Marauder's map

[brooksindy]

Original Yahoo! HPFG Header:
No: HPFGUIDX C6295
From: brooksindy
Subject: Re: Marauder's map
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6293] Re: Marauder's map/HP connection to worm
Date: 8/8/00 6:10 pm  (ET)

The Weasley twins may not have needed to figure out how to work the
Marauder's Map - it may have been left 'turned on' - IIRC there is
nothing in the description of their finding it that contradicts that -
and thus it was still 'on' when they first snitched it. Then, probably
needing only a fairly simple bit of 'spelling' and communicating with it,
they could have been given the full operating instructions, like how to
turn it dormant. Filch may have just never got around to telling anyone
else, in the midst of all the goings on in the HP books, about knowing
the full capability of it - for one thing not wanting to admit he'd
actually had something lifted from his office.