answer - Viewing the Map.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 60554

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Christi" <christi0469 at h...> wrote:
> While I agree with substantial segments of your arguement, I could 
> not help but point out that Lupin din't notice Harry and Hermione 
> using the time turner because he was a wolf at the time. 

bboy_mn:

It's entirely possible that I am misunderstanding what you are trying
to say, so the best I can do is to comment on what I think you are saying.

Time only occurs once (that's my theory, and I think it's pretty
solid), however, it is easy to become confused because the story
unfolds in a linear fashion. Harry and Hermione go into the Whomping
Willow and to the Shieking Shack then they come back, Lupin turns into
a werewolf, etc... then Harry and Hermione are in the hospital room
and go back in time and everything happens again but with a second
Harry and a second Hermione. But that view of time travel will lead to
endless unresolvable headaches.

What really happens is that Time_Travel!Harry and Time_Travel!Hermoine
enter the one and only time line early in the evening, and from then
on there are two Harrys and two Hermiones in existance. The events
only happened once. The events are simultaneously live and observed.

Lupin was in his office looking at the map just before
Harry/Ron/Hermione went into the tunnel below the Whomping Willow. He
didn't see two of Harry and Hermione because he was concentrating on a
specific area of the map. Remember Lupin said he thought Harry,
Hermione, and Ron might go down to Hagrid's, so that was specifically
what he was looking for and where he was looking on the map. 

We both seem to agree, that the map may be selective in what it shows
and may have faded out all the things Lupin wasn't concentrating on at
the moment.

Sorry if I misunderstood.

bboy_mn



> Origianl Post continues:
> ...., but I have always contended that the map only shows you the 
> things you are looking for (clear passageways,  secret tunnels, 
> etc.). 
> 
> Christi
> 
>  
> > srb: (originally said)
> > 
> > I'm in agreement with you on the map being cluttered.
> > 
> > .... the drawing (the Map) would still have to be very tiny.
> > 
> > That one factor alone could easily explain why Fred and George
> > never saw Peter/Wormatail, and why Lupin never saw the second 
> > Harry and Hermione on the map during their time travels. The only 
> > thing you see clearly is the thing you are intensely concentrating
> > on.  ...edited...
> >
> > Next, many have speculated that in order to keep the map from 
> > being too cluttered to even use, it is selective in what it shows. 
> >
> > ...edited...
> > 
> > Just at thought
> > 
> > srb
> > 
> > PS: I always thougth a minute owl was a 60-second owl.