The Marauder's Map and an unsigned permission note, Escaping trouble or justice? |
 Jul 16 2008, 04:19 PM
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Madame Pince's House Elf  Posts: 4,716 Joined: 5:46pm January 28, 2005 Location: In HP Book Club 5, awaiting Deathly Hallow's release.  |
 THE MARAUDERS MAP AND THE PERMISSION NOTE If the first book in the Harry Potter series featuring the seven tasks to reach the Philosopher's Stone, is about people's deepest desires, and COS, featuring Gilderoy Lockhart's autobiographical seven textbooks about his adventures, is about friendship and its misuse, then how would the number seven feature in POA? The third book in the series starts with a television news item discusses briefly the escape of a dangerous criminal, Sirius Black. Sirius Black, of course, is the Prisoner of Azkaban of the third book's title. But after Aunt Marge's disastrous visit to the Dursleys, Sirius Black will scarcely be the only one who will have an urge to escape prison-like conditions . How many people or characters escape punishment throughout POA altogether, how often, who were they, and what did they do to deserve it? Try the poll and choose for yourself. You may pick more than one instance in each section Did you get more than seven instances of characters escaping punishment, deserved or not? Then you win a ticket to next book's World Quidditch Cup. Harry received a permission note to visit Hogsmeade, an authorised escape from the routine of Hogwarts enjoyed by older students, providing the note is signed by a parent or legal guardian. But after Aunt Marge rudely insults Harry's parents, he leaves 4 Privet Drive without succeeding in getting Uncle Vernon' signature and subsequently finds it impossible that anyone else would rectify the omission. How important was the unsigned permission note to how Harry would spend the rest of the year in POA? Would you consider that Harry's unsigned permission note, stopping him going to Hogsmeade with the rest of his classmates, was punishment enough for blowing up Aunt Marge? Why did Fudge think that Harry wouldn't be punished for 'a little thing like blowing up one's aunt'? Fred and George give Harry the Marauder's Map as an early Christmas present, perhaps as a consolation for being imprisoned at Hogwarts whilst others freely tasted the delights of Hogsmeade. This Map, which will continue to play an enormous part in the series, facilitated many of Fred and George's misdeeds, but it was compiled by an earlier bunch of mischief makers, who went by the nicknames of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. Moony, the boyhood nickname of Remus Lupin, the current DADA teacher, vouched that the map never lied, unlike Tom Riddle's diary or Gilderoy Lockhart's books. Not only did the Marauder's Map show the layout of Hogwarts but also what people were moving around in it. It also showed seven passages from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade only a couple of which could be used to leave Hogwarts secretly and securely. Why did Fred and George not give the Marauder's Map to Ron, their younger brother? Why do you think that one of the passages Fred and George said they used frequently the previous year was now blocked? How complete was the Marauder's Map's description of Hogwarts? Were there any rooms ever left off it? Why did Fred and George, who claimed they knew everything about the Marauder's Map never notice previously that Scabbers always appeared on the map as Peter Pettigrew? This was a pet rat who belonged first to Percy then to Ron. What do you think of the way the Marauder's Map insulted Snape? These questions are only to start discussion, and you may have other questions to ask. Such as this intriguing question: How many times did Scabbers escape Crookshanks and other would-be captors in POA? This post has been edited by WaggaWaggaWerewolf: Jul 19 2008, 06:52 AM --------------------  Check out Book Number 5 POA edition. |
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