Challenging presents (Or: The Marauder's Map from The Noble Collection)

(If you came across this blog post after a Google search and you need help with this puzzle, skip to the end of this post.) Marco gave me a puzzle for Christmas—it might have been Christmas 2021, even!—that has proven challenging to say the least. I worked on it for months, off and on. This…

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