The Map

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 88690

"tonyaminton" wrote:
How did Fred and George figure out how to use the map??  I mean how 
did they randomly figure out "I solemnly swear I am up to no good" 
were the correct words to open the map??  

Arya now:
I've always assumed from the Snape/map scene in PoA that the map 
holds a sort of sentience.  It was able to recognize Snape (and 
appropriately insult him--greasy git with an overly large nose) for 
who he was and also as someone who was not meant to see the map for 
what it is.  I imagine Fred and George nicking the parchment from 
the "Highly Dangerous" file and then pondering over it and what it 
was when, all of a sudden, the parchment starts to talk to them.  
Maybe questions their worthiness as rule breakers and mischief makers 
and, finding their aims in accordance with the ways of the 
Maurauders, allows them the pass phrase.  

~~Arya~~ (who thinks Harry should have a talk with the map sometime)