Chapter eight: The Map
"Hey, Sebbins. Looks like you out of luck with a partner today, doesn't it" Sirius said evilly across the breakfast table. James and Peter roared with laughter.
"Hey, Frank, how are you, I didn't know you were here" James said greeting a boy who had just sat next to them.
"I'm alright thanks. Nah, my parents and me were going on holiday, but the weather was too bad, so I decided to come here, Dumbledore said it was okay" The boy called Frank said "Anyway, what's going on today?" He asked picking at his bacon
"Dumbledore will tell us in a minuet -who are you staring at?" Sirius demanded
"No one, I was looking to see who was here, that's all." Frank said looking at Sirius strangely. The rest of them, aside from Sirius laughed.
"Students, today my waffling will be short, Hufflepuff's you will be doing, Quidditch, Ravenclaw's you will be doing, Drama, Slytherin's, you will be doing,
normal lessons and Gryffindor's, you will be doing Music. James and Sirius gave each other a smile, "Laura's going to have fun today" Sirius said to the rest of the boys.
"Hello class" Professor Flitz said in a un-naturally high voice, the class said hello back, "Now as you should know, I am your musical teacher, I will be teaching you to play, the drums, piano, keyboard, guitar and the clarinet. I shall be assigning you a partner at the end of the day, to see what your partner thinks of your playing, now, I will assign you to an instrument..." Professor Flitz broke off, for Lilly and Lou's hands were in the air, "Yes Miss...." Professor Flitz asked
"Stevenson, Lou Stevenson Miss. My friend, Laura, well, err she can play those instruments, what does she do?" Lou replied, James looked over at Laura and Lilly, Laura was hiding her face, and Lilly was grinning evilly. James flashed Lilly a smile that she retuned.
"She can't possibly play them all, tell me what ones does she play?" Professor Flitz asked Lou, ignoring Laura slightly, "She can play the Drums, keyboard, piano, Guitar, both electric and acoustic, the clarinet, bass, flute piccolo and the trumpet." Lou rounded off, flashing a smile at Laura, who was now looking at the teacher's reaction.
"My, that is an mixture, do you mind if you just practice the instruments then?" She asked Laura, who shock her head.
"Now, as I was saying, you will be paired up at about three o'clock for a chance to play to your partner. She or he will tell you the grade she, or he, thinks you deserve, then you will play to me, and I will tell you your grade. Now, come here and I'll give you your instrument" Flitz said. James ended up with an electric guitar, Sirius with a set of drums, which to James, he looked really happy with. Peter ended up with a trumpet, which seemed to be taking his breath away. And Remus had the keyboard to practice on. Over the way, Lilly was playing the Clarinet, Lou was playing the flute and it looked like Professor Flitz was trying to challenge Laura, as she was the only one in the class with a Bass. By three o'clock that day, James and Sirius had mastered their instruments, Remus was having a little trouble because as Professor Flitz said, "He didn't have piano fingers" And Peter, well Peter obviously didn't suit having a trumpet, as he was very red in the face and very out of breath, "Partner up, partner up" Came the un-naturally high voice of Professor Flitz. James went over to Lilly, "Remember your promise?" He asked her in a somewhat mature voice, Lilly nodded, "Come on then, show me how good James Potter is at a musical instrument" Lilly said
"Fine" James said grinning. At the end of the day, James had come out with an E from Lilly, and an O from Professor Flitz, "What did you guys get?" James asked the boys when they were up in the common room
"O" Sirius said
"E" Remus said, they all looked at Peter, "Err a P," he said in a very small voice. The boys suppressed a smile, "Its not that bad, I'd come off worse if I was playing the trumpet" Remus said. "Oh, I better go do the potion" Remus said. Remus never came back down, so the boys all decided to turn in earlier. James was absolutely dreading today, he had classes today, classes meant work, and work meant, no fun. Well at least I'm smart, James told him self confidently, while walking to Charms with Sirius, Remus and Peter. "Are you guys going to try and sit next to the girls?" Remus asked. This was the first proper time Remus had actually talked to the boys about the girls,
"Maybe, depends" Sirius said
"Probably" Peter said
"Yip" James said bluntly, "Are you?" He asked Remus
"Well if you lot are, then what choice do I have" Remus said jokingly.
