The four were viewed (by themselves at least) as the rock stars of Hogwarts. James was a Quidditch hero and, in case anyone forgot this detail, frequently messed up his hair for added windswept effect and tossed around a Golden Snitch. Sirius was a good-looking rebel and proudly defiant of his family’s Slytherin affiliations, adorning his bedroom walls with Gryffindor colours along with pictures of motorbikes and Muggle girls. Quick-witted Remus was the brains of the operation who tried (and often failed) to keep the rest of the group in check. As for Peter, well... Peter was there too. His habit of attaching himself to strong personalities would play an important part in later events.

Definitely a prequel. James needs depth that could be fascinating (his parents not to mention Lily’s must've all died before 1981 necessitating the Dursley years). Pureblood traitor Sirius (please can we meet dear mother?!) and young werewolf Remus are interesting. Peter Pettigrew still moreso. Was his treachery foreshadowed? Did they treat him like crap (dude Wormtail ain't a flattering name) or was he just drawn to power/darkness? But it's tortured Severus, power-hungry prefect Lucius (maybe he met Narcissa at Hogwarts…and was Bellatrix there around the same time bc wth was she like as a teen?) and maybe we even meet Regulus as they all move toward Death Eater hood that could bring new depth to the series or at least their stories would interest the heck out of me! Maybe there'd be a clue why Regulus changed his mind?!

It'd also be fun to meet young Minerva (was she always so severe?) along with other members of the Order we missed like the Longbottoms or an unscarred, two-eyed Alastor Moody.

Or keep going back and make this is a franchise like Star Wars, so we can see Tom Riddle the orphan and student via more than pensieve. Sure we’d meet the student Hagrid but we could watch the first Death Eaters form. Maybe it's just a good horror movie with horcruxes being made, the Riddles all being killed, a basilisk slithering around and Moaning Myrtle dying. Ah Evil is fascinating. Don't judge me. ;-)

But three totally new kids going to Hogwarts? Bleh. People just want to read more of what they already love. Plus any resurrection of old Vmort and I'm out! No Lestrange-Riddle babies either…

I’m not sure I’d be fond of either of them, but if I had to pick, I’d go with a true sequel (meaning: not Cursed Child).

The problem with prequels is that they’re always bound by their endpoint. No matter what you see in the prequels, nothing that follows after can change. Severus calls Lily a mudblood, James and Sirius bully him because they’re bored, Sirius tricks Severus into almost getting killed by Remus…. all the worst moments will be there.

Add to that the fact we know where it all ends: Lily is dead, James is dead, Sirius falsely imprisoned, Remus gone, Severus bitter and unhappy, Harry an orphan destined to be taken in by a family that hates him…

James was described in rather unflattering terms until he matured near the end of his time in school… and even then, I’m not actually positive he matured completely, only learned to control himself and keep his nature in check. I don’t really feel a need to watch him being an idiot through six years of school. Sirius didn’t ever get around to maturing, so I certainly don’t need to see him doing the same.

I don’t think prequels are always bad, but I do think that the more we know about what came before, the less potential they have to be interesting… and we know just enough to pretty severely constrain the story of any prequel.

A sequel, on the other hand, is grounds for new storylines and new adventures. We’d need a new villain or threat, of course, something other than Voldemort, but there is at least potential there. I’m not fond of Ron and Hermoine as a couple, but if the story focused on the children I can ignore that easily enough.

The sequel though could easily suffer from many problems of its own. If the story is about the children, we need to keep the Trio out of it…. but if the children get into serious trouble, why would their parents not help? Even the Weasleys tried to help as much as they could in the original series, having gone through a dark lord of their own it’s impossible to imagine Harry/Hermoine/Ginny/Ron leaving their kids on their own.

But the above issues are part of why I liked Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. It was a new story in the same universe, but distant in both time and space, so that the original movies didn’t intrude on the new storyline. We might run into issues as they begin to explore Dumbledore, but I’m willing to give that a chance.

Yes, Harry can read the Marauders’ map even when he is not physically in Hogwarts. You can witness this in the final Harry Potter Book: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”.

