Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 377 Marauder's Map
McGuffin didn't walk for long, and met George and Fred in the corridor.

These two guys are sneaking out of a hallway, carrying four large bags in their hands, which seem to contain Honeydukes magic candy.

The two looked tense, and their expressions were extremely panicked.

Seeing this scene, he immediately thought of the passage leading to the one-eyed witch statue on the fourth floor.

The original book describes that this passage can lead directly to the basement of Honeydukes.

But what are the twin brothers doing with so much candy?

Just when McGuffin was about to say hello, the two of them tiptoed over and rushed over, covering McGuffin's mouth at such a fast speed that he didn't even have a chance to speak.

Then, two voices of conversation came from the corner of the corridor where they came.

"Filch, what are you doing here?"

"Cornel Fudge has just arrived at the headmaster's office. He wants you to hand over the distribution list of all the Hogwarts secret passages. He wants to send Aurors to perform magical blockades at each entrance and conduct inspections."

It was Snape's voice.

"Professor! This, this..." Filch stammered, sounding like he didn't want to hand over the list.

Hearing the footsteps of Filch and Snape getting closer, the two unlucky twins jumped up and down. There was no way to hide the two big bags of magic candies in their hands in this place.

Going back along the corridor is the spiral staircase. People are coming and going in that place now. If they bump into it with bags, the result will be the same as waiting in place, only the difference is the sequence.

And in this corridor today, there is no place for them to hide at all. The only place where they can hide some magic candy is a small vase on a low table next to it, and——

"McGuffin, save us!"

George immediately looked at the tea sets floating in the air beside the McGuffin.

The never-ending flow of water between the teacup and the teapot made the two of them realize that the [No Trace Stretching Curse] must be attached to the teacup.

"If Filch knows that we slipped out of Hogwarts, he will have to carry out his obsessive criminal law - strip us naked and hang us from the tower."

Fred even snatched the teacup floating in the air, and put the candies in the bag with all his strength, and the candies scattered all over the floor.

The voices of Snape and Filch were getting closer and closer, and they were about to arrive.

"Shrink quickly!"

"Stretch without trace!"

McGuffin had no choice but to wave his hand to float the candies scattered on the ground, put them back into the bags, and then shrunk the four bags of candies with the spell to the size of a fist, and stuffed them into the expanded space beside the vase.

At this time, Snape and Filch also turned the corner and saw the three people who hadn't had time to evacuate.

As soon as they saw the three of them gathered together, they realized that there was something wrong with them, and they walked over to look at them.

"What the hell are you doing! Albert!" Snape asked coldly.

Filch's focus was on the twins who looked a little uneasy.
His mind's radar for 'Hogwarts troublemakers' was beating wildly,

"Ha, catch it on the spot!"

"What trouble do you want to cause me this time? - Don't lie, I know that last time that big dung bastard was caused by the two of you! I didn't catch you last time, and I won't let you go this time!"

There was a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, and he immediately snatched the teapot from George's hand, "What is this?"

"Don't!" the three MacGuffins shouted at the same time.

"Ha, is that where your dirty little secret is? Let me see!"

Filch opened the lid of the teapot, looked closely for a long time, and shook it by his ear again, with a puzzled look on his face, and finally raised it to the lamp against McGuffin's strong objection

Just look at——

The lake water poured out from the top of the teapot,
Filch was drenched all over.

The few remaining hairs on his head were even more wet.

MacGuffin swallowed hard, looking at Filch's dumbfounded expression.

woohoo-

The teapot is still pouring out—

"You guys!" Filch was so angry that he was trembling all over, and the expression on his face was as if a truck was directly hitting head-on at a speed of 250 miles.

Then the whole face turned from red to blue, from green to black——

Just when he was about to explode.

Mrs. Norris screamed at Filch's feet, and it was drenched too.

As we all know, although cats are made of water, they hate water very much, especially when their fur is wet all over their bodies, which will make them restless.

She let out a sharp scream and ran away, leaving water marks all over the place.

