Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

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No: HPFGUIDX 108968

RMM wrote:
> > Marauders indeed started mistrusting each other at one point, 
but I 
> > view it as falling in the general atmosphere of mistrust, which 
> > Voldemort created during the first war, not them being Evil.
> 
> My point was never that the Marauders were Evil people.  My point 
has 
> always been that the Marauders were playing with the dark arts 
under 
> the tutelege of Voldemort.
> 
> Some pulled back after it got nasty, and some did not.  Some saw 
it 
> for what it was, at least one did not.
> 

Potioncat:
Major Snippage of several posts.

Lupin believed, like the rest of the WW that Black had been the 
traitor.  Therefore, he believed Black, as a DE would have learned 
Dark Magic from LV.  I do not believe he was referring to a point in 
time where the 4 of them studied under LV together.

There are most likely, lots of ways to learn Dark Arts.  Polyjuice 
Potion, I believe is Dark Arts. It comes from a book in the 
restricted section and Hermione states, "This book is full of Dark 
Magic..." paraphrased.

I am not convinced the map is not Dark Magic.  Although we're told 
James hated Dark Arts, he liked to hex people.  And it's very easy 
and very "human" to convince yourself that what you do is OK, but  
what the other guy (Snape?) does is not OK.  And certainly, Black 
would have been exposed to Dark Magic at home. Would he really know 
where regular magic ended and Dark Magic began?
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