Selene POV

The celebration in the Gryffindor common room was out of this world, and we all had Harry to thank, I sit with George by the fireplace happily snuggled into his side with his arm around my shoulders,

"I cannot believe we won" he says, I smile at this happily, hearing more toasts to Harry in the background, I look over to my right to see Harry with Ron and Hermione,

"I can't believe you caught the snitch in your mouth" I say looking at him, he blushes in response seeing Hermione and Ron laughing in response, hearing George laughing as well,

"I didn't plan to catch it that way" he says, I smirk at him for this,

"Still, I thought the way you were almost boarding your broom like a skate board or something was pretty cool, not seen anything like that before" I say, he grins at that, don't blame him he should be proud considering.

"Hey Harry, enjoying the party?" Fred asks who sits beside me,

"Yeah I am, its great" he says, I smile at that and snuggle back into George, feeling his arm squeeze me,

"You and Ron ready for your end of year exams?" I ask, I know it's a dreaded question but it's something everyone is worrying about come beginning of the week.

"I think so, Ron I think is worried more but we're going to try and study in library this weekend to go over some things, Hermione said she would come too" he says, I nod at that, it's great to see the three of them have become such good friends,

"I could do with doing some revision for our exams, I might see you in the library too" I say, leaning back more in George's side,

"Like you need to worry, your one of the smartest ones in our year, you'll get Outstanding's without a problem" Fred says, I smirk at that,

"What are the grading systems?" Harry asks, I look to him in answer,

"Outstanding is like an A+ then there's Acceptable which is basically a B, then there's Exceeds Expectations – a C these are all passes, but then there's Poor, Dreadful and Troll, those are all fails" I explain to him, he nods in understanding,

"I'm sure you'll be fine Harry really, just revise your notes and if you're not sure about anything ask your professor, they're always happy to help" I say offering him an encouraging smile, a lot of first years are terrified of asking teachers questions but when it comes down to it the professors love what they do, so if anyone asks them more questions about the subject they're always happy to help. I've often had great conversations with professor Flitwick and with Professor Burbage about muggle studies, she's always so fascinated with the things I tell her about muggles.

"Hey, I heard your mum moved down to the dungeons, is she ok? A lot of people have been talking" says Fred, I frown at this, I knew mum had moved, she told me before she did and I didn't see it being a problem,

"What are people saying?" I ask, curious to know,

"Some people…think that your mum and professor Snape are…close like getting closer" says Fred, and I swear my eyes widened more than they should have, my mum and professor Snape? No way!

"No way! they're great friends I'm sure they don't see each other in that way" I say, not sure if I'm telling this to Fred or to myself,

"Nah I don't think so, they look comfortable working together and you can see they're just friends" George says behind me, I nod at this trying to convince myself that this is true, I doubt it's the other thing, she would have told me…right?

"I'm seeing her tomorrow anyway, maybe…I'll ask her?" I say looing to the boys in question, Harry having already moved to go and sit with Ron and Neville Longbottom.

"Do whatever, it doesn't matter, you know what some kids are like they'll come up with all kinds of rumours" Fred says, I grab a pillow and whack him with it,

"Why did you have to put this idea in my head, I'm not going to be able to sleep now" I say frustrated, I seriously doubt that I will sleep with these questions in my head, and I can't go and speak to mum because its after hours.

"Well…we may know a way to get you down there without being detected" George says, I look to him to see he's looking at Fred, I look at them both in question, seeing that they are having one of those unspoken conversations,

"Guys?" I ask, not sure which one to look after, they both suddenly smile at me and Fred gets up and goes towards the staircase,

"Ok, so we've got a little secret" says George, I turn so I'm fully facing him to listen,

"No-one else knows about this and it needs to stay secret. So in first year Fred and I got caught by Filch for doing a harmless prank –"

"Was that where you blew up that toilet to try and get the seat to Ginny?" I ask with a smirk, remembering them both getting into trouble from that, and getting a howler from mum.

"Yes that was that Magnificent prank – anyway we were in his office waiting for him, and we decided to have a little nosey around, that's when we came across this bare parchment, but it looked important, it was in Filch's desk but it looked old whereas all his other parchments were newer so he wasn't only keeping old parchment to write on. So we took it, and then after trying to figure it out…well we're not sure what we did, personally I think it heard us talking about some pranks and I swear it heard us and there was writing asking us why we wanted to know its secrets, we told it that we were curious and we told it about our prank that got us into Filch's office and that's when it told us about what it could do and how to access it" he says, I swear he just talked a mile a minute I'm trying to catch up with what he is saying.

