves into it. Katie and Vicky had been researching and they found that there was a method close to that of using a pensieve that would work.

When everything was ready they all sat in the boys' dormitory when everyone else was at Hogsmeade to avoid being caught. Vicky and Katie told them what to do and Lily was watching making sure it was all done properly. The guys sat round the parchment and put their wands together directly above the centre.

"Messers Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs purveyors of aids to magical mischief proudly present the Marauder's map!" they four boys said in unison. There was an effect at once. White light poured out of the wands and joined into one long stream and flowed onto the parchment. It pooled out and sank into the parchment and disappeared. Everyone looked in amazement and shock at what had just happened. They didn't move for a while. Sirius decided to see if it had worked, Lily and Vicky had they faces in their hands, along with Peter, incase it went wrong.

"I am Sirius Black also known as the Sirimister and I am saying hello to this map" Sirius said to the paper. Nothing happened. They were all disappointed. They were wondering what to do next and whether they should give up when writing formed on the parchment.

Mr Padfoot says hello to Sirius and would like to thank him for his wonderful help in the creation of this map. He would also like to say nice work on the Sirimister!

Mr Prongs would like to say that the Sirimister is useless and doesn't work and the Prongsmister is better.

Mr Moony would like to tell Mr Padfoot and Mr Prongs to shut up, and would also like to agree with Mr Prongs, the Prongsmister is indeed better.

Mr Padfoot would like to register his astonishment with Mr Moony, he had no idea that he fancied Mr Prongs.

Mr Moony would like to tell Mr Padfoot that he does not fancy Mr Prongs that would be Mr Wormtail.

The seven seventh years laughed as they watched the characters argue. The boys decided to test it out that night and went on a raid of the kitchens and were pleased to say that it did.