James and Sirius (and Remus).

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: James and Sirius (and Remus).
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7291] Re: James and Sirius.
Date: 8/19/00 5:35 pm  (ET)

> Someone said earlier that was James was a Quidditch Hero, Head Boy,
got good marks... He sounds too perfect to be true. Good at everything,
no wonder he found a few enemies.

And a big-time rule-breaker, and (I get the impression) so charming
that he would have been popular even if he hadn't been an athlete and
rule-breaker. I don't know that ANYONE hated him personally except Snape.

Snape who was motivated by envy as you imply.

Snape who said that James had nothing going for him except 'a small amount
of talent on the Quidditch pitch', pretending that James had been nothing
but a dumb jock when really James had gotten better grades than he did.

Since (was it McGonagall) said that James and Sirius were the cleverest
students in their year, Severus couldn't have been higher than THIRD
place.

It beats me why the people reminiscing at The Three Broomsticks about
James and Sirius, and that fat little boy who tagged after them,
didn't say
one word about Remus being another of the clique. If McGonagall, say,
had mentioned him by first name only, Harry wouldn't have found out
ahead of schedule that Lupin had known his father.

Speaking of which, in PoA, Trelawney comes down to Christmas dinner and
asks "where is dear Professor Lupin?" and remarks that he "positively
fled when she offered to crystal gaze for him. I *think* the intended
implication of his absence was that it was one of his sick nights (and
WHY does he take off the day before instead of the day after, when he
is in Worse Condition the day after???) and perhaps that he avoided
the crystal gazing lest she somehow hit upon the truth. But on recent
re-reading, I got the idea that he may have fled the offered crystal
gazing from fear that Trelawney might take the opportunity of getting
him alone to grab his -- I mean, to try to kiss him. And then that he
avoided Christmas Dinner to avoid Trelawney -- who intended in hope of
catching him. A bit of by-play that Harry wouldn't have noticed, that
even Ron wouldn't have noticed because he's still young enough to think
that professors are too old for that stuff.