Harry awoke the next day still feeling tired. "Come on Harry we go to Hogsmeade today!" Ron said excitedly jumping onto his bed. Harry smiled changing into a tshirt, jacket and jeans and quickly following his friend out. They joined the group of students who were surrounding McGonagall all trying to hand their forms to her at once. "If you do not have a signed form there is no visiting the village!"

"Here we go Professor," Harry said happily handing her his form in her out stretched hand.

"Hold onto your form Harry we will talk about it later," McGonagall said sternly. There couldn't really be anything all that important for her to talk about right? Harry thought, nodding along with his own thoughts he walked over to Filch and handed him his form. Filch took it along with a bunch of other papers struggling to shuffle them back into the precise order.

"Harry Potter to me please," McGonagall called out.

Harry walked over to McGonagall who was still completely surrounded by students. He stood there staring at her as she continued to collect forms from students as they were being pushed towards her by the crowd of young wizards. "Potter please go to my office I shall be with you in five minutes," McGonagall said.

"But…." Harry said looking helplessly at his friends.

"Potter…" McGonagall said and just looked at her with that stern look of a teacher with many years of experience.

"But.."

"Go Potter!" she said firmly, Harry sadly waved goodbye to his friends and walked towards McGonagall's office opened the door which he found to be unlocked and sat himself in a comfortable chair to wait.

As he sat he wondered exactly what could be going through the older witch's mind…did she know that Severus had told him? Probably I mean she did work with him and surely they would discuss students in the staff room wouldn't they? But then again Snape always was a very private man…

"Harry thank you for waiting," McGonagall said entering her office and closing the door.

Harry sat there looking confused and staring at the older witch. "Harry were you aware that Professor Snape didn't want you to go to Hogsmeade?" she asked gently.

"No Ma'am," Harry lied looking at the older woman.

She pushed her glasses down to the bridge of her nose and looked a him… "Oh really…" she said, "that's not what Severus has been telling me!"

Harry gulped.

"No Mr Potter I would suggest that the best thing for you to do is to return to your dormitory, quietly," she said.

Harry hung his head down low as he exited her office running directly into Fred and George! "Hiya Harry why so blue?" Fred said.

"McGonagall won't let me go!" Harry said glumly.

Fred and George both gaped at him in complete shock.

"Outrageous!" Fred said.

"It's an injustice!" George said

"Wait for us here at 2pm Harry

We both have some business to attend to in Hogsmeade this morning but when we come back we should be able to help you with your little problem. It is unfair for them not to let you go to Hogsmeade when you have a signed form and everything!"

"we must get going Harry we are due at honeydukes in an hour," George said.

Harry was left alone standing outside McGonagalls office confused but this isn't an uncommon occurrence for the Weasley twins. Harry shrugged and decided to go down to the library to read.

"Hello!" said a mysterious blonde haired girl sitting cross legged on a table in the middle of the serious studying area.

"Er…hi!" said Harry staring at the girl. The girl seemed to have a surprised look on her face and was holding a book upside down obviously enjoying it as she would occasionally let out a laugh. Her blue/gray eyes sparkled with a look of knowledge and she had her straggly, waist length blonde hair flowing freely cascading down her back.

"You're Harry Potter aren't you?" she asked with almost a bored expression whilst she fiddled with one of her long radish earrings.

"Uh yeah…" Harry said looking at the girl with curiosity. She seemed to glow whilst sitting on the table and she had still not stopped flipping pages in the book as if it was the most fascinating thing she had ever seen.

"Good to see Ginny doing so well," she said, "I think she's good for Hermione."

"They are just friends," Harry said automatically without even thinking. But the girl had a distant look on her face and didn't answer.

"Professor Snape seems to care a lot about you Harry, you should tell him about those dreams you've been having. He might be able to help you…he reminds me a bit of my dad. He's the editor of The Quibbler you know. Want a copy?" she asked producing a magazine from her pocket.

"uh yeah sure…" Harry said.

"no charge I think you'll find the information on page 6 to be enlightening," she said returning to her book and Harry was left standing alone whilst she disappeared back into her own little world.

Harry wandered around the library for a little while feeling a bit lost and confused by the conversation. Who was this girl? Why had she given him a magazine that was edited by her father? How could she possibly know about his relationship with Snape? How could she know that he had been having strange dreams? Just so many questions running freely around in his mind that he finally put a stop to it all by focusing on some information needed for divination. He had trouble trying to write about things for that subject as he did not want to divulge what he had been dreaming to ANYBODY he felt it was too weird and that his friends were not ready for it. If Snape knew how weird he had become maybe he wouldn't be interested in him anymore and that thought scared him.

"Hiya Harry!" came a familiar voice.

"Fred, George, what are you doing here?" Harry asked happy to see his friends.

"Mandugus stood us up!" Fred said.

"we should have known better than to wait for that clown," George said

"he's probably up at the three broomsticks doing goodness knows what," Fred said

"so we came here to find you," George said

"come on we have something to show you!" they both said happily in unison.

The twins walked over to a quiet area of the library behind a big bookcase near a wall and looked at him very seriously.

"we are about to divulge to you the greatest aid we have come across in our adventures here at Hogwarts," George said sounding official.

"this map harry, has taught us more than any of the teachers in five years of study!"

"but we have decided that your needs our greater than ours,"

"so we are hereby presenting you with…the Marauders Map!" they said in unison excitedly.

"The what?" Harry asked very suspiciously taking the map out of Fred's hand, but there were no lines, no pictures, nothing "what would I want with some crummy piece of paper?" Harry was ready to thrust the piece of paper back into Fred's hand when George laughed waving his wand at the piece of paper "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good!"

Suddenly lines and dots started appearing all over the paper and the map started to form.

"there's Dumbledore!" Harry exclaimed as he saw a dot labelled 'Albus Dumbledore' moving around.

"He's in his study," George said

"pacing" added Fred, "he does it a lot!"

"this is so cool!" Harry said excited.

The twins calmly pointed out the best way to get to Hogsmeade, through Honeydukes cellar and Harry started to get excited all he would need is his invisibility this cloak and he would be completely free to do as he liked! His heart leapt with excitement and a big grin appeared across his face "Thanks!"

"All in a day's work," Fred said

"Oh and Harry when you are finished," George tapped the map, "mischief managed. Otherwise anybody could read it!"

"Good luck Harry!" the twins said together and then they left leaving him alone with his thoughts.