Pettigrew parallels

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 5549

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Brandgwen G." <brandgwen at h...> 
wrote:

One hell of a good, thoughtful post.

> This really highlights one of the major differences between Harry's
> friends and James' (not to mention Harry and James).  The Maruaders
> a world where people were going Dark Side all the time. Friendships
> where not set in the same kind of stone and very few people were
> beyond reproach. 

Yes, but.... The Marauders at school could spend their time on 
practical jokes a la Fred and George, becoming Animagi for totally 
non-political reasons, mapping the school for the sake of sneaking 
out to have fun. They didn't spend their school days saving the 
world. They didn't tangle with Voldemort and the Death Eaters until 
after they left school. 

Harry was a year and a half old when he defeated V and lost his 
parents. Dumbledore referred to the bad times as 'these eleven 
years'. Unless Harry's parent had been out of school already ten 
years by the time he was born, the bad times overlapped the 
Marauders' school days.