Mrs. Norris and the Map

[sothoii]

No: HPFGUIDX 35511

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jake Storm" <that1guy_hp at h...> wrote:
> I know that it's not an original theory, but one that has made sense 
to me 
> is that the MM only provides names based on people known to the 
viewer. That 
> would explain many things: why HRH never saw "Peter Pettigrew" 
anywhere on 
> the map, why they always see Mrs. Norris as "Mrs. Norris" no matter 
what her 
> real name might be, or her real form.
> 
> Does that make any sense?
> 

It does.  However there are other discrepencies that also need to be 
explained.  Barty Crouch, for one.  Perhaps this is truly a magical 
map of Hogwarts.  When Harry first uses it, the map shows Harry 
touching his wand to the statue, and saying 'Disendium' in a speech 
bubble.  This would imply that the map reacts to the wishes of the 
user.  That being the case, why wouldn't it show a person by the name 
the observer knows them by?  Scabbers, instead of Peter.  However, 
Lupin states that the map is not fooled by invisibility cloaks, so 
perhaps polyjuice falls into the same category, changing the outward 
appearance, but the map recognizes the inner and assigns that dot a 
name the user will recognise.

As this is a magical map, presumably it has zooming and screening 
features, so the user only sees the areas he wants and the people 
within those areas.  Unfortunatly the map does not seem to have a 
self-updating feature.  Fred and George point to one of the tunnels 
and say that it is compleatly blocked off, while the map shows it as 
accessible.

My only question is how has the map now?  Dumbledore?  Harry?  Moody? 
 Perhaps Moody burned it thinking it was just a piece of old 
parchment.  I hope not.

Sothoii