A/N: I couldn't resisit adding this chapter; I love it. Had great fun writing it. Hope you like. Don't worry, Voldemort & Harry will soon meet.

Chapter 7: The Marauders Map

Malfoy had passed Harry's message to his father who then conveyed it to the Dark Lord. They had agreed on meeting during the summer; Harry would be invited over to The Malfoy's for a bit. They would talk then.

In the meantime, Harry was stuck at Hogwarts for what was left of the year (a couple of weeks).

The Daily Prophet now reported what seemed like at least 1 murder a day; the population was getting rather agitated! The Minister tried to reassure the citizens by pretending they had the situation under control. The truth was different unfortunately! The best Ministry Aurors were on the case, and yet they hadn't managed to catch a single person after Pettigrew. The Auror Headquarters started to make some noise; they were wondering if Pettigrew wasn't given to them. After all Peter was a coward, everyone knew that; he would've sold his own parents under the threat of a tickling spell! They were thinking maybe he had become useless, and was sacrificed for lack of anything better to do with him. Come to think of it, the capture was too easy….Peter had most certainly been under the Imperius Curse. You want to know what the funny thing is? They were right about all of it. Pettigrew has served his use, he was no longer needed. Voldemort thought it funny to throw him out there and give the citizens of the wizarding world a false sense of security. They indeed thought that maybe the Phantom was arrested, or was soon to be. For that, Voldemort had a twisted sense of humor.

Harry was very much looking forward to the last Hogsmeade weekend before going home. That morning, Malfoy sat at the breakfast table with a big grin on his face. Harry looked at him suspiciously:

"What have you done?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Nothing…" replied Malfoy innocently.

"Spit it out Malfoy" continued Harry.

Malfoy looked at Harry, considering him for a second, then leaned towards him and whispered:

"Let's just say I got my hands on a very interesting object…I'll tell you more on the way to Hogsmeade, when there'll be no-one eavesdropping…" he said, glancing around.

Harry looked suspicious for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Fine. Whatever."

After breakfast, the Deadly Duo walked towards Hogsmeade. They made sure there was distance between them and the other students. It wasn't too hard; their reputation made it easy for people to stay away! Malfoy glanced around; then he pulled a piece of parchment out of his back pocket, looked at Harry and said:

"I stole this from those dumb Weasel twins!" said Malfoy, who seemed rather proud of himself.

Harry eyed him like he was nuts, then he said:

"Great! A piece of parchment! We don't have enough of those. Good work Einstein!" Harry rolled his eyes. Malfoy hit him in the back of the head with the parchment and added:

"If I didn't know you any better, I'd say you were as thick as them Weaselbees!" he said, while Harry was rubbing the back of his head. "Listen pea-brain! This is a map of Hogwarts. I've been analyzing those Carbon-copies for weeks now; they use this thing all the time. I got a 6th year Slytherin to get it for me during their double Potions classes with them, in exchange of, let's say, a good word…"

"It's blank, Malfoy! No map there! Do you need glasses? Or to see Pomfrey maybe?" Harry told him, on a quit-wasting-my-time-with-this-crap tone.

"Really? Watch…! I solemnly swear that I am up to no good!" and tapped the map with his wand.

Lines and dots appeared all over it, Harry couldn't believe his eyes.

"We sure are!" Harry said, his eyes getting wider by the second.

Malfoy put the map away after saying "Mischief managed!" They'd make good use of it later! The map was useless in Hogsmeade.

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