burning hearts - Harry James Potter

12. Last Christmas

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Davie and Harry had to push themselves through the crowd in Honeydukes: Hogesmeade's candystore. It was flooded with older students and they tried not to bump into anyone since they were hiding underneath the invisibility cloak.

There were shelves upon shelves of the all sweets imaginable. Creamy chunks of nougat, shimmering pink squares of coconut ice, fat, honey-coloured toffees; hundreds of different kinds of chocolate in neat rows; there was a large barrel of Every Flavour Beans, and another of Fizzing Whizzbees, the levitating sherbet balls . along yet another wall were 'Special Effects' sweets: Drooble's Best Blowing Gum (which filled a room with bluebell-coloured bubbles that refused to pop for days), the strange, splintery Toothflossing Stringmints, tiny black Pepper Imps ('breathe fire for your friends!'), Ice Mice ('hear your teeth chatter and squeak!'), peppermint creams shaped like toads ('hop realistically in the stomach!'), fragile sugar-spun quills and exploding bonbons.

Harry looked like he was about to buy everything, but Davie saw Hermione and Ron standing and she pointed at them.

As the pair got closer, they could listen to the conversation Ron and Hermione were having.

'"no, Harry won't want one of those, they're for vampires, I expect." Hermione said about a kind of sweets. "Maybe Davina would like them."

Davie had to stop herself from laughing.

"How about these?" said Ron, shoving a jar of Cockroach Cluster under Hermione's nose.

"Definitely not." Harry said suddenly, making Ron nearly drop the jar of candy.

The two took of the cloak and Hermione squealed: "What are you two doing here? How did you even get here?"

"Wow!" Ron said, "you've learned how to Apparate!"

"Davie laughed and Harry said: "Of course we haven't." He looked around and lowered his voice, starting to tell Ron and Hermione about the Marauders Map.

After he was done, Ron exclaimed: "How come Fred and George never gave it to me! I'm their brother!"

Before Davie or Harry could answer, Hermione said: "They're not going to keep it, Ron. They will hand it in to professor McGonagall, won't you?"

Davie shook her head. "Are you mad? Think about how convenient it is to have this thing!"

"Besides, if we would hand it in, we would have to explain where we got it and they will know Fred and George nicked it from Filch." Harry said.

Hermione rolled her eyes. "But what about Sirius Black? He could be using one of the passages on that map to get into the castle! The teachers have got to know!"

That made Davie think. She didn't want the map to fall out of their possession again, but she also didn't want the map to fall into the wrong hands.

"He can't be getting in through a passage." Harry said quickly. " There are seven secret tunnels on the map, right? Fred and George reckon Filch already knows about four of them. And the other three, one of them's caved in, so no one can get through it. One of them's got the Whomping Willow planted over the entrance, so you can't get out of it. And the one we just came through, well, it's really hard to see the entrance to it down in the cellar. so unless he knew it was there –"

Davie interrupted him. "We'll just look after the map. It won't get into his hands."

Ron cleared his throat, pointing at a notice pasted on the door.