[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 1715

[Stacy Stroud]

No: HPFGUIDX 36079

At 04:55 AM 3/6/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>I would suspect, as the map shows * here and now * not * there and then * (if that makes sense) the person using the map would has, as far as I can make out, sees what is there at present [...] Lupin would, I think, only see Harry and Hermione once.  

But even though time travel is involved, we're not talking about two different time periods here.  There was a single, specific three-hour period in which there were two Harrys and two Hermiones running around.  I can think of no reason why both would not have been on the Map.  One set of H&H may have come *from* a future time, but they spent that three hours living simultaneously with their slightly-younger selves.  

Similarly, when Hermione was spending most of the year using the Time Turner to take two classes in each period, there would have been Hermiones in two different classrooms at the same time.  I believe they both would have shown up on the Map, as both were physically there.  If the Map has no trouble picking out people in invisibility cloaks or pulling up the real names of shapeshifters, I can't imagine it would be confused by someone sitting there quite openly in public, even if there did happen to be an "extra" copy of the person elsewhere in the castle at the same time.


Stacy Stroud (deadstop at gte.net)
Hex Entertainment, Inc. (http://www.hexgames.com)