Did Snape see Peter on the Map or not? WAS: Re: Essays about Snape on Lexicon

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 146104

Alla:
> It is especially questionable, IF we are not sure about the timing. 
> How do we know that Snape indeed took a look on the Map only when 
> Sirius already dragged Ron to Shack.
> 
> Do we even know from anybody else that Shack is indeed off the Map? 
> I just don't remember, but it could be so of course.


Pippin:
Harry, Lupin, and Sirius (and I suppose Ron and Hermione)  have all 
seen the map and all of them accept Snape's story. They must
know the map doesn't show the whole tunnel. 

Lupin says he saw Sirius pull Ron and Pettigrew into the tunnel,
so obviously they had entered it by the time Snape saw the map.
Since the map doesn't show the whole tunnel,  Ron needn't have 
been dragged all the way to the shack before going out of sight.

After Lupin enters the tunnel, Hagrid comes by and "meanders"
up to the castle. It's only after he's reached it that Snape appears, so
it's certainly possible that Ron and the rest were out of sight on the
map when Snape looked at it.. 

That isn't the only questionable point in the essay. It also describes
Snape as looking at Harry with sheer hatred at the opening feast,
when canon only says that Harry got the impression Snape didn't
like him at all. He didn't decide that Snape hated him until later,
after classes began.
 

Pippin