[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Link to short story that JKR wrote for charity is now on Leaky

[Lee Kaiwen]

Alla:
what caused you to like them less after this story?

Kemper:
I didn't appreciate their interactions with the Muggles... kind of dickish

CJ:
Cocky and arrogant leap to mind - cockier and arroganter than a couple 
of teenagers ought to have been in that situation. I'm sure Moody 
would've given them a good dressing-down. Yeah, I know -- we're supposed 
to find the cockiness endearing.

But I was struck by the t-shirts. Members of a super-secret 
crime-fighting organization and they garumph around advertising it? 
That's two dressings-down Moody owes them.

Though the story says "late teens", James must be at least eighteen at 
this point (he was twenty one when he died, and how long did VWI last?) 
It wouldn't appear that James had outgrown the arrogance that Lily had 
accused him of earlier, leaving one to wonder a) how he ever became head 
boy, b) why Lily ever fell in love with him, and c) whether he remained 
a dick his entire life. As others have pointed out, we keep waiting for 
James to display *some* redeeming quality, but here again, we don't get it.

Kemper:
However, they didn't seem to feel as though the police were in that much 
peril.

CJ:
Feel? Or care?

CJ