Chapter 78: The Marauder's Map

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.

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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