Lily. Was: Prank revisited.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 99264

> Renee:
> 
> Oh, I do understand why she walked away. I'm just not inclined 
to  excuse it. My problem - and maybe I didn't make myself clear 
in my  previous post - is that she's not just Lily Evans in this 
scene.  She's a prefect.<

Dumb canon question here. I know Lily was eventually Head Girl. 
But is there canon that she was a prefect? Harry doesn't notice 
that she's wearing a badge.

If she was a prefect, then she shouldn't have intervened unless 
she was prepared to do something about it. But if she was a 
prefect, why should she threaten James with her wand instead 
of taking points or  assigning detention?

It seems that James's infatuation with Lily was no secret, so 
Snape's insult may have been directed at him too. One reason 
that nobody wants to talk much about the Potter grandparents 
might be that they weren't so thrilled to have a Muggleborn in the 
family. As Sirius says, you can't stay a pureblood family unless 
you're willing to forbid your children from marrying others.

I think, too, that in assessing Snape's use of the M-word, we 
have to remember that at this time although Voldemort had 
begun his rise to power,  he was not yet  openly advocating or 
committing atrocities. He might even have been making a great 
show of condemning them, similar to Lucius Malfoy in CoS. 
What I'm saying is the context for the word might have been 
different. It might not yet carry the implication of  violence that
it would acquire later.

Pippin
certain someone will reply that James's parents couldn't 
possibly have been racists--wanna bet?