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

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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.

Alla:

Unless T-shirts were saying – there is an Order of Phoenix 
organization and we are members of it, I do not see how they were 
advertising anything. Silliness is one thing and I think large part 
of it JKR wanting to let us know that they were members, but I  do 
not see how it is anything more than that. I mean, muggle police 
certainly did not decide that they are members of anything and I am 
not sure how DE could.

CJ:
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.

Alla:

Question, I always thought that you can say that person is in his 
late teens until person is twenty, is it not correct?  I am pretty 
sure that JKR said  that story is taking place roughly three years 
before Harry was born, so my guess would be seventeen or eighteen.

I am also not sure what is wrong with arrogance if one fighting enemy 
with it. I mean, I do not think that if it was supposed to be some 
sort of spy mission arrogance will be very appropriate, but how they 
behave here seems quite appropriate to me anyways.


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

CJ:
Feel? Or care?

Alla:

I do not quite get it. What peril was police in? From DE you mean? 
Sure they were and I speculate that James and Sirius were thinking 
that they are also protecting Muggle police from the DE. They were 
doing it in cocky arrogant way, but eh, they were still protecting 
muggles from terrorists, were they not?

I believe muggle police would have been and should have been really 
really grateful to James and Sirius had they any clue what was really 
happening.

JMO,

Alla