The Wrong Slytherin • Draco Malfoy

12|| Sirius Black

The final weekend of the school term was Hogsmeade weekend and this time I was spending it with Hermione, Ron and Ophelia. Unfortunately, Harry wasn't allowed to come due to there being a mass murderer who escaped from Azkaban, the magical prison for dangerous witches and wizards. Sirius Black was the very definition of a dangerous wizard, he killed twelve muggles and one wizard with just one spell and laughed as he was taken away. Gives me the shivers, or maybe thats the dementors who are looking for him.

On the day of the hogsmeade trip, Harry bid us goodbye from the Entrance Hall and we trundled off wrapped in thick hats and scarves due to the cold weather. 

"Where do we want to go first?" I ask as we pick our way through the snow.

"Well, obviously we need to do Christmas shopping so maybe we can just wander the shops and get lunch at The Three Broomsticks after?" Hermione suggests. 

Ron and Ophelia also seemed happy with this plan so we clambered into the carriages that would take us down to the village quicker. 

We ended up going to Bewildering Blooms, Tomes and scrolls, Dominic Maestro's Music Shop and a couple of others before ending up in Honeyduke's Sweet Shop. 

The shop was incredibly crowded but once Hermione found Toothflossing stringmints for her parents and we all had a whole basket full of sweets each we started to look for something to take back for Harry.

"How about some blood-flavoured lollipops?" I grinned, waving a few in Ron's face while he scrunched up his nose.

"Ugh, no, Harry won't want one of those, they're for vampires, Iexpect," Hermione said.

"But it would be funny..." I pouted when she firmly shook her head and Ophelia grabbed them and put them back.

 "How about these?" said Ron, shoving a jar of Cockroach Clusters under our noses.

 "Definitely not," said Harry.Ron nearly dropped the jar while Ophelia and hemione gave a little shriek.

"Merlin's tits, Harry!" I cried, clutching my heart, "Give a girl some warning!"

He grinned sheepishly.

"Harry!" squealed Hermione. "What are you doing here?How — how did you — ?" 

"Wow!" said Ron, looking very impressed, "you've learned toApparate!" 

" 'Course I haven't," said Harry. He then pulled out what looked like a random piece of scrap parchment. "Fred and George gave me this, it's a map of Hogwarts. It shows where everyone is all the time and also has secret passages. It's called the Marauders Map."

"How come Fred and George never gave it to me!" said Ron,outraged. "I'm their brother!" 

"But Harry isn't going to keep it!" said Hermione, as thoughthe idea were ludicrous. "He's going to hand it in to ProfessorMcGonagall, aren't you, Harry?"

 "No, I'm not!" said Harry. 

"Why would he do that?" I ask, baffled, looking at Ophelia but she seems to agree with Hermione.

"Are you mad?" said Ron, goggling at Hermione. "Hand insomething that good?"

 "If I hand it in, I'll have to say where I got it! Filch would knowFred and George had nicked it!" Harry tucked the Map back into his pocket.

"But what about Sirius Black?" said Ophelia, looking worried. "He could beusing one of the passages on that map to get into the castle! Theteachers have got to know!"

 "He can't be getting in through a passage," said Harry quickly. "There are seven secret tunnels on the map, right? Fred and Georgereckon Filch already knows about four of them. And of the otherthree — one of them's caved in, so no one can get through it. Oneof them's got the Whomping Willow planted over the entrance, soyou can't get out of it. And the one I just came through — well —it's really hard to see the entrance to it down in the cellar, so unlesshe knew it was there . . ."