Once more - with questions. part 3.

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith"
<arrowsmithbt at ...> wrote:
>
> Why was Peter hiding in the milk-jug in Hagrid's hut?
> How long had he been shacking up with Hagrid?

The Marauder's Map doesn't show the inside of Hagrid's house. That
would be useful for hiding, whether hiding in rat form unbeknownst to
Hagrid or hiding in human form (and forced to eat rock cakes and stoat
sandwiches).

If your speculation that the Map pre-dated the Marauders is correct,
then maybe the reason it doesn't show the inside of Hagrid's house or
the inside of the Shrieking Shack is that they weren't built yet when
it was made. 

If the Marauders made the Map (I'm a sucker for Faith), one needs to
invent another reason why those insides aren't shown. I suspect
they're protected by some kind of privacy spell cast by DD(*).
Otherwise, it's hard to think that the Marauders would be so
considerate of their friend Hagrid's privacy as to leave his house off
their map

Leaving the Shack off their map is another story. They wouldn't have
felt any need to look inside it, as they were certain that they were
the only people who could enter it. Maybe they actually had some
thought of protecting their own privacies from each other by using the
Shack for activities they didn't want to be watched doing (sex springs
immediately to mind). 

(*) DD would have cast a privacy spell on the Shack to discourage
everyone from investigating it and finding the werewolf. He would have
cast one on Hagrid's house to protect him from peeping students? Or
from reporters eager to find out that he was half-Giant? Or that he
had other bad habits? Or because DD was preparing a hiding place for
use in his schemes?