Meanwhile, Harry had started bringing out the Marauder’s Map and examining it by wand light. He was waiting for the moment when Ron’s labeled dot would reappear in the corridors of Hogwarts, proving that he had returned to the comfortable castle, protected by his status of pureblood. However, Ron did not appear on the map, and after a while Harry found himself taking it out simply to stare at Ginny’s name in the girls’ dormitory, wondering whether the intensity with which he gazed at it might break into her sleep, that she would somehow know he was thinking about her, hoping that she was all right.

The Marauders was a group of four Griffyndor students who created the Marauder’s Map. They were James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and their sidekick Peter Pettigrew.

Let's have a detailed information about them and their map:

Perhaps no students (even including Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Tom Riddle) have ever explored the castle and grounds of Hogwarts as thoroughly and illicitly as the four creators and contributors to the Marauder's Map: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew

James, Sirius and Peter were not initially impelled to explore the school grounds by night out of devilment alone (though that played its part), but by their desire to help their dear friend Remus Lupin to bear his lycanthropy. Prior to the invention of the Wolfsbane Potion, Lupin was compelled to undergo an excruciating transformation every full moon. Once his condition was discovered by his three best friends, they sought a way to render his transformations less solitary and painful, which led to them learning to become (unregistered) Animagi, so that they could keep him company without harm to themselves. The ability of Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and James Potter to become, respectively, a dog, a rat and a stag, enabled them to explore the castle grounds by night undetected. The interior of the castle, meanwhile, was mapped over time with the help of James Potter's Invisibility Cloak.

The Marauder's Map is lasting testimony to the advanced magical ability of the four friends who included Harry Potter's father, godfather and favourite teacher. The map they created during their time at Hogwarts appears to be a blank piece of parchment unless activated by the phrase: I solemnly swear that I am up to no good, a phrase that, in the case of three of the four makers, should be understood as a joke. The 'no good' of which they wrote never denoted Dark magic, but school rule-breaking; similar bravado is evinced by their use of their own nicknames on the map ('Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs').

The magic used in the map's creation is advanced and impressive; it includes the Homonculous Charm, enabling the possessor of the map to track the movements of every person in the castle, and it was also enchanted to forever repel (as insultingly as possible) the curiosity of their nemesis, Severus Snape.

Although the precise circumstances surrounding the makers' loss of their map are not given in the Harry Potter novels, it is easy to conclude that they eventually over-reached themselves and were cornered by Argus Filch, probably on a tip-off from Snape, whose obsession it had become to expose his arch-rival, James Potter, in wrongdoing. The masterpiece of a map was confiscated in Sirius, James, Remus and Peter's final year and none of them were able to steal it back from a well-prepared and suspicious Filch. In any case, their priorities changed in their final months at school, becoming far more serious and focused on the world beyond Hogwarts, where Lord Voldemort was successfully rising to power. All four of the map's creators would shortly be inducted into the renegade organisation headed by Albus Dumbledore, the Order of the Phoenix, and a map of their old school - no matter how ingenious - would no longer be of use to them except as a piece of nostalgia.

The Marauder's Map was, however, of immense use to the young Weasley twins. The story of Fred and George's acquisition of the map is told in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It was a mark of their high esteem for Harry Potter, and their belief that he stood in need of assistance with a destiny none of them yet fully understood, that they later gifted the map to him, unwittingly passing it on to the child of one of the creators.

The map was subsequently confiscated from Harry Potter by a Death Eater in disguise at the school, who recognised it as a likely source of his own discovery.

So that’s it.

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Remus Lupin never explained anything about the Marauders directly to Harry. The closest interaction the pair has over the Marauders is when Lupin confiscates the Marauder’s Map saying that it wasn’t safe.

