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

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> 1. Did you think about Lupin's mention about the Whomping Willow
> being planted the year he arrived at Hogwarts was significant? Did you think the
> Whomping Willow being planted over a secret passage would become important?

Potioncat;
Lupin and Snape both discuss the tree at different times. You'd think either one of them would be glad for it to be destroyed.

 
> 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?
Potioncat:
Harry continued to keep information from Lupin (seeing the Grim, half-wanting to hear his mother's voice). As others have said, Lupin was with Harry when Harry first contacted Dementors.
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> 3. From the description of his "sudden motions" during his
> discussion with Harry, did you grow suspicious that Lupin might know more than he was letting on?
Potioncat: yes, and more so as the years went on. As I read it this time, it just seemed appropriate to what Lupin was hearing Harry say.
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> 4. The "passwords" to operate the Maurauder's Map are quite
> complicated. How do you think Fred and George figured them out?

Potioncat:
I used to wonder, but at this reading I saw that the map actually gives Harry the command for opening the witch's hump. And since it can interact with Snape, I think it could interact with anyone who picked it up. I think it may have coaxed the twins on. 
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> 9. How did you think Sirius Black was able to remain unaffected by
> the Dementors in Azkaban?

Potioncat: Clearly he's using Snape's preferred method of dealing with Dementors. 

Thanks for the discusssion.