James the Berk?

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 106109

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:

> Valky's chain of deductions :
> Snape was raised in and presumably liked the Dark Arts
> Hence : Snape would choose a Dark Curse to defend himself 
> Hence : Any curse that Snape would choose would necessarily be 
Dark Magic.
> This is a flawed reasoning, it's not logical. Hence I don't accept 
it as a convincing argument. That was all.
>


Valk:
Del, I never went from presumable to hence.
You KNOW I went from Snape stands accused, by an as yet not proven 
to be unreliable source (Sirius), of preferring Dark Arts spells to 
other kind at this time, to hence he used his preferred style.
Or didn't you?
Not as flawed really, anyway.


> Charme wrote :
> > *what if* Dark Magic is just any magic performed to the 
detrement, psychological or otherwise, of another? If that's the 
case, James AND Snape both are guilty.
> 
> Del replies :
> Ah Charme, you're on the way of becoming my new best friend, you 
know that ;-) ?
>

Valk:
Ok, lets postulate drawing the line somewhere else.
The Expelliarmus and the Impedimenta are *by nature* Defensive 
spells, and a cutting curse is *by its nature* a violent attack.
Scourgify is an otherwise quite, innocuous spell, obviously misused 
by James in this case.
The distinction between the types of spells used in the melee is 
there, one just needs to be willing to see it.
Wish I had more time to really load my side of the equals sign here,
I guess I'll have to leave it at that.

Best to you.