Marauders (was The Old Crowd (was Mrs Figg)

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 16875

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:

> On a vaguely related note, I wonder sometimes as I write things for 
> the Lexcicon if the term Marauders was ever intended by JKR to be a 
> name for the foursome of James, Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew, or if 
> it's meant as a description of the map only: A Map To Use for 
> Marauding, and if you use it for that, you're a Marauder.

Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers
are proud to present 
THE MARAUDER'S MAP

It certainly sounds like only the Map is named Marauder. Lupin 
told Harry that the clique had written the Marauder's Map, but not 
that the clique was named the Marauders or anything else. On ffnet is 
oldish fanfic by Katie Bell in which that group of boys named 
themselves The Magical Mischief-Makers, which is just as justified by 
the text (i.e. not very). But I want to believe they named their 
group The Marauders, because it sounds good and I can claim that Lily 
was the Marauder Mascot (which alliterates better than Marauder Deb).

Steve doesn't make things up, but if anyone else reads this, are 
there any ideas on what the clique of Rosier, Wilkes, Avery, 
Lestrange, the future Mrs. Lestrange (perhaps as mascot), and Snape 
called itself? Sirius probably called them the Slimeballs, but I 
doubt that is what they called themselves.