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

[silencescreamsatme]

No: HPFGUIDX 62771


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> > Scott wrote:
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> > 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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The only problem I have with this is that yes, it was Snapes memory, 
but....

Snape was engrossed in his homework/notes/reading/whatever. He never 
heard what James and Sirius were saying. Harry only heard them 
talking because he followed them closely out of curiosity for his 
father's childhood days. But SNAPE didn't hear James and Sirius 
talking about how bored they were. Harry did, so in a way we DO get 
an outsider's view on things....because Harry heard what Snape did 
not, even if it was his own memory...

~Silence