History Characters / HarryPotterMarauders

[[header: The Marauders]]

[[folder: In General]]

[[folder: James "Prongs" Potter]]

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Adrian Rawlins (adult), Robbie Jarvis (teenager), Alfie [=McIlwain=] (child)\\
'''Voiced by:''' Jorge Ornelas (Latin American Spanish, ''Goblet of Fire''), Carlos Hernández (Latin American Spanish, teenager, ''Order of the Phoenix''), Roberto Molina (Latin American Spanish, ''Deathly Hallows'')\\
'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' | ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild Cursed Child]]''

[[folder: Sirius "Padfoot" Black]]

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/GaryOldman (adult), James Walters (teenager)
-->'''Voiced by:''' Damián Alcázar (Latin American Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Alejandro Mayen, (Latin American Spanish, ''Goblet of Fire''), Creator/SalvadorDelgado (Latin American Spanish, ''Order of the Phoenix'' and ''Deathly Hallows Part II'')
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

[[folder: Remus John "Moony" Lupin]]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DavidThewlis\\
'''Voiced by:''' Miguel Zúñiga (European Spanish), Rodrigo Murray (Latin American Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Creator/MartinSoto (Latin American Spanish, ''Order of the Phoenix''-''Deathly Hallows''), Hamilton Ricardo (Brazilian Portuguese)\\
'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

[[folder: Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew]]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/TimothySpall (adult), Charles Hughes (teenager), Dex (Scabbers)\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/MichelPapineschi (European French), Jesús Ochoa (Latin American Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Carlos Del Campo (Latin American Spanish, ''Goblet of Fire''-''Deathly Hallows''), Ricardo Telles (Brazilian Portuguese)\\
'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

-->''Portrayed by:''' Creator/GaryOldman (adult), James Walters (teenager)

** Although placed in Gryffindor, known for its courage, Pettigrew displays, during the books and in Sirius's and Remus's flashbacks, attributes more suited to Slytherin: hiding his true abilities behind a mask of weakness (he is an Animagus and can successfully cast the Killing Curse, both of which are difficult tasks), seeking the protection of those stronger than he, and successfully deceiving his friends. (Dumbledore often thought "we sort too soon.") Not to mention that the Sorting Hat lets you choose, if you want.

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterDeathEaters Death Eaters]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterLordVoldemort Lord Voldemort]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterDeathEatersInnerCircle Death Eaters (Inner Circle)]])\\

!Sirius "Padfoot" Black

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/GaryOldman (adult), James Walters (teenager)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Damián Alcázar (Latin American Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Alejandro Mayen, (Latin American Spanish, ''Goblet of Fire''), Creator/SalvadorDelgado (Latin American Spanish, ''Order of the Phoenix'' and ''Deathly Hallows Part II'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterOrderOfThePhoenixMembers Order of the Phoenix Members]]''' ('''Marauders''' [[[Characters/HarryPotterSiriusBlack Sirius Black]]])\\

See Characters/HarryPotterSiriusBlack.
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[[folder: Remus John "Moony" Lupin]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Now fear makes people do terrible things, Harry."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DavidThewlis\\
'''Voiced by:''' Miguel Zúñiga (European Spanish), Rodrigo Murray (Latin American Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Creator/MartinSoto (Latin American Spanish, ''Order of the Phoenix''-''Deathly Hallows''), Hamilton Ricardo (Brazilian Portuguese)\\
'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

->''"Your parents gave their lives to keep you alive, Harry. A poor way to repay them -- gambling their sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks."''

Harry's Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher for his third year and one of James Potter and Sirius Black's best friends during his time at Hogwarts. He joined the Order of the Phoenix alongside the other Marauders. Remus was bitten by a werewolf in his youth, but his condition was kept secret from the public until the end of Harry's third year.

He and Nymphadora Tonks fall in love sometime between years 5 and 6, marry sometime between years 6 and 7, and have a child (Teddy) towards the end of year 7.

