Chapter 2 - Just a Piece of Parchment
"Classes were fun weren't they?" Maria stated as they walked back to the Ravenclaw Common Room.
"They were alright." Ivy agreed. "But History of Magic was-"
"Boring." Marvelle finished and sighed. "And the amount of Homework we have."
"We only have homework for three classes." Maria said.
"Exactly! Well we're in Ravenclaw so we're meant to be smart-"
"Or witty, creative, independent-"
"I get it." Ivy smiled at the two and stopped in front of the Common Room entrance. She sighed.
"What's the riddle today?" She asked simply. To enter the Ravenclaw Common Room the student had to answer the daily riddle that is asked by the enchanted knocker on the door.
"I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts but now I'm white and empty." The enchanted knocker said. Maria and Ivy blinked, but Marvelle just smiled.
"Muggle riddle." She said.
"What?"
"A muggle riddle. It has nothing to do with magic. It's just simple." Ivy and Maria nodded and they both thought for a minute, as Marvelle stood there, smirking at the two of them. "Skull. Honestly." The door opened and the two girls looked at Marvelle. They sighed and walked inside, Maria almost tripping over the step. They sat down on the couch as the sunlight came through one of the windows.
"The Ravenclaw Common Room is by far, the best Common Room in this school." Ivy said.
"Why, have you been to the other common rooms?" Maria asked.
"Not yet." Ivy grinned. "I'm planning to prank some Slytherins some time soon." She grabbed her homework and her quill and ink. Maria stared at her.
"What? You can't prank-"
"Yeah? Well watch me. I'm also planning on Pranking Filch too. Want to join Marvelle?"
"Okay! How does Pranking work in the wizardry world?" Marvelle asked excitedly, almost jumping up and down. Maria sighed with defeat.
"Well its better then Muggle Pranking I bet."
"Sweet! What are we doing?"
"We'll prank Filch with some simple Dungbombs." Ivy grinned. Marvelle frowned.
"W-what's a Dungbomb?" She asked. Ivy grabbed a Dungbomb, a small, brown circular object that was the size of a Bludger, from her bag. She grinned and looked around. A group of seventh years were doing there work at a desk nearby. Ivy threw the Dungbomb and it exploded near all their work. A girl screamed. Ivy and Marvelle laughed as Maria bit her lip from laughing. "So that's a Dungbomb."
"Yep. And we're going to use a few tonight. Ten o'clock. Alright?"
"Alright. Maria are you coming?"
Maria scoffed. "No. No offence, Pranking isn't my thing. It's funny but it's not my thing."
Ivy and Marvelle shrugged before grinning. Maria sighed with defeat.
"I'm not stopping you though. I can't be bothered." She stated.
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Ivy and Marvelle hid around the corner, waiting for Filch to exit his office. Finally, Filch walked out of the office with his cat, Mrs Norris. Ivy and Marvelle waited for a minute before running inside.
"So... this is a mess." Marvelle stated, pointing at the desk. "Like honestly how does someone live like this??" She grabbed her wand.
"Don't bother trying to clean it. It's going to get bigger." Ivy stated, grabbing a Dungbomb from her bag.
"What?! But-"
"Hey at least it's not your bedroom." Marvelle thought for a minute and sighed.
"Fine." Ivy smirked and threw a Dungbomb at Marvelle, who only just caught it. "Oi I have enough." She held up her bag. Ivy nodded.
"Thought you needed some more." Ivy dropped a few Dungbombs on the floor, making sure they didn't explode. Marvelle did the same. After almost covering the floor with Dungbombs, the two started opening the draws and putting them inside. "Can you imagine the smell when he comes in?"
"Probably less filthy than he normally is." Marvelle said, pinching her nose and looking at all the mess. Ivy laughed and opened another draw that was labelled Confiscated and Highly Dangerous. She grinned and started looking inside, her curiosity growing.
Eventually her hands landed on something and she pulled a spare piece of parchment out. Ivy laughed again. "A spare piece of parchment? Your idiotic Filch." She said to herself.
"What?" Marvelle looked up and walked over to her. Ivy showed her the piece of parchment, grinning. "A piece of parchment?"
"In a draw labelled Confiscated and Highly Dangerous." Ivy pointed to the draw. Marvelle frowned and looked at her.
"What?" Ivy sighed with annoyance and waved the parchment in front of her face.
"A piece of parchment! In a Highly Dangerous draw!!"
"You mean Confiscated and Highly Dangerous draw."
"Same thing!"