"Mrs. Norris, my little darling!"

Fair let out a strange cry, glaring at McGuffin and the others angrily.

After weighing it, he left a threat of 'wait, this will never end', then pushed the teapot to Professor Snape next to him, and hurriedly chased after the cat.

Professor Snape was not so easy to deal with.

The guy walked up to the crowd in two steps, pulled the teapot with two fingers, shook it, and the lake water inside was dripping and making noises back and forth.

Looking at the puddle of water on the ground, Snape sneered at McGuffin,
"Albert, what did I tell you last time, if you let me know that you are practicing the [Untraceless Stretching Curse] in private, you will be in big trouble. Come on, come with me, let's see how Professor McGonagall will deal with you."

"Professor, I was just learning this spell with Percy Weasley. I remember that the chairman of the male student union also has authority in this area."

"Really?" Snape narrowed his eyes, stopped walking, and there was a cold light in his eyes.

He didn't speak, just looked at McGuffin and the twins coldly.

Fingers picked back and forth among the teacups, watching their expressions.

Then he turned one of the teacups upside down and poured out a lot of lake water. When the twin brothers breathed a sigh of relief, Snape turned the teapot next to him over,

A huge pile of assorted magical candies fell to the ground.

"This is - the Honeydukes Froome and his wife gave it to us last time, and we gave it to McGuffin and Harry!" the twins said hurriedly, and hurriedly lowered their heads, not daring to look directly into Snape's eyes.

There was something terrible on Snape's face, as if he had discovered something.

"Turn out your pockets, Albert! You too, Weasley!" he shouted suddenly.

The twins were chilling with fear, and McGuffin hesitated even more.

"Turn out all the pockets, or we'll go directly to Professor McGonagall! Find out!"

The twins pulled out slowly and frightenedly. Their pockets were full of Zoko jokes like those big shit eggs, and a blank piece of parchment.

Snape looked suspiciously at the joke objects between their hands.

"professor……"

"Needless to say, this is what you bought last time, right? However, it seems that Filch is right. Wherever there are big dung eggs in Hogwarts, there are you." Snape remembered the disaster of the dung egg terrorist attack during the first-year Quidditch match. Decide what you do."

His eyes fixed on the parchment again.

"what is this?"

The two began to breathe rapidly, and the pupils of their eyes dilated.

"A small piece of blank parchment!" The two said in unison, in extremely serious and flat tones.

Even MacGuffin could hear the unnaturalness in their voices, which was not the way the twins usually spoke.

And he recognized it at a glance as the [Marauder's Map] that he had always dreamed of.

"Ha! Is this some kind of dark magic item?"

Snape picked up the parchment and looked up at the three of them.

At this time, other things distracted his attention.

Snape noticed that McGuffin was deliberately procrastinating, not taking what was in his pocket.

"Albert, dig out your pockets!"

he shouted.

McGuffin reluctantly began to take out one by one, slowly taking it out.

Be very careful.

Some iron rings and shackles, long chains, strange purple mist billowing in glass vials, a large iron-horned book from the library...

The corner of Snape's mouth twitched, which reminded him of some bad memories.

He put the parchment and the bag of goods from Zuko's joke store on the low table next to him, (the twins took a deep breath, fortunately Snape's attention was all on McGuffin, and he didn't notice the movements and eyes of the twin brothers looking nervously at the vase and parchment)

Snape stepped in front of McGuffin, and when he put his hand into the little wizard's pocket, he hesitated for a moment, as if remembering the pain from his toe being knocked down earlier,
He turned around and ordered the twins, "Brother Weasley, you... come here, take out everything in the McGuffin's pocket, hurry up..."

"Man, I'm sorry!"

The two whispered, seeing that there was a way to divert Snape's attention, they hurried to the McGuffin, each of them reached into the McGuffin's pocket, and quickly took out things one by one... various messy things.

