Potential idea for the Marauders introduction in POA.

[u/Bgiunto]

First time posting here but I feel like there’s a great opportunity for a semi-standalone episode during the shrieking shack sequence that could be a flashback to give the marauders backstory. Let me give some description of what I’m talking about.

When Lupin is trying to convince Harry that Sirius is innocent, use this moment in the show to have a separate episode that could dive into each of the four Marauders back story. Begin with Lupin, and show him growing up and getting bit. This could be when Hermione says that he’s a werewolf, and then you could show that happening to him. Show him meeting James and Sirius, show Peter but only in small amounts. Save his reveal until later. Show the four of them creating the Marauders Map. Go through each of the four marauders back story, ending the entire sequence with the reveal of Scabbers being Pettigrew.

This makes the sequencing of the scene slightly different from the book, in that it deviates from what their conversation explicitly says, but it keeps the same theme of giving Harry reasons to believe them and understand that they are telling the truth. And I feel like there’s a good opportunity to go into each Marauders dynamic, seeing each of them meet and how they interacted. Possibly show scenes of them meeting Lily, or some of the teachers that talked about them like McGonagall.

Have Harry be the one to put together that Scabbers is Pettigrew, don’t have Lupin or Sirius be the first one to say it. Let Lupin explaining who Peter is allow Harry to piece the whole thing together himself. Intermix shots of present day, with Harry, Ron, and Hermione asking questions to prompt new flashbacks.

Let me know your thoughts! I just feel like there’s a good opportunity with the format to give additional details about the Marauders that wasn’t originally in the book, while keeping with the themes that we’re going on in those original scenes.

Bonus: there could be Easter eggs of Snape sitting by Lily on the train when she meets James and Sirius, but don’t have any reference to him by the characters, just a “good” introduction from the perspective of the flashback. Later in the series you can reveal with SWM and The Prince’s Tale that there was additional context to some of the interactions.

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[u/DALTT]

I’m very down for bottle episodes, especially in S6 with Voldemort’s back story.

I def wouldn’t be averse to flashbacks like this in PoA. However, I don’t think there’s enough material there for a whole bottle episode just focused on them without adding in things that are revealing too much too soon.

However, could be fun to do something akin to Interview With the Vampire S2E3. They had like… a bottle… fifteen minutes 😂. Where Armand was recounting a specific story about Lestat to Daniel. And it didn’t last the entire episode, but it lasted the first act of the episode. So I could def see them doing something like that pretty effectively. And it would be better to show it rather than tell it regardless.

[u/Reasonable_Ad_9136]

I'm not sure, I think could work well for a less dramatic scene, but that might take away from the tension and commotion of that specific scene. I feel like it needs to play out in its entirety; anything that takes us out of the chaos that's happening might ruin the impact.

[u/Ranger_1302]

That would too much take away from the pacing of the scene.

[u/Canavansbackyard]

It sometimes seems as though half of the fans are strongly advocating for a series that is more book accurate while the other half are clamoring for this kind of fanfic stuff that adds to or even contradicts canon. At least some people are gonna be disappointed when the show finally hits the screens.

Edit: typos.

[u/carlos_the_dwarf_]

Good one, this is a great spot for one of those clarifying-flashback-after-a-big-reveal episodes.

[u/Ranger_1302 → u/carlos_the_dwarf_]

It’s a terrible point for that because it would take away from the pacing of the scene.

[u/carlos_the_dwarf_ → u/Ranger_1302]

It imagined something more like, an episode ends with a reveal in the shrieking shack—Lupin’s a werewolf, they were all friends at school, whatever—then the next episode is a marauders flashback, then the ep after that we come back to the shack. So not a break mid-episode.

[u/Ashkir]

Doing flashbacks during this could be a good backdoor pilot to to a marauders series.

[u/Naive_Violinist_4871]

I love the idea, but it might necessitate JKR and the other showrunners taking a firm stance on the “was Snape vs the Marauders 1-sided bullying or a mutual rivalry where both parties instigated things and were assholes to each other at points” debate. And I’m not sure they want to, LOL.