Tentative solution to Marauder's Map problem

[kel4 at columbia.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 16889

I thought of this potential solution as well, but there is a scene 
when Harry is coming back from Hogsmeade and checks the map to see 
where Snape is, and he is "in his office" or something like that and I 
don't think it implied he was moving.  But, I don't have the book with 
me at the moment and can't check -- anyone?

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., naama_gat at h... wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While reading PoA, I remebered that there were quite a lot of 
> questions regarding why such and such person was not viewed on the 
> map (why didn't Lupin see the second Harry and Hermione, why didn't 
> Fred and George and then Harry see Peter Pettigrew? etc.). 
> Well, I had what seemed to me like a brilliant idea, but I haven't 
> checked it against all possible evidence: I think that the map only 
> shows people/creatures that are moving. I thought of that when Harry 
> looked at the map for the first time - it showed Dumbledore *pacing* 
> in his room, Mrs. Norris walking somewhere, etc. 
> If this is true, then the map didn't show the second Harry and 
> Hermione because they were sitting under the trees, they weren't 
> moving about. Also Pettigrew - it's quite reasonble to suppose that 
> all the times the map was used, he wasn't moving (Ron did say all he 
> did was sleep and eat, right?). 
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Naama