Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying!

But Hagrid caught them and flew into a rage, punishing them by making them clean the pigsty for half a month straight.

"Cleaning up pig manure, cleaning the pigsty, and bathing the piglets..."

Fred laughed and said, "That's what we've done for the past two weeks."

"Percy was furious, he thought we had disgraced the Weasley family."

As George spoke, he rinsed the floor with a hose and also gave the little pig next to him a bath.

Fred asked, "Wade, what brings you here?"

“Do you remember last semester when you told me about the secret passage that led out of Hogwarts?” Wade asked.

“Of course!” Fred said. “Don’t tell me you only recently started using it.”

"Yes, I left the school a few days ago. The secret passage is longer than I thought."

"Hogsmeade is fun, isn't it?" Fred leaned on his shovel, chin resting on the handle, and blinked. "You didn't get caught by Froome, did you?"

"Froome?"

“The owner of Honeydukes,” George explained.

“Oh, no,” Wade said. “There’s just something that’s been bothering me…”

He looked at the two of them and said, "You said you saw me come out of the corridor where the mirror was, and then we met in front of the portrait of Paracelsus..."

"Huh? Is that so?" Fred couldn't quite remember. He scratched his head and said, "Probably."

"But when I came out of the mirrored corridor, I checked and there were no other students around."

"I was told later that you guys must have just come out of the Gryffindor common room," Wade said.

The person who told him was, of course, Zoe.

Few things can be hidden from the house-elves and the ubiquitous portraits in this castle.

“Hmm…” George tilted his head and asked, “So?”

"You should have a magical item that can track everyone's whereabouts, right? It's supposedly a piece of parchment?"

Vader said earnestly, "May I borrow it to study the alchemy on it? I promise I won't damage it! The rental fee is one gallon per day, is that alright?"

“One Gallon? That’s not cheap!” Fred said, then shook his head. “But no way.”

Vader paused for a moment, then raised the price: "So... two Galleons?"

“It’s not about the money,” Fred said solemnly. “The Marauder’s Map is a precious gift left to future generations by our predecessors…”

George nodded and sighed, "We owe them so many favors... how can we use them to exchange for money?"

“You can study the Marauder’s Map for free.” Fred nodded solemnly, “but there are conditions…”

"Don't let anyone see, especially the professor and Filch..."

"And...we should also learn from the spirit of our predecessors and help the new generation of those who break the law..."

The twins burst into laughter.

Then Fred took out a square piece of parchment that looked old and was blank.

“This is what we stole from Filch’s office. He locked it in a drawer and wrote on it: ‘Confiscated supplies, extremely dangerous.’”

George said, "He taught us more than all the teachers in the school combined."

“Remember the spell.” Fred drew his wand and lightly touched the parchment, saying, “I solemnly swear I have done nothing wrong!”

The fine ink lines spread out rapidly like a spider web, and several lines of green text began to emerge—

[A supplier of supplies for magical pranksters]

[Gentlemen with moon face, worm tail, big feet, and pointed forks]

[Proudly presented]

Marauder's Map

In the blink of an eye, a map of the entire Hogwarts was formed on the parchment, down to every single corridor and every single room.

Tiny black dots, like sesame seeds, move across the map, with tiny letters forming names next to them.

These letters are much smaller than they appear in the movie.

In crowded places like the auditorium, lounge, and classrooms, it's like a swarm of ants, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

However, the Weasley twins didn't care about the students gathered together; they were probably only interested in where the professor and Filch were patrolling during the nighttime outings.

“After you’re done using it, just tap it lightly and say ‘Prank over,’ and it turns back into a blank parchment,” George said.

Wade glanced at the twins, whose smiles were somewhat silly, as if they had no idea how precious the item they had brought out was.

Vader folded the parchment and smiled, "May I invite you to join me in this research? I remember you two are also studying alchemy?"

At this, the Weasley twins perked up: "That would be great! But the magic on the Marauder's Map is very complicated!"

"We've been working on some prank candies lately, but they're a bit too harmful..."

Before George could finish speaking, Hagrid's voice rang out: "Hey, I hope you've finished cleaning the pigsty while you're chatting!"

The twins stuck out their tongues and quickly started washing the pigpen.

“Hey, Wade. Don’t be like those two, treating your life like a game.”

Hagrid brought over a large bucket of feed, gently nudged the piglets that were crowding around the feeding trough with his finger, and then poured the feed over.

Vader asked him, "Is the fire dragon alright in the Forbidden Forest?"

"It's alright, the creatures in the Forbidden Forest can't hurt Noberta."

Hagrid said with pity, "Alas, thankfully Dumbledore allowed her to stay... For Norbert, the most dangerous thing in the world is people... Her original habitat was also full of people..."

As he spoke, he picked up several of the grown piglets, took a closer look, and then put them into the pigpen next to him.

“Then…won’t she harm the animals in the Forbidden Forest?” Wade asked.

“Dumbledore made a deal with the centaur tribe,” Hagrid said. “Nobita lives far away too, and she promised not to hunt around the school or harm any intelligent species. She’s such a good girl, isn’t she?”

Wade looked at the burns on Hagrid's arm and couldn't bring himself to nod against his will.

Hagrid invited him, "Why don't you come to my cottage for a cup of tea? I just made some rock cakes."

"No need," Wade declined. "I still have homework to do."

After saying goodbye to Hagrid and the Weasley twins, Wade returned to the Room of Requirement, and the first thing he did was spread out the Marauder's Map and look towards the Gryffindor common room.

If nothing unexpected happens, there should be an extra name there—

Peter Pedirou, "Wormtail".

One of the highway robbers, a friend of James Potter and Lupin, and the true traitor back then.

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Wade spread out the map and searched carefully.

At this time, most students are eating in the auditorium, and not many people are staying in the dormitory.

Wade found the Gryffindor common room and then carefully discerned among the few black dots.

Arya Spinnett… Jeffrey Hooper… Cormac McClagan… Dean Thomas… Peter Pedirou…

found it.

Wade stared at the tiny black dot.

Perhaps he was asleep; the little black dot representing Peter Pediru remained motionless. Dean Thomas, on the other hand, paced back and forth before leaving the dormitory shortly afterward.

Then Peter's black dot started moving, it ran to a specific spot with a clear purpose, and then stopped moving again.

Wade guessed that perhaps it was stealing the students' snacks, since Ron wouldn't give a mouse too much food;

Perhaps it was reading the newspaper, wondering if the Death Eaters still had any hope of making a comeback.

Wade left the map on the table and turned to look at the shelf by the wall.

The once empty wooden shelf is now filled with potions, with glass bottles of all sizes neatly arranged and labeled with rectangular tags.

The colorful potions in the glass bottles were either emitting a faint mist or glowing with an ominous black light.

Wade's gaze swept over the labels one by one.

Compound decoctions, shrinking medicines, scabies lotion, swelling medicine, life-saving water, Dictamnus dasycarpus, blood tonics, psychiatric drugs, anti-aging agents...

In addition to these, there were also poisonous ginseng, aconite, licorice root, powder of poisonous horned beast, feathers of the poisonous bird, lead powder, arsenic ore...

Most of the toxic substances are raw materials.

After all, their textbooks don't teach students how to concoct poisons. Even if they use aconite or mandrake, it's for their medicinal value.

However, most poisons don't require much processing; just a small amount of powder can be lethal.

Wade examined it for a moment and pondered.

There is no truth serum.

It's not that he didn't want it, but as a banned drug, it couldn't be bought through legitimate channels, and Vader couldn't possibly ask Ferdinand to go to a place like Knockturn Alley to buy the potion for him.