Current "Marauders" vs. Original Marauders

[sofie_elisabeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 31187

My parallels are such:

Ron is Sirius. They are both rash and have a bad temper. Although Ron 
doesn¡¦t always show his intelligence, he is quite clever. They are 
both fiercely loyal to their friends, but will take it into their own 
hands to punish ¡¥disloyalty¡¦. 

Harry is Remus. They are both insecure and almost look for approval 
from others. But they will take charge of a situation and keep a cool 
head. They both seems to have more controlled anger and will use it 
constructively. Harry¡¦s subject seems to be DADA (Lupin teaches it). 
They are both intelligent.

I struggled a little with Hermione but the more I thought the more 
parallels with James I saw. Hermione is the only one who is confident 
in her abilities (except for the ¡¥Are you a witch or not?¡¦ 
incident!) and she is the cleverest. She has a sense of adventure and 
fun. On closer examination of the books she is quite willing to break 
rules i.e. she opens the door that leads them to Fluffy (using magic 
in the corridors!) she suggests using the polyjuice potion and steals 
the ingredients, she uses the time-turner, keeps the fact that Lupin 
is a werewolf hidden etc. And in her own way she is possibly the 
bravest, coming to a magical school when she is muggle born and knows 
nothing of this world and then succeeding. 

So the only one I couldn¡¦t really find a parallel with is Pettigrew. 
I don¡¦t think Neville, because he has already shown himself to be 
far braver than Wormtail. My next thought was Draco, but I have no 
evidence of that and have possibly been reading too much fanfiction!

One question: How involves does everyone think Lily was with the 
marauders as it seems that she and James married almost straight out 
of school?  

Sofie