[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: James, Snape, God, Illustrations

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 62574


--- darrin_burnett <bard7696 at aol.com> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jenserai
> Bariman" 
> <jenserai at h...> wrote:
> > Melpomene:
> > >Did he? Grow out of it? Something struck me when
> I read the line
> > >about Harry wondering whether James had "forced"
> Lily to go out 
> with
> > >him. The "I'll let him down if you go out with
> me" line morphed 
> into
> > >something more awful like---"It's a matter of
> life and death, 
> Evans.
> > >I'll stop it if you go out with me."  Stop what?
> Oh, death by
> > >werewolf perhaps?
> > >How could I think such a thing...gosh how could
> I? Oh, maybe
> > >the "Snape was a special case" rationale. And
> "well he didn't take
> > >him along on dates with him and hex him in front
> of her!" They 
> didn't
> > >start dating until 7th year. (Right?) SO when the
> hell did he grow
> > >out of it? > >
> > 
> 
> Me: 
> The Snape was a special case rationale was that
> Snape never stopped 
> trying to curse James, and James wasn't going to
> take that. Pg 671.


In the flashback Lily says that James hexes anyone who
annoys him.  Snape was not the only one he picked on.


And, for the record, I do not believe the marriage was
forced.




Rebecca 


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