"What do you think of them anyways?" Sirius asked them
"There all right" Peter said
"Yeah, their cool. Second coolest gang there is, and second most famous," Remus said, but James couldn't help but notice he had gone a tiny bit pink. "Well, Laura and Lou are cool, but you know what I think about Lilly" James said smirking.
"Yeah, we do" Remus said. When they arrived at their class, Professor Flitwick told them that they would just be going over what they had learned before, because everyone was at a different level. That's what the teachers had said all day, so the Marauders spent the time talking to Lilly, Lou and Laura. Or they raced objects around the classroom when the teacher wasn't looking. When the boys were back in the common room, Lilly, Lou and Laura joined them. "Can we join you?" Laura asked in her bubbly voice. The boys nodded. Once again the boys and girls didn't get to bed till about one, two o'clock in the morning. "Those girls are great" Remus said as they lay in bed, trying to fall asleep.
"Hmmm, I'll stick with Penny thanks" Peter said. James heard him rolling over in his bed to face the wall.
"I never meant it like that" Remus said. James then heard Remus rolling over too. Sirius didn't say anything, so James removed his glasses and fell asleep.
"What are we doing today then?" Peter asked the Marauders when they were getting dressed.
"I don't know about you lot, but I'm doing the potion and spell," Remus said
"Spell?" Peter questioned, tugging his on socks
"The personality spell, Wormtail" James told him
"Have you done one before, Money?" Sirius asked Remus
"No, that's why I need the night, and as much as the day I can get, since I need to practice the personality spell on a few cushions. Oh shoot, we need Penisive!" Remus told them
"Why?" Peter asked now pulling on his shoes
"Because we need to put some of our personalities in to the map, so we need to get our mischievous side into the Penisive, then take it out, then put it in the "So what, you're going to chat up every girl who uses the map?" James asked jokingly, pulling on his cloak. Sirius replied casually,
"Depends, if she happens to have the right name, and touch then defiantly"
"What does that mean?" Peter asked. James who was too busy putting books into his trunk, didn't answer
"It means" Remus said, "That Sirius has found another piece of prey"
"Oi. What do you mean prey?" Sirius asked making his way down the boy's staircase.
"I was just saying that you've been lucky in the fact you've had so many girlfriends," Remus said grinning
"What he really means," James said joining them "Is that Sirius, you've had to many chicks and you're a player," he continued. Sirius merely laughed, "I'll have you know, that I have no intention on making a move on this girl, mainly because I want her to like me, before she thinks that I'm asking her out because she's hot" Sirius said, walking into the great hall
"Well we know one thing about her, she's a hot chick" Peter said, the others laughed.
"Hey, you guys" Lilly said as the boys sat down, to James's utter amazement, Lilly sat down opposite him, Lou and Laura soon joined them.
"So, guess what were doing today?" Lilly asked the boys.
"Well for one, you're going my partner in what ever it is," James told Lilly,
"Well, I would, but. Dumbledore said it was a free day. We can do what we please," Lilly told him.
"Cool, so you gals got any proper plans for today?" Remus asked them. They shook their heads, "Good, good" Sirius said quietly.
"Guys, I'm going back to bed, I'm really tiered" Remus said after finishing his breakfast, "I'll see you later" James and the rest of them said goodbye, and watched him leave,
"Is it something I said, or did?" Lou asked the boys, the girls on the other hand rolled their eyes,
"Nah, Remus is always tired" James told her.
"Ignore Lou, she has a feeling when someone leaves its because of her, she's always like this" Laura explained while Lilly nodded her head.
