Was James Potter smart?

James was a smart and popular student, and talented at Quidditch. He was the Chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team and Professor McGonagall thought James was excellent. But even though he was popular, he broke school rules and he loved pranking and bullying other students.
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Is James Potter intelligent?

On the one hand, James and Lily are considered to be geniuses, by both their friends and teachers, and Harry Potter, while he's still very good, is not a genius.
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How was James Potter talented?

James was a clever and talented wizard, but very mischievous in his youth. He was arrogant and boastful. He occasionally bullied and jinxed other students just for fun, particularly his long-time rival, Severus Snape. However, even in this stage of arrogance, he still displayed some positive qualities of character.
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What kind of person was James Potter?

He was known for being rather arrogant and full of himself and for thinking he could get away with a lot of rule-breaking but, on the other hand, he also risked his life many times to do the right thing. Here are the six most heroic things James Potter did as well as the four most cowardly.
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What is special about James Potter?

James Potter put his own life on the line to protect muggles and muggleborns from genocidal racist terrorists. Even when he was a douchey teenage jock, James befriended a Reject (Sirius), a Loser (Peter), and a Sick Kid (Remus). Even when James was a douchey teenage jock, he saved his enemy's (Snape's) life.
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Why is James Potter a bully?

James was a bully in school — to the point that even the biggest of James Potter apologists can't deny this. He mercilessly teased Snape, and in one particularly horrific memory, hung him upside down and exposed him in front of the entire school.
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Why James Potter is better than Snape?

James was slightly better because he truly did change and he allied with the Order out of basic morality compared to Snape who stayed an all around bitter person. and only allied with the Order out of love for Lily.
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Why are they called marauders?

They may have named themselves after the English word Marauders-which meant "raider". This could be a reference to all the people they bullied and "raided" in their time at Hogwarts.
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What was James Potter's Boggart?

James Potter's boggart was the dead bodies of his friends and family. His parents, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Lily. The people he loved the most lying dead at his feet beyond saving.
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Is James Potter Black?

James was a tall, thin man who wore glasses, with hazel eyes and untidy black hair that stuck up at the back. During his Hogwarts years, he had an indefinable air of having been well cared for and even adored.
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Is James Potter strong?

James Potter, like the other Marauders, was not more powerful than Voldemort. He was a great wizard, and his status as an Animagus is more than impressive. He could master powerful magic and he and Lily became nothing short of legends in the wizarding world.
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Who is strongest wizards in Harry Potter?

The Most Powerful Wizards In The Harry Potter Universe, Ranked
  1. 1 Albus Dumbledore.
  2. 2 Lord Voldemort. ...
  3. 3 Gellert Grindelwald. ...
  4. 4 Merlin. ...
  5. 5 Nicolas Flamel. ...
  6. 6 Salazar Slytherin. ...
  7. 7 Godric Gryffindor. ...
  8. 8 Credence Barebone. ...
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Was Sirius Black handsome?

We all know that Sirius Black was hot when he was younger. But exactly how hot is he meant to be when we meet him in Prisoner of Azkaban? If you read the books, it is very clear that when Sirius Black was young, he was a looker. He was strikingly beautiful and it, in turn, led for problems for James, Remus and Peter.
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Who is smarter Sirius or James?

If you look at it from raw intelligence and IQ point of view, James and Sirius. Hands down. They were able to convert themselves into animagi for Christs sake.
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Who was the smartest Marauder?

1st Place: Remus Lupin

An incredibly intelligent wizard, a fantastic teacher, a father figure to Harry, someone who was not averse to a bit of tomfoolery and arguably the best role model out of all the Marauders.
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Who is older James Potter or Sirius Black?

10 Sirius Black is the oldest (We think)

We learned in The Deathly Hallows that James Potter was born on March 27, 1960.
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What was Ginny's boggart?

Ginny Weasley's boggart | Fandom. On Ginny's page, it says that her boggart is Voldemort.
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What was Bellatrix's boggart?

During a Defence Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts, a boggart reveals her greatest fear to be a vision of the cloth-wrapped baby sinking into the depths. Warner Bros. Consumed by guilt, she struggled during her years at Hogwarts and was victimised by her classmates.
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Is the Marauders on Netflix?

Watch all you want.
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Was Lily Potter an Animagus?

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James's Animagus form was that of a stag, which earned him his nickname, Prongs. Strikingly, Harry's Patronus was a stag and his mother Lily's was a doe, a female deer, showing that the family's characters were in harmony and formed part of the same animal group.
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Will JK Rowling write about the Marauders?

J.K. Rowling: A 'Harry Potter' prequel about the Marauders will not happen. Harry Potter and The Casual Vacancy author J.K. Rowling spoke this evening at the Bath Literature Festival and made clear that if she ever returns to Harry Potter, she won't write a prequel.
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Who is worse James or Snape?

2 James: He knew better than to take his actions with Snape too far. While Snape is overall the worse person when you look at the things he did in his life, James did definitely no better than to do some of the things he did. Snape was raised in an abusive household and in poverty, and he wasn't liked at school either.
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Was Sirius stronger than Snape?

Snape is the 4th most powerful wizard (behind Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort, and Gellert Grindelwald). Sirius is very powerful, but not in the top 10. Sirius can come close, but would lose.
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Did the Marauders bully Snape?

The fact of the matter is that bullying is wrong no matter who the victim is, and the Marauders were no doubt the bullies in the scenario of their school lives. For some reason, though, they held onto their hatred of Snape well into adulthood.
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