In the end we all become ghosts

Barty: y’know, my best mate’s sibling’s best friend is head boy, so don’t you think i should be let off this one time?

Peter: yeah, you know the head boy? I sleep 10ft away from him, jsyk *slips money over*

Even Remus:

Remus: yeah so my partner is painfully codependent with the head boy, cut me some damm slack

LITERARY SUBGENRES

Masterlist

James Potter

Remus Lupin

Peter Pettigrew

Sirius Black

Lily Evans

Mary McDonald

Marlene McKinnon

Regulus Black

Evan Rosier

Barty Crouch Jr.

Pandora Lovegood

Let me start by saying that marauders is already extremely non canon compliant. JK Rowling (fuck her) basically gave us the bases to these characters, and then we built off of them. They are unrecognizable from canon. And I LOVE that, because there are problematic things hidden all over JK Rowlings work that I for one really don't want to entertain!

In canon, the marauders were portrayed as abusive assholes. But the problem is JKR didn't recognize that what the marauders were doing to snape in a canon setting was abuse. Instead, she wrote it with all the marauders brushing it off and saying it was just kid stuff, BUT THEN SHE DIDN'T FUCKING ELABORATE. she didn't actually give us more later in the books to say 'oh yeah, what they're doing isn't fucking okay.' She just kinda left it there.

But in fanon, the marauders are lovely. The joy of fanfic and fandom IS THAT YOU CAN CREATE THESE CHARACTERS HOWEVER YOU WANT THEM. so of course the fandom removes the problematic shit, but also the stuff that makes us uncomfortable with our favorite characters. Yes it's for people's comfort sometimes, but it's also just fandom. You can create these characters however you want, and deconstruct the problematic bullshit that the author gave us.

THE PROBLEM COMES IN when fanon marauders fans start justifying canon marauders actions. The whole fucking reason fanon exists is to give these characters a different story and different outcome! You can and should recognize that in canon they were awful, but in fanon they're completely different from canon.

I adore fanon version of the marauders. I don't really think about canon, because IT'S NOT THE FANDOM I'M A PART OF. it really does feel like 2 different fandoms, because it's two COMPLETELY different characterizations, and that's okay. That is good. But when canon does get brought up, you can fucking acknowledge that those are not the characters you love! Also, don't fucking blame canon marauders actions on snape. That's not cool.

I think Peter is the perfect example for this. In canon, he's terrible! Literally betrayed his friends! But in a lot of fanon, he's a wonderful person and we gave him the personality and backstory that jkr never bothered to write. Canon Peter is terrible, but I love fanon Peter dearly <3