Marauders Map

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 109012

Alla commented:
> > > "Marauders Map" may have Dark Magic, it may not.
> > 
bamf then replied:
> > JK has Harry compare the map to Tom
> > Riddle's Diary (which was evil) and comes to the
> > conclucion that it isn't. While we see this from
> > Harry's POV, I would still say that the map is not
> > evil from that.  From an author's standpoint, why
> > would you compare two things, if not to show their
> > differences?
> 
And then Eleanor answered:
> 
> I got the feeling she might have put that in because her editor 
said,
> "But it's another piece of paper with a mind of its own!  Surely 
Harry
> would compare it to Riddle's diary!"

Yb thinks (but not very hard, it's still morning here):
I really don't see the editor having the gall (or something that 
sounds like it) to demand that JK put an explanation in, illustrating 
the differences between the diary and the map. I think that quote was 
certainly put in intentionally, whether to throw us off the trail or 
to give us a hint about future allegiances.

~Yb