Today, The Weasleys and The Grandma have known an interesting Hogwart's story about The Marauder's Map and one of its creators, Peter Pettigrew aka Wormtail, the most famous traitor in this school of witchcraft and wizardry.
The Weasleys & The Grandma have walked across this wonderful map and they have discovered its magic and its secrets.
The Marauder's Map was a magical document that revealed all of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Not only did it show every classroom, every hallway, and every corner
of the castle, but it also showed every inch of the grounds, as well as
all the secret passages that were hidden within its walls and the
location of every person in the grounds, portrayed by a dot. It was also
capable of accurately identifying each person, and was not fooled by animagi, Polyjuice Potions, or invisibility cloaks; even the Hogwarts ghosts were not exempt.
One of
the map's possible flaws was that it did not differentiate people who
had matching names, the shared names were not given a Junior or Senior
at the end. Also, it did not seem to show unplottable rooms, as it was
Dobby and not the Map that revealed the existence and location of the Room of Requirement.
The Marauder's Map was created by Remus Lupin (Moony), Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail), Sirius Black (Padfoot), and James Potter (Prongs) while they were attending Hogwarts.
The four created the map via the usage of the Homonculous Charm, a powerful and advanced charm that enchanted the Map to track the movements of everyone in the castle, as well as a charm to insult Severus Snape.
The ability of Sirius, Peter, and James to become Animagi
enabled them to explore the castle grounds by night undetected. The
interior of the castle, meanwhile, was mapped over time with the help of
James's Invisibility cloak.
This artefact proved quite useful to the foursome, commonly termed the Marauders, through the years, until it was confiscated by Argus Filch. Although
the precise circumstances surrounding the makers' loss of their map is
mostly unknown, it is easy to conclude that they eventually over-reached
themselves and were cornered by Filch, probably on a tip-off from
Snape, whose obsession it had become to expose his arch-rival, James Potter, in wrongdoing.
The masterpiece of a map was confiscated in Sirius, James, Remus and Peter's final year and none of them were able to steal it back from a well-prepared and suspicious Filch.
Harry used the Map throughout his time as a student at Hogwarts,
especially during his third year, when he tried to find his way into
Hogsmeade. Then, he used the One-Eyed Witch Passage which led into
Honeydukes cellar.
Professor Remus Lupin caught Harry with the Map after Snape found it while interrogating Harry, and subsequently confiscated it, surprising the younger wizard with his knowledge of how to activate it.
The Map was the real reason Professor Lupin discovered Peter Pettigrew was still alive, leading him to conclude it was indeed the latter that had betrayed Harry's parents, in the process framing their old friend Sirius Black for the crime.
This would go a long way towards repairing the rift between the two co-creators of the map. He would return the map to Harry before leaving Hogwarts
at the end of the year, seeing no regret in doing so since he is no
longer a teacher, and that he has no further use for the map himself.
The Map is normally
disguised as a blank piece of parchment. To view the map, one must tap
it with one's wand and recite, I solemnly swear that I am up to no
good.
The content of the Map will then reveal itself. To hide the contents of the Map so the parchment appears blank again, one must again tap it and recite, Mischief managed.
An added bonus is that if the bearer of the map approaches the entrance
to a secret passage protected by a password, the password will appear
on the Map, usually as a speech bubble that appears close to the dot representing the Map's holder.
In some
rare cases, the map may not be used to the best of its ability. Heading
out through the secret passage from the Whomping Willow to the Shrieking
Shack will make the person disappear, as Snape mentions, so the
Shrieking Shack is not included on the map because it goes off the edge
of the map.
It also
does not show any person that may be inside the Room of Requirement, as
the Room of Requirement is unplottable and it itself does not show up on
the map, or the Chamber of Secrets, as it is very unlikely that any of
the creators of the map knew of its existence at the time that the map
was made.
Similarly,
it identifies animagi by their actual name even when they are in their
transformed state. It was by this mechanism that Lupin was able to identify Peter Pettigrew's presence at Hogwarts despite being presumed dead.
The Map
is enchanted to insult Severus Snape if he should ever come into
possession of it and attempt to use it. It did this when Snape
confiscated it from Harry Potter and attempted to discover what information it contains, but it simply insulted him as an ugly git.
The Map
also shows how to access the sealed passages by showing the password
required to unseal it, displayed as a minuscule speech balloon shown
close to the dot representing the user of the map that appears when the Map's
holder comes close to the available passages. More importantly, the map
shows the name and location of every person within the Hogwarts grounds, even if they are wearing an Invisibility cloak.
Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot,
and Prongs Purveyors of Aids to
Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present.
The Marauder's Map
Peter Pettigrew, usually referred to as Wormtail or Scabbers, is a wizard and the son of Mr and Mrs Pettigrew. He began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Gryffindor House after the Sorting Hat pondered over which house he belonged in for over five minutes, a true Hatstall.
During his years at Hogwarts, he became one of the Marauders; he was best friends with Sirius Black, James Potter, and Remus Lupin, and together they created the Marauder's Map.
During the First Wizarding War, Peter was a member of the Order of the Phoenix, but became a spy when he was coerced into joining Lord Voldemort. He was made Secret-Keeper for the Potters when they went into hiding with the use of the Fidelius Charm, and betrayed James, his wife Lily, and their son Harry to Lord Voldemort.
After Voldemort's fall, he faked his own death and framed Sirius for betraying James and Lily, as well as for his own murder and those of the twelve Muggles he killed during his escape.
Peter spent twelve years living in his Animagus form as the Weasley family's pet rat, Scabbers.
However, his identity was exposed by Sirius and Remus in 1994, and Pettigrew, with nowhere else to go, sought protection in returning to the service of Lord Voldemort, whom he found in the forests of Albania.
Pettigrew played a key role in Voldemort's
rebirth and continued to serve him during the Second Wizarding War.
During the Skirmish at Malfoy Manor, in a moment of rare mercy, he
hesitated to strangle Harry. The silver hand Lord Voldemort had given Pettigrew interpreted his hesitation as weakness and/or disloyalty, and strangled him to death, saving Harry and finally finding redemption for his treason.
Pettigrew soon became friends
with Sirius Black, James Potter, and Remus Lupin, fellow Gryffindors he
idolised for their popularity and talent. The four friends called
themselves the Marauders and designed a map to navigate Hogwarts.
After graduating from Hogwarts, Pettigrew and his friends joined the Order of the Phoenix and fought against Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War. However, Pettigrew began working as a spy for Voldemort, having come to believe that nothing could be gained from opposing him.
After a prophecy was made regarding Harry Potter and the Dark Lord, James and Lily Potter took their son and went into hiding. In an attempt at misdirection, they were convinced to select Pettigrew as their Secret-Keeper by Sirius Black.
On Hallowe'en night,
Pettigrew betrayed his friends, and Voldemort murdered James and Lily,
but was unable to do the same to their son when his Killing Curse
rebounded, destroying his physical form.
Apart from James and Lily, Sirius Black was the only person who knew that Pettigrew had been their Secret-Keeper. When he realised what Pettigrew had done, as his hiding place was empty with no signs of a struggle, he tracked him down hoping to avenge his friends.
When he closed in on him, Pettigrew screamed that Sirius had betrayed the Potters for everyone to hear, and before Black could draw his wand, Pettigrew swiftly
pulled out his from his back and then killed twelve Muggles by blowing
up the street with a Blasting Curse, which created a crater large enough
that the sewer pipes were showing. He then faked his own death by
cutting off a finger and leaving it behind as he transformed into a rat
and fled.
Sirius was arrested for being a Death Eater, killing Pettigrew and the Muggles, and betraying the Potters, and was imprisoned in Azkaban without a trial.
The
surviving Muggles who witnessed the event had their memories erased and
were given an excuse by the Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee that a
gas-leak occurred.
Pettigrew went into hiding as a rat, hoping to avoid Lord Voldemort's other supporters. Looking for a wizarding family to take him in, he came into the possession of Percy Weasley and, later, Percy's youngest brother Ron. He was taken good care of while living with the Weasleys and was named Scabbers.
Pettigrew was an extremely short man, no taller than Harry when he was thirteen or Hermione
when she was fourteen years old, with grubby skin, small watery eyes,
and a pointed nose, all of which were lingering attributes of his
animagus rat form; he even spoke in a squeaky voice that is another
lingering attribute of his rat form. In his youth, his hair was mousy
brown, but by his mid-thirties, it had thinned, lost a lot of its
colour, and acquired a large bald patch.
Peter Pettigrew was characterised by weakness. Despite having been Sorted into Gryffindor,
he did not possess true bravery, possibly proving that the Hat saw
potential in him rather than any actual inborn courage, potential that
he never lived up to.
And you understood Wormtail too...
you knew there was a bit of regret there,
somewhere...
Peter Pettigrew
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