[HPforGrownups] Re: School! Snape the bully? (was: Is Draco worse than James Was?)

[Melanie Black]

No: HPFGUIDX 77823

Laura wrote:
Now wait a minute.  We read in canon more than once that James and 
sirius were popular.  Bullies tend not to fit that description.  So I 
would deduce that their bad behavior was directed at people who were 
out of line in some obvious way.  And we know that James straightened 
up by the time he was 16 (or else he couldn't have been a candidate 
for Head Boy when he was 17).  Once he did that, Sirius would 
probably have cooled out himself, since he held James in greater 
esteem than anyone else (and he would have lost his favorite co-
conspirator).  

We just don't have the whole picture of the James/Sirius-Snape 
relationship.  And now it looks like we never will.  

My reply:  Isn't that sad?  I really hope we get more backstory on them.  But I supposse it's not meant to be.  
 
It bothers me that we are basing our entire opinion on young James and Sirius by one memory.  
 
I personally do not think they were that bad, Lily reminds me a great deal of Hermione.  Even if people deserve to be taunted she would not put up with it.  
However, I refuse to believe that Snape was the innocent victim.  There is absolutely nothing cannon to back that up besides this memory.  
 
~Melanie




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