[HPforGrownups] Marauder's Map/Riddle's diary

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4471

Susan McGee wrote:

> I DO think it's a major faux pax/gap in the story that no one
> noticed that Ron was carrying around someone named Peter Pettigrew
> all the time or that PP was in the dormitory...

Well, it's a weak defense, but I think Ron doesn't carry him around during
the times the map is being used by someone who'd know the name, and also I
don't think anyone would use it to check their home dorm.

> Also, the construction of the Marauder's Map must have been
> an incredible piece of magic for young wizard's...James Potter,
> et aliae must have been brilliant.....not only do they become
> animagi, but they construct this map, AND James would have been
> "disappointed" had Harry not snuck out of the castle.

But was the map created while they were still at Hogwarts? If it was, they
were senior students. I'm not denigrating their brilliance; they did become
Animagi, too, but they could easily have made the map after they graduated.

> I really hope she does a prequel..

Me, too. But hope is dim, right now, since she said she'd be through with
this world.

> And then the construction of Riddle's diary..another major piece
> of magic which lends itself to all kinds of speculation..

Did he say when he made the diary, either?

> while he was "awake" in CoS, could he communicate with Lucius Malfoy?
> BTW, when first I read the books CoS was my least favorite, but
> now I find myself returning to it more and more....

Me, too; I'm rereading it to see if I can get my nagging little problems
resolved.

--Amanda