■ Unfortunate Soul ■ Fred Weasley ■

Some sacrifices are for the best

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Gwen didn't say anything else and left the room. After making sure that no one was looking, she took out her wand, pointed it to the parchment and muttered the words.

The Gryffindor girl made her way to the fourth floor and closed the map when she arrived at the destination. Gwen stood right in front of a painting with a bunch of drunken men playing with cards.

The group was yelling so Gwen had to clear her throat to gain their attention. The men stopped singing the drinking song and turned to look at her.

"Go fish," Gwen said quietly and the portrait opened. Gwen had to light up her wand for her to see her surroundings. The room was big but it not to the extreme.

Gwen opened up the map again and tried to find out where the three boys were at. She saw them slowly coming her way. Gwen's eyes wandered all across all the map to pass the time.

She saw that Professor Lupin was in the Headmaster's office, so Gwen took it as that he would be able to teach the next day. She put it in her mental agenda to tell Angelina that there will be no need to finish her essay.

Gwen also saw Cedric's name, he was currently alone in the library. Her heart fluttered when she saw his name written down. Gwen shook the feeling. She didn't want to be one of those people whose whole world revolved around a guy.

Her thoughts were cut off when the painting hole opened again. The twins and Lee all entered and gave Gwen a dirty look. "I can tell that you're all are mad but to be fair it's eleven o'clock so it's not that early." They didn't give Gwen any response.

Fred groaned. "Okay, can you at least tell us the reason why you woke us up so we can go back to sleep." Gwen raised an eyebrow at him and quickly turned to look at the map.

"I think we should give the map to Harry," Gwen exclaimed.

"What?"

"NOOO!!"

"What are you insane, woman?"

Gwen had to shush all of them after hearing their very loud statements.

"Just let me explain myself. I'm saying we should give it to him because let's face the truth, he could have more use of it than us. As you know Harry blew up his aunt last summer-" Fred let out a snort which made Gwen give him a look. Fred immediately stopped and looked away from Gwen.

"Anyway, he blew up his aunt which led to his arsehole uncle to deny signing the Hogsmeade permission form. I think we should hand it to him so that he would be able to sneak into the village, with our guidance of course. And truth be told Harry could have had a bigger advantage in the years prior if he had the map with him. When he could have used the map as an aide during the missions he did to save us and the school, we used it to sneak around the castle and prank people instead."

"She's got a point," Lee stated. Gwen turned to look at Lee with shock. She had thought that it would have taken a lot longer than that.

"You can't be serious?" George questioned, he was astonished as well. Lee shrugged.

"Why not? Think of it as passing down our legacy, or more accurately their legacy." Lee said as he pointed towards the four names on the map.

"And we know this castle pretty well if I say so myself, we can survive without it," Lee added and smiled at Gwen who returned the gesture. "Well, I'm in as well," Fred said. "We can't argue with the boss, over here."

Gwen, Fred and Lee all looked at George and patiently waited for his answer. George sighed as he gave in and nodded his head.

"Fine, we'll give it to Harry before the Hogsmeade outing. That would give us an excuse to not buy him an actual present." Gwen punched the air and yelled yes which made all the boys shush her. Gwen quickly apologized.