"Oh well, I'll see you guys later" Sirius said getting up
"Where are you going?" Lou asked horror-struck
"No where, I was joking," Sirius said laughing, the gang burst into laughter as well. Lou though, blushed a deep shade of red. The boys spent the rest of the day with the girls, at first they had fun out by the lake, then they chatted in the common room, then they went back outside to have a fight with the squid because Laura started to get bored of the Quidditch conversation. At seven o'clock that night, James, Peter, Sirius, Laura, Lou and Lilly were all seated for dinner.
"Well that was a long sleep" Lou said to someone behind James's head, he turned round to see Remus standing there.
"Yeah, nah, actually, I couldn't find you guys, but I had a slight run in with a certain Snivellus, I mean, Snape" Remus said remembering Lilly was there. "I'll tell you guys about it later, I'm starving," He said digging in to his dinner. James noticed that Lou was looking at Remus strangely throughout dinner; he guessed that it was because he was being so quiet about where he was all day. After dinner the girls told the boy's that they had to speak to Professor Flitwick about something. So the Marauders took advantage and went to talk to Dumbledore. They went to his office to wait for him, a few minuets later they were in his office with Remus saying: "Sir, could we borrow your Penisive?" Professor Dumbledore looked at him strangely, and then round at the other faces, "May I ask why? Mr Lupin" He asked Remus.
"Well, when we were doing Quidditch, James did this really cool swerve thing, and I really want to learn it, but James cant remember doing it, so he doesn't know what it was, and I really want to learn it, so I thought that if I used the Penisive, I could see how James did it, and then I could learn it." Remus replied. James thought for a moment. What swerve did I do? Then he remembered that Remus was the best one at lying, not that he actually did it often. The Professors hadn't seemed to notice that whenever all four of them were in a tight situation, Remus would always be the one to get them out of trouble, and out of Detention. Remus's parents were excellent at Occlumency, and James guessed the gift had been passed down, since Remus had never had lessons in Occlumency. Ten minuets later, to their great surprise, James, Peter, Sirius and Remus were upstairs in their dormitory with a piece of parchment on the table, and the potion in a dropper, along with an old map Sirius had ripped out of a library book.
"Right, Put the map on to the parchment, then we can get the map transferred on to the parchment" Remus ordered Peter, Peter did as he was told. "Now, put as many thoughts of secret passage ways you know into the Penisive, then draw them out and put them in the potion" Remus said to everyone.
Half an hour later, the boys were still in the same place, "Now its time for the personality charm," Remus said, he did a very swift and complicated wand movement, then he whispered a foreign language and pointed his wand at Sirius then at the map, the parchment gave off a little bit of coloured smoke, but Remus seemed to think it was natural. He then did the same to each of the other boys, then himself.
"Now. We need a password," Remus said
"I solemnly swear, that I am up to no good" Sirius said smiling mischievously, "No one is going to get that, their not stupid enough to say that to a piece of parchment." He added. James agreed, so Remus put another spell on it, "Now, all we need to do is sign it, and test it to see if it works" the boys all picked up their wands, and one by one, they drew there nicknames into the map, leaving behind a trail of wand sparks that disappeared momentarily.
"Do the honours Padfoot, my friend" Remus said to Sirius
"'I solemnly swear, that I am up to no good'" Sirius said grinning. Suddenly the map exploded emitting a large puff of red smoke, James thought for a moment, that it hadn't worked. Then when the smoke cleared, tons of lines and different coloured dots were visible on the piece of parchment, and James saw four dots on the map named, Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. James gave a leap of excitement. Getting up to celebrate their victory, Sirius suddenly said, "Well, at least we know it works" James looked round at him and said,
"How?"
"Because the little dot, labelled, Prongs. Is moving, just like you are," Peter said.
"Hey, don't we need a welcome note, something catchy, some thing like err: Messer's Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are proud to present the Marauder's map?" James suggested, they nodded in agreement, and Remus did one last spell, and smiled. "I think this is one of our best achievements to date," he said. The boys all stayed up late looking at the map, and where everyone was, by the end of the night, the Marauders had learned, off by hart, were the Slythrin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff Common rooms were. They planned on giving Snivilly a little visit tomorrow.
