Marauder's Map/Riddle's diary

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4507

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> > 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.
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> 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.
> 
No, Lupin talks about it in PoA, page 355, as something they wrote 
after the four of them became Animagi and roamed Hogwarts. 


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> > 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?

Yes, he wrote the diary at age 16 to preserve himself in it so that 
someone could finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work.


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