PoA questions

[mellienel2 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26180

OK -- I apologize if these have been furiously pawed over in the 
past, but I reread PoA this week (needing cheer...and that Hermione-
slapping-Draco scene is priceless...) and have some questions.

1. In my book, and I don't know how this can't be a mistake, Black 
says to Pettigrew in the Shrieking Shack that Voldemort had been in 
hiding for 15 years (it's when Hermione asks why Pettigrew didn't 
touch Harry...I'm not sure the page #). But at this point, harry is 
13, and Voldemort has only been in hiding for 12, maybe 12 1/2 years. 
Is this in everyone's book, or do you think it's just a mistake? 
There are many things that point to and fro on this one...I'm 
inclined to think it's a mistake though.

2. If Lupin was studying the Marauder's Map before running out to the 
shrieking shack, why didn't he see a SECOND Harry Potter and Hermione 
Granger? As they were approaching the shack, the time-travelling H&H 
were on the grounds, in the woods with Buckbeak. We know that the 
time-travelling self is in that specific time frame because of the 
Patronus deal -- there are two Harrys by the lake -- and the (and 
this is an approx. quote) "they heard a last pair of feet run across 
the entrance hall and slam a door" [those feet are Hermione and 
Harry, time travelling.]. So there should be two Hermiones and two 
Harrys on the map. If he thought seeing Pettigrew on the map was 
strange, SURELY seeing two Harry/Hermiones would be stranger. Or 
maybe he just decided not to say anything about it...still...dodgy...

m.