Chapter 72: Contract Magic of the Marauder's Map

Waiting until the dead of night is not that easy.

Fred and George seemed to be the only ones who were still energetic in Gryffindor. They pestered Harry and Ron to play Thunderbolt Explosion cards until almost midnight.

To be honest, if Cyrus had known that they would do this, he would have gone to sleep for a few hours, otherwise he would not have been so bored.

Fred thought he was Ginny, and comforted him:

"Don't worry too much, Ginny, we can only do our best." Fred said while playing cards.

"Yes, and that thing is lost, it's lost. We have told Dumbledore, I believe he will find a way." George said.

The twins' words were like a basin of cold water poured on the sleepy Cyrus' face, making him sober up all of a sudden.

From what they said, it seems that they know about the diary and told Dumbledore?

Didn't Ginny say that only Harry and the others knew at that time?

Cyrus' heart seemed to be tied to a heavy reef, and it sank all of a sudden.

Although things have come to this point, whether Dumbledore knows that the diary is his true body or not has no great impact. The other party has been expelled from Hogwarts. If the plan goes well, only Fawkes will help Harry deal with the basilisk in the end.

But Cyrus is unwilling to expose his weakness to Dumbledore.

That's Dumbledore!

Dumbledore even planned his own death carefully!

Voldemort in the original book was arranged by him very clearly. When he just knew that Voldemort planned to make six Horcruxes, he had already guessed what the Horcruxes were. Following Voldemort's heart, he found the locations where two Horcruxes were hidden. Even when he went to the cave, he took Harry with him by coincidence.

He knew that Voldemort would seek the Elder Wand, that Voldemort would ask Snape to kill him, that Voldemort would kill Snape, and that when Voldemort learned that all the other Horcruxes were destroyed, he would definitely let Nagini stay by his side...

Dumbledore had calculated everything. If he hadn't made a few mistakes, Cyrus would have thought that Dumbledore and he had the same script!

"Didn't Ginny find the thing she lost?" Ron played a card and sighed, "But Dumbledore has already left Hogwarts..."

He just forgot that the thing Ginny lost was related to Riddle, but he couldn't remember what it was.

"Found it back?" Fred and George looked at each other in surprise, and were so happy that they threw away the cards in their hands.

"Hey, what are you doing? I'm almost winning--" Ron looked at the cheating twins in disbelief and shouted angrily.

But Fred and George ignored him, and grabbed Cyrus' shoulders excitedly.

"Now the heir will be helpless! Without the map, it will be difficult for them to seize the opportunity." Fred said.

Map?

After talking for a long time, it turned out that Fred and George were referring to the Marauder's Map.

Cyrus breathed a sigh of relief. Whether Dumbledore knew about the existence of the Marauder's Map did not affect him much. The map, a magic prop, can only play its original purpose when it is in hand.

And its production process is very unusual. Cyrus himself has studied it for a period of time. He believes that the map can work because of the existence of the huge magic castle of Hogwarts itself.

Sirius' grandfather was once the headmaster of Hogwarts. Perhaps the plunderers referred to some information when making the props. Everyone who enters Hogwarts is forced to sign a magic contract.

In the magic world, magic contracts are difficult to break.

For example, the Fidelius Charm, as long as the spell is still in effect, even Voldemort cannot find the hidden place.

Dumbledore has the Elder Wand, so he might be able to break this contract, but he must at least get the map first, otherwise he will have nowhere to use his magic power.

"Lend me the map for a few more days." Cyrus said to Fred and George.

"What kind of map is it? It's so mysterious?" Ron was no longer interested in thinking about the Thunderbolt Explosion Cards, and asked curiously.

"Nothing!"

"Don't mind our business!"

Fred and George said immediately. They didn't want Ron to know about this. They knew their brother's character better than anyone else. If he knew the use of the Marauder's Map, he would definitely pester him for it.

"Ginny, you are not allowed to tell either." Fred and George said, and left immediately.

Seeing this, Ron immediately cast his eyes on Cyrus, his face full of curiosity.

"I can't tell them, I promised them." Cyrus naturally didn't want others to know the map.

"But they asked Ginny to keep it secret, not you." Ron discovered this loophole. Mr. Riddle and Ginny are not the same person.

But Cyrus still shook his head: "It makes no difference, I promised them. And keeping secrets is very important, Ron. If one day you also reveal my secret, I'm afraid I will be ruined by others soon."

"Okay."

Harry put away the cards, looked at the time again, and then said: "When the bell rings, we will set off, how about it? I think everyone will be asleep by then."

"That's it."

"I'll get the invisibility cloak." Harry walked up the stairs quickly. After a while, he came down with something in his hand. "Three people, it might be a bit crowded, but I think it's dark outside, no one should notice that our feet are exposed."

"Forget it, I'll use the Disillusionment Charm, it's safer." Cyrus didn't want to squeeze in with them this time.

The journey through the castle was also difficult, and you had to do everything you could to avoid the teachers. The professors in the castle were always patrolling these days, and after Dumbledore left, the professors were very nervous. Even Snape was full of worries.

Finally, they finally walked to the hall, slipped behind the locks of the two oak doors, squeezed out through the cracks in the doors, trying not to make any creaking sounds, and then came to the moonlit venue.

"Of course," Ron said suddenly as they strode across the dark grass, "we may not find anything to follow once we get to the woods. The spiders may not have gone there at all. I know they seemed to be moving in that direction, but..."

He stopped, leaving Harry with a little hope.

They arrived at Hagrid's hut and looked at the dark windows with sorrow and sadness.

Harry pushed the door open, and Fang was ecstatic when he saw them, jumping up and down with excitement.

Cyrus was afraid that its deep and loud barking would wake the people in the castle, so he cast a spell on it without hesitation to silence it.

Harry put the Invisibility Cloak on Hagrid's table.

"You lift the spell too, we won't need invisibility when we get to the Forbidden Forest," said Harry, "Come on Fang, let's go for a walk."

The three of them left with a dog.

Cyrus walked at the back, looking at the invisible cloak that Harry had placed on the table, the legendary Deathly Hallows -

Finally, he slowly closed the door.

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