Wednesday, 4 November 2015

harry potter - How could the Marauder's Map plot Hogwarts?

According to the Marauder's map entry on Harry Potter Wikia,




The Marauder's Map is a magical document that reveals all of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Not only does it show every classroom, every hallway, and every corner of the castle, but it also shows every inch of the grounds, as well as all the secret passages that are hidden within its walls and the location of every person in the grounds, portrayed by a dot.




But the same wiki's entry for Unplottability discusses the fact that Hogwarts is unplottable and includes this bit:




Unplottable locations are either magically hidden from plain sight or simply removed on maps.




Don't these directly contradict each other? If Hogwarts cannot be plotted on any map, how could the Marauder's map so accurately plot every bit of the castle?

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