How did MWPP make the Maunderer's Map?

[Tim]

No: HPFGUIDX 154200

Hagrid Wrote:

 > The Map has blind spots where it can't see anyone. So how come some
 > areas show up and not others?
 >
 >The three areas not shown on the map I know of are:-
 >
 >- Hagrid's Hut (or Lupin would have seen Pettigrew there - POA)
 >- Room of Requirements (where Draco disappeared off the map - HBP)
 >- The Chamber of Secrets has never been mentioned again.
 >
 > Do the makers of the map have to have been in those areas of Hogwarts
 > to be able to include them on the map?

 > - If so, Hagrid didn't trust them enough to allow them into his hut.
 > - They never discovered the secrets of the Room of Requirements.
 > - They couldn't open the Chamber - just as well for all of Hogwarts.
 >
 > - BUT ... it also means they got into the Slytherin Common Rooom to
 > plot that on the map because Harry sees Draco on the map when he is
 > back in the Common room(HBP).
 >
 > Agree? / Disagree? / what would MWPP be doing there? Was it Pettigrew
 > (as a Rat) that crept around plotting some areas? Would his map making
 > skill come back into book 7? What do u think?


I don't have a lot to say about this bar a bit of shallow reasoning.
And I think you're right to raise them.

1. Hagrid's Hut - Isn't it impolite to spy on friends, assuming of 
course that Hagrid shared the same relationship with the Marauders as he 
does with Fred and George. I think Hagrid did trust them. Hagrid I feel 
would have seen/felt the good in them and that to me appears to be the 
way Hagrid judges people - with his heart, (well it's more accurate than 
his head at least)
2. Well I think that's been explained in a book, GoF, or HBP with its 
(possibly) unplottable  nature.
3. They weren't looking for the chamber. Probably didn't know/believe of 
its existence outside of folklore.

4. To me it doesn't appear too difficult to get into the Slytherin 
Common Room, and as it isn't  that big of a school, and the resentment 
felt by the marauders toward slyth's and allies, that isn't too 
surprising. To me, if i think back to my school days there wasn't a 
single room, good hiding spot (ie behind the bike sheds type of thing), 
camera blackspot, secret that  I didn't know about. And especially since 
the privileged position favoured kids like the Marauders (and myself ) 
do get kind of given a bit of license.

What would MWPP be doing there? Snape comes to mind.

HOw? Two Words - invisibility cloak oh and fearlessness (three)

As for Peter's mapmaking skill, I thik enough has been said in canon to 
show that Pettigrew's talent only stretches ads far as the wizard 
instructing him. Cos & GoF and I would personally prefer not to think to 
highly of him.

Tim, who is apologising most profusely  for his cynical tone and the 
overuse of brackets and dashes in his writing, and plagerising the use 
of comments after his name.