Scabbers

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 4465


> Caius Marcius wrote:
> 
> > Now surely, as one of the authors of the Marauders' Map, Peter 
would
> > have
> > known what precautions to take to prevent his name from showing 
up on
> > the
> > Map.
> 
> But, Lupin found him on it.  Are you suggesting that he (Scabbers) 
just
> "slipped up" when Lupin spied him on the Map in PoA?  Lupin also 
says
> that the "Map never lies."  I don't know that Pettigrew could have
> prevented himself from showing up on it.

I think it's entirely logical that they can "remove" themselves from 
the map, but my guess is that it has to be done intentionally and it 
has to be maintained. At what point would Scabbers/Peter have 
realized that Harry had the map and started removing himself from it? 
Once he did, though, it would be one more thing to keep track of and 
as things got frantic toward the end and he was being dragged along 
with Ron into the passage, his panic may have made him drop it. 
Either that or he might have figured it didn't matter right then 
because he didn't know that anyone had the map other than Harry.

It sure seems to me that the creators of the map would have made it 
possible for they themselves to NOT be seen by it.

Steve Vander Ark
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