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

[mhershey2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 75232

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> > > 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

I didn't take Snape's comment that literally - I looked at it more as 
Snape trying to get Harry in trouble for something.  But maybe there 
is more there.  As for the "where it keeps its brain" comment, I felt 
much better about the map once we knew who had made it - its "brain" 
was that of the four Marauders, and if I was Harry, I would be quite 
content to trust something made by my father.  

mhershey