Awful Boy

[Kewpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 83851


> I'm sorry too if this has been discussed before.
> 
> I don't think she was referring to James either. The expression she 
> used : "that awful boy", doesn't strike me as being one she would 
use 
> to talk about her brother-in-law. In my idea, she would just say 
> something like " *he* ", and everyone would know who she's talking 
> about.
> 
> Moreover, "that awful boy" makes me feel like she's talking about 
> someone *whose name she doesn't remember*. It's the kind of thing 
we 
> all do : "you know, that woman with red hair", or "I met that guy, 
> the one with the Jaguar".

I'm surprise why James is considered completely, absolutely *zero* 
possibility of being associate as "awful", afterall his character was 
pretty darn AWLFUL from the pensive scene. He's arrogant, he steals 
(for own pleasure), he hexes anyone who annoys him (provoke or 
unprovoke) just because he can, calling insulting nicknames and 
taunts another based on their physical attributes, he attacked Snape 
two-against-one, just because Sirius was bored. He basically acted 
like the cocky popular kid + big bully who own the school. Even 
though his ego might have deflated a little bit later, some 
habit/attitude just don't go away like that. No one "changes" 
instantly into some super *angelic* person in such a short time that 
his former ugly side could have been completely *disappear*. His 
attitude and arrogance probably still remains when dating Lily (but 
at least changed in a way that Lily found attractive, who knows maybe 
she had hots for him all along). He could still have been acting 
he's "all-that" in front of Lily's family. Maybe he pulled some 
stupid prank (that only himself would find  *amusing*) on Petunia. So 
yeah I found it perfectly plaustible why Petunia found James "awful."

James was never some perfect angelic being. He can be cruel to 
someone else, and absolutely no regard of others' feelings and 
hurting them emotionally and physically. He could totally be awful to 
people he doesn't like as the Pensieve has shown us. In the time of 
war he fought bravely for the Order could make him a heroic person, 
but doesn't mean he's some kind-hearted soul with absolute virtue who 
behavor properly and be "nice" to other people.
 
James was an awful boy, and I agree with Petunia. 

Joan