Marauder's Map problem

[rainy_lilac at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 17008

Have you ever played the computer game "Rogue"? It is very old, one of 
the first games to use graphics, albiet very primitive asci ones.

Basically you are presented with the map of a dungeon which you must 
find your way through. Whenever a room becomes relevent (ie: there is 
gold or some creature you must battle) or if you are simply heading 
toward the room, it appears. Rooms disappear "off the side of the 
page" as you work through them. When you want to look at other rooms, 
you click in their general direction. And yes it is possible to move 
up or down a level.

I imagine the map as being somewhat like this.

--Suzanne



--- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> A quibble re: the Marauder's Map, and I think that the answer which 
> will probably come back is "suspend your disbelief!"
> Is the map 3D.  I find it hard to visulise how the whole of 
Hogwarts, 
> floor by floor, tower by tower etc can be reproduced on a Map unless 
> it is three dimensional or comprises of many different plans.
> Has this been covered before or am I the only one so analy 
retentive?
> Catherine
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Bugg" <bugganeer at y...> wrote:
> > The Marauder's Map may be showing what is relevant to the area or 
> > situation. Wormtail new it did not show the inside of Hagrids hut 
> so 
> > he hid there. It insulted Snape when he tried to activate it. 
> > Interesting theory about movement, Scabbers [wormtail] was moving 
> > along with Ron when he was being dragged. 
> > 
> > Bugg -- also from Ravenclaw 
> > 
> > 
> > meboriqua at a... wrote:
> > > This definitely has come up before, and I thought that perhaps 
> the 
> > map doesn't show every corner in the castle every time one looks 
at 
> > it.  I like your theory about what is moving is shown on the map, 
> but 
> > I also think that the map doesn't always show each and every 
thing. 
> > Harry also does not look for every single person, creature or 
ghost 
> > when he uses the map!
> > --jenny from ravenclaw************************************* 
> > 
> > kel4 wrote: 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > heidit wrote: 
> > 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.