[HPforGrownups] The MAP & Ron=DD

[Helen R. Granberry]

No: HPFGUIDX 89474




"tonyaminton" <TonyaMinton at h...> wrote:
The people Harry picks out the first time he sees the Map are
Dumbledore, Peeves and Ms. Norris, 'people' he needs to watch out
for while wandering around the castle (POA, p. 193).

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I don't have my copy of books here at work to check this, but if you 
say Dumbledore has been spotted on the map, then wouldn't this be 
some fairly hard evidence that Dumbledore is indeed Albus Dumbleore 
and not Ron Weasley?  

Arya (who thinks it's odd that neither Harry nor the twins ever saw a 
Ron Weasley dot with a nearby Peter Pettigrew dot...)


>From Helen:

That's easy enough... they are the same person, yet two separate people.
Ron Weasley wasn't even born when the Map was made. He was already Albus
Dumbledore. He had already taken on that name and identity. When Ron
Weasley is actually born, he is still Ron Weasley. Dumbledore was
already on the map as Dumbledore, because that was the identity he had
taken on. When Ron shows up at Hogwarts, he's not Albus Dumbledore yet,
so he shows up as Ron Weasley.