Infallibility (Marauder's Map)*

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 74588

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "brainattic" <brainattic at y...>
wrote:
> I've been re-reading PoA and I just realised that, since Lupin used 
> the Marauder's Map to follow Harry & co.'s movements from Hagrid's 
> hut to the Shrieking Shack, shouldn't he have been able to see Future 
> Harry and Future Hermione as well? 
> 
> ...edited... Or does Lupin just have extreme tunnel  vision? 
> 


bboy_mn:

We've discussed everything before, but we never let that stop us from
discussing it again.

Regarding the map, I ask you to go back to the first time Harry sees
it, and to the various times that he uses it. One thing is universal,
the floor plans of a huge (probably biggest in the world) seven story,
multi-winged, multi-towered, very large grounds castle is squeezed
onto one normal size parchment. If these were standard large size
architecural floor plans for a castle that big, it would be on huge
stack of paper. 

So a huge floor plan and grounds are squeezed onto this small piece of
paper, and the tiny figure of people have there names written in
minuscule writing that is so small that Harry sometimes has to put his
face right up to the map to read it. 

Given how much is squeezed on the map, and how tiny everything is, I
think it would be impossible to try and read it without having tunnel
vision.

Also, Lupin saw the original Harry, Ron, and Hermione on the map, and
his concentration was focused on tracking them, there would be no
logical reason for him to scan the rest of the map to see if 'other'
Harrys and Hermiones were on it. Add to that, that the map had 'dead'
spot. Lupin didn't appear to be able to see anyone while they were in
Hagrid's hut. So while Harry2 and Hermione2 were hiding just inside
the edge of the Forbidden Forest, they may have been off the map.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn