The Marauders Map (Re: Viewing the Tri Wizard challenges (long))

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 2356

Speaking of the map, what happened to it? Did Harry get it back? Or 
is it safely in Dumbledore's office. 

-Milz

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, foxmoth at q... wrote:
> Well, the problem seems to be, if people could see inside the maze, 
why 
> didn't they know Harry was missing, or that Krum had used an 
illegal 
> curse. And if they couldn't see inside the maze why in heck would 
they 
> be out there watching? Of course we could just say it's poor 
plotting, 
> but where's the fun in that? It could work like this.
> 	Hagrid, McGonagall, Moody and Flitwick patrol outside  the 
maze. 
> ch. 31  p. 620
> Moody uses his magical eye  (and probably the marauders map) to 
track 
> the champions and make sure Harry reaches the cup first.  ch. 35 p. 
627
> There is a one hundred yard sightline to the Triwizard cup ch. 31, 
p. 
> 631 
> (Presumably the judges and the people in the stands can see what is 
> happening to it.)
>  Ludo is doing commentary, which no one inside the maze can hear. 
ch. 
> 31, p.621
> Cedric sends up sparks to get help for Krum. ch. 31 p.  627
> Now to speculate:
> when the sparks fly,
> Moody and the other patrollers enter the maze. They discover that  
> Fleur and Krum have been attacked, evidently by Harry and/or 
Cedric. 
> The attacks themselves were concealed by the hedges.  The 
patrollers 
> notify the judges, decoying Dumbledore, Maxime and Karkaroff away 
from 
> the judges box, leaving Fudge and Bagman on their own.
> 	Then Moody slips away on some pretext, puts on the 
invisibility 
> cloak and sneaks out of the maze, still monitoring Harry's progress 
> with the map. When Harry and Cedric vanish,  Moody puts the 
confundus 
> curse on  Fudge and Bagman to keep them  from realizing that 
anything 
> is amiss. Ludo's commentary  to the crowd accounts for Harry and 
> Cedric's absence. ("They'll be joining us here shortly.")
> 	When the  resurrected Voldemort summons the death eaters, 
> Karkaroff, Moody, and Snape all feel the dark mark burn.  Snape 
rushes 
> to find  Dumbledore and report. At that point Dumbledore realizes 
that 
> the dragon dung has seriously hit the windmill, but he does not yet 
> know that Harry is missing.
> 	Dumbledore's first move is, as it has been in the past, to 
> evacuate the students. As he  returns to the judges' box to arrange 
> this,  Karkaroff makes his escape. Madame Maxime sees to  Fleur and 
her 
> other students.  Moody, watching on the map, takes  the confundus 
curse 
> off Fudge and Bagman just before Dumbledor arrives. Moody then 
> reappears and calmly awaits developments, expecting no doubt the 
> imminent arrival of Lord V. and the DEs (could be a good band 
name). 
> Just as Fudge, Dumbledore and Bagman come to the horrified 
realization 
> that Harry and Cedric are missing, Harry and Cedric return. JKR 
takes 
> it from there.
> Please feel free to pick holes in this!
> 	Pippin, who has spent way too much time working this out.