Marauders

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No: HPFGUIDX 19141

*waves at everyone*  Hi, I'm Darice, I'm new to this group...


"Claire Weale" <clairey at a...> wrote:
> little Alex...
>> I don't think of it as a club, more like, a secret
>>  society, a bit like... The Dead Poets Society.
>  
> Ok, I'm agreed w/the dead poets society. I just get a bit angry at 
> people when they talk about them as if they were a club (secret 
> handshakes!!!). But i do think they could have come up with a 
> better name if they were a "secret society". Then again, i dont 
> know much of the "histoy", maybe they did "maraud"...

I took the Hermione-pedantic approach and looked up the reference:

(p. 192, American)

    Messers. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
     Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers
                 are proud to present
                  The Marauder's Map

Note the punctuation on Marauder's Map - it's not the plural 
(Marauders' Map) - it's singular, as in "a map for the use of 
marauding".

Note also that MWPP describe themselves as "Purveyors of Aids to 
Magical Mischief-Makers" - sounds a bit like Gred and Forge, eh?

- Darice