Harry Potter Crafts #2 - The Marauder's Map

Presenting a handmade replica of The Marauder's Map, as used by Harry Potter since his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

I made this way back in 2014 - 15, though the idea was conceived even earlier.

Prior to this, I had made several other versions of the Marauder's Map, copying the map schematics from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban PC Game for one, and even scribbling my own floor plans for another version.

But none satisfied me as much as the original Marauder's Map would. I could order it off of the Noble Collection website, but I didn't have the money. I was only a student.

So I started scouring the web to see if anyone had bought this map from Noble Collection and had posted pictures of it.

Sure enough, people had posted pictures and videos all over the web. I watched these on loop, again and again, and copied the designs onto my map as best as I could.

Though I think it could be improved here and there, I was satisfied with the overall result, and most importantly, I had my own Marauder's Map!

It's well preserved inside a cardboard case that I also made myself, and I still take it out whenever I visit my hometown, running my eyes over it, fawning and drooling over it, then putting it back where it was with a sigh, wishing I could live seven years of my life inside this map.

Mischief Managed.

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