[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Re-Snapes worst memory and his parents

[Katherine Krasney]

No: HPFGUIDX 64478



silencescreamsatme <silencescreamsatme at yahoo.com> wrote:
 

--- 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

James' parents being so caring and doting could be the reason that James was the way he was.  Look at the Dursleys (yes, yes, not the perfect example I know).  Petunia and Vernon have spent all of Dudley's life doting on him, giving him everything he wants, allowing him to do anything he wishes.  And look at Dudley!  He is a rotten, spoiled child.  

Now I don't know how far James' bullying went, but even with loving, caring parents, he could nasty kid.  It's easy to think you're better than everyone else and that you can do anything you want when you've been given everything you've ever wanted.  Add the fact that James was absolutely brilliant and athletic to loving parents willing to do anything for him and it's easy (at least for me) to see how he could be so cocky and arrogant that he went around hexing anyone who annoyed him.

KathyK



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