Marauders Map

[leb2323]

No: HPFGUIDX 75571

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arioth1" <arioth at p...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tallulah_sam" 
> <tallulah_sam at h...> wrote:
> > Hello! My first post so very sorry if this has been mentioned and 
> > sorted out before but here goes anyway! In PoA why didn't Harry
or 
> > Fred and George ever see Peter Pettigrew on the marauders map? 
Lupin saw both Peter and Sirius so we know it shows animagi.... any 
ideas or theories??

> Arioth replied: 
> ***snip****
> My other thought, there must be tons of names on that map if it 
shows everyone, wherever they are in the castle and grounds.  So if 
you weren't looking for someone specifically, or that person was not 
in the area you were scanning, it would be difficult to notice that 
one name.  

leb:
I always got the impression that the map only showed the relevant 
portion that the user wanted to see or where they actually were at 
the time of use.  When Harry used it in the room of requirement he
saw that general area and the areas around it.  When he was using it 
to secretly access the hidden passages to Hogsmeade he only saw those 
areas around the passage.  If it showed every single person in every 
room of every floor of an entire castle as well as the grounds, it 
would be so jumbled as to be useless.