[HPforGrownups] Re: Marauder's Map

[Lynx412 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48729

In a message dated 12/23/02 12:20:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
bboy_mn at yahoo.com writes:


> 3.) Filch and the Map - someone speculated recently that the map was in 
> 'insult' mode when Filch found it. The map insulted Filch the way it 
> insulted Snape. Which would certainly explain why Filch thought it was 
> dangerous. 

       I think this is the best answer as to why he confiscated what was 
apparently a plain sheet of parchment, but not why he thought it was 
dangerous. I think he thought it was dangerous because of *who* he 
confiscated it from. I know many folks here think it was Lupin who had it or 
that it was Lupin's copy, if there were more than one, but I wonder if it 
isn't more likely that he got it from Sirius. If he'd caught Sirius with it, 
confiscated it, and it started insulting him, he'd have taken it, especially 
if it called him a squib. But he would only have decided it was *highly 
dangerous* after Sirius seemed to have betrayed the Potters and gone over to 
the Dark Side. He then moved it to the file where Fred & George found it. I 
don't recall if canon says when the found it, but if it was the year that 
Harry entered Hogwarts, Filch might have been checking the parchment to see 
if it was reacting to Harry, perhaps planning to tell Dumbledore about it.

       Cheryl


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