The Marauder's Map & Pettigrew

[heiditandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 45070

> bootekusic wrote
> >Heres the issue, the Marauder's Map is introduced in chapter 10 of
> >POA. Wouldn't Harry have seen Peter Pettigrew's name on it? We 
know
> >that Animagi show up on the map because Prof. Lupin said he saw
> >Pettigrew's name on it. If he had been checking on it before why
> >hadn't he seen Pettigrew's name before that? Is this a valid 
question
> >or am I just confused?


GulPlum replied:
> By the time he finds out about Peter, Harry's used the Map only a 
few 
> times, for the specific purpose of finding out who is immediately 
around 
> him and to use the tunnels to get to Hogsmeade. Both times, Ron 
(and 
> presumably, Scabbers/Peter) were in Hogsmeade, which isn't covered 
by the 
> Map. The one time Harry might have seen Peter's name on the Map 
would have 
> been immediately before they all enter the tunnel under the 
Whomping 
> Willow, but Harry is too busy observing what's going on to look at 
the Map.
>

Furthermore, there's no canon proof that the map shows what is going 
on inside of Hagrid's hut. Lupin says in the end of PoA that he saw 
them going towards Hagrid's hut - but he may not've been able to see 
them behind it (which explains why he didn't see Harry and Hermione 
on the map when they were lurking at the edge of the forrest, as 
they were from the time they captured Buckbeak until the time that 
Lupin, in wolf form, ran towards them) or even when they, with Ron, 
were in it. 

If the map doesn't show who is inside Hagrid's hut, then from the 
time that Scabbers ran away through that June night, there was no 
way for Harry to see Pettigrew's name on the map. It's entirely 
reasonable that the map wouldn't show that far from the castle - it 
doesn't show who's in the Shack either. 


> 
> A more interesting question, however, is why it never shows two 
Harrys and 
> Hermiones in the Hogwarts grounds at the end of PoA (don't ask, 
just look 
> at the archives to check out the various theories). :-)

Above is one possible theory. Another is that it did. We don't know 
that it didn't show two Harrys and two Hermiones - Lupin even says 
that he thought the map was malfunctioning and that would certainly 
be a reason why. By the next morning, presumably, Dumbledore has 
explained what Harry and Hermione did in setting Sirius free, and 
thus he now knows what happened. We never see the map from Remus' 
perspective, so of course, we don't know what he really did see.

Heidi 
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