Twins and the Map (was: Dumbledore and the Rat, Map

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 177

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "badgers' kin" <dorband at u...> wrote:

Are you the badgerskin whom I was wondering whether was badger's kin 
or badger skin?

> This reminds me that I have always been somewhat confused about the 
> way that Gred and Forge passed the map to Harry, saying that they
> "had memorized it already" and that it wouldn't be much good to 
> them anymore (paraphrasing).  Knowing the nature of the map, there
> really is nothing to memorize, exactly, and its function is to show
> the "here and now" so it would never become obsolete...

They had already memorized all the secret passages with their 
passwords, and the Map didn't tell passwords unknown to its makers 
such as the constantly changing passwords for Gryffindor tower 
(h'mmm. Could it have told Harry the constantly changing password to 
Dumbledore's apartment, based on Lupin knowing it as a faculty 
member?), and they were generously willing to forego the "where 
everyone is right now" feature for Harry's sake, or because they 
weren't interested in it except for checking that their path is 
clear, which they could do with Muggle spy techniques or their own 
Detection spells.