Let’s talk about how the Marauders are never named in the Harry Potter series
Pointed out by Alexis Nedd on Twitter, it’s surprising that nowhere in the Harry Potter series do they explain who the Marauders are, meaning that…Harry thinks they’re random people?
Color me shocked when I realized that in the Harry Potter films, they don’t explain who the Marauders are. When a tweet went viral with fans pointing out the thing that makes them mad about the movies, Alexis Nedd pointed out that they don’t explain who Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are.
To be clear, look to Alexis Nedd’s tweet.
At no point in the films do they explain who Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are so as far as Film Harry knows, four complete randos drew the Marauder’s Map and Lupin just thought it was neat. https://t.co/feSRQbDGxF
— alexis nedd thinks unions are neat 🎮 💚 (@alexisthenedd) December 11, 2019
Okay so now that she’s pointed it out, it’s weird, right? We have to sit and look at the idea of the Marauders and know that there is an entire generation of kids who didn’t read the books who think that Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are just random people? Do they not understand that Harry’s own father made the map?
If not for the map itself, it is upsetting that they also don’t know these fun nicknames for Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, and James Potter. There is something so strange about thinking of the world of the Harry Potter series without the context given to us in the books that I’ll never understand.
I read the books as a kid so, for me, I have all this knowledge going into the movies and it would have to be interesting to explore the moves with someone who has no idea what information they’re missing from the series.
You don’t know about Winky, you don’t know about Peeves and that just doesn’t seem that fair to you!
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