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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟓𝟐:
𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐏
❝ 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅. ❞
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━James Potter included himself into Stella's prefect schedule with Remus and since the latter couldn't attend due to his last night's transformation, James gladly took Remus' role, insisting that Stella shouldn't be alone while patrolling.
Stella had cursed his name multiple times yet it had no effect and after atleast an hour of persuading, she finally let James tag along with her.
"Do you think 'nugget' is a good name for my kid?" questioned James, chewing on his jelly slug while looking at the marauder's map, testing it out.
"What do I have to do with that?" asked Stella with an annoyed tone, clearly fed up with James' bullshit.
"That's because it's your kid too." said James, smirking at Stella's glare.
"You clearly saw it, me with— oh! come on! this greasy tosser again?!"
Stella furrowed her eyebrows as James stared intensely at the map. "What are you t—" she was immediately cut right off when James put his invisibility cloak over her whole body.
"Nox." mumbled James, keeping Stella next to him since they couldn't see anything.
Until another wand was lit right in front of their faces. "Potter." sneered Snape, pointing his lit wand on his face. "What're you doing wandering the corridors at night?"
"I'm sleepwalking." said James, nonchalantly.
"Extraordinarily you are, Potter." spat Snape, glaring daggers at the Gryffindor. "Exceedingly arrogant. Just because you've got your friends and admirers doesn't mean that you get a free pass to strut around the castle."
Sure, Stella considered Snape as a friend but she couldn't deny that he had a sharp and harsh tongue, especially for James.
"Well, it's not past my bed time, so I don't know what you're on about." said James, he was irritated and wanted to hex him but he wanted to push Snape off to the edge of his patience. "Now, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand."
"What were you doing late at night then? Flaunting your swollen head full of your ego?" asked Snape, his eyes squinting when he saw him carrying a piece of parchment with lots of writings scattered around. "What's that?"
"Just a bit of parchment." shrugged James.
"Really? surely you won't mind if I confiscate it?" interrogated Snape.
James felt a small hand holding him back from hexing or even punching Snape right then and there. He eventually calmed down to the touch. "Now, why would you want a parchment of mine?"
"I don't want any of your belongings, Potter." said Snape with so much vexation. "If that parchment is so important to you, what's written on it? what's it about then?"
"A million reasons why I'm better than you." shrugged James, he could feel Stella laughing as her hand started to shake and he could hear her muffled laughters in his ear.
"Why you insolent swine, fifty points from Gryffi—"
"Try and tell Minnie that!" shouted James, running away from Snape with Stella beside him under his invisibility cloak.
Once they reached an empty hall, James took off his invisibility cloak to reveal a red-faced Stella from all the laughter that she managed to store. He smiled and fixed her messy hair in place and all Stella could do was stare at his hazel eyes as he did so. Once he was done, they were off to laughing again.
"We really need a good concealment charm for the map."
"You do it, you've got the elder wand." urged Sirius, pushing Stella the marauder's map to her. They've been arguing about who will cast the concealment charm on the map for atleast 30 minutes.
"You make it sound like I've got a deathly hallow." Stella rolled her eyes at Sirius. She was aware how her wand was powerful, considering that it was made from Elder wood, so she didn't want to ruin their hard-worked map by just one powerful spell.
"Deathly— what now?" asked Peter while eating jellybeans.
"Hallows, Wormy." answered Remus. "The Deathly Hallows."
"What's that about?"
Stella passed the map to James who gladly took it, before she sat on Remus' bed to face Peter. "Tale of the three brothers? ever heard of it?"
"Yeah." beamed up Peter. "It was all real?"
Stella didn't know the exact answer for she only heard it a couple of times since her father was interested on any of the hollows. Nonetheless, she still nodded. "Some say it really were the Peverell brothers."
Sirius nodded, he too was very familiar with this story. "The eldest brother got the elder wand"
"The second brother got the resurrection stone." continued Remus.
