Chapter 5: Mischief Managed
You're all probably asking yourselves, what is the secret to our success? Well most of it has to do with our great heroes as well as our mentors, our everyday example, Misters Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. We came to know these great heroes early in our first year, thanks to dear old Argus Filch and Mr. Peeves as well.
Ahh ...our heroes, how much I have missed thee.
Yes, our dear beloved Marauders...
Filch grabbed Fred and George by the ears.
"I've got you! Messing with the vanishing cupboard 'ave we?!"
"No!" George began.
"We swear!"
"Silence! You're lucky Dumbledore's running this joint. I'd have you 'anging by yer toes in the dungeons for vanishing me dear old Mrs. Norris!!!!"
Fred and George suppressed a fit of laughter.
"Get in!" Filch gestured toward his office. He sat down and took out a piece of parchment. "Mr. Fred and George Weasley, Gryffindor, first year, crime: Vanishing Mrs. Norris" he scribbled furiously "Punishment-
"WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" A loud bang and crash was heard followed by a fit of evil cackles.
"PEEVES!!!" Filch got up in a jolt "Stay here you little mongrels or it's a year's worth of scrubbing the toilet!" He told Fred and George while he ran out the door.
The office was filled with archives, confiscated dungbombs, fireworks and other goods (which Fred and George happily stuffed in their bags). Filch's desk was littered with newspaper clippings, letters and several framed pictures of his ugly cat, Mrs. Norris.
"A bit on the obsessive side isn't he Fred?" George commented.
"Right, he's mental..." Fred agreed.
The twins turned their attention to the archives, most of them were labeled from A to Z, a few of them were labeled with "EXTREME OFFENDERS", and one particularly large and overstuffed archive was simply labeled with "The Marauders". Not resisting the temptation, both twins decided to investigate it.
It was mostly filled with files of all the things they were caught doing, some included "tormenting fellow classmates", "explosion of the astronomy tower", "temporarily turning half the student body into fire- breathing chickens", etc. They opened the next drawer to find confiscated goods like fanged Frisbees and to their utmost glee, a bag of vintage acid pops (which they nicked), and oddly enough a piece of blank parchment.
"George, why do you think Filch confiscated this?"
"I dunno, maybe it's hexed or something... what are you doing?" Fred asked.
"I'm trying to figure out what it does" he kept poking the parchment with his wand.
Writing appeared on the piece of parchment. "Misters Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs wish that young Mr. Weasley would stop poking us with his wand."
"Whoa! Wicked"
"Not very useful though" George said.
"Misters Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are resentful that you would call this treasure useless." The parchment replied.
"What do you do then?" Fred asked the parchment.
"Are young Mr. Weasleys up to no good?" The parchment simply inquired.
"You bet!" Both twins said eagerly.
"Do you swear it?"
"We solemnly swear that we are up to no good" Fred and George added rather indignantly. On the parchment appeared a map, of Hogwarts nonetheless and it had labeled dots for every single living soul on it.
"Bloody hell! Filch is coming this way!" George whispered.
"Quick how do we erase it!?" Fred asked the map.
"Mister Padfoot says 'just say mischief managed'"
"Mischief managed!" Both twins said as Fred quickly tucked it inside his jumper.
Filch entered and eyed them maliciously. "Get out! I have to file this quickly! If Peeves doesn't get kicked out of here for this... I'll personally banish him to the depths of hell... I said OUT!"
Well that's how we got the legendary Marauder's Map
Sadly it is no longer in our possession
But we'll get back to you on that
Later...
For now we have to get back to the workshop
We're on a breakthrough!
A/N- Sorry for the late update! I had a bit of writter's block. I just thought of this chapter this morning but Mom decided it was cleaning day. So I spent three hours hiding to write and clean...I finally got the chance to upload! Yay!
