Perseus Evans theory

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88338

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arcum42" <Arcum_Dagsson at c...>
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Julie Stevenson"
> <ldyisabella at h...> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> <snip>
> > 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.
> 
> It wouldn't need to draw its information from the current holder. 
> The Marauders Map displays the real name of everyone on it, therefore
> it already knows the name Snape. OTOH, this indicate that his true 
> name is "Severus Snape" (He was shown on the map in PoA)
> 
> 
> Of course, its possible, if it was an official name change, that it
> may be reflected on the map.
> 
> --Arcum

If that were the case, wouldn't Bartemius crouch (Jr.) show up with
his current name, Alastor Moody? I think it simply knows and reveals
each person's real name. (BTW, there isn't a shred of evidence that
Snape ever had any other name. The Perseus Evans anagram is not
canonical, like Tom Marvolo Riddle/I am Lord Voldemort. It's a fan
"discovery" and probably pure coincidence.

Carol, who still thinks that Padfoot's "astonishment that an idiot
like that ever became a professor" indicates clearly that he knew
Severus Snape by that name when they were both teenagers.