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

[Jenserai Bariman]

No: HPFGUIDX 62627

Me (earlier):
>Nevermind, he [James] didn't grow up in the least. After the Prank,
>Dumbledore
> > threatened expulsion if he caught wind of anymore bullying. And of
>course  this would make James like Snape even less...
> >

Darrin:
>Huh? Did Book 6 come out and I missed it? We don't know why James
>backed off and got his head deflated. Lily telling him off surely had
>something to do with it, and realizing what Sirius had done with the
>prank was something else.
>

Sorry I should have been more clear. I didn't mean to say it was the only 
possible solution. I was just following a train of thought.

>And does it really track that James forced Lily to marry him? That
>the pictures of the happy people Harry has in his photo album was
>essentially a prolonged rape? Or the sacrifice JAMES made when V-Mort
>showed up at the door, "Run, Lily, I'll hold him off" was for a woman
>he cared so little for as to force her to marry him?

Oh, I don't think it would happen in the books, I just thought it was a 
lovely idea. I can get a little sadistic when it comes to book characters. 
Anyway, it's not such a stretch if you compare it to some other theories 
people have explored about the twisted relationships in the Potterverse 
through fanfics.

>Sheesh, I'm glad to see the hate for James isn't getting out of hand
>or anything.

Well, what do you expect? We've just had the 
shocking-revelation-that-he's-not-perfect. I found it a bit upsetting 
because even I didn't actually believe that MWPP had been _that_ cruel to 
Snape, and I didn't like James or Sirius much to begin with.

-Jens

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