Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 109334

Re: Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

 
 
 
> DuffyPoo replied:
> Snape must have understood
Lupin's meaning, which he could not protest in front of Harry without
revealing Lupin's connection to James and Sirius. He would also have
recognized that Lupin's claim to the map was better than his and 
would
have (rightly) assumed that Lupin would not return the confiscated 
map
to Harry--at least not while he was still teaching at Hogwarts.

Lupin, BTW, had his own reasons for keeping the map from Harry or
anyone else (particularly Snape and Dumbledore). He couldn't let it 
be
known that "the animagus Black" (to steal Bella's term) knew secret
passageways into Hogwarts and might well be hiding in the Shrieking
Shack. Bad Lupin! Maybe not ESE!, but still putting his own needs
before Dumbledore's--or Harry's.

Mhbobbin replies:
THis explanation of how Snape knows enough about the "Manufacturers" 
to make his comment is one that finally makes sense to me.  I also 
wonder if we're going to learn when the Map was consfiscated by 
Filch many years before. We know that Gred and Forge found the map 
in Filch's file cabinet. And that Lupin was in Filch's file cabinet 
likely looking for it before he learns that Harry already has it.  
[Lupin finds the Boggart he has Harry learn the Patronus on in 
Filch's File Cabinet.]  

I wonder if the Map confiscation is related to the notorious 
Whomping Willow incident played on Snape--there are so many 
references to the incident without us learning the full truth and 
JKR has promised more about this. Of course, the confiscation of the 
Map--which Filch doesn't know how to work--could have been some 
other time as well. It's just that the WW incident keeps popping up 
as a defining moment in the lives of those involved. 

It apparently takes place Year Six of the Marauders' Hogwarts 
schooling [as there is a reference to being sixteen] and it still 
seems to be a defining moment in the experience of those involved. 

mhbobbin