Chapter 4: The Plan
"Alright here's the plan!" Jessi stated after some debate. "First we split up into two groups..."
"How about three?" Sirius held up his copy of the Marauder's Map.
"Sweet! We'll split up into groups of three and then after Harry comes up with paths to take, we'll head up to Professor Lupin's office!" Jessi finished, rubbing her hands together.
"That's my Mum's right?" Nathan Lupin checked.
"Correct." Jessi confirmed. "Are you done making the groups up yet?"
"Yup!" Nathan called. "And they are Lily Evans, James Potter, and…"
"There is no bloody way I'm in a group with that git!" said Lily putting her hands on her hips.
"Okay…" James thought for a moment. "How about Lily Evans, my dad, and Harry…. James Potter and Jessi…. and Uncle Sirius and Me!
"Why exactly are we going to your mum's office and not the Headmasters?" Lily asked clearly annoyed.
"For One: It's Headmistress not Headmaster and for Two: my mum is the least likely to freak and Three: according to the Map, She's the only one in her office at the moment." Nathan answered.
"Who is the Headmistress?" Remus asked.
"Professor McGonagall." Said Jessi.
"That would be suicide if we went there!" said Sirius horrified
"Exactly." Nathan confirmed.
"Okay here are the paths" Harry called proudly. "Jessi's group will have the Invisibility cloak, which means you'll take the way with the most people. First you guys will go left of the trophy case and down the hall to the main stair case (the one that moves). Then sneak up the stair cases to the 4th floor and wait outside Professor Lupin's office for everyone else, if we're not there already."
"Your mum's teaches Transfiguration?" Remus questioned, looking at his son.
"Yeah! And you teach DADA." Nathan answered.
Remus was speechless and a hundred questions filled his head. Sirius and James broke out laughing because they always teased Remus about becoming a teacher, and they were right.
" Nathan's group" Harry went on. "Will have Sirius's map and will go right from this classroom, run down the hall and into the classroom at the end. Run to the back and into the hall behind it. You will come to a rickety spiral stair case, climb up it, to the top, thru the little door and you will be in the 3rd floor corridor. In the middle of that there's the a hidden stair case behind the picture of a lady in a blue dress, go thru that, up it and the end of it will take you tight next to Professor Lupin's office.
Nathan looked at Sirius with a wicked grin and was given one in return.
"My group has the easiest and has Jessi's copy of the Map. Well go left of the trophy case and take the hidden stair case behind the old sphinx statue… which leads right up to the 4th floor." Harry finished proudly
"Alright Jessi's group goes first." Nathan cried happily. This was going to be adventure of a lifetime!