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

[romuluslupin1]

No: HPFGUIDX 113873

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bex" <hubbarrk at r...> wrote:
> Well, I don't agree with your entire post: I don't think our 
> favorite Rat-man was in Hogsmeade with Ron. If he had been, he 
would 
> have certainly heard about the Map, and surely would have 
> disappeared over the holidays. Not waiting until February, for 
sure. 
> He would have been concerned with exactly what Carol was thinking 
> earlier: someone would have seen the name "Peter Pettigrew" and 
> started wondering. (snip) 
> And as for why the twins never noticed a Peter Pettigrew? Well, 
> there are several reasons:
> 1) As someone pointed out a few posts ago, when canon says the 
print 
> on the MM is miniscule, it means /miniscule/. (snip)> 
> 2) It's pretty clear that students (Gryffindors, at least) don't 
> associate with other students outside their house and/or year. In 
> the off chance that the twins noticed a Peter Pettigrew, they may 
> have written it off as a student they don't know. (snip)> 
> 3) Gred and Forge's main concerns were finding hiding places, 
secret 
> tunnels, secret rooms, and in general doing things they shouldn't 
> have been doing, most likely out of bed after hours. Thus their 
main 
> concern would have been who was in the hall they were in, who was 
> close enough to hear them, and perhaps which professors were 
where. 
> (If they saw Snape coming, they'd probably run and hide, whereas 
> Trelawny on patrol might buy some wild story about why they were 
out 
> of bed at night.) They wouldn't need to look at the dorm rooms 
> (where Rat-man usually hung out), because, aside from Poindexter 
> Percy, no one in the dorm rooms would give them any trouble.
> 
> I think that's enough reasons... what do you think?
> 
> ~Yb

RL here:
I agree with your post. I have one point to make. I think the 
Marauders never appear on the map by their full names, but only by 
their nicknames. I doubt F&G or HP ever noticed a tiny dot in the 
dorms saying Wormtail and they'd never connect it with Peter 
Pettigrew. Remus, OTOH, knew pwefwctly well who Wormtail was and 
that he was supposed to be dead. Plus he was looking at the exact 
spot where he happened to be, oming out of Hagrid's hut.

Romulus Lupin, slowly catching up with past posts