Marauders

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19067

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Claire Weale" <clairey at a...> wrote:
> THE MARAUDERS!!!! I hate that title that people have given to James, 
> Sirius, Peter and Lupin. It makes them sound like a gang! They were 
> FRIENDS! They wouldn't refer to themselves as a gang! 

Maybe =they= wouldn't but Professor McGonagall does, in PoA Chapter 10,
"Black and Potter. Ringleaders of their little gang. Both very bright, 
of course -- exceptionally bright, in fact -- but I don't think we've 
ever had such a pair of troublemakers--"

Sounds like she at least would have thought The Marauders an 
appropriate name. You all do realize, if we  coin a new name for them, 
it'll be another piece of weird jargon we have to explain to the 
newcomers...we've already got the sufficiently obscure MWPP too.

Pippin, coiner of the term "Flint" ;P