[[Characters/HarryPotterTheWeasleyFamily The Weasley Family]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterMinistryOfMagic Ministry of Magic]] ([[Characters/HarryPotterDoloresUmbridge Dolores Umbridge]])\\

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterHogwartsStudents Hogwarts Students]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterGryffindor Gryffindor]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterSlytherin Slytherin]] [[[Characters/HarryPotterDracoMalfoy Draco Malfoy]]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterRavenclaw Ravenclaw]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterHufflepuff Hufflepuff]])\\

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterTheTrio The Trio]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterHarryJamesPotter Harry James Potter]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterRonBiliusWeasley Ron Bilius Weasley]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterHermioneJeanGranger Hermione Jean Granger]])\\

* MagnumOpus: The Marauder's Map was one by the map's namesake group. It was their most ambitious magic artifact by a landslide as it took the group nearly the whole time they were at Hogwarts to create it and had to constantly hide from staff while trying to perfect it in order to not be dissuaded from creating it. [[spoiler: [[ChekhovsGun This definitely worked out in Harry and Lupin's favor]] [[EurekaMoment as it helped them deduce and catch the real traitor of the Potters/Marauders red-handed]], even though he escaped in the end]].

* BrokenPedestal: For Harry, when he learns more about how James was as Snape was. Eventually, Harry comes to forgive this character flaw and respect that James did mature as he got older. It takes some time and a chat with Sirius and Lupin to do it, though. [[spoiler: Harry gets distracted by loathing for Snape around this time anyway, as he blamed Snape for Sirius's death, and since Snape was the primary target of his father's bullying his anger at Snape trumps his anger at his father. Harry does come around to forgiving both, as evidenced by how he chose to name his children.]]

* {{Determinator}}: In regards to Lily, [[spoiler: arguably more than Snape, since James at the very least did listen to Lily's criticism and (mostly) changed his attitude, which Snape]] never did even after her death.

** While he frequently jinxed and hexed people for fun in his younger years, he never did any Dark Magic. When young Snape defended his friend Mulciber performing Dark Magic on a classmate by claiming it wasn't so different from James's antics, even [[spoiler: Lily]], who detested James at this time, knew James would never do the same thing to a person and there was no comparison. Even in the Pensieve scene when Snape hit him with ''Sectumsempra'' and made him bleed, James retaliated with ''Levicorpus'' instead of a more dangerous spell.

-->'''Lily:''' What's he [Snape] ever done to you?\\

* GoodParents: We briefly glimpse James playing with his son, on the night of his death, taking great joy in his son's reactions to flying bubbles. Harry's affection for his father and his HeroicSacrifice is what drives his famous WhatTheHellHero speech to Remus Lupin, his father's friend, [[spoiler: telling him that his abandoning his wife and child and lack of responsibility towards them is something James would never allow, citing how his father stood by him and his mother at the night of the attack.]]

* GreyAndGreyMorality: With Snape in his school days. James was an arrogant bully, but also a staunch supporter and defender of the wizarding world's marginalized groups, including werewolves and Muggle-borns. Meanwhile, while Snape mostly kept to himself, he was seduced by the Dark Arts and [[PeerPressureMakesYouEvil fell in with his fellow bigoted Slytherins who would go on to become Death Eaters.]] Ultimately, Lily chooses James over Snape because James was willing to better himself, something Snape was unable to do.

* HeroicSacrifice: Willingly goes forth to a BolivianArmyEnding by charging at Voldemort without a wand, hoping that the mere seconds would be enough for Lily and Harry to escape. Unlike his wife, [[spoiler: for whom Snape tried to invoke [[PleaseSpareHimMyLiege Spare Her My Liege]],]] he never had a real choice and was going to be killed anyway.

* HonourBeforeReason: According to Remus Lupin, James would never stoop to suspecting any of his friends of treachery. This is shown in his choice of Sirius Black as SecretKeeper rather than Dumbledore himself. [[spoiler: Although Sirius was loyal, this ultimately [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] for everyone since no one suspected Pettigrew of being a traitor]].

