The Marauder's Map

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No: HPFGUIDX 143817

aanchalmehra7:
> In the 3rd book of HP Series Fred and George gave Harry the 
> Marauder's Map which they had stolen from Argus Filch's office, if 
> Filch did'not know how do use the map then how come Fred and 
> George were able to say the exact words which revealed the secret 
> of the Marauder's Map?


Christina:

This is one of those questions that bothered me for the LONGEST 
TIME; JKR gave her answer in an interview:

(QUOTE)

MA: How did they figure out how to work the map?

JKR: Don't you — well. This is how I explained it to myself at the 
time, and this does sound glib. Don't you think it would be quite a 
Fred and Georgeish thing to say in jest, and then see this thing 
transform? 

MA: Yeah.

JKR: Can't you just see them?

ES: But the exact word combination? Is that just a lot of luck, or 
Felix Felicis — 

JKR: Or, the map helped. 

MA: Yep, yeah. You can see them sort of answering and joking with 
each other —

JKR: And the map flickering into life here and there when they got 
closer and closer, and finally they hit upon the exact right word 
combination and it just erupts. 

(ENDQUOTE)

Christina