I mean really? Who came up with those fibs that are obviously not true. Who would believe that?!

Well, what would have to happen to Ron for him to become like Dumbledore? Then it's only a simple matter of going back in time, confusing Rita Skeeter, and a whole lot of other people!

I think I neglected to say that all the therories I mentioned were from before the end of the series. So obviously none of them work, but it's still really cool to think of. 

And to explain the Ronbledore theory, yes, it works if you ignore the Deathly Hallows (which was not out when it was invented). Dumbledore would have been Ron from the future (which would explain the beard, hair and glasses.) Also:

(a) Dumbledore has a scar on his left leg, Ron breaks his left leg

(b) They both have red hair

(c) Bertie Bott's beans weren't invented when Dumbledore was a child, yet he mentions being scarred for life after eating one as a child

(d) They bother have long fingers

(e) What Dumbledore says he sees in the Mirror Of Erised? Could have been Ron missing his mother's socks

Just want to point a few things out for this - I'm inclined to agree wiht some of them, but others, I can see reason in. 

-They don't really mention where Scabbers is in the day - he could have been running loose in the school, and Fred and George would have thought that he was a kid they didn't know. And I don't know if, during the two something years that they had the map and Ron was at school, how often they'd look for their brother while he was with Scabbers. 

- Voldemort might have wanted to let the Malfoys redeem themselves - or maybe was afraid that he'd lose one of his better wizards to a sudden nondead Harry. Also, he has such a big ego that he's convinced that he's the most powerful of the group, I believe, so he thinks he would be able would be able to keep track of Narcissa's thoughts to tell him the truth. (And, apparently she's a good at Legilimenency.) 

-I'm not getting how Dumbledore would know that Voldemort would kill Snape - or, if he did, if Nagini would have been covered in a beozar - remember, there are certain venoms and potions that a beozar can't help with (for instance, a basilik's poinson). 

- Maybe Lupin was so occupied, like Snape must have been, by the name "Sirius Black" or "Peter Pettigrew" on the map that he didn't bother to notice that Harry and Hermione's names were on there twice. Sirius and Peter would have stood out, and if he found Harry's name near them, why would he bother to look again? 

-  I thought Snape did tell Dumbledore that Voldemort was back . . .

- No argument - but, then again, they didn't think that he'd be able to do it. I'll bet that they were secretly trying to do something themselves, and let him be humiliated when they get it done. Or, I hope they were doing something, too.  

- Sirius "showed" the ability to be a Dark Wizard, and his family was essentially all Slytherin. The proof of Pettigrew's "last words" were also not helping Sirius' reputation. 

Again, I don't want to ridicule you, but that website, and provide suggestions to people why things might be that way.  

Voldemort had long fingers too. Interesting...