Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

[Amey Chinchorkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 108964

-	From: "romulusmmcdougal" <romulus at hermionegranger.us>
-	Secondly, by the message on it when Snape said "Reveal..." shows that
-	a cover was planned by the Marauders for Snape if he was prying too
-	closely.  I simply do not think that those outside the Marauders were
-	privy to the Marauders' nicknames.  I believe I read that somewhere.

Amey:
I agree that the names of marauders were a secret till wormtail divuldged them. But the defence against prying wasn’t only for Snape. After all Snape gave his name to the Map and in true Marauder tradition, map kept prying person out.

"Professor Severus Snape, master of this school, commands you to yield
the information you conceal!" Snape said, hitting the map with his wand. 
As though an invisible hand were writing upon it, words appeared on the
smooth surface of the map. (PoA)


-	From: "romulusmmcdougal" <romulus at hermionegranger.us>
-	It is obviously an advanced form of magic that is strictly regulated.
-	How can a Rita Skeeter be so easily blackmailed by the threat of
-	exposure for not being registered as a animagus if it was acceptable
-	on a large scale?  This heavily implies that it is questionable, if
-	not openly dark magic.
-	McGonagall is most likely a registered animagus.
-	Let me ask you the question.  Does a good person, who once delved
-	heavily into the illegal drug scene, now become once and for all a BAD
-	person?  Can good people make bad mistakes?  Can a bad person reform
-	oneself?

Amey:
Rita could easily be blackmailed because she was using her form to get news illegally and she was not registered. And, 

"Because... because people would know if Peter Pettigrew had been an
Animagus. We did Animagi in class with Professor McGonagall. And I
looked them up when I did my homework -- the Ministry of Magic keeps
tabs on witches and wizards who can become animals; there's a register
showing what animal they become, and their markings and things... and I
went and looked Professor McGonagall up on the register, and there have
been only seven Animagi this century, and Pettigrew's name wasn't on the
list." (PoA-Hermione in Shack)

So, McGonall is registered. But 

"Really, what has got into you all today?" said Professor McGonagall,
turning back into herself with a faint pop, and staring around at them
all. "Not that it matters, but that's the first time my transformation's
not got applause from a class." (PoA)

Do you mean to say that *McGonall* did this piece of Dark or questionable magic every year in front of all students and also they have this part in their curriculum? I think she should be in Azkaban by now. 

"Yes, indeed," said Lupin. "It took them the best part of three years to
work out how to do it. Your father and Sirius here were the cleverest
students in the school, and lucky they were, because the Animagus
transformation can go horribly wrong -- one reason the Ministry keeps a
close watch on those attempting to do it.” (PoA)

This shows that Animagi is not questionable magic but it is very adavanced (and can go wrong like Apparation), and of  course it can be used for questionable purposes. That is why ministry keeps tab on it. Being an animagus doesn’t make you bad guy.

-	> From: "romulusmmcdougal" romulus at hermionegranger.us
-	Marauders indeed started mistrusting each other at one point, but I
-	view it as falling in the general atmosphere of mistrust, which
-	Voldemort created during the first war, not them being Evil.
-	My point was never that the Marauders were Evil people.  My point has
-	always been that the Marauders were playing with the dark arts under
-	the tutelege of Voldemort.
-	Some pulled back after it got nasty, and some did not.  Some saw it
-	for what it was, at least one did not

Amey:
Can you believe James with his famous hatred of Dark Arts playing with them? Map is not dark Arts (we have no canon, Snape accuses it of full of Dark Arts, but you cant take his word here). They can be doing some illegal things like becoming unregistered animagi (well they are forerunners of Gred and Forge), but Dark Arts, no way
 and under Voldemort, no chance.

Amey



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