I was listening to the scene where Harry and Hermione are hiding in a broom closet after going three hours back in time. (I've been listening to the audiobook CDs for hours and hours and hours...) Hermione was saying that she could hear the three of them, themselves, walking out in the hallway under the invisibility cloak. It suddenly occurred to me: What would they have seen on the Marauder's Map at that moment? Were they looking at the map while they were under the cloak? I couldn't remember if they had it or not.
It doesn't matter if they were. They could have been. Somebody, anybody at all, could have been looking at the Marauder's Map. Not only does it show Ron's rat as 'Peter Pettigrew...' but it also would have shown Harry and Hermione hiding in the broom closet while Harry, Hermione, and Ron were also walking by in the hallway under the cloak!
On other days, Harry would have seen two or three Hermiones in several different classrooms at once, as she was using the Time Turner to go to her classes!
If the Marauder's Map were a computer program, it would have 'crashed' every time Hermione went back in time and appeared in a different room while another one of her was somewhere else. The Marauder's Map would go to the 'Beige Screen of Death' (BSOD) and blanked itself out every time this happened, because it wouldn't have known how to deal with showing more than one Hermione, or more than one of anybody, every time they traveled in time. If it was able to display them, somebody would have found out the secret much sooner, and would have noticed that Hermione was in several places at once.
It's not really a 'plot hole,' it's more like a 'vulnerability.' It COULD have happened. Maybe they were just lucky enough that Harry never glanced at the map, and neither did anyone else, during the moments when Hermione was time traveling. Still... I was laughing when I thought of it. It could've happened....
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