Harry Potter Marauders' Map thoughts

Oni_Rinku

Knower of Stuff
#1
To keep this short and sweet I was thinking about how Fred and George never saw Peter Petegrew's name on the map while they used it, and I think that I figured it out.

As Wormtail was one of the Marauders, he probably knew the inner workings of how it worked and would thus be able to confuse it. Being a pet of Percy would allow him to be near the twins and he might have overheard them talking about a map. All he would have to do then is wait until there was no one around him and cast a spell.

I know fannon states that Peter was only riding on the coattails of the other three, but there is nothing in cannon to state that. It only says that he was looking to be on the winning side.

As to why he appeared on the map in Harry's third year is simple. Sirius Black escapes Azkaban and when Peter finds out is terrified. Peter knows that Sirius will hunt him down for betrayal and in his panic forgets to cast what I'm calling in my head, the hiding spell.

Any thoughts?
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
#2
This has been the standard workaround for years, so instead let's hijack this thread to talk about something more interesting: Harry opens up the map one day and instead of hogwarts he's greeted to OUR PRIVACY POLICY HAS UPDATED.
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
#3
Shirotsume said:
This has been the standard workaround for years, so instead let's hijack this thread to talk about something more interesting: Harry opens up the map one day and instead of hogwarts he's greeted to OUR PRIVACY POLICY HAS UPDATED.
Well, there's my belly laugh for the day. Thanks for that, Shirotsume. :)
 

chronodekar

Obsessively signs his posts
Staff member
#4
ROTFL ... :D

Hmm... that actually gives me an idea. What if, on accepting the T&C, BOTH Sirus and Wormtail know (via magic) who is using the map and what might be indicated on it? Being the original creators?

Not sure what to do from there, but it's interesting to think about it - Sirus in Askaban suddenly getting a mental ring-tone no one else can hear or see - "a pair of twins has logged in" or some such. He stays sane listening/watching their antics. As for Wormtail - yeah, he just hides and tries to avoid Sirius detecting him.

-chronodekar
 

Prince Charon

Well-Known Member
#5
ROTFL ... :D

Hmm... that actually gives me an idea. What if, on accepting the T&C, BOTH Sirus and Wormtail know (via magic) who is using the map and what might be indicated on it? Being the original creators?

Not sure what to do from there, but it's interesting to think about it - Sirus in Askaban suddenly getting a mental ring-tone no one else can hear or see - "a pair of twins has logged in" or some such. He stays sane listening/watching their antics. As for Wormtail - yeah, he just hides and tries to avoid Sirius detecting him.

-chronodekar
There's a potential story in that.
 
Top