Dumbledore and the Rat, Map

[snuffles]

No: HPFGUIDX 239

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "badgers' kin" <dorband at u...> wrote:
>  
> > We are told that Percy used to own Scabbers, right?  And Fred and 
> George had the map for ages.  On Lupin's desk, the map revealed 
> Peter's real name, not Scabbers.  Wouldn't F&G have noticed this 
> before, and knew something wasn't right?  I really don't think 
they'd 
>  let that mystery go without investigating?
> > 
> > Just a thought.
> > :)
> > Dee
> 
> 
> 
> 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...
> 
> ...I want to think that Gred and Forge no longer need this 
particular 
> Marauders' Map because they have developed a New and improved 
> Marauders' Map, which leaves this one as, more or less, a 
prototype,  
> In that way, they would no longer need it.  
> 
> 
> Hail Hufflepuff!!
> the Badgers' Kin

I think that what they had memorized is all the secret exits to 
Hogwarts. Maybe they didn;t relaise the significance of Peter, after 
all there must be 200+ ppl at Hogwarts, + house elves etc so maybe 
they didn;t really notice.

sorry to pour cold water on your they made a better one theory ....