And the Weasley twins weren’t about to turn the Map over to Dumbledore. It would have been an unforgivable insult to the Marauders—the four unknowns who’d managed to steal part of the Hogwarts security system, something probably forged by Salazar Slytherin himself, and twist it into a tool for student pranking.
Not literally. It’s possinle that the Marauders stole some other thing, and repurposed it into the Map.
But honestly, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew were none of them great wizards, especially in their teens, so the less their involvement in the Map’s creation, the more plausible I find the theory.
In canon, the map was made by Harry’s dad and his three friends.
HPMOR seems to have changed this.
That is not literally a contradiction.
Not literally. It’s possinle that the Marauders stole some other thing, and repurposed it into the Map.
But honestly, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew were none of them great wizards, especially in their teens, so the less their involvement in the Map’s creation, the more plausible I find the theory.