OOP: what we forget with Sirus and James and Harry

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 65653

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Black 
<princessmelabela at y...> wrote:

> They never experienced what it was like to be an outsider when 
they were young (certainly Sirius has now, but I maintain that 
Sirius is not the jerky kid he once was) many children who are like 
this have this tendency to be cruel people.  It's true and I know 
that almost all of those people grow up to regret it.  
>  

Well, maybe James hasn't experienced it, but Sirius, at the very 
least, knew what it was like to be an outsider within his own 
family.  At the time of the flashback, he was only a few months away 
from running away from home and getting his name blasted from the 
family tree.  In fact, I think that this might be the real reason 
behind Sirius' early hatred of Snape.  Snape -- a Slytherin, 
interested in the Dark Arts, contemptuous of Muggleborns -- was 
everything that the Black family wanted Sirius to be, and everything 
he was violently rejecting.  This doesn't explain James' attitude, 
of course, but then again we don't really know James' history with 
Snape or how their feud got started.

Also, I have to ask: if *all* we had ever seen of Snape was a single 
incident of him at 15, as remembered by someone who hates him, would 
he have come across as a nice person?  (Not that he comes across as 
a nice person now, but I trust people know what I mean.)

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com