Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 109033

Karen:
> I think we are going to find out that Peter did a lot of ground 
work
> setting up Lupin as a traitor.  Once James and Sirius believed 
Lupin was
> the cause of the leaks, it was probably very easy to move the 
blame on
> Sirius.   Sirius and Remus each blamed the other and did not 
compare notes
> until after the events in the shrieking shack in POA.

Jen: I've always wondered what turned Sirius/James against Lupin, 
and your comment explains it, Karen! James & Sirius would no doubt 
trust each other, but be casting a wary eye at both Pettigrew & 
Lupin. Peter, sensing this, picked that opportunity to save his own 
skin and shift suspicion to Lupin (he would know better than to try 
to get James to suspect Sirius). I suspect Lupin was involved in 
trying to find work or some activity with the Order, so he was 
spending less & less time with his friends. In a time of high 
suspicion, any change in activity is viewed negatively. 

And like you said, with the death of the Potters, Peter just shifted 
the blame to Sirius, with 'evidence' to back it up.


Karen:
> Dumbledore's talk at the end of GOF and the sorting hat's song at 
the
> start of OOTP are all about trusting each other and standing 
together to
> defeat Voldemort.
> The Marauders allowed one of their members to seed the group with
> mistrust probably by using Dark Arts but that occurred after they 
left
> Hogwarts, not when they created the map.
> 
> Did Filch get the map from the creators or was the map passed down 
to
> fifth or sixth year Gryffindor?


Jen: I supposed Filch got the Map from the Marauders (maybe after 
the Prank?) and it never saw the light of day until Fred & George 
discovered it many years later. It would make sense the map got 
passed from one infamous set of troublemakers to another!! I think 
the Marauders would hang onto the map otherwise, if it wasn't 
confiscated from them at Hogwarts.