I’m pretty sure this was covered quite extensively in the books and the movies. But anyways, James (prongs) married a girl called lily and they had a son called Harry Potter and James and lily were killed by Voldemort when they were defending their son. Peter (wormtail) sold James and lily out to Voldemort so he was responsible for their deaths. Sirius (patriot) was sent to Azkaban after he was Pursuing Peter to kill him for what he had done and Peter caused an explosion that killed about a dozen muggles and Peter cut one of his fingers off to make it look like Peter had died in the explosion which looked like it was caused by Sirius. Remus (moony) had to travel often and couldn’t hold a job very well due to his being a werewolf and the stigma werewolves face in the wizarding world. But then just before harrys third year at Hogwarts Sirius black saw a picture of the weasleys on vacation in Egypt in the newspaper and he saw scabbers (a rat that the weasleys were keeping as a pet) he immediately recognized scabbers as being wormtail in disguise so he broke out of Azkaban to hunt Peter down and kill him. Remus meanwhile was hired by Dumbledore to be the defense against the dark arts teacher at Hogwarts for Harry’s third year. Long story short Sirius finally managed to corner Peter in the shreaking shack with Lupin Harry Ron and hermione where he explained everything to Harry and his friends and forced Peter to turn back into human form. But as they were about to turn in Peter Remus had forgotten to take his wolfsbane potion in the excitement of it all and he turned into a werewolf which distracted everyone long enough for Peter to escape. Sirius was able to escape Hogwarts safely with the help of Harry hermione and Dumbledore playing with a time turner. Peter eventually found Voldemort and with the assistance of Barty crouch jr was able to restore Voldemorts body. When Harry told Dumbledore that Voldemort was back dumbledore immediately assembled his resistance movement called the order of the pheonix and Sirius and Lupin were part of that resistance. Sirius was killed during a confrontation with some of Voldemorts followers while they were trying to recover a prophecy from the ministry of magic. Remus continued to fight by the orders side and met a girl called nymphadora tonks who he eventually married and had a son called teddy with. Wormtail continued to serve Voldemort until Harry tricked Peter into hesitating to kill his friends which resulted in Peter being strangled to death by his own artificial hand that Voldemort had given him. Remus fought for the order until he was killed in the final battle with Voldemort and his followers at Hogwarts.

Well let's see. James Potter graduated alongside his friends Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. He married Lily Evans and together they had a son named Harry. Everyone joined the Order to fight Voldemort. Peter eventually betrays his friends and allies by joining the death eaters. When Voldemort heard of the prophecy he chose to target the Potters and Peter was chosen as secret keeper as a means of protecting the location of the Potters and as a misdirect as everyone expected Sirius to be chosen. Peter eventually treks Voldemort where they are and Voldemort murdered James then Lily and attempted to kill Harry. Thus ends the tale of James Potter.

Sirius having known that Peter was the traitor confronted Pettigrew. Peter put on a show blaming Sirius and making most of the Wizarding world believe that Sirius had been the traitor. As a masterstroke Peter then blows up the street and cuts off his finger before transforming into a rat and escaping. Sirius breaks down and is captured and locked in Azkaban for 12 years without a trial. Peter manages to find his way to the Weasleys and becomes Scabbers.

Remus was working for the order as a werewolf. Thanks to his affliction even his friends began questioning his loyalty however he remained loyal to the order and his friends. When James was killed he had believed as everyone else had that Sirius was the traitor. With the death of James Remus lost his financial support. He had difficulty holding a job but it wasn't impossible for him to find work. With the invention of the Wolfsbane potion he was able to improve his life significantly how've there would always be discrimination.

12 years after the death of James and Lily sees the remaining marauders return to Hogwarts one final time. Sirius breaks out of Azkaban after seeing Peter's rat form with the Weasleys in the paper. Remus takes the post as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Peter has been pretty much living at Hogwarts for the past 8 years at least. Knowing that Peter is near Harry Sirius travels to the castle. By the end of the school year the truth is out and Peter has escaped again. Sirius is a wanted fugitive on the run but he's now known to be innocent by the ones who truly matter. Remus is forced to resign after his secret is revealed by a vindictive Severus. The resulting fallout leads to be anti werewolf policy being drafted by *gags* Umbridge and then subsequently passed into law. These policies make it all but impossible for Remus to find a job now.

Peter finds his way to Voldemort and together they create a plan to return Voldemort to power. Throughout the following year Sirius provides support and comfort and returns to Hogsmeade to be close for Harry. By the end of the year Voldemort has returned and the order has been reformed. Sirius and Lupin immediately rejoined the effort to fight Voldemort.

