Point of Order: "The Marauders"

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 53429

Steve wrote:
> 
> It is, however, a fan convention, and it is unstoppable. ... So 
Marauders it 
> is.

First, a personal disclaimer: I have no problem with the fandom 
calling MWPP the 'marauders' or 'Marauders', even though I prefer to 
use the perfectly pronouncable Mwupup.

It is not unstoppable, but not by us.  If JKR gives them a name in a 
future book, that will win.

I think the main argument against the name 'Marauders' would really 
be that we don't know how much the map was central to their 
activities and identity.  If it turns out that they engaged - 
perhaps especially a little later, say in their seventh year - in a 
whole variety of activities of which 'marauding' was but a part, the 
name will come to seem partial.

Again, this argument depends mostly on future canon, but I think one 
can begin to see a line of reasoning under which Dumbeldore co-opts 
them and they develop their identity through that.

David, admiring Richard for his cunning in starting the apostrophe 
debate on OT-Chatter *before* raising this issue