Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide
J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)Sözler ve Alıntılar
The Marauder's Map is lasting testimony to the advanced magical ability of the four friends who included Harry Potter's father, godfather and favourite teacher.
Perhaps no students (even including Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Tom Riddle) have ever explored the castle and grounds of Hogwarts as thoroughly and illicitly as the four creators and contributors to the Marauder's Map: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.
Fred and George Weasley gave him something James Potter and his friends made when they were at school - the Marauder's Map. 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.'
...This raised interesting question of how many other fractional platforms lay between the whole-numbered platforms at King's Cross, and I concluded that there were probably quite a few.
The Great Lake
There are Grindylows (vicious little water damons), merpeople (of a hardy Scottish strain) and a giant squid, which is semi-domisticated and permits students to tickle its tentacles on sunny days, when it basks in the shallows.