Lily and the Marauders

[m.bockermann at t-online.de]

No: HPFGUIDX 33923

Well, I have been following the thread about Lily and the Marauders: was she
an interruption on their friendship or not?
I must admit I am not so sure about Lily anymore... I guess I will have to
ponder this further.

But one thing I am certain on: something happened to disrupt the
gang/group/clique... around James Potter. And it happened before he and
Lily were killed.

All right, I cede that Peter might have become traitorous *after* they left
the school, so that his treason does not hold that much impact.
What continues to bother me is the fact that both Sirius and Remus accepted
so easily that - as they believed - the other had turned out to be a
traitor. I mean we know that they were both close friends to James. Both
Sirius and James were close enough to help Remus with his fate by becoming
animagi.

When the Potters were killed I would have thought they would look for the
blame elsewhere: that somebody else was a traitor (maybe even Peter), that -
if the traitor was one of their friends - he or she might have been under
the influence of the Imperius curse or something entirely else. But what
*did* they do? Sirius blamed Remus, Remus blamed Sirius. No doubt, no
hesitation?

What in the world happened that made it possible for them to believe that
one of their best friends had commited treason?

If Lily was a disruptive factor for the Marauders who - without meaning -
losened the strength of their friendship... maybe that was a factor. But if
it was not, or not the deciding factor - then what was it?

Barbara Jebenstreit