After the twins also finished speaking with the Professor, no doubt about one of their pranks, and had arrived at the door Julius greeted them:
"Nice to meet you, I'm Julius Abraxus and I have a proposition for you two. If you are interested in a bit of help with your future plans, for a small compensation of course, I would like to talk to you about it while walking to our next lesson. It appears we have the joy of three shared lessons on one day despite the notoriously bad relationship between our houses. Now, would you at least hear me out?"
The twins had already shared a look when Julius arrived at the part with the compensation which apparently made any other consideration unnecessary, so they immediately nodded when he finished speaking and followed him out of the Charms classroom.
After leaving the classroom, Julius quickly explained to his friends why he was asked to wait and asked them to be patient for a bit longer while he talked with the two Gryffindors and, even though it resulted in a strange look by Lia, due to Julius promising them he would tell them everything afterwards and Habol apparently already having an idea about it she nodded with an annoyed expression on her face.
"So what is it that you needed to talk to us about?", asked, who was presumably Fred Weasley.
"As I said, I have a proposition for you two but I will need you to not ask how I know about it okay?", Julius waited until both of them had nodded before continuing,"I know of a special map of this castle, it encompasses all of Hogwarts and clearly shows all of the secret passages, even some that lead directly to Hogsmeade. I think you can see how that would very clearly benefit you two for the six years you will spend here and obviously not just sit still and learn well-behaved like your older brothers.
Now I can assure you that this map also has other useful features, but those are only usable while actually holding on to it and, as payment for my information about where to find the map and, even more importantly, how to use it, I will require you to leave it to me after copying down the secret passageways or whatever you want to. Does this sound like an attractive deal to you?"
It was immediately apparent to anyone that the twins could barely keep themselves from drooling at the thought of possibly having the ability to leave the castle grounds to get contraband items from Hogsmeade even before being old enough to even be able to go there.
Probably even just the promise of the secret passages inside the castle would have been enough to get the two of them to do anything for Julius to the point that his condition wouldn't even be an annoyance for them.
Lia and Habol couldn't keep themselves from swallowing after imagining what kind of mischief the twins would be able to cause after getting this knowledge.
But since the group had reached the court where the first flying class would be held after the twins had finished imagining what they could do with such a map Julius told them they could come to him after the lesson if they were interested and he would tell them about the location of the map and how to use it.
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The lesson passed rather uneventful besides a few muggleborn struggling to keep themselves on top of their broom and Julius and Lia having to stabilise Habol on both sides to keep him from doing exactly that, apparently he had never actually been on a broom despite wanting to play quidditch since the practice of riding on a broom wasn't exactly a traditional one everywhere outside of Europe.
But despite being originally troubled like that Habol learned quickly and at the end of the lesson he was already trying out a few of the more popular quidditch maneuvers, Julius had told him about or which he had learned of on his own, behind Professor Hooch's back which finally resulted in him crashing after trying a few particularly hard ones including a few spins and a small time frame to pull up before hitting the ground.
Luckily a safety net had been installed at the place where first years would learn how to fly so he did not hurt himself but he still got a warning from the Professor which Julius noticed to still be quite powerful despite not nearly reaching his previous targets (at least from the Professors).
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After the lesson the twins predictably immediately came towards Julius who was currently chatting about Quidditch with his friends, well, mostly Habol.
Julius asked his friends to wait for him in the common room where they had planned to do their transfiguration homework together before talking a bit more about quidditch before turning to the twins.
„Please follow me for a moment, I don't think we should discuss something this important somewhere with two people and I know an unused classroom we can talk undisturbed in."
Julius had found the classroom by chance and originally though about using it to train his magic before remembering the room of requirement existed.
Having arrived in the classroom and with Julius having placed a few easy wards on the door to keep anyone from listening in on their conversation he told them what they wanted to know.
Despite having known that it was a bit sketchy what he was doing for the whole time specifically now Julius got a bit embarrassed again when thinking about how he was currently robbing the twins of the marauders' map while making them think he was doing them a favour like some kind of scammer but he silently promised he would compensate them later on.
"Now I don't think you will really need my help with the rest but if you do, please tell me and I will try my best. Also if you want to use the map you will have to tap it with your map and say „I solemnly swear I am up to no good" and to disguise it as a parchment again you need to say „mischief managed". As soon as you've finished copying everything down you need please just give it to me a covertly as you can manage. I don't want Snape or some other Professor noticing a heavily charmed piece of parchment in my hand, especially not if they know it's from you two.
Any questions? No? Good, then I believe you will soon need to be in Filch's office and remember; it's the cabinet with the inscription „confiscated and highly dangerous". I wish you all the best."
After both parties nodded at each other they went their separate ways with the twins walking towards Filch's feared office and Julius towards the Slytherin common room where he would tackle the already huge mountain of homework they had been given, particularly by Professor McGonnagal and Snape.
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