Snape, AD and the Map was Re: D.A.R.K. L.A.D.L.E.S

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52005

Tom said:

>>>2) Clueless-about-the-map!Dumbledore. Perhaps I have 
pounded on this point too much. All the same... Please refer to 
your copies of GoF, at the end of Chapter 35.

"I used the map I had taken from Harry Potter. The map that had 
almost ruined everything."
"Map?" said Dumbledore quickly. "What map is this?"

Canonically, both Snape and Lupin saw the Marauder's Map. Yet, 
no matter who is the agent, neither seems to have mentioned 
that map to Professor Dumbledore. I cannot figure out why he 
doesn't seem to know about it in this scene, and unless 
someone comes up with a super-compelling argument, this 
remains a substantial way to discredit both theories, again 
IMHO.<<<


IMO, the only theory that *really* explains the Shrieking Shack is 
Evil!Lupin, which also explains why Lupin didn't tell Dumbledore 
about the Map. But  I have been wondering the same thing about 
Snape, and have only just come up with an explanation for it:  
Snape never realized that the insulting piece of parchment and 
the "certain Map" are the same. 

 Snape saw the activated map  in Lupin's office.  Seeing Lupin's 
dot hurrying through the tunnel, Snape took only "one glance" 
before chasing after Lupin.  Without examining the parchment 
itself or deciphering the "great, curly letters" that spell out the 
Marauders'  names, Snape would have no reason to connect the 
Map with Harry's parchment. So when Snape said "I recognize it" 
in chapter  25 of GoF,  he meant he recognized  the piece of 
parchment that Harry had in ch. 14 of  PoA, not the Map  from 
chapter 19. 

IMO, Agent!Snape tells Dumbledore about Lupin's Map at the 
end of PoA.   Dumbledore doesn't learn that  Harry had the Map 
before Lupin did, or that Lupin has given it back to Harry, since 
Snape doesn't know these things. If Agent!Snape then reports 
that Madeye has confiscated a suspicious piece of parchment 
from Potter, Dumbledore still has no reason to connect that with 
the Map which Snape reported seeing in Lupin's office.

So, when Crouch says, "I used the map I had taken from Harry 
Potter. The map that had almost ruined everything," Dumbledore 
very naturally wants to know what map Crouch means, even 
though he may already been told about Lupin's map.

Pippin
who knows that Persil is a brand of  dishwasher detergent in the 
UK