Link to short story that JKR wrote for charity is now on Leaky

[lizzyben04]

> Pippin:

> James remained arrogant, but agreed to take direction from Dumbledore
> as an Order member (which he didn't always follow.) And this enabled
> him to fight dark magic effectively enough that Voldemort considered
> him one who had defied him three times.  Something James was not doing
> while he was out cavorting with a werewolf and picking on young Snape.
> 
> 
> Pippin
>

lizzyben:

Can't he be both? An arrogant jerk who picks on nerds & is also devoted 
to the Order, his friends, Lily & fighting against LV? The James I read 
is totally consistent from his first memory on the Hogwarts train, 
through SWM, through this little story. He doesn't change in either his 
flaws or his good points. I don't really understand why James needs to 
be "redeemed": he is what he is. It's just not what Harry (or the 
reader) originally percieved him to be. 


lizzyben