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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., devika261 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/11/01 8:39:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>  I 
> went back and re-read this part to see if Snape identifies the Marauder's Map 
> as a map, but he does not.  He refers to it simply as a piece of parchment.  
> I think this is further proof that Snape does not know, and did not know in 
> PoA, what the Map actually was.  
> BTW, Snape's Grudge is definitely one of my all-time favorite chapters.  It's 
> right up there with The Unexpected Task. :)

Ah, but by GoF Snape *does* know about the Map, because at the end of 
PoA he saw it in Lupin's office and saw Lupin going out to the willow 
on it. And of course in GoF he must know Harry's stuck on the stair 
case, that's why he is able to look straight at him. Snape, like 
everyone else in the school, has to know  where the trick steps are. 
	Snape refers to the Map as a parchment because he doesn't want to 
give anything away to Moody. He knows Moody's lying about Potter not 
being there, which he thinks is favoritism on Moody's part, but he 
doesn't want to tangle with ol' Mad-Eye.
Pippin