Since Harry had seen through the eyes of whatever had attacked Mr. Weasley in his dream, he had been unable to see what the attacker actually was. Their discussion of whether it was the Demon Serpent at Voldemort's side could therefore go no further.
Even though Harry and the others thought there was already a seventy or eighty percent chance that it was.
Soon, however, Harry set those thoughts aside for the time being, because he had an appointment to keep, one he had previously arranged with Dumbledore. He hoped to learn a few things from him.
After lunch, Harry arrived at the Headmaster's Office, only to find himself at a loss. Although he had arranged to meet Dumbledore, they had not agreed on a specific time, and now he did not know the password to Dumbledore's office.
Just as he was agonizing over what to do, the stone guardian actually turned of its own accord, revealing the spiral staircase inside. Dumbledore's voice came from above. "Come up, Harry."
Dumbledore really was amazing. He even knew I was here?
Harry was rather surprised, but his thoughts soon turned to the possibility that Dumbledore also had something like the Marauder's Map. That was quite likely! But that brought up another question Harry had been curious about for a long time.
How had his dad and the others made something as advanced as the Marauder's Map?
After all, when his dad, Sirius, and Professor Lupin had made it, they had still been students, perhaps even around the same age as Harry and his friends were now.
Yet even now, neither he nor Ron, nor even the Twins, who were already in their seventh year, had the slightest idea how to make anything similar.
The Twins had already made a whole heap of