OOP: who has the Marauder's Map?

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 59914

NOTE, I changed the heading 'cause of the OOP spoiler that'll be 
cited in this message. 


I wrote previously:
-Tom, who can't seem to make up his mind. ;-)

I reply to me:
Okay, in that vein:

Winky was left alone in that office after Fudge's dementor 
administered the kiss to Barty Jr. When that happened, McGonagall and 
Fudge gravitated down to the hospital wing, presumably leaving her 
there.

Dumbledore knows that she's still in the office during the 'Parting 
of the Ways,' because he sends Madam Pomfrey to collect her. So, that 
gives her a definite window of opportunity in the office. She could 
easily 'happen to notice' an active moving map of the school grounds. 
After all, the map would be 'on,' since we've no indication that 
Crouch!Moody knew how to operate it, nor did Harry ever tell him in 
canon.

So, if she'd just witnessed the administration of the dementor's kiss 
on her beolved Barty, Jr. then she very well might go ballistic, the 
seeds of derangement having been planted by the utter destruction of 
the family she loved. 

Now totally alone, with no chance of going back to the Crouches, she 
could start to slowly fall into insanity, and just might start 
seeking revenge. How the map might caluculate into her plans is 
anyone's guess.

This might explain the idea of a 'venomous, disgruntled house-elf' 
that the Scholastic summary for OOP mentioned.

Imagine a vengeful Winky with the Marauder's Map. <chill down spine>

ELEVEN DAYS!!!

-Tom