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

[Carolin Mönkemeyer]

No: HPFGUIDX 77942

> Laura:
>
> 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.
>
Me:
The bullies that were in my class were the most popular. That's what I had
to feel when I tried to defend myself (I was totally unpopular).
So it's not always that bullies anunpopular.... the more popular they get
the better their chance is to go on with what they are doing and not being
stoped!

Yours Finchen