"Hey, Sebbins. Looks like you out of luck with a partner today, doesn't it" Sirius said evilly across the breakfast table. James and Peter roared with laughter.
"Hey, Frank, how are you, I didn't know you were here" James said greeting a boy who had just sat next to them.
"I'm alright thanks. Nah, my parents and me were going on holiday, but the weather was too bad, so I decided to come here, Dumbledore said it was okay" The boy called Frank said "Anyway, what's going on today?" He asked picking at his bacon
"Dumbledore will tell us in a minuet -who are you staring at?" Sirius demanded
"No one, I was looking to see who was here, that's all." Frank said looking at Sirius strangely. The rest of them, aside from Sirius laughed.
"Students, today my waffling will be short, Hufflepuff's you will be doing, Quidditch, Ravenclaw's you will be doing, Drama, Slytherin's, you will be doing,
normal lessons and Gryffindor's, you will be doing Music. James and Sirius gave each other a smile, "Laura's going to have fun today" Sirius said to the rest of the boys.
"Hello class" Professor Flitz said in a un-naturally high voice, the class said hello back, "Now as you should know, I am your musical teacher, I will be teaching you to play, the drums, piano, keyboard, guitar and the clarinet. I shall be assigning you a partner at the end of the day, to see what your partner thinks of your playing, now, I will assign you to an instrument..." Professor Flitz broke off, for Lilly and Lou's hands were in the air, "Yes Miss...." Professor Flitz asked
"Stevenson, Lou Stevenson Miss. My friend, Laura, well, err she can play those instruments, what does she do?" Lou replied, James looked over at Laura and Lilly, Laura was hiding her face, and Lilly was grinning evilly. James flashed Lilly a smile that she retuned.
"She can't possibly play them all, tell me what ones does she play?" Professor Flitz asked Lou, ignoring Laura slightly, "She can play the Drums, keyboard, piano, Guitar, both electric and acoustic, the clarinet, bass, flute piccolo and the trumpet." Lou rounded off, flashing a smile at Laura, who was now looking at the teacher's reaction.
"My, that is an mixture, do you mind if you just practice the instruments then?" She asked Laura, who shock her head.
"Now, as I was saying, you will be paired up at about three o'clock for a chance to play to your partner. She or he will tell you the grade she, or he, thinks you deserve, then you will play to me, and I will tell you your grade. Now, come here and I'll give you your instrument" Flitz said. James ended up with an electric guitar, Sirius with a set of drums, which to James, he looked really happy with. Peter ended up with a trumpet, which seemed to be taking his breath away. And Remus had the keyboard to practice on. Over the way, Lilly was playing the Clarinet, Lou was playing the flute and it looked like Professor Flitz was trying to challenge Laura, as she was the only one in the class with a Bass. By three o'clock that day, James and Sirius had mastered their instruments, Remus was having a little trouble because as Professor Flitz said, "He didn't have piano fingers" And Peter, well Peter obviously didn't suit having a trumpet, as he was very red in the face and very out of breath, "Partner up, partner up" Came the un-naturally high voice of Professor Flitz. James went over to Lilly, "Remember your promise?" He asked her in a somewhat mature voice, Lilly nodded, "Come on then, show me how good James Potter is at a musical instrument" Lilly said
"Fine" James said grinning. At the end of the day, James had come out with an E from Lilly, and an O from Professor Flitz, "What did you guys get?" James asked the boys when they were up in the common room
"O" Sirius said
"E" Remus said, they all looked at Peter, "Err a P," he said in a very small voice. The boys suppressed a smile, "Its not that bad, I'd come off worse if I was playing the trumpet" Remus said. "Oh, I better go do the potion" Remus said. Remus never came back down, so the boys all decided to turn in earlier. James was absolutely dreading today, he had classes today, classes meant work, and work meant, no fun. Well at least I'm smart, James told him self confidently, while walking to Charms with Sirius, Remus and Peter. "Are you guys going to try and sit next to the girls?" Remus asked. This was the first proper time Remus had actually talked to the boys about the girls,
"Maybe, depends" Sirius said
"Probably" Peter said
"Yip" James said bluntly, "Are you?" He asked Remus
"Well if you lot are, then what choice do I have" Remus said jokingly.
