animals on marauder's map

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 1079

> --- 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.

And Sirius was named as an animal (or some of us think - Snuffles 
couldn't've come from nowhere: )
The reason I thought that no other animals were "mapped" is because 
Lupin said (and I don't have book 3 with me so it's paraphrase) that 
he saw Sirius drag "two of you" under the willow, and then saw "the 
other two" follow (i.e. Harry & Hermione, not Harry, Hermione & 
Crookshanks, because that would be three).
Also, I agree that it's unlikely that when you look at the map you 
see people for who you think them to be (i.e. if you know scabbers 
the rat & not peter the man, you see "scabbers") because if that was 
the case, Harry would've seen "Moody" and not "Crouch" on the map 
that fateful Night of the Egg.