MIME (from: Prank Theory! (was Re: Marauder's Map))

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No: HPFGUIDX 48795

"Me!: Which is also a hint that the map might have been implicated in the 
prank.  I still really like the idea that Map!padfoot told about the knot, 
and that the Map Is Mightily Evil  (MIME)
That would be why Lupin would be "astounded" that they didn't turn it in, 
because he now knows that it is a dark object, even though the marauders 
themselves did not mean it to be. (more on the map to follow in another 
related post!)"

Me replying to me:
WOOT! I have an acronym.  YO.  

*clears throat* Cannon for the Map Is Mightily Evil;

1)CoS, P 417 (the last chapter):
"*Ginny!*" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you *anything?* 
 What have I always told you?  Never trust anything that can think for itself 
*if you can't see where it keeps its brain.*" "

2)PoA, p.192, chapter 10:
"a drawer in one of his filing cabinets marked *Confiscated and Highly 
Dangerous.*"

3)PoA, p.192, chapter 10:
"then words began to blossom across the top, great, curly green words, that 
proclaimed:"

4) PoA, p. 194 chapter 10:
"But even as he stood there, flooded with excitement, something Harry had 
once heard Mr. Weasley say came floating out of his memory.
       *Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see 
where it keeps its brain.*
       This map was one of those dangerous magical objects Mr. Weasley had 
been warning against....*Aids for Magical Mischief-Makers*... but then, Harry 
reasoned, he only wanted to use it to get into Hogsmeade, it wasn't as though 
he wanted to steal anything or attack anyone... and Fred and George had been 
using it for years without anything horrible happening...."

5)PoA, p.288 chapter 14:
""*Well?*" said snape again.  "this parchment is plainly full of Dark Magic.  
This is supposed to be your area of expertise, Lupin.  Where do you imagine 
Potter got such a thing?"

...

"Full of Dark Magic?" he repeated mildly.  "Do you really think so, Severus?  
It looks to me as though it is merely a peice of parchment that insults 
anybody who reads it.  Childish, but surely not dangerous?  I imagine Harry 
got it from a joke shop --""

6)PoA, p.288 chapter 14:
"...don't think it more likely that he got it *directly from the 
manufacturers?*"

...

"You mean, by Mr. Wormtail or one of these people?""

7)PoA, p.289 chapter 14:
"I am, however, *astounded* that you didn't hand it in."

8)PoA, p.289 chapter 14:
"...these mapmakers would have wanted to lure you out of school.  They's 
think it extremely entertaining.""

9) Wormtail/Peter Pettigrew is in the service of Voldemort, as of GoF.

1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 seem to imply that a map that can think for itself should 
be immediately considered dangerous and a dark object.

5-8 show that Lupin probably thinks that it does have a bit of dark magic in 
it.  (for this assumption I am not taking what Lupin says at face value, but 
rather his actions, which I snipped from my cannon passages, 
unfortunately...)  And that Snape also thinks it is evil.

3, 6, and 9 are a streach.  If the Map Is Mightily Evil, it would make sense 
if Pettigrew, who is currently evil, had the idea for it/ obtained the 
materials for it.  I give you this scenario, Pettigrew comes back from summer 
holiday with an ancient parchment/enchanted ink (especially the ink, for all 
those out there who think that Green=Evil! *g*).  He says that he found it in 
Knockturn alley and that it has a tracking and mapping spell built into it, 
and all they have to do is find the complete layout of Hogwarts.  This 
explains many issues with the map, mostly: How did four schoolchildren make 
something so powerful?  Also, if Pettigrew had access to Knockturn alley or 
dark relics, this could explain why he defected to the dark side.  This would 
also explain why Lupin made his comment in 6, because Wormtail is neither the 
first name (Lupin is) nor the last name (which people are the most likely to 
recall.  Go AP Psych.)  If this is significant, it means one of two things.  
One, that Lupin was purposefully skipping himself because he thinks that 
Snape would know Moony meant him OR two, that Lupin considers the map 
Wormtail's, because he was the one that brought the ink/parchment.


A Related topic:
Cheryl:
 "Snape pulls a Malfoy, and sets Filch on Sirius. Sirius can't hide it, but 
does have 
time to set it to insult mode."

Just a note on the "insult mode":  I don't think it is something that is 
set... but that it is more a triggered effect.  If anyone tries to turn the 
map 'on' without the right words, like snape does, it will insult them.  So 
maybe, when snape came upon the map, he saw sirius studying it, wiping it, 
and then tries to start it?  So if he heard "mischeif managed"  he might have 
tried something like "Ready to start mischeif"  which caused MWPP to insult 
him.

-Scheherazade, the MIME


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