The Marauder's Map & Pettigrew

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 45083

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "atticus_finch76" <puddledub at a...> 
wrote:
>> i was wondering if Fred and George never noticed that some 
> guy named Peter Pettigrew was always hanging around with 
Percy and  later on Ron <<

I don't think that law-abiding Percy would have bent the rules to 
bring Scabbers to school (he's not a cat or an owl or a toad.) 

By the time Harry and Ron came to  school, Fred and George 
had had the Map for two years and wouldn't have needed to use 
it  much, except for quick checks to see if the coast is clear.  They 
may have felt, like Harry, that it would be dangerous to use the 
Map for a nefarious purpose like spying on people. We know 
about magical objects that corrupt their owners, but it could work 
the other way, too. An innocent magical object with a brain might 
develop an ill will of its own if it was misused.

Or maybe the Map doesn't show people who are sleeping, and 
that's why Scabbers sleeps all the time.

Pippin