Marauders' Houses - & their Map

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 25654

Martin Smith wrote:

<exposition on how MWPP could each have been in a different house>

Kudos on the unorthodox House assignments.  Peter in Ravenclaw and 
Remus in Hufflepuff are refreshing.  

Your post put another idea in my head:  the locations of the House 
common rooms are unknown to members of other Houses.  Does the Map 
reveal them?  Harry clearly hasn't bothered to look, if so--and why 
should he, since he has had no particular reason to find out where 
Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw are, unless he wants to waylay Cho on her way 
to breakfast.  Anyway, we may find out in future books, if Harry gets 
the map back.  But if we ever learned that this information is not on 
the map, that would be a strong suggestion that the mapmakers didn't 
know it.  Unless, of course, they made sure that one of the map's many 
propertiesis that it reveals each House common room only to members of 
that House.

>Yes, you could use brains, hard work and bravery to avoid twelve 
>years worth of mindsucking Dems

There is an almost irresistible political joke to be made here, but I 
am a Democrat so I'm going to refrain.

;-)
Amy Z

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   "What is this thing?" said Moody, drawing the Marauder's Map out 
 of his pocket and unfolding it.
   "Map of Hogwarts," said Harry. . . .
   "Merlin's beard," Moody whispered, staring at the map, his magical 
 eye going haywire.  "This . . . this is some map, Potter!" 
   "Yeah, it's . . . quite useful," Harry said. 
                                       -HP and the Goblet of Fire
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