Chapter 207: This Is the Right Granted to Us by Humanity's Oldest Code, Professor Dumbledore
When Sirius and his father were students, they worked together to create a special map.
The names of all living beings with names and a certain degree of life-like presence appeared on the map, along with their exact locations and movements.
Whether it was a powerful wizard like Professor Dumbledore, a ghost like Peeves, or an ordinary animal like Mrs. Norris, none could avoid being marked by the map.
To ensure their legacy of mischief would live on, Sirius and the others had deliberately let Filch confiscate the map before they graduated.
And to catch Peter Pettigrew, Professor Lupin had gone to Filch to ask for the map.
Unfortunately, Filch had somehow lost it. He hadn't even realized until Professor Lupin asked for it.
At the time, Professor Lupin had mentioned this to Sirius:
"Filch had clearly put the Marauder's Map in the cabinet marked 'Confiscated and Highly Dangerous' back then."
The cabinet Professor Lupin had been talking about was probably the one in front of Harley.
Taking all the information together, Harley could be fairly certain that the short man was Peter Pettigrew.
Harley moved over and opened the one surviving drawer.
Inside were neatly arranged stacks of files documenting the illustrious deeds of generations of students.
Harley also found a letter among them. The envelope read, "Quick Spells: A Correspondence Course for Beginners."
Harley suddenly understood. No wonder Filch, a Squib, had a wand. He'd signed up for this course.
These quick-spell courses for Squibs were practically scams, and they usually gave their suckers a wand.
But those wands were made by wandmakers whose products wouldn't sell even in a normal shop, and their quality was absolutely awful.
"The wand may not be