* InformedAttribute: His CharacterDevelopment is a {{justified|Trope}} example. Sirius and Remus assure Harry that he "deflated his head" before dating Lily, but there is little evidence to support this. "The Prince's Tale" establishes that James saved Snape's life ''before'' assaulting him in "Snape's Worst Memory", which completely {{Josses}} the interpretation that it was James' HeelFaceTurn. Both of them admit that he and Snape maintained their feud after James started dating Lily, with the only justification being that Snape struck first, but given that James was Head Boy at the time, he went to great lengths to conceal it from Lily, and Sirius and Remus have already proven themselves to be [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Narrators]], this is questionable support at best. According to Lily's letter, he used his invisibility cloak to sneak out while in hiding; in supplementary materials, and he and Sirius have no issue taunting Muggle policemen and engaging in reckless stunts. All of his positive actions post-schooling (supporting Sirius and Remus, sacrificing his life to try and protect Lily and Harry) have to do with his friends and family, and not with his behavior in general. The justification comes when one remembers that he's long dead by the start of the books and that Harry is never really given an opportunity to see how exactly his personality developed in the years between Snape's worst memory and James' murder.
* JacobMarleyApparel: When he [[spoiler: appears to Harry via the Resurrection Stone, he is said to be wearing the clothes that he died in.]]

* RefugeInAudacity: This was pretty much how the Marauders made themselves be the height of cool. James uses this to endear himself to Lily, despite [[spoiler: subjecting her best friend to a HumiliationConga in broad daylight in front of a group of onlookers and promising to stop if she goes out with him]]. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for her, Lily didn't take that crap.

* TheRival: To Snape, for their differing opinions on the Dark Arts and [[spoiler: Lily's affections.]]

* SoProudOfYou: Expresses this sentiment [[spoiler: to Harry in the final book, when his shade comes out of the Resurrection Stone]], and in fact provides the current page quote.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Was apparently a believer in this and the main virtue he and his son share. Dumbledore and Remus affirm that James would not want [[spoiler: Peter Pettigrew killed even if he was a DirtyCoward traitor.]] Despite his hatred of Severus Snape, he risked his life to save his.

* ButNowIMustGo: Out of pure spite, Snape decides to break the vow of silence and "accidentally let slip" that Lupin is a werewolf all because he failed to keep Sirius Black in custody, who escaped via Buckbeak and Harry's help, and thus, Snape lost his chance at an Order of Merlin. Naturally, given the cursed nature of a Werewolf's bite, this would cause a great deal of alarm and outrage among the parents as well as the students who were unaware and it would no doubt be targeted towards Dumbledore (who could take the heat, but that is beside the point). Considering how much prejudice is aimed at werewolves [[spoiler: thanks to Umbridge and her bigoted laws]], despite the fact they cannot help their condition, and feeling horrible about the heat Dumbledore would get, Lupin decides to hand in his resignation at the end of Harry's third year. [[spoiler: Not that he could stay longer than a year anyway because of a jinx on the DADA position.]] Harry tries, and fails, to convince Lupin to stay. The sad thing about it is Lupin has had to do this so many times before, going through job after job all because of what he is, that ''he's basically numb to it and the prejudice at this point.''

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: In the end, Peter is so pathetic and spineless that Harry can't bring himself to truly hate him, and he dies during the one moment he shows any kind of regret for his acts, betrayed by the Dark Lord he'd done so much to bring back. Harry reflects later that Peter had so much potential for good as a member of the Order, but he chose to throw it away for power that he never even got]]. Averted in the films, however, where his fate is left ambiguous.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: After he dies, Harry muses how Peter's turn to villainy ruined his life. He had a pretty good thing going in the Order with friends who genuinely liked him even if they didn’t always treat him as well as they should have, and he threw all that away for the sake of power. And even then, he didn't get it, seeing as how the other villains treated him as basically worthless after Voldemort’s return.]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's painted as a poorly-skilled wizard, much like Neville Longbottom, who needed to rely on his friends to scrape by in school. However, he becomes an Animagus with help from his friends and keeps the disguise for twelve years ([[spoiler: as Scabbers, Ron's pet rat]]), he [[spoiler: creates a blast strong enough to blow apart a busy street and kill twelve Muggles in the process]], casts a fully-functional Killing Curse with Voldemort's wand, and brews at least two incredibly difficult Dark potions to keep Voldemort alive and help him regain his body, respectively. In general, he actually seems to be a pretty skilled wizard despite his reputation.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His betrayal of the Order is ultimately the reason why, at the start of the series, he's an outcast [[HatedByAll despised by his allies]] forced to live as an animal. [[spoiler: It's also probably why he died, as Voldemort had the sense to realize that if he could do it to his friends he'd do it to Voldemort, and took precautions against his sudden but inevitable hesitation in loyalty.]]
* HumiliationConga: His reward for being responsible for Voldemort's return to power is to be unceremoniously demoted to a house-elf role that lasts for the rest of the series, as he spends most of his time getting ordered around, yelled at and insulted. Snape in particular goes out of his way to humiliate Pettigrew and assign him the most degrading tasks possible. It finally ends when he [[spoiler: unceremoniously dies in ''Deathly Hallows'']] and is promptly forgotten about.

