Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

[romulusmmcdougal]

No: HPFGUIDX 108899

Eleanor "iamvine" <eleanor at d...> wrote:
> 
> 1) Snape's comment about the map: Snape's seen the names Moony and 
> Padfoot on the map and knows who they refer to.  

Does he though?  Why would he bother asking Moony about the map then?
And why would he let Moony take the map as well?

> He believes Sirius is evil, which might lead him to think the map 
> contains dark magic.  Or it could just be an excuse to confiscate 
> it.  Snape would absolutely say something like that for that reason, 
> especially if he got the opportunity to annoy Lupin at the same time.
> 
> 2) Lupin's comment: When Lupin believed that, he thought Sirius had 
> been in league with Voldemort and would have learned things from him.  
> It implies absolutely nothing about whether any of the Marauders 
> really had.


We know that Sirius Black, i.e. Padfoot, in Moony's mind, learned 
dark arts from Voldemort; we also know that Pettigrew (Wormtail) --
another Marauder -- betrayed another Marauder -- James Potter 
(Prongs) and Padfoot to Voldemort.
So, here we have at least two Marauders doing stuff with Voldemort.
Sounds to me like the Marauders Map has Dark Magic, becoming illegal 
Animagi takes some dark magic, and it looks like some of these guys 
got in too deep with Voldemort to the point that they started 
mistrusting each other.

RMM