Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108958

> Alla:
> 
> I have no doubt in my mind that Snape knew where the map came from 

Josh
"If Snape knew so much, then why didn't he know the big black dog in 
the hospital wing with Harry at the end of GoF was Sirius until he 
transformed? The MWPP monikers on the map only make sense if you know 
multiple animagi forms. It's quite reasonable to assume that Snape 
(as a fake spy for Voldemort within the Order, evil or good) would 
not know about Wormtail also acting the spy, as compartmentalization 
is good security. Moony makes sense as Lupin, but only if you can put 
it in context with another Marauder so as to narrow the field to 1 
werewolf amongst the world's population throughout recent-enough 
history.

No, I seriously doubt Snape put the nicknames into play until he had 
the pleasure of dealing with Padfoot and Moony calling each other 
such in his presence in between Order business."

DuffyPoo:

In the "Snape's Worst Memory" scene we have the Marauders calling each other by their nicknames all the time.  No one knew they were animagi, these could just be silly nicknames they sung out to each other in the halls. Names that meant something to them, but not to anyone else.  Remember, the Trio were to call Sirius "Snuffles" when they were talking about him.  Just a nickname.  Snape could have, probably would have, heard them calling each other by these nicknames at school, then seeing all the names on the map, would instantly put two and two together and believe HP had gotten the map directly from the manufacturers as he knew one of the manufacturers was currently working at the school - Lupin/Moony. 



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