Who is the adult (Was: Who's to blame for Occlumency?)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 100857

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "demetra1225" <tzakis1225 at n...> 
wrote:
> > I'm at work, so I dont have my books with me, but if I recall 
> correctly, in the penseive scene James explains that he bullys 
Snape 
> simply because Snape exists.  Because he exists as a Slytherin? 
> Vampire? Wizarding equivalent of a Goth?  Whatever the category, 
that 
> smacks of racist/bigoted thinking to me and I would have to 
classify 
> their treatment of him as hate crimes.  



Yes, James says that. It could be a hate crime or it could be one of 
those mysteries, which will tell us that Snape was not a poor little 
sweetie while at school either. (NO, I am not justifying James at all)


"Because he exists" could be even that Snape had feelings for Lily 
and James knew about it.

Alla