James the Berk?

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 105719

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> kyntor wrote:
> > 1.  Snape did use a racial slur against Lily.  You can speculate 
that it was the first time he ever used one, but it is speculation.
> 
> Del replies :
> Let's imagine that somehow Draco lost his bodyguards, and someone
> started humiliating him. Do you really think Hermione would come to
> Draco's help ? I don'think so, because Draco has over and over 
again insulted Hermione. But Lily did come, and she even seemed 
surprised when Snape insulted her.
> 



Valky:
Had to jump in here because I strongly disagree.
Given the same scenario Hermione would jump in in much the way Lily 
did, even if it were Draco, Harry would jump in even if it were 
Draco.
They are two people with sincere courage of their convictions, just 
like Lily, and they WOULD do the same. 
We can, as much, speculate that Lily thought nothing of James and 
Sirius picking of Snape until it had gone too far, by her account, 
and had become an injustice, to her reckoning. 
Under that very same principle, I would entirely expect Hermione to 
behave the same way, and be surprised if Draco would insult her, as 
well, afterwards.