Item Name: Marauder's Map
Item type: (what is it watch sword ect..) A detailed map of Hogwarts and its inhabitants.
How it was made: With the collective knowledge and efforts of James Potter (the first), Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew, such an item was bound to made. These four boys known for their spirited adventures and troublemaking ways (more so in James and Sirius) had such an extensive knowledge of Hogwarts that they were able to draw possibly the most detailed map of Hogwarts that shows every room and is enchanted to show the people within it. It is likely that it took them most of their Hogwarts career to complete and then perfect it.
How you came into contact with it: Somewhere along the line, the map was confiscated by one of Hogwarts' able caretakers. Jack has quite a history for causing trouble and acquired it in much the same way that the Weasley twins had. On one of her many "visits" with the caretaker, after having released a firework or two in the hallway, she spotted the file labeled 'confiscated and dangerous.' Luckily, one of her fireworks were still running a muck and had hit a suit of armor. While the caretaker ran off, she broke into the cabinet and found the map. It intrigued her and she quickly duplicated it, leaving the fake for the caretaker and pocketing the real one. She spent a few months trying to figure it out before she finally did.
Magical abilities:
-Good-
Shows the entirety of Hogwarts
Portrays the people within it
Explains how to use secret passageways (such as the witch statue to Honeydukes)
-Bad-
Does not always show the RoR
Will not wipe itself clean without your urging, leaving it up to anyone to see
Can be mistaken as an old piece of paper
Roleplay sample:
Jack waited in her dorm, eyes open beneath the covers as moonlight trickled into the room and her dormmate's breathing became slower and deeper. When at last she knew they were all asleep, she slipped out, fully dressed. She snatched up her wand and the old scrap of parchment by her bed.
She snuck down into the empty common room and then outside. Fortunately, the Fat Lady was sleeping. She turned over the parchment, tapped it with her wand, and whispered, "I solemnly sear that I am up to no good."
A map of Hogwarts unfurled onto the paper and Jack felt a smile come onto her face. She quickly skimmed the corridor and found nothing. She glanced around for roaming professors and found only a few, luckily none were nearby nor would they be in her way it seemed.
"Lumos." She padded down the corridor, her eyes on the map, her feet obeying e directions she gleamed from the map. Down the corridor, take a left, down a stairwell (skipping the trick step), through a fake wall, down another corridor, up a hidden stairwell, right, left, through a door posing as a painting.
Minutes later, she was outside the library. She slipped in and hurried inside, wasting no time to slip under the rope to the restricted section. Her finger trailed along the dusty volumes until her hand paused on one. An intimidating volume with the simple name Beasts.
Jack wanted to research a little more on magical creatures to see if she was interested in a career there and some of the of her books did not go into the detail she needed in regards to some of the darker creatures. The librarian and Jack did not get along well, something about Jack not using an inside voice and playing Exploding Snap, so Jack had been forced to resort to this.
Tucking the book under her arm, she slipped out of the library and began to head upstairs again. It was going great until the sixth floor, when a teacher suddenly appeared on the floor. Jack was around the corner and desperately searched the map. There was a nearby classroom. She dove into it and whispered, "Nox."
She sat against the door, peering downward. She heard approaching footsteps and her heart beat quickened. The footsteps stopped and a shadow appeared under the doorway. Jack pursed her lips. For a few seconds there was nothing. Then, with a creak, the footsteps continued.
Jack glanced down at the map and watched the teacher walk away. She waited until they were on the fourth floor before exiting and then hurrying towards the common room. She woke up the Fat Lady ('Young woman what are you doing out here this late?!') and then strode into the common room.
She slipped upstairs and slid the book under her bed. With a smile, she tapped the map and said, triumphantly, "Mischief managed." The map was wiped blank and she tucked the map and her wand safely into her bedside drawer. She smiled.
'Jack. Where did you just come from?'
Jack froze under her covers. Crap. She blurted, "Nowhere, you were dreaming."
She waited in tense silence and suddenly the voice responded, "Oh. Okay." There was a loud snore. Jack grinned.
by Ne'Os Emof Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:33 pm
