KevinC comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: KevinC 30 August 2010 12:45:25AM 1 point [-]

As I recall, In MoR, the Marauder's Map is an ancient artifact that's starting to break down a bit, so "Messers Moony, Padfoot, Wormtail, and Prongs" are not Lupin, Sirius, Peter, and James Potter under animagus-based nicknames. Unless Fred and George are wrong about the Map's origins, though being the master pranksters of the MoRniverse (and canon, for that matter) it seems likely that their judgment would be sound in this case. So, evidence that MoR!Pettigrew, et. al. are not necessarily animagi.

Comment author: TobyBartels 01 September 2010 01:39:10AM *  0 points [-]

I interpreted it that the Messrs put their names on the front of this ancient artefact. From Chapter 25:

And the Weasley twins weren't about to turn the Map over to Dumbledore. It would have been an unforgivable insult to the Marauders - the four unknowns who'd managed to steal part of the Hogwarts security system, something probably forged by Salazar Slytherin himself, and twist it into a tool for student pranking.

By the way, this reminds me that the Twins seem to have found a couple of errors on the map:

"Intermittent one fixed itself again. Other one's same as ever."

(That's why they might have shown it to Dumbledore, to get it fixed.) In canon, there are important (and only apparent) errors on the map in Book 3, showing Peter Pettigrew and Bartemius Crouch. What are they showing now?

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