The next year is filled with a lot of subterfuge as the death eaters stay in the shadows and the order is crippled by the wilfully ignorant Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge. Harry is led to believe Sirius is in danger and ends up breaking into the ministry to rescue him. The unfortunate result is that Sirius is killed when he comes to rescue Harry from a trap. And thus ends the tale of Sirius Black.

Remus continues working for the order. His work puts him in constant contact with Nymphadora Tonks who falls in love with him. He denies her advances believing himself unworthy due to his affliction however shortly after the death of Albus the 2 get together. They are married shortly after. A few months after getting married Tonks is pregnant with their son Teddy Lupin. Remus attempts to leave his wife and unborn son out of shame and fear under the guise of helping Harry only to be rudely denounced as a coward by Harry. This leads to Remus return to his wife and unborn son. Despite the dark of the ministry and Voldemort's complete control he continues to resist and even advises others on how to survive while giving subtle messages to Harry to show that he was right to rebuke him.

Peter continues to be a Death Eater although he is not considered much of one and is treated more like a servant. He's assigned to help Severus and to keep Ollivander quiet. When Harry is captured and brought to Malfoy manor he is sent to bring Harry and Ron back to Bellatrix but it's ultimately subdued. He attempts to kill Harry however when Harry reminds him that he owes Harry his life he hesitates. Thanks to his moment of hesitation the silver hand gifted to him by Voldemort betrays him and strangles him to death. And thus ends the tale of Peter Pettigrew.

Remus travels to shell cottage where he tell Harry and everyone present about the birth of his son. Remus names Harry Teddy's godfather. After a couple drinks he returns to his wife and son. Not long after he returns once more to Hogwarts to fight against Voldemort. His wife joins him in battle and sadly both are killed in the first half of the battle. And thus ends the tale of Remus Lupin.

So the question is asking who would be Harry's friends among marauders then,

Harry's friend would have been Sirius who I see as an equivalent to Ron in the trio. He was smart, funny and daring just like Harry would like in a friend. Sirius is like a balanced version of arrogant(only to people he disliked probably), smart and funny just like Harry.

I also kind of see Hermione as an equivalent to Remus

But I somehow do not see Harry as anywhere like James.

James was brought up as an only child who was given the absolute best by his parents, he is also a bit arrogant and proudish as a kid and I don't think Harry would like him either.(Honestly James is a lot similar to younger Draco in my opinion who did to Snape what Draco does for Harry)

If it's who would be marauders friend in present times it's definitely Fred and George. I can only imagine how epic all of th together would be!

The Marauders were a group of four Gryffindors and classmates: Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, and James Potter. The four attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1971-1978. They had a knack for rule-breaking and mischief-making.

A prequel with James, Lily, Sirius and Snape, certainly. As a rule of thumb, prequels are easier to sell.

Why? Because the readers already know some of the characters, and already have an idea about what they’re gonna get.

For instance: we would already know James and Sirius are arrogant pricks, Lily is a brave muggle-born, Snape is the awkward nerd who is pushed to the Dark Arts. On the side, you could show how Voldemort is growing ever stronger outside Hogwarts. Plenty of possibilities.

However, if you tried to do a sequel to Harry Potter, which adventures these new kids would have? Why should we care about them? If they face a bigger threat than Lord Voldemort, that undermines Harry’s achievement. If there is no serious threat to the new kids, why should we care?

The Marauders were a group of four Gryffinfors and classmates: Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, and James Potter. The four attended Hogwarts from 1971-1978. They had a knack for rule-breaking and mischief-making. While at Hogwarts they also created the Marauder's Map, which continued to help future generations of mischief-makers.

The Marauders would all go on to fight in the First Wizarding War and some in the second. They were also participants in the original Order of the Phoenix, an organisation led by Albus Dumbledore in the struggle against the Dark Lord, Voldemort.

The Marauders were all members of Gryffindor House and greatly despised their Slytherin enemy, Severus Snape. It was discovered in Harry Potter's fifth year at Hogwarts that James and Sirius often bullied Snape (calling him 'Snivellus' and using humiliating spells on him), while Peter cheered them on. Although he greatly disapproved of their bullying, Remus did not try to stop them, something he would later come to regret.

