[HPforGrownups] Re: Marauder's Map problem

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 17027

> > -- Denise R <gypsycaine at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > How about one more step in this direction?  They only appear to
> > > other "Marauders?"  Hence, Pettigrew, Lupin or Sirius would not
> > > appear to Snape, but if Lupin had the map, he'd instantly know
> > > Pettigrew or Sirius were about!
> >
> > In PoA, Snape went charging out the castle door to the Whomping
> > Willow because he saw the Map on Lupin's desk.  If he 
> > couldn't see Sirius or
> > Lupin, why did he go after H, H & R?
> 
> It's been a while since I read this. Suggestions--

> 3. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, irritating though they are, could be
> walking into the same situation he was almost in, confronting a
> full-grown werewolf.
> 4. He pretty clearly believed that Lupin was helping Sirius, and in
> addition to saving the three kids and teaching them a bit of
> humility and gratitude when he pulled their fat out of the fire, he

> might be able to catch the dangerous murderer, too, *and* show 
> Dumbledore that *he*
> had been right about Lupin all along!


In other words, Sirius and Lupin would be visible on the map to
Snape.  In fact, I think he actually says he saw them on the map. 
Don't have PoA with me (it's back at the library).

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