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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 109885


> KathyK wrote:
big snip.

> Sirius Black states that he ran away from his home when he was 
> sixteen.  He spent his holidays at his good friend, James' house.  
> Why did Sirius run away?  He says, "Because I hated the whole lot 
of 
> them: my parents, with their pure-blood mania, convinced that to be 
> a Black made you practically royal...my idiot brother, soft enough 
> to believe them" (OoP Ch 6, US ed. p. 111).
> 
> As I recall it's your contention that MWPP were all at one point 
> death eaters.  At least by the age of sixteen we know Sirius Black 
> had enough of that.  He left his family.  And he went to JAMES.  
> Why would he do this if James Potter was so keen to be Lord 
> Voldemort's right-hand man?  Unless all this took place before they 
> reached sixteen?  
> 

Alla:

LOL, Kathy! You know, for now I pretty much gave up participating in 
this argument  seeing as Nora and now you do it very well, but I just 
wanted to make a quick comment on this one.

NOT ONLY Sirius would not have gone to James, if James participated 
in Voldemort related crasiness, James and his family would not have 
agreed to shelter sixteen year old runaway, who decided to reject all 
this pureblood brohaha.

I LIKE to speculate, BUT I still prefer that my speculation had at 
least some canon-support, some roots.

If my speculation is flat out rejected by canon, it becomes really 
weak, IMO