Yes Voldemort met Hagrid at Hogwarts. Hagrid was in Gryffindor house and had a penchant for unusual animals. One of then was an Acromantula spider named Aragog that Hagrid was raising from an egg. Tom Riddle was in Slytherin and two years ahead of Hagrid. During Hagrid’s 3rd year, Tom (who was already calling himself Lord Voldemort) was a Prefect, managed to access the Chamber of Secrets, thereby taking for himself the title of Heir of Slytherin and control of the Basilisk who resided there; he spoke Paseltongue he was therefore able to control the Basilisk. Tom killed Myrtle Warren (a Muggle witch in Ravenclaw) and used her death to create his first Horcrux: the Diary. But in order to deflect the crime on someone else he accused Hagrid of accidentally having the monster Acromantula kill Myrtle. The Headmaster, Armando Dippet, believed Tom and presented him with an award for service to the school; he also had Hagrid expelled. Dumbledore never thought that Hagrid was to blame and persuaded Headmaster Dippet to keep Hagrid on at Hogwarts and train him as groundskeeper. Hagrid was, for all that he was half giant, only a boy of 13!

The Marauders:

James/Prongs

Sirius/Padfoot

Remus/Moony-the werewolf and the conscience of the Marauders

Peter/Wormtail- the outcast and traitor

I would definitely not say Wormtail. His Animagus form as a rat probably made him feel unneeded and he slowly drifted away from the group, becoming the Death Eater that we saw in the books, though later repentant for his actions.

Remus- he generally disapproved of the pranks James and Sirius tried to pull off, and kept them from going too far or causing too much damage. He was smart one who probably did or taught the spellwork needed to do the pranks to James or Sirius. Despite being the “Hermione” of the Marauders, he was still not one of the two main pranksters, so I do not think he would be the leader.

This leaves us with James and Sirius. They both were brave, cheerful, reasonably intelligent (how else would they have done their pranks?), and pretty reckless. They were both natural leaders.

We’ll just say that the title of “leader” goes to…

Prongs and Padfoot.

The Marauders were not Harry’s contemporaries.

The Marauders were Harry’s father, James Potter; Sirius Black, James’ best friend; Remus Lupin, part-time werewolf and Hogwarts prefect for some unfathomable reason; and Peter Pettigrew. James, Sirius, and Peter all trained themselves to be Animagi (transformation into animals) so that they could accompany Remus when he went into wolf mode and prevent him from harming himself or anyone else. James became a stag; Sirius a dog; and Peter a rat (not sure how much help Peter expected to be but, plot). Together, the four of them called themselves “Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs”, and were the original designers of the Marauder’s Map.

And, as Harry found out to his mortification via Snape’s memories, his dad James was a bit of a d**k during his time at Hogwarts. For no other reason except he objected to his existence, James used the Levicorpus charm to turn Snape upside down and remove his underwear to humiliate him. It’s unfortunate that Snape took out his anger and dislike of James on Harry due to the resemblance between him and his father, but if James did that, who knows how many other stunts he pulled before he started to grow up a little? And the fact that Harry was a bit of a sass mouth didn’t really endear him to Snape either.

I doubt I would have had any problems with them. As I'm not racist, wouldn't befriend racists and junior terrorists, wouldn't use classmates to develop curses that slash you (and sorry, if you develop a new spell you have to try it several times, just babbling Latin and wildly waving a piece of wood in the air doesn't work). Same with Levicorpus, a nonverbal spell. I mean, why develop a spell that lifts you up in the air by your ankle to a place where the students only wear underwear under their robes...? Also this spell has to be tried on other people, I wonder what the "lucky" test subjects thought about it....

I wouldn't stick my nose into my classmates' private health affairs and almost ruin their lives just because someone I can't stand looks bad in my opinion once I have proof of his mate's illness, and I certainly wouldn't laugh about it or belittle it when my sympathetic Nazi friends, described as creepy and with evil and cruel humour, attack a classmate with dark magic.

Crazy, isn't it? It can be so simple