If you can't see where it keeps its brain...

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 74846

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at y...> 
wrote:
> The Marauder's Map is different.  When Harry first encounters the 
> Map, a gift from Fred and George, he recalls Mr. Weasley's words 
> regarding Riddle's Diary and thinks of it as a dangerous magical 
> object (PoA 194, US).  Thus far it has not been dangerous but he 
> didn't know that.  He used his knowledge that Fred and George had 
> been using it for years without any sort of danger, so he 
dismissed 
> it.  He's lucky that it didn't turn out to be evil like the 
diary.  
> So it would seem then this would be another exception to the 
general 
> rule about thinking objects with hidden brains.  
> I agree that this general rule could easily be a hint about the 
Hat, 
> the Map, or some other future object Harry will encounter.
> 
The Map worried me, too.  When Snape confronts Lupin about it, not 
only does he correctly deduce where it came from, he says that it is 
plainly full of Dark Magic (don't have his exact words, sorry, book 
not handy).  Is he just being histrionic, or is he right?  I always 
wondered just how James & Co. actually made the Map, especially if 
it took Dark Magic to do so.  You'd think Snape would be quite an 
expert on Dark Arts, and would recognize it when he sees it.

Wanda