Marauders and Lord Voldemort

[romulusmmcdougal]

No: HPFGUIDX 109184

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amey Chinchorkar" 
<sherlockholme_ac at r...> wrote:
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> Also as for his teaching them, when he had the time to dabble into 
Dark Arts, travel far and wide and taech in Hogwarts?

Amey,
Tom Riddle left school, traveled far and wide, then returned to 
Hogwarts.  He gained a teaching position at Hogwarts based on his 
reputation -- which would be spotless since Voldemort had yet to 
openly show himself.
He then began his program of gathering his disciples -- he probably 
had many from his travels as well -- see Karkaroff from Durmstrang.  
Perhaps Karkaroff helped Voldemort gain a position at Hogwarts with a 
Reference.
As for Dumbledore, please note that Dumbledore is always one to give 
a person a chance to prove himself.  See Lupin, Snape, etc. for 
examples.  He probably saw how pathetic Tom looked and his heart went 
out to him.  Only later and in hindsight could Dumbledore see that 
Tom had sunk so deeply into the Dark Arts.
Now, and I am revising these numbers as new facts come in, from about 
1970 to 1978 or 79 Voldemort is gaining disciples from his teaching 
position at Hogwarts.



> I believe
> 
> 
> -	Heck, Hermione, Harry and Ron are in their second year and 
they are
> -	already dabbling in the dark arts (Polyjuice Potion).
> 
> Amey:
> Polyjuice Potion is never mentioned as a piece of Dark Art or else 
>Dumbledore would have told Harry in CoS.

Actually the recipe came from a book in the restricted area of the 
library and Hermione said that the book was full of the Dark Arts.


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> 
> Amey:
> You are forgetting one important thing:
> 
> "From what I found out after he died, he got in so far, then 
panicked about what he was being asked to do and tried to back out. 
Well, you don't just hand in your resignation to Voldemort. It's a 
lifetime of service or death.'" (PoA)
> 
> So, how come the Marauders came out without a scratch?

Amey, they didn't.  James is dead, Lupin is an outcast, Black was 
framed and ended up in Azkaban, and Pettigrew has yet to defy the 
Dark Lord.


> If Voldemort taught them Dark Arts and they were even half 
>brilliant than we can see from the Map, they would be prime target 
>for him. "Didn't want another Dark Lord competing with him."
did 
>he???

I am not of the opinion that the Marauders were into the dark arts 
for the evil of it, but for the curiosity and excitement.
When most of them saw where Voldemort was headed with it, they backed 
out.
I believe that Lily Potter had alot to do with "saving" James etal 
from the clutches of Voldemort's power.  Something about her love.

RMM