Marauder's Map

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No: HPFGUIDX 48716

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 23/12/2002 11:00:42 GMT Standard Time, 
corsa808 at y... 
> writes:
> 
> 
> When they found it in Filch's filing cabinet was it active, or 
inactivated? 
> If it was inactive, how did Filch know it was "highly dangerous"?
> If it was active, why didn't Filch use it himself in his constant 
war against 
> the students, instead of filing it away? Surely it would have been 
> exceedingly tempting for a Squib with such an insatiable desire to 
get 
> students into trouble to have in his control such a useful and 
powerful piece 
> of magic.
> 
> ~Eloise


I think you answered your own question :).  The map must have been 
inactivated otherwise Filch would have used it.  I would guess that 
anything Filch doesn't recognize, he would consider "highly 
dangerous".  

Kristen