Marauder's Map, A History; Wasn't Wormtail Worried?

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 113233

Angie
"But if MWPP left the map to other students, it looks like Wormtail 
would have worried about being caught because he wouldn't know the 
map was in Filch's office.  Maybe he felt that he had no choice but 
to risk it?"

DuffyPoo:
I think the map was taken from MWPP, otherwise, how would Lupin know when it was confiscated and by whom?  Presumably MWPP knew that Filch didn't know how to work it, whether or not they knew he was a squib, only because the tunnels/whatever were unguarded/still open.

Eloise said:
"Begs the question of where Scabbers was at the time. Does Ron 
habitually carry him around? Was he there when Harry explained about 
the map? I don't think Harry uses it again before Scabbers 
disappears, but it seems a little unlikely that they *never* 
discussed it at all in the intervening month, especially as it was 
the holidays and they would have had plenty of opportunity to speak 
to each other openly without risk of being overheard."

DuffyPoo:
I get the impression Scabbers spent most of his time asleep on Ron's bed, or somewhere else in that room.  I can't imagine Ron drags him to class every day.  Hermione doesn't appear to take Crookshanks nor Harry, Hedwig, although Trevor does show up in Potions class once.  Harry told Ron and Hermione about the map while they were in Hogsmeade.  Perhaps overhearing a conversation about the map is what made Wormtail run for it.  He knew Hagrid's hut wasn't on the map and he knew Sirius was somewhere in the vicinity of the school as he had already attempted to break in on Hallowe'en.  He certainly would have heard about that.  






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