Yet another Marauder's Map question

[Melanie Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 4614

I think we're thinking too much on the "Why didn't ____ see ____ on 
the Marauder's Map?" questions.  My take on it is that the 
information is there, but there is so much of it that the user will 
not see all of it.  Or at least it wouldn't register in his/her mind.

A muggle analogy would be looking somthing up in a dictionary.  The 
eyes normally scan the pages for a particular word, then read the 
information on that word.  However, that entry shares a page with 
anywhere from 20-50 others (depending on the size of the 
dictionary).  Sometimes, some of these other words will "jump out" at 
us (or at least at me), and we'll look up their definitions too, but 
most of those words go unnoticed (except in where they compare 
alphabetically with the one we're looking up).

Does that make sense?



SHENmagic at a... wrote:

> 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.


This indirectly brings another MM question to my mind:  Could there 
be more than one Marauder's Map?  I can easily picture SHENmagic's 
"positioning for a prank" scenario, but it would be much easier to 
accomplish if each marauder had his own map.  And for all we know, 
maybe they did (unless someone remembers a passage directly proving 
otherwise).  If so, I wonder what ever happened to the other three 
maps.

Just more food for thought.

Melanie