The Mauraders' Generation -- no parents

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 123380


Lisa Marie wrote:
> 
> Maybe this question has been posed before, but I haven't seen it 
here.  If this 
> is the case, please point me toward the appropriate thread and 
forgive my 
> ignorance. :)
> 
> I know that the HP stories center around the Trio and their peers, 
but what 
> about the generation above them?  Where are the parents of these 
> characters?  

Meri now: Interesting question, and one that I don't think we will 
ever have a full answer on seeing as JKR has said she won't write a 
prequel series describing the Marauders' Hogwarts days. (I am going 
to cut and paste to put some relevant examples together, forgive my 
editing.) 

> Molly & Arthur -- Do the Weasley kids not have any grandparents?
> 
> Tonks -- So, her mum Andromeda was Sirius' favorite cousin... 
Where is she 
> now (and where is her husband, Ted)??
> 
> Remus -- Any clue there?  
> 
> James -- He was so very young when he died; what happened to his 
parents? 

Meri: As for these parental untits, I think we have to keep in mind 
that at the time that the Marauders were at Hogwarts there was a war 
going on. We don't know how involved, if at all, these people were 
in the Order, though I suspect that James' parents at the very least 
were members at one time or another. Who knows how many hiding 
places James and Lily went through before arriving in GH? Perhaps a 
stint at the Potter house? We know Molly's brothers were killed in 
action, along with IIRC their wives and children, so perhaps Molly's 
mother and father, too, were murdered. As for Ted Tonks, he is a 
Muggle and probably not very interesting, although I have heard 
speculation that he was one of the news reporters in SS, but I doubt 
it. 

> Sirius -- We know they are dead, but how?  Sirius is young; it 
seems his 
> parents would be too young to die of natural causes.

Meri: Young people lose their parents to natural causes all the 
time, though WW convention would seem to indicate much longer life 
spans. I can't recall the passages in Order off the top of my head, 
do we have canon as to when they died? Anyway, it is possible that 
they died while he was in Azkaban, and he was there into his mid-
thirties. Plus we don't have canon to tell us how old they were when 
they had their kids, so perhaps they were old to begin with. 

> Lily & Petunia -- Another mystery.  
> 
> Vernon -- Also no mention of parents (that I remember).  Vernon 
and Petunia 
> (and Marge) being the way they were toward Dudley, surely Vernon's 
parents 
> would have been just as doting (read: disgusting).  So where are 
they?

Meri: Lily and Petunia's parents were Muggles, and it is possible 
(and I know that there has been speculation about this) that LV 
killed them for some reason and that this is why Petunia hates the 
WW so much. Also, I always got the impression (even before the 
medium that shall not be named reinforced this by casting the roles 
this way) that Unlce Vernon and Aunt Petunia were a good piece older 
than James and Lily, so the Dursley parents could well be dead of 
natural causes as well. 

Just a few knuts. 

Meri - off to work where there is no heat!