Can the Marauder's Map be deceived? (and more questions)

[laylalast]

No: HPFGUIDX 54464

Martin Soilleux-Cardwell wrote:

> Well spotted. I was struck by D's choice of words at the time, 
knowing full 
> well *he* knew what he meant by it but not suspecting that Snape 
would also 
> know what he meant by it, but in the greater scheme of things 
deciding not 
> to pursue the issue since, deep down, he is completely loyal to D 
and 
> trusts his judgement, even though the situation that Snape has just 
> witnessed makes him think H&H just somehow let a mass murderer 
loose.
> 
> I initially put D's remark down to his odd sense of humour but now 
it might 
> be his way of conveying a whole mas of information to Snape in one 
simple 
> sentence.
> 

Now me:

I had been thinking in a similar way too, but I'm having difficulties 
in making it fit with the scene in the infirmary in GoF, where Snape 
sees Sirius transform from his animagus form to his human self and 
Dumbledore lets them shake hands. Snape's face was one of "mingled 
fury and horror" (GoF pg 618 UK pb). If Snape was aware of the TT in 
PoA because Dumbledore implied this, wouldn't he have expected to 
meet Sirius in the to not too distant future? 
The meeting in GoF came to him as a -nasty- surprise, at least, so it 
seems to me. 

But I still like the idea, also because Dumbledore, in a rather 
amusing way, "uses" Snapes ability to arrive at conclusions very 
quickly, knowing that Snape is quite powerless this time to do 
something about it.

Layla