Marauder's Map, the Marauders, and Voldemort

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 109051

> 
> boyd:

snip.

> I maintain that, if any of the other Marauders besides Peter was 
> likely to have a strong relationship with Voldie, it was James. Why?
> 
> 1. We Don't know anything about him except that he was a 
> mischievous Marauder who suspected his friends of being spies for 
LV, 
> he was a git (at least to Snape), LV killed him at GH, and he's 
> Harry's dad. What part of this makes us think he wouldn't be in 
league 
> with LV? LV might have needed to kill FriendToLV!James for a number 
of 
> reasons, and being Harry's dad doesn't guartantee he was all good.



Alla:

Well, I don't know. James and Lily defied Voldemort three times, did 
not they? If at the same time James maintained close relationship 
with Voldie, that will look a little strange for me. 


Then we have that "and James hated Dark Arts" , but I suspect that 
you don't trust marauders words much... :o)



Boyd:

> 2. Who better to tell LV who the secret-keeper was? LV found out 
> somehow, and I think James told him.



Alla:


Why? To get him to kill his wife and son and himself? I mean, yes, 
the possibilities are endless, but don't you think you are 
overrreaching just a little bit? :o)



Boyd:

> 5. Some big and bangy news must await Harry's discovery about GH, 
> given the level of secrecy JKR has given it. James consorting with 
LV 
> would fit that quite well.
> 
> So was James ESE? Maybe not, but consorting with the enemy? Why not?
> 

Alla:

Care to take a bet? I will bet anything that James was not consorting 
with Voldemort. :o)


Snape, on the other hand....:o)

(I don't know if I put anything on the con for Lupin - I mean I don't 
really believe it, but Pippin is just too convincing, so I will 
reserve the possibility to be proven wrong on this one)