I have a headcanon that McGonagall knew about the map and she was the one that told the Weasley Twins to give it to Harry ª immzies-adventures-through-books McGonagall first realised the Twins had the map while they were in their second year. She had often wondered what happened to it after the four boys had leu school many years earlier, but like many other objects around Hogwarts, she had assumed that it had disappeared, never to be seen again. Though she was glad it hadn'tv and she was also glad (though she would never say it) that out of all the people to find it, it had been the two ginger troublemakers They had been dreadful at the start el their first year, she remembered. Dungbombs and Stink Pellets would appear at least three times a week. Until they had settled down, and started working Or, so it appeared, hiding the tact that they had a Map. They were not creating that much trouble, she thought to herself as she watched them in the library,pouring over the old parchment that looked so innocent to those that did not know, She would just leave them to it. lt was in their third year- and Potters first- that she tinally pulled them aside. Their faces paled when she demanded they empty their pockets, and paled further when she picked up the blank parchment and looked at them with her shern look. lI remember this.‘ She said to them, and even they Could hear the sadness behind those three words, as they carefully sat down in front ol her desk 'I remember four boys, who, like you, had trouble following rules, and even more trouble listening to teachers. I remember seeing one of them have this,’ she waved the map. ‘always in his hand. I remember once taking it oft him and asking it to reveal itself} She smiled taintly, her eyes shimmering. ’lt insulted me, then told me I ought to trust them to know what they were doing! ’Prolessor?’ Fred asked, his voice small- and part oi her was no surprise. THe amount of detentions she had given them, stem tellings off, and now this? ’They told me what it was on their last day of term. But by then, they thought it had been destroyed! She met the Twins eyes. 'Use it, boys, and use it well. The makers of that map were just like you- they liked to create trouble. They liked laughter. Heaven knows we will need laughter soon! She hadn’t mentioned it again- not for another two years, until she called them into her oliice once more. ‘How well do you know that map?’ She said in way oi greeting, and the 'Like the back ol our hands! THey replied. 'Good. There is someone who needs il more.” A pause where she - iFunny
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