Apologies - M.Map - V's rise to power

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 23559

I would like to humbly suggest that we all stop apologizing in advance for 
our posts.  At this point I think the this-list-is-unfriendly snowball is 
just picking up snow from posts that, with all good intentions, anticipate 
trouble.

Gwendolyn Grace wrote:

>I'm interested to know which spells were powerful enough to allow the map 
>to
>recognize students who were not enrolled during any part of MWPP's tenure 
>as
>students.

Or even born yet.  This is the way the Map is *not* like a computer.  It 
doesn't "remember" Harry Potter; no one "programmed in" his name; he didn't 
exist yet when the map was created.  It has the ability to recognize people 
and know their names.  A simple matter for a magical object, I should think.

>I truly, deeply believe that Severus is going back to the Death Eaters.

Don't forget "madly."  <eg at Rickman swooners>

Rita wrote:

>1968 because of the large number of Bad Things that happened (in USA
>Muggleverse) that year.

Oh.  Sigh.  I was born in 1968, and it gets kinda depressing to tell that to 
people a generation older who shake their heads and say "Wow, that was a bad 
year."  So there were two assassinations and several riots while I was in 
utero, not to mention that it was possibly the worst year of the Vietnam 
War.  *I* was born, so the year wasn't a total loss.

I like your 1969 logic better, for a different reason:  Voldemort is not 
American, and he hasn't set his nasty snakelike glowing red sights on the US 
yet.  First England, then Europe, then the world.  (I think JKR said that in 
an interview--he's going for world domination but starting at home.)

Amy "Don't call her a Gen X-er or she'll hex yer" Z

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JKR:  Maps are a great source for names . . .
Interviewer:  Really?
JKR:  Yeah.  Dursley and Dudley and Snape are all,
   erm, places I can't visit anymore, obviously.
                           --Blue Peter interview
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