MARAUDERS, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. But since you did ask, letās jump on thatā¦.
Okay so - five seasons, BBC produced OR HBO in Game of Thrones style, keeping it British (JKR would insist, as she should). 12-14 episodes a season, potential Christmas special at the end of season 4. The first three seasons are MWPPās fifth, sixth and seventh years, starting about midway through their 5th.Ā
The pilot uses Harry as a framing device - itās needed to establish the world and time period etc etc - maybe in third year, when Snape is digging in to Papa Potter? Harry then walks along the Hogwarts corridors, thinking about his father, and everything Dumbledore and Lupin have said about him, until he finds himself in the trophy room looking at one of Jamesā Quidditch medals. Harry says āmy dad didnāt strutā, and we close in on the medalā¦
ā¦.only to pan out on James, strutting along the same corridor. Remus, Sirius and Peter fall in, and we watch them as they head in to class. James is your typical asshole of a 15yo, eating an apple and accidentally bumping into people, only to grin and give them fingerguns instead of apologising as he keeps on walking. Remus has his nose in a book, Sirius is poking at his ear with a quill, and Peterās trying get Sugar Quill residue off his fingers. They walk into Transfiguration, their usual boisterous selves, not noticing a red headed girl rolling her eyes and turning away from them to talk to her friends, or a skulking boy in a group of Slytherins behind her, glaring at them.
Each of the first four seasons would use one of the Marauders as a viewpoint into the main plot:
Season 1 - Peter, as he feels like he belongs less than the others, and his practical hero-worshipping of his friends means that he views them outside of his relationship with them, and is thus a good starting point for the viewer. Season one also introduces us to the Marauders era Slytherins, and we follow their story in a parallel to MWPP. Lily and Snapeās friendship, their subsequent fall out, and Snapeās further immersion into the Dark Arts are the seasonās main subplot. Snapeās Worst Memory happens in about episode 9.
Season 2Ā - Remus. Season 2 covers MWPPās sixth year, as they grow older and the war outside of Hogwarts begins to impact more on their isolated world. Lily and James begin to become friends - well, she dislikes him less - and this impacts on Snape, who begins to write in the margins of his potions textbook. Sirius starts to feel more pressure from his family and moves out; this makes him wilder than ever, culminating in the Snape prank (about episode 11). This is filmed to be a cruel trick, and we see the full blow out afterwards between Sirius and Remus. Snape approaches Lily in the aftermath and attempts to tell her about Remus, villifying James in the process; she tells him that she knows about Remus, and that Snape cannot reveal the secret. The season ends with Remus and Sirius still at odds, although partially reconciled, and James saying he just assumed that Sirius would be moving in with him.
Season 3 - This year focuses more on James, beginning when he and Sirius decide to crash a pureblood party at the Malfoyās. They make their getaway, running past three girls, on Siriusā new bike, which still has someā¦. kinks to be smoothed out - they almost fall out of the sky more than once. They return home to the news that James has been made Head Boy; Sirius thinks itās the most hilarious news heās ever heard, but James is determined to use the opportunity to get closer to Lily (āI am TELLING you sheās Head Girl, Padfoot!ā) The gang head back to Hogwarts - crossing paths with Narcissa Black - who had seen them run out at the Malfoyās - on the train station. She becomes our focus Slytherin character for the season. Lily and Jamesā romance takes a front position in this season, with the mending of the Sirius/Remus relationship as a subplot. The season also has flashbacks to the groupās younger years, focusing on the Animagus process.
Season 4: TIME JUMP. We go forward two years into the middle of the war. I see the final two seasons as one whole arc, with the season 4 establishing the various dangers of the war and MWPPās role in it - focusing on Sirius, as suspicion starts to take hold of the group and their lives get more and moreĀ perilous. Through Sirius we get the Regulus subplot and our view into the Death Eaters, following Snape, the Blacks and the Malfoys. Two of Lily and Jamesā āthrice defiedā events happen throughout the season. Remus is sent undercover into the werewolf community and drifts apart from the Order, causing the others to confide in him less and less. Peter sees this and, in the season finale, meets up with a Death Eater.
Season 5: We begin with the announcement of Lilyās pregnancy. The fighting gets worse - there are battles and disappearances every day, both sides begin to lose friends and mentors. Narcissaās pregnancy is played out as a parallel to Lily; she and Lucius grow closer and begin to resent the influence of Voldemort on their lives. They strengthen as a family unit and at the end of the season decide to break away from their Death Eater friends (and family). The prophecy is told, Harry is born, Lily and James go into hiding. Sirius continues to fight in the war, becoming friends with the Prewett brothers and eventually witnessing their deaths, Snape becomes worried for Lily, makes the deal with Dumbledore, and begins sabotaging Death Eater missions he thinks may harm her, Karkaroff flees England, the Longbottoms announce that theyāre expecting, Peter begins passing information on to Voldemort himself, Remus is thrown out of a werewolf meetup when they discover heās a spy.Ā
The season finale is two hours long. It begins with Harryās first birthday - Bathilda Bagshot is present, and speaks of Grindlewald. The scene changes, and Sirius is sitting with Kingsley and a few other Order members - theyāve just heard the news of the McKinnons. Moody comes in with blood everywhere; heās lost an eye. Sirius canāt stand to look at the blood and begins to walk out - then catches sight of Remus in the hall. He confronts Remus, asking where heās been - Remus canāt say, under Dumbledoreās orders. They end up in a fist fight, beating each other senseless until theyāre separated. They donāt speak again for fourteen years. Itās a cold day, and windy - Lily goes outide and pulls the clothes off the line before they can blow away. She and James decorate their cottage with jack oā lanterns and streamers, and dress Harry up as a little Merlin in a purple gown. They eat Halloween dinner together, the three of them, and James jokes about how āitās nothing on a Hogwarts feast - just you wait and see, Harry!ā Lily goes to put Harry to bed - we watch as she changed him into his pyjamas, lays him in the crib and sings to him - until sheās cut off mid song by a blast downstairs. Sheās at the door when she hears James scream, and then thereās a green flash of light, bright and cold, and she runs back to the crib, too choked with fear to even cry for her dead husband. A hooded man steps in the doorway, blocking out all the light. The screen is still black when we hear the revving of a motorcycle as it touches down on the ground. Sirius stands in front of the ruined house, and there are no words for the look on his face. He makes a sound - more animal than human - and before even knowing why, he starts forward, searching among the rubble. He hears a sound, and digs underneath the debris, forgetting his wand entirely, until he finds Harry, crying, the scar still bleeding. Sirius doesnāt know how long he stands there, holding the baby, until suddenly Hagrid is behind him, saying something about Dumbledore, and argues for a while but hands Harry over anyway, saying Hagrid can take the bike. Itās only then that Sirius thinks of Peter. Hagrid says something else, but Sirius doesnāt hear him, doesnāt hear anything - he Apparates, and heās not even landed before heās running, up and into Peterās apartment, banging through the door and making things explode like he did when he was young and couldnāt control his magic. We follow Sirius through the confrontation with Peter and his arrest. Sirius is dragged away, laughing and crying manicallay, cut in a montage to parties and celebrations, random wizards and the Order, a thousand people cheering and smiling and all whispering āFor him! The Boy who Lived! Harry Potter!ā And, finally, a baby and a letter, lying side by side in front of a Surrey door.
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