Pettigrew/Scabbers & Marauders' Map

[SHENmagic at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 4527


In Message: 17 Digest Number 207 dated 10/23/00 9:59:46 AM,  Penny  
Linsenmayer <pennylin at swbell.net writes:


>Subject: Re: Scabbers

>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.

>Penny
It makes sense that when the Map was created, it was spelled so that none of 
the Marauders were invisible /non-show to each other. They would want to be 
able to see where each one of them was, in case they were positioning for a 
prank, or in need of a rescue. Since the Map was spelled to go blank 
("Mischief managed"), I will also venture that they anticipated it might be 
seen or "captured" by non-marauder eyes and perhaps it was also spelled that 
non - Marauder eyes would NOT see any of the Marauders. 
Alternately, it's possible Fred & George did not notice that "Peter 
Pettigrew" was hanging around near Percy (whom I suspect did not take him out 
of the dorm), or they may not have checked the dorms when they were 
consulting the map; most of their mischief probably took place outside 
Griffindor. Harry had the map a relatively short time, perhaps he, too, only 
checked outside the Griffindor house, or along the routes he was planning to 
take when he consulted it.



Aylihael (who did one heck of a cut and paste at the beginning of this 
message)

“ We are the ones who chase pixies,
Run with the unicorns, Dance with the faeries,
Sing with the sirens, Soar with the phoenixes,
And swim with the mermaids.
We are the ones who  believe in the Unbelievable.
We are the ones who dare to dream.”
~author unknown