The Marauder's Map & Pettigrew

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 45093

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> --- 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.
> 
Or perhaps the map only shows Maurauders to other Maurauders. Lupin is the only one who saw Sirius or Peter on the map, after all. It could have been a safeguard, in case the wrong people got ahold of it while it was active...

--Arcum