What *is* the attraction to those Slytherins?, also Nickn...

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, CareALotsClouds at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 11/07/03 00:57:29 GMT Daylight Time, 
boggles at e... 
> writes:
> 
> 
> > >In PoA Snape knew exactly who MWPP were.
> > >The exchange in the penseive show us that they were not 
particularly
> > >furtive about the use of their nicknames.
> > 
> > He also knows who Padfoot is, at least, in OoP - when Harry 
blurts 
> > the warning out in Umbridge's office, Snape contacts Sirius 
> > straightaway once he leaves.  Moreover, Harry seems to have a 
pretty 
> > good expectation that Snape will know who "Padfoot" is, too.
> > 
> 
> If Snape knew this, then why didnt he recognise the names on the 
marauders 
> map when he got hold of it?
> 
oh but he did...in fact, he asks Lupin if Harry got it from 
the "manufacturers".  Snape didn't know that it was a map until he 
sees it later in Lupin's office the night Sirius takes Ron into the 
tunnel below the Whomping Willow.  

Tess :-)