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On your website, you used the term "marauders" to refer to James and his friends. Were they actually called that or are you just borrowing the fan term? [Mugglenet/Lexicon question]

James, Sirius, Remus and Peter dubbed themselves ‘marauders’, hence the way they titled the map.