Marauders and Voldemort

[Amey Chinchorkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 109257

-	DuffyPoo:
-	"These were the books containing powerful Dark magic never taught in Hogwarts 
-	and only read by older students stuying advanced Defence Against the Dark 
-	Arts."  It was clear from a glance why it belonged in the Restricted Section...." 
-	Did DD ever find out that the Trio used Polyjuice potion?  I just read CoS twice 
-	and don't remember it if he did.  (I don't remember a lot of things so that wouldn't 
-	be surprising!)

Amey:

Then he started telling them everything. For nearly a quarter of an
hour he spoke into the rapt silence: He told them about hearing the
disembodied voice, how Hermione had finally realized that he was
hearing a basilisk in the pipes; how he and Ron had followed the
spiders into the forest, that Aragog had told them where the last
victim of the basilisk had died; how he had guessed that Moaning
Myrtle had been the victim, and that the entrance to the Chamber of
Secrets might be in her bathroom .... (CoS)

There is no direct mention of polyjuice, I admit. But then, he told *everything*. Also Snape knew about bloomslang skin, and surely would have guessed and told Dumbledore. Also, it is never mentioned as Dark Art. It is m,entioned as belonging to Restricted Section, but then *all* the books there don’t contain Dark Art recipies, do they?

-	RMM
-	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.

Amey:
But he knew Tom was somehow connected to the attacks in his fifth year. He kept an close eye on him, forcing Tom to close the Chamber. I don’t think even Dumbledore would take a teacher with a suspicion of history of attacks against his fellow students and responsible for death of one. 

He disappeared after leaving the school ... traveled far and wide ... sank
so deeply into the Dark Arts, consorted with the very worst of our
kind, underwent so many dangerous, magical transformations, that
when he resurfaced as Lord Voldemort, he was barely recognizable.
Hardly anyone connected Lord Voldemort with the clever,
handsome boy who was once Head Boy here.

So, he came back as Lord Voldemort, not as Tom. He had undergone many transformations, is it possible that Dumbledore wouldn’t recognize the Dark transformations he carried out?

-	RMM
-	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.


Amey:
Not exactly what happened to Regulus
 James is dead because he stood between Voldmeort and Harry
 why didn’t Voldemort came after him before? They were exceptionally brilliant, so they must have learnt much. Why didn’t he try to kill all of them before they became a threat? Also, Lupin is not outcast because of his connection, but because of his being werewolf. Black was framed by wormtail
not exactly upto standards of Voldemort is it???

I don’t think the evidence is so strong to make them prime suspects. Yes, after reading all this, I will keep them on the Radar, but as maybes
 We don’t have enough *hard* evidence to mark them. The circumstantial evidence works if you look at it with your mind set on them as criminals, but they look totally innocent if you look at the same evidence from innocent point of view
 works both way, guys.

Amey




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