Do you think Harry Potter messed up here?

Question

Fred and George had the Marauders Map since first year.
Yet in 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' nobody knew where Ginny and the Chamber was.
They could of just used the map to find her?

Answer 1

The most likely answer is that the Marauders simply didn't know about the Chamber of Secrets, the first set of attacks on muggle born students we're WELL before their time, so there for they couldn't have included it on the map. Also it's possible that the Chamber is unplotable, like the room of requirement. Finally the Ron was the only one of Ginny's brothers who knew she was missing.

Answer 2

Well remember the Chamber was way beyond the Dungeons so it didn't show on the map, and I think the map was more like designed of the places Moody, Pawns(I don't remember the names) whatever the other two names are, well it was designed with the places they knew off in the school and since they didn't know the Chamber the Chamber couldn't show on the map.

Answer 3

The chamber wasn't there in the marauders map!

so how could they possibly find ginny and the chamber!

if the chamber was there on the map,remus,james,sirius,and wormtail would have discovered the chamber but since they are not parseltounge they could not enter the chamber!

Answer 4

When they made the map, they had to know where things were to put them on. The Chamber of Secrets was unknown to them, they never heard of it. So, obviously, they couldn't of put in on the map. When Ginny was in the Chamber, she would have been unplottable.

Answer 5

Doubt it. There are some things that aren't shown on the map. If Voldemort was in the Chamber of Secrets, I'm pretty sure it couldn't have been there since he was very sneaky.

Answer 6

Wow, that is a big mistake.

But maybe the map didn't know about the Chamber of Secrets (none of the Marauders could speak Parseltongue, so how could they have found it?) like with the room of Requirement.

Answer 7

Who says the chamber shows on the Marauder's Map? I'm sure when Slytherin built it, he took these things into account.

Answer 8

The Chamber wasn't on the map, the four marauders could not have possibly ever entered it because none of them were parselmouth's and it is probably unplottable like the room of requirement.

Answer 9

Umm I don't think the Chamber of Secrets could have been involved in the maruaders map. Remember Sirius, James, Peter and Lupin weren't there when the chamber was found, they weren't even born the first time and James was pushing up daisies in the second, Peter was a rat, Lupin was off howling and Sirius was locked up in prison.

Answer 10

It would have been made unplottable, like the Room of Requirement.

Because in the Half-Blood Prince when Harry can't find Draco, it's because he's in the Room of Requirement and you can't find it on the map, so it's likely Voldermost made the Chamber unplottable too.

Answer 11

i remember reading that the chamber of secrets wasnt on the map. after all, the slytherin house built it in secret.

and Padfoot and friends didnt know about the chamber either, so they couldnt have put it on the map.

Answer 12

^^; Well, you know how it is. When you're paniced, you don't think right. I'm guessing that the map never crossed Fred's and George's minds. I'm also guessing that they either didn't want to get caught by the teachers carrying the map, or that they didn't want to go up against whatever it was that they were afraid of.

Answer 13

no, the map makers (i.e. harry's dad + gang) don't know the existence of the chamber of secret, so the map cannot show it

Answer 14

the chamber of secrets wasn't on the map, if I remember correctly. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs didn't know it was there so they didn't put it on the map.

Answer 15

Hmm. Perhaps Voldemort was somehow keeping the chamber hidden on the map.



Or perhaps Fred and George just didn't care. ;)

Answer 16

well,it obvios then,that the chamber is can't appear in te map.and that why it call 'chamber of secret'

Answer 17

wow J.K. rowling did really mess up there

Answer 18

i didnt read harry potter.