"What do you think of them anyways?" Sirius asked them
"There all right" Peter said
"Yeah, their cool. Second coolest gang there is, and second most famous," Remus said, but James couldn't help but notice he had gone a tiny bit pink. "Well, Laura and Lou are cool, but you know what I think about Lilly" James said smirking.
"Yeah, we do" Remus said. When they arrived at their class, Professor Flitwick told them that they would just be going over what they had learned before, because everyone was at a different level. That's what the teachers had said all day, so the Marauders spent the time talking to Lilly, Lou and Laura. Or they raced objects around the classroom when the teacher wasn't looking. When the boys were back in the common room, Lilly, Lou and Laura joined them. "Can we join you?" Laura asked in her bubbly voice. The boys nodded. Once again the boys and girls didn't get to bed till about one, two o'clock in the morning. "Those girls are great" Remus said as they lay in bed, trying to fall asleep.
"Hmmm, I'll stick with Penny thanks" Peter said. James heard him rolling over in his bed to face the wall.
"I never meant it like that" Remus said. James then heard Remus rolling over too. Sirius didn't say anything, so James removed his glasses and fell asleep.
"What are we doing today then?" Peter asked the Marauders when they were getting dressed.
"I don't know about you lot, but I'm doing the potion and spell," Remus said
"Spell?" Peter questioned, tugging his on socks
"The personality spell, Wormtail" James told him
"Have you done one before, Money?" Sirius asked Remus
"No, that's why I need the night, and as much as the day I can get, since I need to practice the personality spell on a few cushions. Oh shoot, we need Penisive!" Remus told them
"Why?" Peter asked now pulling on his shoes
"Because we need to put some of our personalities in to the map, so we need to get our mischievous side into the Penisive, then take it out, then put it in the "So what, you're going to chat up every girl who uses the map?" James asked jokingly, pulling on his cloak. Sirius replied casually,
"Depends, if she happens to have the right name, and touch then defiantly"
"What does that mean?" Peter asked. James who was too busy putting books into his trunk, didn't answer
"It means" Remus said, "That Sirius has found another piece of prey"
"Oi. What do you mean prey?" Sirius asked making his way down the boy's staircase.
"I was just saying that you've been lucky in the fact you've had so many girlfriends," Remus said grinning
"What he really means," James said joining them "Is that Sirius, you've had to many chicks and you're a player," he continued. Sirius merely laughed, "I'll have you know, that I have no intention on making a move on this girl, mainly because I want her to like me, before she thinks that I'm asking her out because she's hot" Sirius said, walking into the great hall
"Well we know one thing about her, she's a hot chick" Peter said, the others laughed.
"Hey, you guys" Lilly said as the boys sat down, to James's utter amazement, Lilly sat down opposite him, Lou and Laura soon joined them.
"So, guess what were doing today?" Lilly asked the boys.
"Well for one, you're going my partner in what ever it is," James told Lilly,
"Well, I would, but. Dumbledore said it was a free day. We can do what we please," Lilly told him.
"Cool, so you gals got any proper plans for today?" Remus asked them. They shook their heads, "Good, good" Sirius said quietly.
"Guys, I'm going back to bed, I'm really tiered" Remus said after finishing his breakfast, "I'll see you later" James and the rest of them said goodbye, and watched him leave,
"Is it something I said, or did?" Lou asked the boys, the girls on the other hand rolled their eyes,
"Nah, Remus is always tired" James told her.
"Ignore Lou, she has a feeling when someone leaves its because of her, she's always like this" Laura explained while Lilly nodded her head.