"—and the youngest brother got the invisibility cloak, he passed it on to generations and generations of his fam— oh my God." Stella stopped talking and looked at James, her blue eyes widening.
"What?" asked the mentioned boy.
"You're a Peverell!" exclaimed Stella.
"I'm a what?!" asked James, standing up.
"Prongs, your girlfriend is bonkers." said Sirius as he too stood up. He didn't understand a thing, nor did Peter.
"No, no, no." tutted Remus. "She's got a point."
Stella glared at Sirius first before answering. "I'm not his girlfriend and I've got a fair point. Come to think of it, James could be a descendant of Ignotus Peverell!"
"Look, Star." James held on to both of her shoulders, steadying her as she was being to ecstatic about the whole thing. "You're the love of my life and all, but what you're talking about is rubbish."
"It's really not." chuckled Stella. "Ignotus Peverell was known for passing his invisibility cloak on to his son, that the son later on passed to his first born daughter, ofcourse the girl had a change of her last name but still continued the tradition."
"Your grandfather gave Monty the cloak, that he later on gave to you!" continued Stella.
"So..." started James, moving his hand around. "Are you saying that we should have a kid in the future so we could continue the tradition of passing the invisibly cloak on?"
Stella looked at this boy in disbelief, how could he ruin a perfect moment of epiphany? "No, you bloody idio—"
"I'm just kidding, love." surrendered James when he saw her aiming for his arm. "I believe it though. I should ask dad about it." he muttered the last part, still not believing that he could be a Peverell.
"You're brilliant." said James, smiling brightly at her.
In return, Stella smirked at James. Even she was wonderstruck on how her mind was able to process all of that.
Sirius eyed them, shifting his gaze between the two. "Merlin—the tension is thicker than my dic—"
"Sirius!"
"I was gonna say dictionary, Moony!"
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." said James, before pointing his hand on the marauder's map, to reveal all the written words.
'Itinerarium Maraudentium'
'Messrs and Miss, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs, and Star, are proud to present the Marauder's Map.'
"Wicked." said Stella, mesmerizing the map that she had just casted the concealment charm on.
It was also her idea to have a translation of the words 'itinerary of the marauders' in Latin just to fancy it up a little bit to make it even more interesting.
James and Sirius' idea were to make the parchment insult any of the unworthy marauders who ever finds the map, but mostly, they just wanted to come up with insults for Snape in case he stumbles upon their map.
Peter and Remus' additional idea was to have an opening and closing word for the map to reveal itself, they've worked out on the opening chant easily since they already have their pinky swear, the only problem is the closing one, something that they've been stressing out since the morning.
"Just any word?"
"Yes, Pads." groaned Peter. "How many times do we have to tell you?"
"Okay, use 'Sirius' then." said the boy himself, standing up.
"Why you?" asked all of them in unison.
"Because I'm amazing." responded Sirius in a 'duh' tone, flipping his long black hair back.
Remus stared at Sirius for a second before explaining. "I think it'll sound good if what we're saying is like we're done with something... like we've managed something."
"I agree." said Stella, sitting up leaving James pillow-less."Not some lame name like 'Sirius'." explained the short haired girl teasingly, causing Sirius to roll his eyes at her.
"Like we've managed to do something that's wicked, notorious, naughty, or especially mischievous." continued Stella, she sat back again and in an instant James attached to her like a magnet, making her his pillow.
For a moment, they all fell silent, brainstorming all of their ideas telepathically. No words were needed to say for they were communicating with their eyes.
And as if Merlin had sent them all the same thoughts at the same time, they all rocketed up from their seats.
"Mischief managed?" they all asked each other, before smirking.
"Mischief managed."
author's note
enjoy one happy chapter before shit goes down... again <3
but i promise it's the last bomb i'm planning to drop this year :)
every hint i've dropped will finally be revealed next chapter...
ajwjwshwjsjw ignore the mistakes i'll fix them once i've gotten my sleep bcs it's 3:06 am here.
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