Thank you to all my reviewers: ruskie4u, Crystalshard, vonn, Dracos-naughty-lil-girl, born2read, Cybedragon, LittleOneOfDoom, old-crow and HarryPotterFan-Numero1. Between school and gymnastics, I might not get another chance to write until Tuesday or Thursday, so here's chapter four…

Chapter Five

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good."

Jamie left the hospital wing on Sunday and was very pleased to learn that her team had done well in her absence. She was especially happy that her own cousin had replaced her as seeker and that she had caught the snitch very quickly.

Nearly a month after the Quidditch match, James was rummaging in his trunk for his Potions book; he had spent the better part of an hour searching for it. Oliver watched in amusement as James tossed his last remaining robe onto the floor with the rest of his things.

"That's it!" he declared, "I can't find it anywhere! That Potions book is gone!"

"What's that?" asked Oliver. He pointed to a piece of parchment lying at the bottom of the trunk.

"Not my book!" said James, throwing himself onto his bed.

Oliver bent down, retrieved the parchment and unfolded it. "It's blank," he said.

"Obviously, brainiac, it's probably been in there since my dad went to school; this is his old trunk," James replied, snatching the paper out of Oliver's hands.

Oliver looked back into the trunk. "Hey," he said, "There's something else here too!"

Oliver removed the second thing from the trunk. It was a small slip of parchment with ten words written on it:

I solemnly swear I am up to no good. Mischief managed.

"What's that supposed to mean?" asked James.

"Dunno," said Oliver, "Wait, say it to the parchment!"

"What!" said James, "I'm not going to start talking to parchment Oliver, I never even did that when I was little! However, I do recall that you used to talk to a stuffed bear named Mr. Wiggles. Talk to your own stupid parchment."

"Fine!" Oliver said. He picked up the paper and said the first of the two lines. "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." The paper remained black. Oliver frowned.

"See, what did I tell you, nothing happened!" James stated.

But Oliver ignored him, walked over to his night table and picked up his wand.

"What are you doing now?" asked James.

Oliver took the parchment, tapped his wand gently upon it and repeated the words "I solemnly swear I am up to no good."

Suddenly, lines began to form all across the parchment. They crisscrossed and zigzagged to every corner. The top of the Parchment bore the words:

Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief Makers

are proud to present

THE MARAUDER'S MAP

"Don't you remember that story about his map our dads told us about when we were five?" asked Oliver.

"Oliver, I can barely remember what McGonigall said in Transfiguration today." James declared.

Oliver sighed. "This map shows each and every detail of the castle and all the people in it! Look, there's Lily and Sarah in the common room, doing homework, the Ravenclaw Quidditch team out at practice, everything's right here! There's even-"

"-secret passage ways out of the castle, I remember now!" said James.

"Oh, this is going to be so cool!" said Oliver, "We'll know where everyone is and we can even leave the castle or get food from the kitchens! Do you think we should tell the girls?"

James and Oliver exchanged glances, then both said, in unison, "Nah!"

"Let's go test it now!" said James.

"We can't, it's nearly nine, it's to late," said Oliver disappointedly.

"It's never to late when you have an invisibility cloak," James replied slyly.

"Where the hell are you going to get an invisibility cloak? They're really rare!" Oliver asked.

"Well, after Mum found out Dad had given me the Firebolt, Dad felt guilty about not giving Lily anything, so he gave her the invisibility cloak, he has a spare one at work anyway," James said.

"Wicked," said Oliver, "Let's go get it now!"

"Alright, it's probally in her trunk, but we have to be really quiet."

Oliver nodded and the boys tiptoed out of the dormitory. They made it about halfway up the staircase to the girls dormitory when the stairs turned into a slide and the boys slip-slided back down to the bottom of the stairs.

"Well that's cheap!" said Oliver.

"What are you two doing?" asked Lily as she and Sarah approached the boys.

"I…uh…we were just, uh…" James sputtered.

Sarah raised one eyebrow.

"We need your invisibility cloak if you must know!" said Oliver.

James hit him on the arm. "Oliver!"

"If we want to get it, we're going to have to tell them!" Oliver yelled.

"Tell us what? You're not getting any of our stuff unless you tell us what's going on," said Lily.

"Alright, fine!" said James, "Here's what happened…"