"Oh well, I'll see you guys later" Sirius said getting up
"Where are you going?" Lou asked horror-struck
"No where, I was joking," Sirius said laughing, the gang burst into laughter as well. Lou though, blushed a deep shade of red. The boys spent the rest of the day with the girls, at first they had fun out by the lake, then they chatted in the common room, then they went back outside to have a fight with the squid because Laura started to get bored of the Quidditch conversation. At seven o'clock that night, James, Peter, Sirius, Laura, Lou and Lilly were all seated for dinner.
"Well that was a long sleep" Lou said to someone behind James's head, he turned round to see Remus standing there.
"Yeah, nah, actually, I couldn't find you guys, but I had a slight run in with a certain Snivellus, I mean, Snape" Remus said remembering Lilly was there. "I'll tell you guys about it later, I'm starving," He said digging in to his dinner. James noticed that Lou was looking at Remus strangely throughout dinner; he guessed that it was because he was being so quiet about where he was all day. After dinner the girls told the boy's that they had to speak to Professor Flitwick about something. So the Marauders took advantage and went to talk to Dumbledore. They went to his office to wait for him, a few minuets later they were in his office with Remus saying: "Sir, could we borrow your Penisive?" Professor Dumbledore looked at him strangely, and then round at the other faces, "May I ask why? Mr Lupin" He asked Remus.
"Well, when we were doing Quidditch, James did this really cool swerve thing, and I really want to learn it, but James cant remember doing it, so he doesn't know what it was, and I really want to learn it, so I thought that if I used the Penisive, I could see how James did it, and then I could learn it." Remus replied. James thought for a moment. What swerve did I do? Then he remembered that Remus was the best one at lying, not that he actually did it often. The Professors hadn't seemed to notice that whenever all four of them were in a tight situation, Remus would always be the one to get them out of trouble, and out of Detention. Remus's parents were excellent at Occlumency, and James guessed the gift had been passed down, since Remus had never had lessons in Occlumency. Ten minuets later, to their great surprise, James, Peter, Sirius and Remus were upstairs in their dormitory with a piece of parchment on the table, and the potion in a dropper, along with an old map Sirius had ripped out of a library book.
"Right, Put the map on to the parchment, then we can get the map transferred on to the parchment" Remus ordered Peter, Peter did as he was told. "Now, put as many thoughts of secret passage ways you know into the Penisive, then draw them out and put them in the potion" Remus said to everyone.
Half an hour later, the boys were still in the same place, "Now its time for the personality charm," Remus said, he did a very swift and complicated wand movement, then he whispered a foreign language and pointed his wand at Sirius then at the map, the parchment gave off a little bit of coloured smoke, but Remus seemed to think it was natural. He then did the same to each of the other boys, then himself.
"Now. We need a password," Remus said
"I solemnly swear, that I am up to no good" Sirius said smiling mischievously, "No one is going to get that, their not stupid enough to say that to a piece of parchment." He added. James agreed, so Remus put another spell on it, "Now, all we need to do is sign it, and test it to see if it works" the boys all picked up their wands, and one by one, they drew there nicknames into the map, leaving behind a trail of wand sparks that disappeared momentarily.
"Do the honours Padfoot, my friend" Remus said to Sirius
"'I solemnly swear, that I am up to no good'" Sirius said grinning. Suddenly the map exploded emitting a large puff of red smoke, James thought for a moment, that it hadn't worked. Then when the smoke cleared, tons of lines and different coloured dots were visible on the piece of parchment, and James saw four dots on the map named, Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. James gave a leap of excitement. Getting up to celebrate their victory, Sirius suddenly said, "Well, at least we know it works" James looked round at him and said,
"How?"
"Because the little dot, labelled, Prongs. Is moving, just like you are," Peter said.
"Hey, don't we need a welcome note, something catchy, some thing like err: Messer's Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are proud to present the Marauder's map?" James suggested, they nodded in agreement, and Remus did one last spell, and smiled. "I think this is one of our best achievements to date," he said. The boys all stayed up late looking at the map, and where everyone was, by the end of the night, the Marauders had learned, off by hart, were the Slythrin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff Common rooms were. They planned on giving Snivilly a little visit tomorrow.