Marauder's map, Quirrell and related issues

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 191974



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <geoffbannister123 at ...> wrote:

> 
> The other two things cover Voldemort and Scabbers. I have already suggested 
> that perhaps the Map recognised people by their magic signature and that, when 
> Voldemort was possessing Quirrell, the latter's signs were the ones which 
> defined the person the Map was trying to identify.

Pippin:
If the map showed soul bits,  Harry would have noticed that he was carrying a fragment of Riddle. Thus, the map also would not have been able to show that Quirrell or Ginny was possessed.

Since Dumbledore tried to suppress all knowledge of horcruxes, it is possible that the Marauders never  knew that soul fragments existed, and wouldn't have designed the map to detect them. Regulus knew about them, but Sirius shunned his family's knowledge of the Dark Arts.

Pippin