[HPforGrownups] Re: Can the Marauder's Map be deceived?

[Edward Post]

No: HPFGUIDX 54209

Rowen Avalon wrote:

>My personal conviction is that the Map has a sort of built in 
>"confidentiality clause." If you don't know who someone really is, then 
>they would appear on the map as whoever you thought them to be. Thus 
>Scabbers would appear as Scabbers...

>However, this doesn't apply to strangers. Since you haven't mistaken their 
>identity, they will show up as their true selves.


But, but, but,  that's not consistent with the evening where Harry got 
caught in the trick step (the night Harry got naked with Moaning Myrtle)!  
He looked at the map and it showed Bartemius Croach lurking around Snape's 
office.  If the described "confidentiality" feature had been installed, the 
map would have indicated the lurker was Moody.



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