Smile - Book One of the RP Saga

A Terrible Snowy Kiss ( 33)

"That is the Marauder's Map." George sighed happily.

"Yeah I gather it's a map, but what exactly does it do?" Rachel asked, opening the parchment up. "Wait a minute! Is that-"

"That's right, it's Hogwarts." Fred nodded.

"And that's actually everyone? Oh yeah look there we are!" Rachel laughed pointing at where her's and the twins names were.

"See, we're showing you this because it shows every hidden passageway out of Hogwarts." George said.

"And this one," Fred said pointing to a name saying 'the one eyed witch'. "Is the one we shall take."

"Wicked! So where does it take us?" Rachel gasped.

"Honeydukes cellar." They both answered and immeadiately headed off in the direction of the passageway.

"Oh by the way when your finished give it a tap and say 'mischief managed' then no one unwanted can read it." Fred informed Rachel with much severity that it shocked her, she nodded vigorously and did as she was told.

"So you guys know these passageways off by heart then?" She enquired looking up at them.

"We've been using the map since first year, nicked it from Filch. So yeah we pretty much know it off by heart." Fred grinned.

The twins stopped abruptly when they saw Mrs Norris, Filch's cat. Without saying anything, George had snatched the map from Rachel and opened it up. His eyes flicked over the parchment and nodded to Fred. Fred nodded back and grabbed Rachel's wrist and they ran off away from the cat.

"Where are we going?" Rachel puffed as they threw looks over their shoulder to see if the cat or Filch was chasing them.

"Detour, didn't fancy getting caught by the man himself did you?" George laughed. After a long winded route they ended up in front of an old statue, like the map had said it was an old, one eyed witch. George handed the closed map to Rachel as he and his twin moved the statue to the right slightly revealing a hidden door behind.

Rachel had passed the statue a couple of times before, and never did she think that there was a door to Honeydukes right there! The boys signalled for her to follow and she did so, entering the dimly lit passageway. Once they had moved the statue and shut the door they stepped in front of Rachel and drew out their wands.

"Lumos." They said and a little dim light appeared lighting the passage not much more than it was before. Rachel rolled her eyes and pulled out her own wand.

"Lumos maxima," she said and the dusty, damp corridor instantly lit up, the boys looked around at Rachel with their eyebrows up and a questioning look on their faces. She smirked back at them both.

"So, how come I've never heard of this before?" She said unfolding the parchment once again. Her fingers traced over the nicknames of her father and his friends. She didn't let on to the twins she knew them.

"It's one of a kind, there isn't any more of them." George informed her.

"Plus we never told you because, you were not in dear need of it." Fred explained. "I didn't use it when we snuck to Hogsmede for that reason. It was easier for us to sneak out another way."

"Oh," was all Rachel could say, "it's flipping brilliant!"

"Definitely." Fred chuckled falling into step with her.

"We should show Harry this! He's been wanting to go to Hogsmede forever, I bet with his invisibility cloak he could get out easily." Rachel smiled, happy at the thought of her brother joining her at Hogsmede.