Magical Maps...(was Re: Into the Chamber...)

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 12585

Simon wrote:
"I think there is a fairly simple answer to this. The writing is 
found on the wall, which says 'Her skeleton will lie in the
chamber forever'.
"So they narrow it down to being a female student that is missing. The
writing is found during a lesson so it is easy enough to work out who 
is missing from each lesson, as each teacher can do a role call of 
who should be present in his or her lesson.
"They then find the females on this list and work out which are 
unaccounted for and get left with Ginny as being the only one missing 
and with no explanation for why she is not in lesson."

Ok I agree but I still say that it had to take 'awhile' if there are 
indeed 1,000 students in the school. (Oh dear. I'm afraid this may be 
turning into a number of students debate.)

Anyway Steph said that there might have been a clock like that of the 
Weasely's. Another possibility is that there might be a type of Map. 
You know, one like the mauruaders map. After all I can't see that 
the  mauruaders were the first people in a 1,000 years to come up 
with such a thing. 

Hmmm perhaps Dumbledore has one. Something he as headmaster has 
'inherited', like the sorting hat etc. Is there evidence in the canon 
that contradicts this? I seem to remember that Dumbledore didn't know 
about the map. I'm not sure however that it meant he didn't know 
about the map in general or about THAT map. I shall try to go look it 
up but maybe someone wants to jump in...

Scott