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

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No: HPFGUIDX 64714

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana Williams" <diana at s...> 
wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford"
> > <valkyrievixen at y...> wrote:
> >
> > > And finally I agree entirely with Harry that the pain of being 
in
> > > that situation is not justified in any of these statements. 
> > > I will not easily back down from the debate that in even this
> > > particular scene James' Heart was good and warm.
> >
> 
> How can James' heart be considered good and warm in this scene?  
>  This is pure and simple bullying and
> grandstanding.
> 
> Diana W.

If this message goes to show anything, (and I submit that all it 
really shows is that adolescents are vicous little buggers) I think 
it is a lesson for Harry.

He spends a great deal of this book being angry at the way those 
around him perceive him. I think, if anything, he is meant, not to 
learn to dislike James, but that the judgements and actions of 
childhood pass. Mistakes are going to be made.Those that are your 
tormentors in your youth could be your allies in your adulthood.

I think this is a lesson that Snape and Henry will have to learn 
together. Snape is overdue. 

dorothy