The Marauder's Map & Pettigrew

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No: HPFGUIDX 45142

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "atticus_finch76" <puddledub at a...> wrote:
> OK, what I have to say doesn't really go along with the discussion 
at 
> hand, but 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 if they had to Map for a few years.  Just a nitpicky 
> thing that may have a perfectly obvious, reasonable anwser, but I 
> can't see it.


Two good possible answers are that Scabbers was more than likely in 
the Tower a lot with a lot of people around, so my guess is the map 
would be a jumble of names overlapping each other. Generally being 
next to impossible to read since this is a parchment and not a poster 
size map, and that would be a lot of names in a confined area.  The 
other possible answer is that the map can 'zoom' into areas that the 
user wishes to view closely, and thus would almost always be zoomed 
into where Fred and George were concentrating on and not showing the 
Dorm Tower, where Scabbers was more than likely most of the time.