OoP: I'll do it: In defense of James (spoiler)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 62522

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Scott Peterson" 
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> > <xpectopatronum at y...> wrote:
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> > Calimora wrote:
> > Actually, I was more interested in Snape's responce than James 
> > motivation. (Boys are prats, Teenage boys are bigger prats, and 
> > teanage boys trying to get girls define the word prat.) James 
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> > out some humliation, but insted of humiliating James back 
(infront 
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> > the girl he likes) Severus strikes to cause injury. To me that 
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> > a visiousness beyond the senseless idiocy/cruelty of being 15 and 
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> > big man on campus.
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> > ~Calimora (Who was disapointed in Lupin none the less.)
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Scott: 
> I believe we may be missing something here.
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> Have you ever had the occurrence of talking to a friend about an 
> experience that you had, and you find that, though you shared the 
> same memory, you look at it in totally different viewpoints?
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> Is it possible that BECAUSE we are seeing this through Snape's 
eyes, 
> we are seeing it not so much as it occurred, but as Snape 
INTERPRETED 
> the situation?
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> Think again about the situation...
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> *Offers the reader a look into Snape's pensive*
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> Snape is working very hard on his OWL/NEWT. James and Sirius are 
> dawdling to pass the time.
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> Snape comes out and is walking by while James attacks (because he 
is 
> bored).
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> Snape is turned upside down...
> Snape sees the Lilly interchange...
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> *Removes the reader from the pensive*
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> Most of these appear to be acutely painful memories for Snape.  But 
> could they be colored due to the person who records the memory?
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> Now, I am not suggesting James was innocent.  I was sickened by 
what 
> he did.  Sirius also confirms Harry's worst fears about his father -
 
> and he sees his father not as the great hero anymore, but as a boy 
> with faults.
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> What I am suggesting is maybe those faults aren't as pronounced as 
> the memory make it appear.
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Now me:

Believe you me, Scott, I'd use this defense if I thought it was 
accurate, but I don't.

It is not made clear when exactly Snape discovered Lupin was a 
werewolf. Speculation has that it was that night -- Snape was so 
furious that he did one of the most colossally stupid things I can 
think of, he actually went where Sirius pointed him to go to find out 
about Lupin.

But if he didn't discover the truth about Lupin until later, then 
these memories would seem to have to be accurate recordings and not 
shaded by interpretation.

Remember, Harry overhears the Marauders talking about Lupin being a 
werewolf. Snape apparently can't hear this, so it shouldn't be in his 
subconscious.

That would follow then, that this is being magically recorded. Harry 
didn't have to sit next to Snape the whole time, as he did with 
Dumbledore in the trial in GoF. 

Darrin
-- Not so much of a loathsome lawyer that I use falsehoods to get my 
clients off.