Marauders

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No: HPFGUIDX 19068

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., foxmoth at q... wrote:
> --- 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


I tend to believe that JKR's usage of "gang" may be quite different 
from the ruffians we tend to think of when we hear that term.  I 
suspect she's just referring to folks that run around together.  
(although in Dudley's case, I suspect the ruffian moniker fits. <g>

Peace & Plenty, 

Parker