OOP: James, Snape, God, Illustrations

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 62632


> 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.
> >
> 

Jens:

> 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.
> 

You think Lily would fall for that? She went from disgust to bearing 
James' child. She seems too sharp to fall for fake contrition.


Me:
> >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?
> 

Jens:
> 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.

Me:
Yeah, it's an adorable theory.


Jens:
> 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.
> 

Me: One more reason I'm glad I've never laid eyes on a single fanfic 
and I never will.

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


Jens:
> 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.
> 
>

I expected something less hysterical than going from not perfect, 
which most suspected anyway with the Shrieking Shack prank and the 
secret animagic, to blackmailing a woman into marrying him. 

Darrin