Case for Marauders (was Re: Marauders, Voldemort and the Map)

[halli]

No: HPFGUIDX 109745

RMM:
You have to admit that the young James and Sirius do bear a 
resemblance to Malfoy in that they are clearly wealthy sons of 
privilege and influence, favored by at least some of the faculty and 
sufficiently outstanding to be known around campus by more than 
their dorm mates.  Such students would surely be prime targets and 
reasonably susceptible to others of power and influence, especially 
if offered an opportunity for mischief in the name of a lark.  Sin, 
if you believe in it, comes in gilded packages, not clearly marked 
DARK ARTS: Do not touch. Rowling's texts have generally built on 
what she has not said previously, not on the hearsay she has let 
drop mischievously.  Why should her last two volumes be different?

Halli:
 I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe that Harry's father, or his 
fathers' friends (besides Peter) were death eaters. James hated the 
dark arts, we've heard that before. All the maurauders hated Snape, 
the little freak that was up to his eyeballs in the dark arts. If 
they were fellow death eaters, why would they have such a loathing 
for each other? Also, if James had been a death eater, then there 
would've been no reason to worry about a secret keeper, and if there 
was, he would've known not to trust Peter with that job. That, and 
why would Voldemort want to kill James when he came in? As his 
master, he could say 'stand aside' and all that. I just think that 
if anyone asked JKR if James was a death eater, they would get the 
same reaction they got when they asked about Lily. "How dare you?"