[HPforGrownups] Re: Perseus Evans theory

[Julie Stevenson]

No: HPFGUIDX 88283

> > Julie wrote:  In other words, we have no contemporary record of him 
>being called
>'Severus'  or 'Snape' during his Hogwarts years.
>
>Carol wrote: Actually, we do. MWPP were teenagers when they created the 
>Marauder's
>Map and presumably the handwriting that appears on the map in response
>to Snape's command to "yield the information you conceal" is from that
>teenage perspective, not that of the adult selves who had long since
>lost possession of the map. The boys in the map (or their magically
>captured personas) know exactly who Snape is, but they're surprised
>that the Severus Snape they knew became a Hogwarts teacher. I can
>quote the passage if need be. It's in GoF, chapter 14, "Snape's
>Grudge" (pp. 286-87, Am. ed.).

I'm familiar with the sequence you're referring to, Carol. And yes, it does 
appear that the name Snape is familiar to the Marauder's Map...but is it? Or 
is it just as Lupin notes, that the parchment is charmed to respond with 
insults based on currently-viewed details about the person attempting to 
extract information without the password?

Prisoner of Azkaban, ch.14 p.288 (American hardback edition) -- "Full of 
Dark Magic?" he [Lupin] repeated mildly. "Do you really think so, Severus? 
It looks to me as though it [The Marauder's Map] is merely a piece of 
parchment that insults anybody who reads it."

I'd think that if there was more personal information known by the Map about 
Snape from the past, that old nickname 'Snivellus' might have been used in 
the map's messages. Given that the Map refers to Snape's large nose, being 
an ugly git, needing to wash his hair and is an idiot, it seems that the Map 
seems to know him from the past (particularly in that statement where it 
expresses astonishment that Snape would be a professor). But does it? Or 
does the Map have the ability to draw its information in order to insult 
from the current holder, and it's not pre-programmed to recognize Snape? I 
think it might be argued either way.

This is just one of those things that we don't have enough information about 
yet, to speak conclusively.

-- Julie

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