Thoughts on the Marauder's Map

[ingachristsuperstar <ingachristsuperstar@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51913

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall <
thomasmwall at y...>" <thomasmwall at y...> wrote:

<snip>

> <THOUGHTS AND QUESTIONS>

> - Fifth, Lupin says that he *knows* that Filch confiscated the 
> map "many years ago" (7), so I'm eager to find out:
> 
> a) How Filch might have found out about the map, and:
> b) Why Dumbledore doesn't appear to know about it (15), and:
> c) If Filch got it while the Marauders were still students, or:
> d) If perhaps they handed the map down to others and that it 
was 
> eventually confiscated from them, and:
> e) (canon not quoted here) WHY Filch would have considered 
the map to 
> be 'highly dangerous?'
> 


I'm willing to bet the map started insulting Filch the way it did 
Snape.  I doubt Filch would have suspected it was anything other 
than a piece of parchment that insults people, which seems to 
be the kind of this he would confiscate given his absolute lack of 
a sense of humour.

But the comment about MWPP passing down the map to 
someone else who lost it to Filch is interesting.  I just realized 
how strange it was that MWPP never managed to get the map *
back* once it was confiscated.  Surely they'd be up to the 
challenge of breaking into an office and opening a drawer.

-Ing