Who Trusts Snape?! (OofP spoilers)

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 67126

Tigerpatronus's ramblings: 
> > DD didn't suss out the truth about Wormtail, who lived in his 
> school 
> > for almost three years as a rat, either. 

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "RP" <rlai1977 at y...> wrote:
> <SNIP> But saying he's a bad judge 
> of character because he didn't know someone's pet rat was not 
indeed 
> a rat ^^;;?? Where did it say in canon that DD even had a close 
look 
> at rat!Wormtail?

<SNIP>

TigerPatronus respectfully replies: 

I agree with your other <snipped> comments, but DD is supposed to be 
protecting Harry beyond other students. DD knows that HP is the Light 
Side's last hope to defeat LV. To this end, he should be taking 
extraordinary measures. I suggest: 

I have no canon to back this up, but the Maurader's Map can't be that 
new and inventive a bit of magic. If it is, then those 4 guys (MWPP) 
had *way* too much time on their hands, back then. In addition to 
their OWLs, NEWTs, lessons, quidditch, mapping the secret passages, 
nicking snitches, sneaking off campus to hang out with the 
lycanthrope, tormenting Snape (full time job), chicks, and secretly 
studying the necessary spells to become animagi, how could they have 
had time to do original research to such a degree that they created a 
novel method of keeping track of everyone (known and unknown, actual 
identities, not fooled by polyjuice potion or animagi disguises) 
within certain confines? Unlikely. That's beyond the scope of those 
crazy science guys in high school who wound 100 miles of copper wire 
around football field goal posts on weekends to make a cyclotron for 
physics experiments. That's graduate school-level research, so the MM 
is probably not a unique magical item. They did have to make it, I 
would imagine, but they probably found the spells in books like 
Hermione found the recipe for Polyjuice Potion. 

DD should have something like a Maurader's Map and should have used 
it, so he should have seen "Peter Pettigrew" within Hogwarts and 
wondered how he could be alive. 

TK