Hogwarts: The True Story Part 1: The Letter
Dear Harry,
I expect you've heard quite a bit about your parents as they were at school, especially from Hagrid, and I'd hazard a guess that ninety per cent of it wasn't true, or at least was over- romanticised. For a start, Lily wasn't all sweet, innocent and goody-goody- far from it! Beautiful she certainly was, but Lily had never in her life been innocent OR goody-goody! And James wasn't all that don't-care-ish- he cared about a lot of things and your mum was one of them. There were more than four Marauders too- thirteen of us in fact, from all different houses. And yeah, the thirteen was unlucky- for anyone who got on our bad sides! Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs made the Marauders' Map for everyone else's use as well as their own. We were a kind of coalition for all the things we liked- music, fun and madness, mainly.
You know, no doubt, that Hagrid sent owls off to all Lily and James' school friends for pictures, back in your first year. But did you know who those school friends were? We've come together, fifteen years after our friends' deaths, to tell you the true story about what really happened back at Hogwarts all those years ago. Why? Why should we suddenly decide to spill the beans after all these years? Harry, Sirius contacted us after Voldemort returned, and we're all fighting once more against the same old enemy. Well, war is war and that's a fact. Some of us will not see this through to the end, and then our story will be lost. It's taken a long time for us to piece all our bits of the puzzle together. I was chosen, as Lily's best friend, to send this letter to you. Read on for the true story about what happened at Hogwarts all those years ago… for what really happened in the old War, and how your parents- and the rest of us- fell in and out of love and friendships…
Dear Harry,
I expect you've heard quite a bit about your parents as they were at school, especially from Hagrid, and I'd hazard a guess that ninety per cent of it wasn't true, or at least was over- romanticised. For a start, Lily wasn't all sweet, innocent and goody-goody- far from it! Beautiful she certainly was, but Lily had never in her life been innocent OR goody-goody! And James wasn't all that don't-care-ish- he cared about a lot of things and your mum was one of them. There were more than four Marauders too- thirteen of us in fact, from all different houses. And yeah, the thirteen was unlucky- for anyone who got on our bad sides! Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs made the Marauders' Map for everyone else's use as well as their own. We were a kind of coalition for all the things we liked- music, fun and madness, mainly.
You know, no doubt, that Hagrid sent owls off to all Lily and James' school friends for pictures, back in your first year. But did you know who those school friends were? We've come together, fifteen years after our friends' deaths, to tell you the true story about what really happened back at Hogwarts all those years ago. Why? Why should we suddenly decide to spill the beans after all these years? Harry, Sirius contacted us after Voldemort returned, and we're all fighting once more against the same old enemy. Well, war is war and that's a fact. Some of us will not see this through to the end, and then our story will be lost. It's taken a long time for us to piece all our bits of the puzzle together. I was chosen, as Lily's best friend, to send this letter to you. Read on for the true story about what happened at Hogwarts all those years ago… for what really happened in the old War, and how your parents- and the rest of us- fell in and out of love and friendships…