The Map

[Jonathan Pessin]

No: HPFGUIDX 54229

Finwich wrote:
"It may do more than show good map/people. It *has* seen trough 
polyjuice AND animagi. Hmm... Does Dumbledore have something to hide 
the map may reveal? (Animagus trying to hide? Timeturner!Weasley?)
Anyway, Dumbledore must have been shocked to find there's something 
related to Hogwarts he doesn't know but someone else does!"

I respond:  
Ahh, but if Dumbledore IS Ron, he's probably accepted the persona of Albus Dumbledore by now; after living at least 130 years by a certain name, I assume one would think of onesself by that name.  Perhaps the Map doesn't call Ron!Dumbledore Ronald Weasley because he has changed identities.  He IS Albus Dumbledore now, while Fake!Moody was only pretending to be Moody.  To clarify my thoughts (I hope...), the map shows how one thinks of onesself: Crouch Jr. thought of himself as Crouch, so he was shown as Crouch.  Dumbledore, however, now thinks of himself as Dumbledore, so he is shown as Dumbledore.

Or something like that.

Hobbit-guy, rejoicing that his first fanfic, "Tempus Fugit," is on Fiction-Alley, (and it's about this topic, too!)

"You haven't been getting into the Gaffer's home brew again, have you?"
"No... Well, yes, but that's beside the point."
-Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, Fellowship of the Rings Extended Edition DVD