OOP: James( was:Two-way Mirror and other frustrations)

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No: HPFGUIDX 64647

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" 
<valkyrievixen at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I do not for a second mean to imply that James was justified in 
his 
> actions.
> I was only hoping to point out that we are being pulled into 
empathy 
> for Snape, and antipathy for James. And we should proceed with 
> caution. I am attempting to show that there is evidence of James 
good 
> nature and Snapes poor one even in this frightening character 
> reversal scene. Harry did not see it and neither have many of the 
> other posters, but I do.
> 
> Valky awiting the Snape lovers slings and arrows.

If there's anything that Rowling is consistent with in almost all 
the books so far, it's that Harry will at some point discover that 
he was wrong about something concerning Snape. He found that Snape 
wasn't the real villain in Philosophers, that he was not trying to 
poison Lupin in PoA and that he is on the side of the light in GoF. 
It was time to find out that he had been telling Harry the truth 
about his father in OotP. 

I do find it hard to see James' noble nature in "Snape's worst 
memory". The fact that James was trying to woo Lily does prevent me 
from immediately seeing him as a valiant defender of muggleborns 
everywgere. And considering that the ones reassuring Harry of James' 
good nature are Black and Lupin, has little value considering that 
they obviously participated in bullying Snape and still refuse to 
feel any guilt about it.

Mim