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

[Lynx412 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48808

In a message dated 12/24/02 3:44:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, alicit at aol.com 
writes:


> 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.

       Good point. Perhaps if the map was altered from another item, it *was* 
originally just a sheet of parchment designed to insult it's users. A joke 
substitute for a scroll of homework parchment. I can see it...misspell a 
wizard's name and the sheet insults you. 

       Cheryl


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