M. Map, take 27

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 22510

David wrote:

> > (5) How come the Marauder's Map never showed Peter Pettigrew to 
the 
> > Weasley twins or Harry before that fateful night?
> 
> various theories have been put forward.  Mine is that F&G saw PP 
many 
> times, and either couldn't work it out or thought of it as 
> Scabbers' 'real name'.  

This is a good one.  But (gets out nitpicking tools): Ron knows Peter 
Pettigrew's story, though--they probably all knew it growing up the 
same way they knew about Harry.  The day after Ron, Harry, and 
Hermione hear the story in the 3 Broomsticks, Ron says something like 
"you know what Peter Pettigrew's mother got back?  My dad told me.  
His finger in a box," etc.  So from that perspective, it's unlikely 
that they'd skim right over the name.

OTOH, it is possible that Arthur and Molly never talked about Peter 
until it was in the news that summer and the kids wanted to know more 
about this Sirius Black guy.  Or that the kids did hear the name Peter 
Pettigrew growing up, but not so they'd remember it when they saw it 
on the Map years later.

Amy Z