Marauder's Map/Time Turner in POA

Tim tim at marvinhold.com
Sun Feb 22 19:13:55 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 91427

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "chappysmom" <DBoyken at a...>
wrote:
> One question (okay, two):
> 
> In POA, since Harry and Hermione repeated the three hours before 
> Sirius was captured--wouldn't they have appeared on the Marauder's 
> Map TWICE? When Lupin saw the map in his office, why didn't he see 
> the Harry & Hermione lurking outside as well as the ones who went 
> into Hagrid's hut with Ron?
> 
> And, two, since Snape saw the Marauder's Map himself, why didn't he 
> see Peter Pettigrew on it?? (Unless the Shrieking Shack is off the 
> edge of the map and Scabbers was already beyond the border when
Snape 
> saw the map? That's the only explanation I can think of, although 
> don't I remember him seeing Sirius and that's why he knew Lupin was 
> going "to" him?
> 
> Thanks, and sorry if this has been brought up--the archives are
huge 
> and I could have missed it!
> 
> Deb in NJ


Do check out the link KathyK provides to bboy's post it is
excellent.

I can add one canon data point.  If you go to the scene where Harry
first looks at the map,  you will notice thet JKR wrote something like
( I don't have book 3 with me right now):

   Harry looked at the map and a dot labled Harry Potter appeared.

She did not write that he looked for and found the dot labled Harry
Potter, it  "appeared" implying it was not there until after he
started  looking at the map.

Tim





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