"Well it could be a secret diary of his, couldn't it?" Ivy looked at her. She grinned and ran to the desk, trying not to step on the Dungbombs. Marvelle followed her, but slower.
"Well let's see then! Shall we?" Ivy grabbed her wand and tapped the parchment. Words in green ink started to form and both their eyes widened. It seemed like an invisible hand was writing a sentence. Finally many sentences formed and both of them stared at it closely.
"Mr Moony congratulates Ms Potter and Ms Shields for being the first two idiots that ever made it into Ravenclaw." Marvelle read. "Wait what?!" Ivy glared at the sentence in reply and read the next one.
"Mr Wormtail agrees with Mr Moony and asks if the two girls would not hold this piece of parchment with such dirty hands." They both glanced slowly at their hands, which were very dirty thanks to the Dungbombs.
"Mr Padfoot would like to say that Ms Potter has unfortunately received her father's arrogance and foolishness." Marvelle looked at Ivy, who's hair had started to turn fiery red. "You're not foolish by the way." She said quickly.
"Thanks. Mr Prongs highly disagrees with Mr Padfoot and does not think that Ms Potter's father is arrogant and foolish, but rather good-looking." Ivy giggled slightly and sighed.
"Mr Padfoot disagrees with Mr Prongs and asks that Ms Shields stops being the clean freak that she is." Marvelle frowned. "Hey!"
"Mr Prongs agrees with Mr Padfoot and thinks that Ravenclaws are very preppy and stuck-up." Ivy sighed with annoyance. "He would also like to say that Mr Padfoot should stop being annoying."
"Mr Padfoot would like to wonder how a Potter ever got sorted into Ravenclaw."
"Mr Prongs thinks that the Potters are very smart indeed."
"Mr Padfoot highly disagrees."
"Mr Prongs would like to warn Mr Padfoot to watch what he is saying."
"Mr Padfoot highly disagrees." Ivy and Marvelle laughed.
"Mr Moony would like Mr Padfoot and Mr Prongs to both shut up and says that the girls should solemnly swear..."
No more sentences appeared and Ivy and Marvelle stayed quiet for a while, staring at it with both annoyance and amusement. Ivy wondered what all that had meant. If it did mean something. And what was with all the mentions of her father? And the names: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs sounded awfully familiar. Marvelle looked at her.
"That was... weird," Marvelle said.
"Yep... Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs..." Ivy said, still staring at the parchment.
"Do you know them? Considering they mentioned your father a lot."
"I don't know... Come on, we better get out of here before Filch comes back." Marvelle nodded. They walked out of the office, careful not to activate any Dungbombs.
The next day, Ivy and Marvelle told Maria about the parchment who looked rather confused when she saw the parchment.
"Maybe you should ask your Godfather. He knew your father right?" Maria suggested.
"Of course he knew my father! I'll send a letter to him this morning." Ivy said and stood up. She grabbed a quill and ink, and started writing the letter to Remus. After she was done, she ran to the Owlery with Marvelle and Maria. They found Ivy's owl, Athena and attached the letter to her leg. Athena hooted softly before spreading her wings and flying outside.
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After two days, when the mail arrived in the Great Hall, Athena flew down to the Ravenclaw Table. Ivy smiled slightly as the owl nibbled a bit of the cereal. She grabbed the letter and read through it. Marvelle and Maria read over her shoulder.
Dear Ivy,
Firstly I am very disappointed that you pranked Filch on the first day. But I am glad that you found the Map. Yes, I do know about the piece of parchment. It is called the Marauders' Map. Your father, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and I had created the map for... Pranking purposes. If you must know, I am Moony, Peter was Wormtail, Sirius was Padfoot and your father was Prongs. To access the map, you must tap your wand on the parchment and say "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," this is where a map of Hogwarts will appear, including the seven secret passageways. There will also be many footprints and names, showing where certain people are. To make the map disappear again you must say "Mischief Managed." However, if you don't say I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. The map will insult you.
~Remus
P.S. I am very sorry for whatever Moony said to you.
"Moony called you two idiots." Maria said. Ivy looked at them and grinned.
"So it's actually a map! Of Hogwarts! And it shows what everyone's doing! That is so cool!" Ivy exclaimed.
"Even better, you're Prongs' Child. And does your Godfather mean Sirius Black? Like that mass-" Marvelle said.
"Well now we know how to access the map! This is brilliant!"
A/N Hy guys! Just to clarify that I am re-writing this story. That's why there's only like three chapters and everything is different from the original one. Sorry about the confusion!
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~Ivy
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