The Marauders RPG

⋆｡✦ Somebody is keeping a list ✦｡⋆

You do not know this yet. Most people in the wizarding world do not know it yet. The list is being kept in a small notebook in the inside pocket of a man who used to be a professor and is now something else, and the names on it are the names of people who are going to be asked, in the next few years, to do something about what is coming.

Some of those names belong to children. Some belong to your classmates. One of them, possibly, is yours.

The world you were born into is at the end of a long quiet, and the quiet is breaking in ways that are not yet on the front page of the Daily Prophet. A name is being whispered that nobody is willing to say at full volume. People are vanishing in numbers that the Ministry is calling coincidence. A man who left Hogwarts thirty years ago with a different name than the one he was born with has been working at something for a long time, and the something is beginning to show.

You are at Hogwarts, or you are about to be, or you have just left. You are in the castle when the news arrives, or in Diagon Alley when the curse hits the front of the apothecary, or at home with your family when the owl brings the letter that is not from the school.

This is the Marauders era. The war you have been told about does not begin here. It is already happening. You are inside it.

James Potter — Loud in the way the loved are loud, with no idea yet that the loudness is a privilege and not a personality. He is brave and arrogant and brilliant and unfinished, and he will become a better man than he is now, which will not be hard. The thing that turns him is already in the room. He has not noticed her yet. He is about to.

Sirius Black — The runaway in slow motion. He has the face of his family and none of their politics and the particular fury of a person who was raised to be one thing and refused. He loves the Marauders the way drowning men love driftwood. He is reckless to a degree that has consequences, including the ones he does not foresee.

Remus Lupin — Gentle, exhausted, and precise. He carries a secret that changes everything once a month, and he has built an entire personality around making sure nobody else has to th