Lupin's observations

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rja.carnegie at e... wrote:
> --- 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.
> 
 Perhaps or perhaps Lupin just stopped looking for them one he'd seen 
one set on the map. After all he'd only be expecting one version of 
H/H/R to exist and once he'd found them there would be little point 
to continue scanning the map if he wanted to go and get them back 
into the castle quickly.

 Jen