OOP: James, Snape, God, Illustrations

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 62613

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kewpie" <dkewpie at p...> wrote:
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > Did James stir Snape up to do that? Certainly, but I agree, James 
> did 
> > have to defend himself. Perhaps if he'd have let Snape get him, 
> this 
> > would all be over now, but I somehow doubt that.
> > 
> 
Kewpie:

> Sounds more like Snape is the one defending himself. James is the 
one 
> who hexes people (the outcasts and loners who're minding their own 
> business most of the time) for no reason and do so purely out of 
> enjoyment for his boredom. He said so himself and Sirius/Lupin 
> confirms it. It's not a mutal, equal rivalry thing where he hexes 
for 
> defendo or whatever. And remember, Snape is not the only victim of 
> their cruel bullied ways.


me:

Here is what it "sounds like." The actual canon.

Page 671:

"Well," said Lupin slowly. "Snape was a special case. I mean, he 
never lost an opportunity to curse James, so you couldn't really 
expect James to take that lying down?"

Snape never lost an opportunity to curse James. Clearly, he was 
trying to get his revenge.  

My question is whether James should have taken it once to get it over 
with and gone on, hoping Snape was satiated.

Somehow, James became Head Boy. You don't get to be Head Boy when 
Dumbledore, who knows most everything going on at the school, thinks 
poorly of you.

Darrin