CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 10: The Marauder's Map

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 189705



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carylcb" <carylcb at ...> wrote:
 
> 
> 2. Harry has an understandable reluctance to seek help from adults.
> Did you find it surprising that he readily confided in Lupin about the
> Dementors?
> 

Annemehr:

Mildly surprising, yes.  But I think he was greatly helped along by the fact that Lupin had already seen his reaction, so it wasn't as though Harry had to reveal a hidden weakness.

He may have also seen withstanding dementors as a task, like stopping Voldemort from getting the Stone, or rescuing Ginny from the Chamber, that he *had* to try to accomplish.  In PS and CoS, he also sought help from adults before going off on his own.  In this case, his request for help was granted.



> 4. The "passwords" to operate the Maurauder's Map are quite
> complicated. How do you think Fred and George figured them out?
> 

Annemehr:

Well, the map doesn't only react to certain passwords; we saw in the scene with Snape that it can interact with people.  My theory was that the map approved of Fred and George when they interacted with it, and it probably helped them along.

In fact, it seems entirely possible that the passwords we know were not ones that the Marauders programmed into the map, but ones that the map itself worked out with the twins.


 
> 
> 5. What did you think of Harry's rationalization for using the map
> (
he only wanted to use it go into Hogsmeade, it wasn't as though he wanted
> to steal anything or attack anyone
 and Fred and George had been using it for
> years without anything horrible happening
), especially after his experience
> with Riddle's diary and Mr. Weasley's warning to "never trust anything that can
> think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain?"
> 
> 

Annemehr:

I think I figured Fred and George had vetted the map, so I wasn't so much worried that the map itself was dangerous.  I thought it was more likely that Harry would get himself into trouble with it because he doesn't think things out.


> 
> 
> 6. Did you find it amusing that Ron and Harry were able to answer
> all of Hermione's protests about Harry being in Hogsmeade and that she agreed
> not to report him?
> 

Annemehr:

Very amusing.  That scene in Honeyduke's is one of my favorites, especially the way Harry sneaked up on them.


Thanks for the summary and questions, Caryl!