OOP: Re-Snapes worst memory and his parents

[silencescreamsatme]

No: HPFGUIDX 64389

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Joshua Dyal" <jdyal at p...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "joanna barra" And did he 
feel 
> a sense of jealousy towards James, 
> > because Mr and Mrs Potter clearly loved their son......
> 
> 
> While that's probably right, we don't actually know anything at all 
> about any Potters other than Harry, James and Lily.  We have no 
idea 
> if James' parents were loving and doting or not.  I doubt they were 
> actively cruel, but James' showing off and arrogance could easily 
be 
> the product of a disinterested and unengaged family life as a kid 
as 
> well.

Well, I don't know about that. Sirius talks about James' parents with 
fondness and affection and also graditude. He says they took him in 
and treated him like their own son. And even when he moved out, he 
was always invited for Sunday dinner...(mother STILL reading book, so 
still not available for exact quotes, sorry!). That doesn't sound 
like a family that is disinterested and unengaged. It sounds like a 
family that is close and caring...caring enough to take in their 
son's best friend at any rate.

~Silence