The creation is quite amazing, as I mentioned above it was drawn entirely by hand. The illustration of the Whomping Willow on the cover for instance is made up of tiny text saying Whomping Willow and shaped to look like a trunk and branches, it’s quite beautiful. However, in the original design Miraphora, despite her perfectionist efforts is only human and made the tiniest mistake and misspelled Whomping as “Womping”. I can’t imagine the sinking feeling when she realised, after so many painstaking weeks of illustration final complete, that she’d made that minimal but still visible mistake. The error was fixed for the film, I’m not sure if Miraphora actually drew a whole new map by hand or just designed another tree that was digitally edited over the original one in post-production. Either way, we’ve all made spelling mistakes in our time, but this one had to hurt. What’s even more interesting though, is if you have a copy of the Marauder’s Map prop in your home (which you almost definitely do) look at the Whomping Willow on the front cover. My copy of the map, and I believe most others, read “Womping” as they were produced from the misspelled original. I think this adds character to the map however, as the 16 year old characters of; James, Sirius, Remus and Peter would probably have got at least some spellings wrong when writing their map. Miraphora’s mistake lives on and you know what, I’m happy it does.