Animals on Marauder's Map (Was: Mrs Norris: A Character Study)

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 1078

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Bates" <spicoli323 at h...> 
wrote:
> <As for rats and cockroaches hiding inside the walls, I imagine 
that 
> only animals who have been given names by people appear on the map.>
> 
> If that is true, it might help explain why the Weasley twins never 
> noticed "Peter Pettigrew" on the map.  Peter had been 
> named "Scabbers" as a rat, and that is as valid a name as "Peter 
> Pettigrew" in my mind.  So when he was in rat form he might appear 
> as "Scabbers".  Sirius and Rita Skeeter, on the other hand, never 
got 
> named as animals, so the map would just revert to their human names 
> even while they were in animal form.

Except that the whole reason why Lupin follows Harry, Hermione, Ron 
and Sirius to the shrieking shack (in PoA) is because he notices the 
name Peter Pettigrew on the Marauders Map.  Pettigrew is still in rat 
form at that point, so the map obviously does not say Scabbers, at 
least when Lupin is looking at it.  I suppose it is possible that 
when OTHER people (ones who are acquainted with only Scabbers the rat 
and not Pettigrew the man) look at the map it says Scabbers, but this 
seems unlikely.