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hphalloween_mod (hphalloween_mod) wrote in hp_halloween, @ 2012-10-31 21:10:00

Special Halloween Gift for the Community

Gift for: The Community!

From: manghahabi

Title: With a Map to Guide Us By
Characters: Hermione Granger, Fred Weasley, George Weasley
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine and never will be. Made for fun, not profit.
Summary: Hermione and the Weasley twins test out a magical item for Halloween.
Notes: starduchess is, indeed, a star for making sense of and putting order to the chaos of my attempts at writing fic. You're totally awesome. Title based on Jim Kirk quoting John Masefield's Sea-Fever.


Six more steps and the tiny dot will be right over the 'W' on the experimental mini-Marauder's Map. The dry leaves now reach above her ankles as she continues up the slope to a tree. She slows down, inspecting it—

Her left foot sinks instead of landing on solid ground. She tries to pull it out, but her right foot slips and gets yanked in, too, then she’s sliding through the leaves like sand in an hourglass.

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"Glad you could make it." Fred presses on the gas pedal.

"Barely. It was off by a quarter step, very dangerous." She holds onto the seat as the Ford Anglia lurches forward. "Might need to check your charms again." She tries to give the parchment back to George.

"You’re our navigator for today. Bigger dots mean more sweets. You’ll know which kind when we drive by."

===

Later, when they tap a Mischief Managed to the parchment and it disappears, she fights a frown. They split their sweets (a disappointing amount) and watch the car slowly make its way deeper into the Forest, as if it’s reluctant to leave.

"Help us fix the map for next year?"

Her grin breaks out without permission.