* KarmicDeath: He ultimately dies betrayed by [[spoiler: the silver hand Voldemort gave him as a reward for helping out in the rebirth ritual, which Voldemort had programmed to kill Peter if he ever betrayed Voldemort like he'd done the Order. The few seconds of hesitation he had after Harry reminds Peter that he owes a life debt turn out to qualify, and the hand strangles Peter. "May your loyalty never waver again" indeed...]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Peter's act of betraying the Order ends up having the exact ''opposite'' effect that he wanted. He turned traitor because he didn't think that he was getting enough glory as a member of the Order of the Phoenix, and thought he could be more valuable (and thus, famous, after Voldemort won) to Voldemort as a spy. His information led to his new master's downfall, he had to spend twelve years as a common pet rat, the Death Eaters hated him too because he ended up sending their master to his death, and even when he managed to revive Voldemort and resume service, he had nothing valuable to offer the Death Eaters and was lowered to menial labour and treated with contempt, a far cry from the respect and friendship he had as a member of the Order of the Phoenix. And he can't even leave because he's betrayed everyone else who might take him in. [[spoiler: And after betraying almost every character in the story, he was betrayed by his magic hand for a tiny impulse of reluctance while attempting to kill Harry, to whom he has a life debt.]]

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: A microscopic little inkling of good it was, but Peter's momentary hesitation to kill Harry, upon being reminded that the boy saved his life, counted as an act of betrayal by Voldemort's standards and activated a curse on his silver hand that caused him to strangle himself to death.]]

** One of [[spoiler: his very few acts of ''extremely relative'' honour leads directly to his death. When Harry reminds Wormtail he owes him a life debt, Peter briefly hesitates to kill him while he has the chance, realizing too late that, in doing so, he had just signed his own death warrant.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A good summary of his current state of being. His former allies loathe him, but so do his current allies-as noted above, he has no loyalty to the cause, only himself, and his current co-workers all know it. Voldemort never trusts him with any more than menial tasks after ''Goblet of Fire'' (when he had no one else) because he's very much aware that Peter's only still with him because this is his only unburned bridge left. [[spoiler: Even his ''death'' is in line with the trope- Voldemort had a fit of savvyness when creating the silver hand for Wormtail and programmed it to turn on him and strangle him to death if he ever betrayed Voldemort. Turns out any hesitation in carrying out Voldemort's orders counts as betrayal.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Assumed in the films, thanks to [[spoiler: his death]] being deemed too disturbing for a PG-13 movie. Of course, [[spoiler: just because he didn't die the same way as in the books doesn't mean that he necessarily survived. He wasn't anywhere in the last movie. If he did survive, chances are he ended up in Azkaban]]. [[spoiler: There's also the possibility that Dobby's attack may have actually killed him instead of stunned him. Alternatively, Voldemort may also killed him later off-screen for failing him, considering that Peter is the warden of protagonists' prison at the time.]]

* AmbitionIsEvil: Part of the reason he betrayed the Potters was that he didn't just want to be ''safe'', he wanted to be ''powerful''. Dumbledore could offer him protection, but Voldemort offered him the opportunity to be a highly-placed member of his order, and Peter just couldn't resist the chance.

[[Characters/HarryPotterTheWeasleyFamily The Weasley Family]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterMinistryOfMagic Ministry of Magic]]\\