Thoughts on the Marauder's Map

[karywick <karenwickersham@ameritech.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51978

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "beccafran <rbroeker at h...>" 
<rbroeker at h...> wrote:
> --- 
> > > Becca concluded:
> So basically, my point is this: The Map does not show everything 
> going on at Hogwarts. It only reveals selected information. How is 
> this information selected? Are there certain people it always 
shows, 
> certain areas it never shows? Are these hot and cold spots related 
to 
> the Marauders, or to the individual activating or viewing the map? 
> Where *does* the Map keep it's brain?!?
> 
I don't think that the map could have been designed to only show 
certain people.  Because there's no way the Mauraders would have 
known of Harry, Ron and Hermione at the time the map was made and 
have designed it to show their names.  

SO there has to be some way for the map to *sense* what is important 
to the person looking at it.  That's the thing about the map that 
worries me.  That an *object* is interpeting what ?it? believes is 
important for you to see or know.  That's why I wonder who has 
bewitched it or trained it to decide what is important for you?  
Depending on who trained the map, evil or not evil, is going to make 
it useful or not useful, make you get caught or not caught, give you 
good information or bad information, let you see the truth or partial 
truth.  

Besides the offices of Snape and Dumbledore what other rooms did it 
specifically show?  I don't remember any in the books but I don't 
have the books in front of me.  Is it possible that the rooms beyond 
offices showing locations of authority figures who might catch 
sneaking people and passageways might only be displayed since the 
idea of the map is to sneak around, not the rooms containing who is 
where they are supossed to be such as who is in bed or in classrooms.

My other question is how did the twins just happen to get it, use it 
for a few years, and pass it on to Harry?  That is never really 
answered in the books is it?  or did I just miss it somewhere?


I agree with Tom and Becca- there has to be more to this map revealed 
in book five and who has it now?  Dumbledore is my guess since Moody!
Crouch had it last, right?

Kary