Questions tagged [marauders-map]
Use for questions directly relating to the use, creation, or properties of the Marauder's Map, a magical item in the Harry Potter series. Always use with the [harry-potter] tag.
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Why didn't Wormtail leave Hogwarts as soon as he saw Harry in possession of the Marauder's Map?
Wormtail used to live in Gryffindor's common room as Ron's pet. He was also one of the makers of the Marauder's Map and hence was aware of its working. So why didn't he fear that someday Harry might ...
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Did Harry have the Marauder's Map at any point where Scabbers was with Ron?
I'm a little lost about Prisoner of Azkaban's timeline. Did Scabbers disappear prior to Harry losing the Marauder's Map? What chapters should I be looking at?
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What is Hespprivs Hall?
We recently got some Harry Potter themed wallpaper for our downstairs toilet in the style of the Marauder's Map. Everything seems normal about it except for one room named on it as "Hespprivs Hall" (...
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How does the name "Marauder's Map" indicate that its creators are "the Marauders"?
Referring to the group of James, Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew as "the Marauders" seems to be pretty ubiquitous. There are many such references to them on this site alone; on a popular fanfiction site, ...
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Why was Lupin angry that Harry did not hand in the Marauder's Map?
In the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Professor Lupin severely reprimands Harry Potter after saving him from Severus Snape.
-- I haven't the faintest idea how this map came to be in ...
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How could the Marauders make the Marauder's Map so powerful?
The Marauder's Map is really a puzzling magical artifact for me. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry saw Barty Crouch go to Snape's inventory who used Polyjuice Potion to disguise himself as ...
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Why didn't Fred and George discover Pettigrew first with the Marauders Map? [duplicate]
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Fred & George give the Marauder’s Map to Harry. And then suddenly Harry discovers that Pettigrew is alive and in Hogwarts. But it is very strange that ...
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Why don’t the twins notice things on the marauders map?
Why don’t the twins notice anything?
I mean, come on:
First year: "Hey, Voldy's balancing on Quirrel's head."
Second year: "Hey, our sister is going somewhere that doesn’t exist."
Third year: "...
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What's the purpose of the Room of Doom?
During the film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I noticed when Harry was looking for Peter Pettigrew by following his name on the Marauder's Map in the hallways of Hogwarts Castle ...
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Do you appear on the Marauder's Map if you're dead?
I was thinking of how Barty Crouch Sr. was killed. After that was he (and other bodies) visible on the map?
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How come the Weasley twins didn't realize Wormtail was alive because of the Marauder's Map? [duplicate]
We are probably all familiar with this one: How come Fred and George don't realize the long-dead Peter Pettigrew is alive? They had the map for many years while Wormtail was at Hogwarts (he was Percy'...
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How did Crookshanks know how to stop the Whomping Willow?
Harry and Hermione were able to get to the Shrieking Shack only because Crookshanks (Hermione's pet ginger cat) knew that prodding on the knot present on the bark of the tree would stop it from ...
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How could Fred and George think there's a new tunnel if they had the Marauders' Map?
In Sorcerer's Stone we find Fred and George checking out a new passageway out of school:
"I tell you, we're going to win that Quidditch cup for sure this year,"
said Fred. "We haven't won since ...
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Could the Marauder's Map show creatures whose feet don't touch the ground?
A potential loophole came to mind when thinking of an answer to a question regarding Rita Skeeter and the Marauder's Map.
Rita is an animagus whose form is that of a beetle. She often uses this ...
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Why didn't Voldemort show up on the Marauders Map?
The Weasley twins obtained the Marauders Map some time in their first year at Hogwarts and gave it to Harry in his third year. This means that they canonically had it throughout Harry's first year ...
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