Map Questions

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48702

In a message dated 12/22/02 8:44:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, Lynx412 at aol.com 
writes:


>        Then, I began to wonder about the Map itself. It seems to have 
> several 
> levels of use. The Map that becomes so useful to the Twins, the Trio, and 
> then to Crouch!Moody. So, I wonder if, in fact the Map doesn't have a third 
> 
> level. What if MWPP set it up to conceal their names or their own 
> positions? 
> Perhaps there's a level that only one of the Marauders can activate. 
> PP/Wormtail would have made sure to give the Twins only the level that 
> would 
> not reveal the Marauders. Lupin, however, would have used the level that 
> would show the Marauders, since he like everyone else in the WW believed 
> that 
> Black was a villain. the Map gave him the chance to monitor for his old 
> buddy, an edge in guarding Harry from a 'known-to-be-insane murderer'. And, 
> 
> it succeeded in that, when it revealed PP/Wormtail.

Which leads *me* to another question.  Why was there just one?  More 
importantly, *is* there just one?  There being just one brings up all sorts 
of questions like who got to keep the map? and how often did they switch who 
was keeping it?  Presumably they spent most of their time together, so they 
really wouldn't need to know where one another currently was, would they?
And, the question that is burning in my brain, *yells* How did they make the 
map?!??!!?!?  It's been driving me out of what little sanity I have left.  
How could four kids still in school make such a complex piece of magic?  Even 
if they *are* the top students in the school, how did they find all the 
passageways?  The one under the Whomping Willow is obvious, Lupin used it.  
But how about the one behind that witch?  How in the name of Salazar 
Slytherin would they know to tap the hump and say "Dissendium"?  
Is there any canon for this?  Practical theories?  Insanely wild theories?

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*
"It's not backstabbing if I do it to their faces!"


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