"So, this parchment…talked to you?" I ask, confused beyond belief, I see Fred coming down the stairs motioning us to come over to him, I follow George and we end up sitting in one of the small corners out of peeping ears and eyes, I hear George mutter a silencing charm too, his must be serious.

On the table in front of us, Fred reveals some folded parchment, it does certainly look old,

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" Fred says with his wand and taps the parchment, and before my eyes, there is ink revealed, writing and a strange pattern on it, I tilt my head to get a better angle of the words,

"Messers Moony, wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are proud to present the marauders map" I read, I look up to them curious, they motion me to open it, and that's what I do, carefully unfolding the parchment and I cant believe what I am seeing.

The map isn't just any normal map, it's a moving map with peoples names on it, I look at it for a few minutes reading the names and the names of the places and room before I realise something,

"This is a map of Hogwarts?" I ask, looking up at them in surprise,

"Indeed it is love, this map shows us where everyone is in this case at every minute of every day. It's how we have been able to avoid professors and filch from finding us after a prank or from getting in trouble for being out late or getting back into the castle when the doors are shut, this map shows hidden passage ways, passwords for ones that need them, this…is the secret to our success" George says, I look down at the map in amazement, opening it up a little more, after a minute I find our common room and see three of us there together in this corner,

"This is amazing. Who are the people it mentions? Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs?" I ask curious, these people sound like genius' if they really made this map,

"No idea, we tried looking them up but there isn't any record of those names in the records, we think they were nicknames, to hide their true identity" Fred says, I nod in understanding, very clever.

"And this is how we can get you down to see your mum without getting into trouble" George says, I look up at that, then back down at the map, carefully opening it up a little to find the dungeons, finally finding my mum, in the classroom with uncle Severus, I frown at this, they're not next to each other but…"

"Ok, let's go" I say looking up at them, my decision made. They nod in agreement and we make our way to the portrait door and leave through it, thankfully most of our house is still celebrating the match's victory to notice us slipping out.

We take a few turns, being as silent as possible, George keeps a look out on the map for where we are and where there are any professors around near us to avoid, a couple of times we had to hide behind a tapestry or a statue but otherwise we haven't been seen, this is truly amazing.

"I cannot believe you two have been holding out on me on this, the fun I have been missing out on" I mutter, knowing they have heard me,

"We wanted to tell you love, but we weren't sure how you would react to us stealing and in fairness we were a little sceptic thinking it could be a dark object or something, Fred thought it was going to eat our souls after letting us use it for so long but considering how long it's been now its highly doubtful, and we've been using a lot of detection charms on it to be safe too" George explains, taking my hand in mine, I know he's guilty for not telling me, I can tell the way he told me their reasons, they were trying to protect me.

"Well you better not leave me out anymore, there have been plenty of times when I have been craving for chocolate frogs and there's a secret tunnel into Honeydukes cellar" I say smirking at them,

"Where do you think I got the ones I brought you from?" he says, I cover my laugh with my hand not wanting to get us caught.

"We're here" Fred whispers, I look in front of us not noticing that we had arrived outside mum and uncle Severus' classroom. I can hear them talking inside too, I poke my eye through the gap to see them sitting in front of one another, mum looks stressed, maybe because of the upcoming exams?

"What are we going to do Severus, he's here and the way he has been looking at me, watching me…I'm scared, I'm terrified of being alone with him. And I'm scared for Selene, what if he tries to be alone with her again, what if he tries to take my baby away from me?!" she cries, I want to go in and comfort her but uncle brings her into his arms, letting her cry on his shoulder,

"It wont happen, I'm almost certain of his plans, and I know how to foil them, I just need to watch and see when he will try to take the stone, then I can stop him" he says, mum leaning away a little at this,

"And what about Selene? I keep thinking I should tell her, but I don't want to scare her, it could trigger her powers and he can't know, he can't know that she has them, he'll want her even more. And lord only know what he will make her do. We must tell Dumbledore, he's the only one Voldermort fears" she says, I freeze at this, what?

"We will, I will go to him soon, once the exams are over, we can't risk him trying to harm the children before the exams, whilst they are on he will be too busy to try to attempt stealing the stone, once the exams are over that will be when he will try to strike, this way we can have Dumbledore see him try and see that we are right and put a stop to him. Until then i am certain that Selene will be safe, she has your protection on her amulet which she never takes off and she is always with the twins, she is never alone" uncle says.

I can't move, I'm not even sure I am even breathing…my father is alive, and in the school? How is this possible?

All I remember after thinking that is darkness covering my vision.

Authors note:

Hello everyone I'm so sorry its been years since I last updated, as you may see in some of my other stories that I am trying to update I have had a lot going on and have not had much free time to update or have the mind set to do many. But I am trying to get on with a few at start and where possible I will try to get on with others.

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