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

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No: HPFGUIDX 65809

I haven't been following this chain real closely, so forgive me if 
this is something that's already been said and resaid. But we know 
from earlier books that Snape, while he was in school, know more 
dark arts than any student there. 

Now while bad manners and rudeness are hardly the way to win anyone 
over to your side. And probably never excusable, think back to your 
days as a fifteen year old. How would you have treated a member of 
say a frightening, objectionable political movement. Someone who 
espoused (or you thought espoused) beliefs that denied every thing 
that you, and the people you respect, believe of human rights. 
During the times Lilly, James, Snape....were going to school there 
were already dire foreshadowings of the troubles to come. And the 
focus of Snape's studies seem to show where he has cast his lot.

Sympathy for an outcast unattractive teen who's just not part of 
the "in" crowd, certainly. Sypmathy for someone already following 
the path that would lead to his becoming a DE (and though he 
redeemed himself, who knows what misery he helped to spread before)

....certainly not.