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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 113616

> Angie wrote:  
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> Filch confiscated it from the Marauders.  The twins wouldn't have 
> told Percy about stealing itl  So it's likely Pettigrew never knew 
> they had the map. Some readers think Lupin was looking for it when 
> he "searched" for a Boggart in Filch's office.
> 
> Does anyone remember when Ron found out about the map?  Had Scabbers 
> already fled?
> Potioncat

Carol:
Ron found out about the map (but didn't actually see it) right after
Harry surprised him and Hermione by showing up at Honeydukes just
before Christmas (PoA 198). Scabbers was presumably in Ron's pocket
and must have overheard the conversation. He would also have heard
McGonagall, Fudge, et al. discussing his supposed death in the Three
Broomsticks that same day, so he would not want Harry to see his name
on the map and realize that he was alive. But it's not until
February--just before Sirius Black's second attack--that Scabbers/PP
fakes his own death. Ron and Harry hear Neville tell Sir Cadogan that
he's lost the passwords (249), and then Ron goes upstairs to give
Scabbers his tonic and discovers that Scabbers has been "killed"
(250-51). That same night Sirius Black slashes Ron's bedcurtains with
a twelve-inch knife. Somehow Scabbers knows that Crookshanks (who, of
course, has always known that Scabbers was an animagus and really has
been trying to kill him) has given Black the passwords and that his
life is in very real danger. The map, Crookshanks' claws, the
sneakoscope going off--none of these was enough in itself or even in
combination to spur lazy Peter to action. But he must have seen
Crookshanks take the passwords from Neville's bedside table and
realized that it was time to take action.

Carol, who thanks Angie for making her go back through the sequence of
events but still wonders why the twins never saw PP on the map and
wondered who he was