Lupin's observations

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Barbara Purdom <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
> 2. Lupin's Observations
> 
> A great deal is being made about Lupin noticing Peter
> Pettigrew on the Marauder's Map.  But I was just
> reading this section of PoA to my son last night, and
> I noticed a problem (I think).  Hermione wants to know
> how Lupin knew what he knew, and he tells them that he
> saw three of them (on the map) going to Hagrid's, but
> four coming back.  The problem I'm having is that the
> time-traveling Harry and Hermione are lurking right
> outside Hagrid's listening to their non-time-traveling
> selves coming and going.  The TT Harry and Hermione
> should have been seen by Lupin on the map.  Lupin goes
> out of his way to do quite a sales job on the map,
> talking about how infallible it is, how it's not
> fooled by invisibility cloaks or Animagi in their
> animal form (and we find out in GoF, it's also not
> fooled by Polyjuice Potion--Moody/Crouch).  Am I
> crazy?  Shouldn't Lupin have seen an extra Harry and
> an extra Hermione on the map because of their time
> traveling?

That's the problem - but I think the map was made by the students,
much more effort went into the very fancy presentation than into the
design, and I think its design doesn't allow for one person to be
shown in more than one place.  It's connected to everyone in the
school through a set of wizard photographs, or something.  But when
Harry and Hermione use the Time-Turner to double back, they don't
double up in their photographs as well.

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
Stupid Things Overheard)