In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 78: The Marauder's Map

"To be honest, I don't understand why Dolohov even bothered to make a storage room on the ground floor, wouldn't it be more convenient to have a room right next to his office?"

Crabbe said with a giggle as he scratched his head.

They were already heading out of the office at this point, and Draco said smugly as if he knew some kind of hidden secret.

"The one on the ground floor isn't really a storage room, to begin with. I've heard from the seniors, that room was actually the office of the previous caretaker, it was just that after Dolohov became the caretaker, he was quite disgusted with that room, and not only did he not choose to take over it, but he used it as a 'dumping place' ... "

Their footsteps and chatter had faded away, and only after they had left did Jon step out from under the table with a thoughtful look on his face.

Even if he still remembered the approximate plot of the original story, there is no way he could remember every detail that clearly, for example, he didn't quite remember where Filch's office was in the original story.

But the speech that Draco made when he came to steal something to show off gave him a lot of help.

Dolohov moved into this office after the take-over, while the original Filch's office was discarded by him as a store room on the ground floor!

Jon did not continue to waste time in Dolohov's office, he quickly walked down to the ground floor with the invisibility cloak, but did not immediately go to the store room that Draco said, but went into the lavatory, took off the invisibility cloak, and meet up with Hermione and the rest of them.

He has already delayed long enough, others might not mind such a disappearance during the lunch break, but with how attentive Hermione is, she might be able to find a problem.

He found several other second-year male students in the lavatory that needed to be cleaned because the boys and girls would be working separately in different lavatories, the boys didn't notice anything unusual about Jon being away for this long, they just thought he had diarrhoea and stayed in the lavatory for a while longer.

After the work began, no one slacked off, these children are still only 12 years old, so their minds are relatively simple; everyone had fallen into this kind of situation, and all they could think about is to be more united, so no one played any petty tricks and focused on their works.

While cleaning, Jon asked a boy named Hanton, who was beside him casually

"I heard there is a storage room on the ground floor that Mr Dolohov uses to store confiscated things?"

Hearing Jon's words, Hanton thought for a moment before nodding his head.

"Mr Dolohov seems to store some stuff in a room on the ground floor sometimes, just the third room to the left after walking in from the entrance hall, but it's off-limits to us, try not to go near there, otherwise he might say we broke the school rules and find a reason to punish us sometimes even if we didn't go there later on."

He looked like he thought of some bad memories, his body could not help but shiver, yet he did not forget to give a reminder to Jon.

Jon waved his hand and said.

"I just overheard people talking about it and asked casually, I am not stupid enough to mess with Mr Dolohov."

Hanton also just made a reminder on the passing, he did not think Jon would do something that bold because "Randy" in his memory has always been a very timid person.

When they finished with the lavatory, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

The exhausted mudbloods returned to their bunks under the watchful eye of the Head boy and Head girl, and then Dolohov locked the big iron door, announcing the end of the day.

As the night drifted deeper and deeper, Jon counted the minutes as he lay in his bed, and after estimating that it was almost midnight, he got up from his bed.

He cloaked himself skilfully, drew his wand, gently opened the door of his room and walked out of it.

He left the "cell" where the mudbloods are kept, went from the basement to the ground floor corridor, and then, according to the information given to him by Hanton in the evening, he found the locked store room at the end of the entrance hall, on the left side.

The door lock was opened by Jon using the unlocking charm, then he fumbled in the dark to close the door again before waving his wand under the invisibility cloak once again.

"Lumos."

A faint glow illuminated the not-too-big room.

There were a lot of messy magic joke props piled up around, all of these things were confiscated by Dolohov from the hands of half-blood students, Jon saw a clown mask with a red light at the eyes, a fake tongue like a snake wriggling on the floor, and a zombie head-shaped leather ball rolling back and forth.

He didn't even look at these spooky prank props at midnight and went straight to a wooden cabinet that was placed in the far corner.

After clearing away all those things piled up around the wooden cabinet, he began to check each item stored in the cabinet one by one.

Finally, when he reached the third row at the lower end of the cabinet, he vaguely saw a line of text labelled on the second drawer on the right side - "Confiscated and Highly Dangerous".

Seeing this line, Jon breathed a huge sigh of relief as he pulled open the drawer and, not surprisingly, found a worn blank parchment inside!

With a solemn face, Jon stretched out his hand to take this parchment out of the drawer.

If people don't know the inside story, they won't find anything unusual about this parchment, it's like a scrap of parchment that has been forgotten in a corner for a long time, but Jon knows the use of this "scrap of parchment" very well.

He raised his wand in his hand and tapped the parchment while whispering.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

Then black ink dots appeared at the location where his wand struck, and then a black line expanded around the dots and continuously spread out in all directions, and soon the black lines covered the entire parchment, outlining a map of the entire Hogwarts on it!

It's not just a map, it also has the names of everyone who is now inside the castle, and all of them are shown on the map.

He saw familiar names such as Severus Snape, Antonin Dolohov, Draco Malfoy, and many others.

No one was walking around in the dead of night, and the names of both students and faculty remained quietly in their common rooms and bedrooms.

And right above this map, a passage written by its creators still remained.

[Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot & Prongs, are proud to present - The Marauder's Map]

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