Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 109144

DuffyPoo:
"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."

Josh
"Perhaps, perhaps, their nicknames were public knowledge, but if that 
were so, then why would Lupin claim it was a Zonko's product? He 
could have simply said that it was a cutsey thing that had belonged 
to Harry's dad, and left it at that. It wouldn't have raised any 
suspictions to have done so."


DuffyPoo again:
I'm not saying the names were 'public knowledge' just that Snape may have overheard them as he was following them around trying to get the goods on Lupin, but they may well have been public knowledge.

Lupin was trying to convince Snape that the thing was a joke, a Zonko's product, clearly not full of Dark Magic as Snape 'suspected'.   Lupin knows that Snape knows whose map this was originally, that it's not full of Dark Magic, that Snape has made the connection between the names.  He was trying to keep Harry out of the 'marauders' loop - really having a private conversation with Snape. Lupin, at this point, still believes 'Padfoot' is after Harry.  He knows that HP knows James and Sirius were close friends and that Lupin is/was a friend as well.    Snape has already planted in HP's mind that this map could have come from the manufacturers.  While HP said, when asked, that he didn't know who any of those men were, if Lupin had said the map had belonged to James, he may be concerned that HP might make the connections.  Lupin knows HP is a bright kid, he's practically producing a Patronus at 13. He's afraid HP may put two and two together and realize he is a werewolf.  Snape had already set the homework, Hermione already, at this point, would have known the truth.  How long would it be before HP figured it out?

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