[HPforGrownups] Re: Questioning the Lexicon yet again: Lucius Malfoy

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 84758

> Yolanda
> If the book hasn't referred to them as "the Marauders", then we took
> the name Marauders from the "Marauder's Map".
>
> Since it was their map, most of us would assume that they were "the
> Marauders"?
>

Iggy here:

Not necessarily.  It could just be that they named it such because it was
designed to be used by those who have deeds that break the rules and are up
to mischief... which, ultimately, is what a marauder is.

Also, if they were known as the Marauders in school, then it would be easy
for anyone who possessed the map and knew how to activate it to identify who
made it.


As we all have learned already, so far as JKR is concerned at least, never
assume anything.  (Actually, there's an old saying that goes:  When you
assume, you make an "ass" of "u" and "me".)


Iggy McSnurd