My husband's Snape observation

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No: HPFGUIDX 73955

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda" <editor at t...> wrote:
> <snip> 
> Jan has gotten through the pensieve scene. And his basic take is 
that 
> James was your basic BMOC (big man on campus), a jock, like the 
guy 
> that walks around with a football under his arm. Yeah, I got that 
> much. But the thing I missed was what he considered the obvious 
> parallel to Snape's being taunted--not Harry in the graveyard, but 
> the DEs at the World Cup. Down to the same spell, he said, and 
he's 
> likely correct; the Robertsons were held in midair and at one 
point, 
> the Mrs. was flipped upside down.
> 
> I had completely missed this, and found it chilling, especially 
the 
> similarity of treatment of the victim. I'm at work now, can't 
analyze 
> much, but I was stunned that I'd totally missed this and wanted to 
> get other thoughts. Thoughts?
> 
> ~Amanda

It has been noticed and commented on. My take is that it's a case of 
JKR wanting to blur the lines between good and bad, another instance 
being what Hermione came up with to call DA meetings, the coins that 
start to get hot when a meeting is on and that Harry noticed are 
similar to how the Dark Mark works on Death Eaters.

Mim