{7th Floor Corridor, Hogwarts}
{6th Sep 1991}
{3rd Person POV}
"I'll invest 1000 Galleons in you two, we'll each get 33.33% of the business you create. I'll just be the silent investor, never interfering in your business," Rigel reclarified. His words finally had so effect as George finally turned to face Rigel once again.
George was carefully observing Rigel, he was doubtful that Rigel was telling the truth about his parents being a part of the original Marauders, from the rumor mill he had heard that the younger Black was the son of Regulus Black, although the accuracy of that statent was not verified it did bring up so doubts in his mind. Still, the younger boy knew about the map and since it was not their property anyway, he didn't mind selling it to him earlier.
The fact that Jas Potter was part of the Marauders was the main reason for his change in attitude. If what Rigel was saying was true, and he did believe the boy as the four Gryffindors had a rather notorious reputation, then he can't sell sothing that belonged to Harry for their own benefit.
He was angry at himself knowing that they had fucked it up, but since they already gave the map to Rigel the only way to get it back would be through violence or blackmail. Rigel was a lot different than other first years from what he could see, he had a confidence look in his eyes so he had to assu that taking the map now would be difficult. And with the amount of knowledge he had about the map, he was pretty sure that he had at least so claim over the magical artifact.
'We would just have to tell Harry about the map after making sure that the clock that Rigel talked about is real...'
The offer was lucrative though, a 1000 Galleons would allow them to achieve everything that they want. Still, does he... they want to go into business with Rigel, soone who just lied and deceived them monts ago?
'I don't think it is a good idea to agree to any terms without a contract.' George thought.
"We need a magical contract..." George demanded straight away, sothing solid that couldn't be ignored. He didn't trust the kid but the way Rigel took a sigh of relief it seed like he didn't either.
'This is going to be interesting...'
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Rigel took a sigh of relief and nodded, at least their denial of gold wasn't related to any prejudice. He nodded easily, agreeing to their request, "Alright, but I don't know any good lawyers. Do you have any recomndations?"
His question seed to have caught them off guard a little, but after a mont Fred suggested, "We could go for the Tonks? They have a good reputation and their daughter is in 6th year hufflepuff..."
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'Nymphodora...' Rigel realized. He had totally forgotten about the only other tamorphmagus in Hogwarts since she was introduced quite late into the story. Rigel's thoughts wandered for a bit before he nodded, they could move forward this way since he was not in a hurry, the twins needed ti to make their products anyway.
"Alright, you can talk to the Tonks, if I have read my family tree right then then Androda Tonks was forrly Androda Black, she could represent and her husband could represent you. You can draw out a basic contract and then we can et for further negotiations." Rigel offered. Fred and George shared a look before George nodded.
Rigel was beginning to understand the dynamics of the twins, while no one was able to differentiate between them so most likely no one should be aware that George was the one who liked to take charge. At least on the surface, who knew how their relationship actually was?
'But then again no one can see their nas floating above their head... They are surprisingly high leveled for third years...' Rigel noted as Fred and George walked out of the room.
[Fred Weasley Lv 20]
[George Weasley Lv 19]
As the two nas disappeared from his vision, Rigel pointed his wand at the door again and cast, "Colloportus~"
The door glowed a soft pink to his senses signifying that the spell had taken effect and Rigel then focused on the map in his hands.
"I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good!" Rigel exclaid as he touched his wand at the map, a sense of excitent and wonder bubbled from inside of him as he watched dark ink slowly beco visible on the piece of parchnt.
'''ssrs Moony Wormtail Padfoot and Prongs are proud to present the Marauders Map...'''
The parchnt was folded like a wedding card, when he opened the map further by pulling it, he was overwheld with the amount of nas that were on the piece of paper. Hogwarts was enormous and only by looking at the nurous nas and their footsteps, Rigel felt a little lost.
There were 7 main floors in the castle, plus 4 towers that extended the floors a little more, there were also the Dungeons, Kitchens, and hidden rooms like the Room of Requirent and the Chamber of Secrets. He pulled the map open completely and placed it on the table, contrary to what was shown in the series, the map was far larger than he was expecting.
When he completely laid it flat on the table, it took almost all surface area. Still, he reasoned that it was necessary as the Marauders wouldn't have been able to cramp up the information in a single parchnt. Each floor of the castle had its own map with the Dungeons having their own section and so did the 4 towers.
The map moved every second as not only did the tracked footsteps change but so did the stairs and different connections and hidden passageways. He was looking through everything, and the question of how the Marauders created this living breathing map once again sprung to his mind.
'There is no way they managed to explore every corner and every shortcut or hidden passageway, rembered everything, and then sohow managed to figure out the secrets to so many things...' Rigel thought. The canon did explain that because of Moony's problem, the 4 friends did explore the castle a lot, but the scale of the map that was in front of him was a little too large.
After pondering over this mystery for a bit, Rigel shook his head and then he focused on the Gryffindor tower. The Tower was one of the most detailed sections and after a couple of seconds, Rigel easily found the na in the 1st year Dormitory.
{Peter Pettigrew}
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AN - Plan rat catcher is a go... I need a better na for the plan, don't I?
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