Tentative solution to Marauder's Map problem

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No: HPFGUIDX 16898

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., kel4 at c... wrote:
> 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?
> 
"The tiny dot labeled Severus Snape was now back in its office" P. 
277, US edition. 
And on page 193, again of the US edition, it shows Harry standing 
next to the humpbacked witch; he's not moving. It also shows him 
tapping it and saying Dissendium, even though he hasn't done either 
of those things. 

Suzanne wrote:
> I too have mulled about why he would not see two Harrys, etc. 
> If Harry 
> were just witnessing the past with no power to change things (ala 
the 
> pensieve) it would make sense. Maybe the map only shows people who 
> properly belong to THIS time? In which case I see a major 
opportunity 
> for plot twists. I suspect thought that this was an oversight.

Lupin says on page 347 that he thought the map was "malfunctioning" - 
that may be because he saw 2 harrys and 2 hermiones. Of course, it's 
possible that they were *off map* when they were hiding on the edge 
of the forbidden forrest, as they might have been when Lupin looked 
at the map.