Eureka! Snape and the Marauder's Map

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 34715

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "serenadust" <jmmears at p...> wrote:
> 
> >Hang on here.  I believe that the book indicates that Lupin saw 
> both Sirius Blacks and Peter's names on the map and that was what 
> brought him running to the Shrieking Shack (although why he left 
the 
> map behind for Snape to find, I can't imagine).

Possibly. Snape using the name 'Wormtail' would make a few things 
klick in his mind, further confirmed by Sirius! He doubted already 
(WHY was he so interested in the rat?)

>  Shouldn't Snape 
> have seen both Pettigrews AND Blacks names on the map? 

Not necessarily. Not if P was 'going rat', as he was most of the 
time. The Trio did NOT see Rita Skeeter the beatle, remember?

BTW, did F&G figure out the rat's real identity, but no one listened 
to 'pranksters'? They *could* have - it was living too long to be a 
rat, sneakoscope going off... and well, maybe they made a map of 
their own before giving the original to Harry?(Two - one for Burrow, 
another for Hogswarts).