Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 108908

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "romulusmmcdougal" 
<romulus at h...> wrote:
> 
> > RMM:
> > > Voldemort always refers to Peter Pettigrew using his 
Marauder  Nickname? Doesn't this all point to the fact that the 
Marauders  were studying under Voldemort at one time, and that 
most of them  decided to leave him? All except Pettigrew 
perhaps?
> 
<snip>
> Josh,
> Pettigrew knew Voldemort BEFORE he betrayed Padfoot and 
Prongs. He was after all the double agent.
> 
> Secondly, since when does his preference hold any water with 
the DL?<

Consider: Voldemort knows Dumbledore has a spy in the DE's 
and so he picks a code name which deliberately taunts the 
Marauders and sets them to suspecting one another. The only 
person they don't suspect is the real Wormtail, cunningly 
disguised as himself--or was there also another Marauder 
masquerading under the same alias? 

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there was a little Dark Magic 
in the map, acquired independently of Voldemort.   James would 
not approve--but what he doesn't know won't hurt him, right? 
Interesting that Moony's name comes first in the legend, followed 
by Wormtail's...the chief cartographer and his assistant? 

Pippin
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(the original ESE!Lupin post is 39362)