Chapter 6…. The Marauder's Map

Going down the numerous, numerous staircases, the boys felt free. They felt like they were back at home, running wild, having no care whatsoever. And that is the way it should be.

Flooding the entrance hall with light, the door slowly creaked open.

"Ah... the sweet night air...How good it feels to be back I couldn't tell you right now my friends."

"I couldn't agree with you more James."

Tired and out of breath, they walked slowly across the grass, wet with the evening dew. Footstep by footstep, making their way to their old hideout, which seemed so distant, for they had not visited it for at least three months.

"Welp, here we are guys. You know what to do Wormtail."

Transforming into his tiny form, Wormtail, with great agility he did not have while in his human form, dodging branch left and right, went and hit the little knot on the tree, and ran inside. The others followed, but not transforming. Inside they met the normal Wormtail, who had transformed back.

Slowly and quietly they followed the oh so known path, arriving to the stairs and following them up into the shreiking shack. There was their old table. A little dusty, and the chairs with a few cobwebs, but it was still there. They dusted all of them off, and sat down.

"Ah..a good rest." Peter said falling down on a chair.

"Haha I figured you'd be to slow to still be able to do it Wormtail." Sirius said rocking back and forth in his chair.

"Shut up you.."

"Hahahahahahaha..."

"Hey guys, I was thinking..."

"Yeah James?" Remus said taking an interesting look at his friend Prongs.

"Well...there are so many passages in the castle I know...So many..."

"Really? I only know about this one and that's about it..."

"Well you don't know much of anything.. shut up Wormtail, where you going with this James? About the passages?"

"Maybe we should write them down ya know, so we don't forget about them.""Hey, James that's not a bad idea."

"I know… then we would have something to do in class." Remus said sarcastically.

"Oh c'mon Moony lighten up." said James.

"Ok but how would we write this down...You know..."

"Well we wouldn't just want to make a list would we.. we need something to... be able to see everything that's in the castle."

"Do you mean even people and stuff?" Peter asked.

"Yeah.. ok.. that would be awesome though." Sirius continued. "Could we do that Moony?"

"Well..I don't know..I think there's a bewitch spell...If we could draw well..we could do it.."

"Whaddya mean?"

"Well..there's this spell, Cyndric Servosa, the monitor spell. If you draw a map of a certain area and cast the spell, you can view whats all inside the area and even the people in it."

"COOL!"

"Yes very cool, but, you have to draw the area and everything you got in it, concur a potion that would bring the parchment.. well.. alive, and then cast the spell."

"Alright we can do that.. Prongise is good at casting spells and I can draw very well." Sirius said.

"What if we just made this paper and it worked and showed all the passageways and stuff we know about, what if somebody else got ahold of it?"

"Well that's simple James.. there's a spell to cloak it, make it appear as though it's a simple peice of parchment."

"Really now? Well but people would simply throw a peice of parchment away.. what if they like burn it or something." Peter said curious.

"It's destructible, well until you cast the right spell on it."

"Wouldn't that be funny if ole Snivellus saw us drop it and try to pick it up and it say like 'Hey big nose' on it?"

"That would be classic."

"I think I know how to do that, make it show random insults, but we'd also need another spell, Insultus Convarvious, a simple spell that puts the caster's mind of insulting into an item."

"So we draw this map, make this potion, cast these three spells, and we are set?"

"Yep, indeed."

"Thank Merlin for you reading all those books Moony."

"Then what the hell are we waiting for? Let's go get started."

James took off out the door heading for the castle, and they all glanced at one another, smiled, and took off after him.

Hope u all liked this chapter my friend wrote this one, but i did check over it and make some changes i wanted, the next chapter will be up soon! sorry it took me forever to post this one, ive been talking to my bf alot being in pain from falling down a hill... from hill climbin lol! but it was fun... Until Then! ...