Marauder's Map: Selective Against Marauders?

[val_gal_05]

No: HPFGUIDX 103884

Alina wrote:

>>> The map can't be selective against Marauders because Lupin saw 
Pettigrew on it, it's the reason he realized Sirius wasn't the killer. The 
reason Harry never saw Sirius on it was that he never looked at the map while 
Sirius was inside Hogwarts grounds. Sirius only snuck in once, the night he 
tried to attack Pettigrew the rat and Ron woke up screaming, right? Harry 
wasn't looking at the map, he was asleep. As for Pettigrew, well, Harry 
didn't use the map all that often and when he did, he wasn't looking at the 
areas where Ron happened to be nor the Gryffindor tower where Pettigrew 
probably stayed most of the time. I think we can probably count on one hand the amount of times Harry used the map, it's not that improbable that he didn't see Pettigrew on it.<<<

Val responds:

Yeah, you're probably right, and I doubt my theory is correct, but 
for the sake of defending it: I meant that you can't see MWPP if 
you're NOT one of them. Remus happens to be one of them therefore it 
still works if he can see Wormtail and Sirius on the map. Why would 
they want to do that? 'Cause when they were still in school, they'd 
want to be able to find each other and they could use the Map for 
that but they wouldn't really want that information getting anywhere 
past their little circle would they? We know that the Map is very 
selective and it adapts to the user's mind from what we can gather 
on it highlighting areas you're actually looking for, etc, right? So 
I'm sure it wouldn't have been too hard for them to make a spell so 
that only the makers could see themselves on the Map, and everyone 
else can have the full extent of it except without that little 
privelege.

Hey, while we're on the topic, does it say/does anyone know when the 
Map was made? I REALLY need to reread the books again...

Val