Walking Dead Wizard

Chapter 28

Harry and Luna woke earlier than everyone else and quickly snuck out; Luna had the map from Hermione clutched in her hands. It would have been easier to read the map actually on something, like Daryl's truck but unfortunately it wasn't possible, putting the engine on would just wake everyone up. Instead both of them knelt down on the gravel, grimacing at is dug into their kneecaps. Harry removed his bag, putting it to the side and unfurling the map Hermione had made specifically for them. The normal map went above it, sighing as they looked at it pensively.

"Oh, she's good." Harry murmured, utterly impressed, little black dots were they sat blinked at them with their names. "It's sort of like the Marauders maps isn't it?"

"I think that's where she got the idea," Luna admitted, "She probably duplicated one herself and knows exactly where we are."

"Alright, let's see what we find on this map," Harry said, getting a proper look at it, sliding his finger along and the magic caused it to go along with it.

"Even with this it might not show us somewhere we can go," Luna commented, tapping the map to get a road view of the area.

"Yeah, that's what I'm worried about," Harry admitted, he wasn't just responsible for Luna but a group of Muggles, he couldn't just fly them somewhere safe they were going to have to do this the long and arduous way. Hearing faint noises coming from within the container he quickly began rolling the map up only to sigh in relief when the Dixons and Anubis came out. Harry silently gestured for them to close the shutter down again.

"We should be able to find something though," Harry said, "Even if it's not what we would hope for. It's too bad it's not more like the marauders map, you know, showing us where the walkers are."

"The what map?" Merle asked lips twitching as he stood looming over them.

"My dad and his friends made a map at school, like this, see," Harry showed them how it worked for a few seconds. "Only that one showed you were everyone was, they called it the Marauders map, after the name of their group."

"We're hoping to find somewhere before anyone wakes up," Luna added, her brow furrowed as she absently moved the map along, but it was mostly farms that were no good to them.

"Which doesn't seem like it will happen, we might even have to leave Atlanta altogether to find something...I'm not sure that will be possible." Harry admitted any road out of Atlanta was probably road blocked to the maximum.

The four of them poured over the maps, coming up with suggestions, from churches to quite secluded cabins near mountains. All of them inevitably nixed due to the fact it just wasn't safe enough, and there really wasn't enough room for everyone either but that was merely pointed out as an afterthought. The few gated communities were circled on the normal map, as a potential place to go.

"No point to going too far though," Harry cautioned, seeing them spreading further out "Not unless we know we'll have the gas we need to get to wherever it is we want to go."

"Good point," Luna stated as both the Dixon brothers grunted affirmative.

"That factory might be a good place to stop for the night, providing we get lucky," Harry pointed out; the Dixons looked where they were before circling the area with the normal map.

"What are your prisons like?" Luna asked suddenly much to the surprise of the boys. "I mean in terms of security and things..." seeing the look of insults the Dixons wore for different reasons she'd bet. Daryl looked more annoyed that he'd be thought to have gone to prison and Merle it seemed was more insulted as if her insinuation had hurt him...but that was ridiculous of course.