[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: James, Snape,

[Jenserai Bariman]

No: HPFGUIDX 63946

Stripedog:
>I made the obviously flawed assumption that
>it was
>obvious that -Black- was the person to whom I was refering when writing of
>
>asking to be excused.

Me:
Ah, sorry I thought you were talking about Harry.

>And again, we don't know what Snape did or did not do but it is just as
>reasonable to assume that Snape did rotten things as a kid too and took an
>active
>role in the feud between James and himself as it is to assume that he
>didn't.

Well, according to Lupin and Black, "he never lost an opportunity to curse 
James", this is true. However, there is absolutely _no_ evidence that he did 
_anything_ to James as horrible as what James did to him in the pensieve 
scene. Lily outright asked James "What's he done to you?", and James has no 
better reason aside from Snape's very existence.

Second, Lupin and Black did not say "he _and his friends_ never lost an 
opportunity...". This indicates that Snape was consistently outnumbered by 
the Marauders.

True, Sirius did say that Snape hung with a group of Slytherins that nearly 
all became Death Eaters, however, in this book, we get a bit of info 
(Lucius' age) that indicates that at least one, if not all, of these friends 
had left Hogwarts by the time Snape was in fifth year.

I'm still not sure I understand what you were talking about before... Were 
you saying you thought that Sirius didn't want to try and excuse he and 
James' actions towards Snape and deliberately left out any mention of 
whatever Snape did to deserve everything that happened to him in that scene? 
Why on earth would he do that, especially to Harry who was obviously very 
upset and looking for way to put James back on his pedestal? And why would 
James do that, since he came up with an even less acceptable reason, and he 
was talking to a girl he apparently liked?

-Jens

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