A lot of hollow iron balls the size of fists, red sweater scarves, rectangular skis that can be suspended in the air...the indescribable magic figure of the ultimate tentacle monster and dragon girl (well, it seems that something strange has been mixed in)
"Uh, what and what is this?"

After taking out two pairs of Hagrid's big tattered leather shoes from the McGuffin's pocket, George finally gave up on reaching into the two pockets on McGuffin's clothes.

— who knows what else will be found next?
The twins looked disgusted and quit all of them.

Snape froze.

When he raised his head from the pile of rubbish floating slightly on the ground, his face was distorted with anger.

"As a wizard, what are you doing?"

"I swear in the name of the Big Four, I have never seen a wizard like you!"

"—McGuffin Albert!" he said through gritted teeth.

"Even Muggles,... no, even trolls are ten thousand times better than you!"

"Shame! What a shame...I must speak to Professor McGonagall about this!"

"If you let others know that you are my student... I can't afford to lose this person..."

Snape's roar almost suppressed the dragon's roar that just sounded outside, and it kept echoing throughout the corridor.

He was shouting at the top of his voice, and the last few sentences were even more hoarse.

"Professor Snape?"

A surprised voice came from the corridor on the other side, and Professor McGonagall walked over with a large stack of books in his arms.

McGuffin saw that the titles of the book covers were mostly - "The Truth of the Fortune Teller", "Lights in the Mist", "Famous Prophecies in the 20th Century and European Fortune Teller Families" and many other books on divination.

——Hasn't Professor McGonagall always scoffed at the divination course?
When McGuffin had some doubts about this.

Seeing that the little wizard dared to distract himself under such circumstances, Snape was furious and said, "Professor McGonagall, just right! I have something to say to you!"

"What's the matter?" Professor McGonagall asked strangely, her gaze swept to the pool of water constantly flowing on the ground, the soaked candies scattered on the ground, and the pile of 'stuff' floating in the air above the ground in a mess.

"Look at the good students of Gryffindor House!" Snape pulled out his wand and poked the mess on the ground.

"What?" Professor McGonagall turned around and drove away the other little wizards who came to watch the fun, and came to them.

"Look, you can see for yourself! You don't look like a wizard at all! I won't talk about learning the [Untraceable Stretching Curse] privately, but take a look at what he has in his pocket? Could it be that the future of the wizarding world that Hogwarts has worked so hard to cultivate—is this kind of thing?"

Snape's spitting star drenched McGuffin's head, and through his description, the MacGuffin had degenerated into a troll living in the Forbidden Forest and a slug in the swamp.

Listening to another professor's complaints, Professor McGonagall knew for the first time that the little wizard in front of him had already started to study the advanced spell of [No Trace Stretching Curse].

She picked up the tea set and looked at it carefully, and then looked at a lot of things that were said to be found in MacGuffin's pocket.

——Lots of weird magic items with various spells.

Depending on the situation, this little wizard's level of enchanting items has already tended to be above the level of a fifth-grade student.
The space contained in the kettle also shows that the little wizard's attainments in [Untraceless Stretching Curse] are not low, and he is not a simple beginner.

This reminded Professor McGonagall of the meeting in Dumbledore's office, and Snape's fear of the little wizard in front of him,

Could it be that the incredible talent of the little wizard in front of him really came from the curse cast by the mysterious man?

Is this [curse] used to create evil armies and improve black magic talent really so effective?

--unbelievable!
Or is it that this little wizard originally had such a talent for magic.

And it was really as Snape said—is this little wizard gradually depraved under the influence of the [Blood Curse]?
However, fortunately, McGuffin did not find any black magic items from those rags, but some of them were slightly weird even in terms of wizards' hobbies...

It doesn't mean anything!

Professor McGonagall was silent. She looked at those things and McGuffin Albert, frowning and thinking.

At this time, Percy probably also got the news from the little wizards watching the fun just now, and he hurried over with Penello.

After stopping, the two couldn't breathe at all.

"—Professor, that—that charm was taught to the MacGuffin—"

(End of this chapter)