"Have you been spying on him too?" said Harry indignantly. "What d'you do, sneak up here in the evenings to watch the prefects take baths?"
So, no, you're not on crack. Or, hell, I don't know, maybe you are, but you didn't imagine that line, at any rate. :-D
I think that parauque was suggesting that maybe the map really did show Moody in his office all that time, but that Harry never particularly noticed it because Moody's office is precisely where Harry would usually expect Moody to be. It's a bit of a...wibble, that, but it's also true that in this particular chapter, the author does seem to be going out of her way to establish that Harry isn't paying attention to anything but moving dots:
Out in the dark corridor, Harry examined the Marauders Map to check that the coast was still clear. Yes, the dots belonging to Filch and his cat, Mrs. Norris, were safely in their office . .. nothing else seemed to be moving apart from Peeves, though he was bouncing around the trophy room on the floor above.
One possible interpretation of that paragraph is that part of its purpose is precisely to establish that Harry isn't paying any attention to stationary dots -- and therefore to excuse his not noticing any discrepancy when "Moody" comes across him a bit later in the scene.
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Date: 2005-10-25 09:19 am (UTC)So, no, you're not on crack. Or, hell, I don't know, maybe you are, but you didn't imagine that line, at any rate. :-D
I think that
Out in the dark corridor, Harry examined the Marauders Map to check that the coast was still clear. Yes, the dots belonging to Filch and his cat, Mrs. Norris, were safely in their office . .. nothing else seemed to be moving apart from Peeves, though he was bouncing around the trophy room on the floor above.
One possible interpretation of that paragraph is that part of its purpose is precisely to establish that Harry isn't paying any attention to stationary dots -- and therefore to excuse his not noticing any discrepancy when "Moody" comes across him a bit later in the scene.