[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: James( was:Two-way Mirror and other frustrations)

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 65837


> > He was a right little Bleeeeeep about it too. No holds barred
> > absolute oppositional. To a degree where his contempt for bad
> > character lead him to be such a complete backside he has even
>managed to legacy his son with a disturbing extreme of it.
> > Sirius also felt this way about the dark side. I am not saying they
> > were wise men. In fact, that they weren't, is exactly my point.
> > They were the marauders, in every bitter way opposed to dark
>wizards, beyond repute. They were a couple of self-righteous little
>toads in some ways, but they stood on a good principle and in so doing
>were inherently honourable.
> > Oh I am just blithering now.
> > I have to be strong here..c.c.can't l.l.let them h.h..hate
>Ja..James. >>>>>
>
>
>The funny thing is if he was a movie hero of this same type a gung ho
>maverick people would be cheering him, but no one ever asks what were
>those people like as children, what if they were like James, should
>people still go after James for what he did to Snape or just accept
>that it is part of what made him a threat to LV and perhaps what lead
>to his being killed and prior to that lead him to win Lily's heart?
>
>RJ
>
Absolutely spot on about the movie hero, or more correctly, anti-hero - I'm 
never quite as enamored of the bad boys and rebels without a clue, and so I 
don't cheer in movie theatres for them.

But I think James just reformed - and that's another question, which I asked 
earlier, but I'll ask it again:  How long and how hard should someone's 
mistakes be held against them?  James is dead, and now Sirius, and he spent 
wasted years in Azkaban.  Not because of what they did to Snape, but note 
that Snape's still alive and doing better than living out of garbage cans at 
Hogwarts.  Snape can never undo what was done to him - but perhaps he can 
forgive them for being thoughtless boys, and reconcile himself with the 
present - the present being Harry, who's still alive and who has done 
nothing to him, save dislike him for being a prick in Potions which *he* 
started (not harry acting out in class or anything).

Felinia

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