bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

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No: HPFGUIDX 118522





Potioncat:
As to a fair fight:
James drops Severus to the ground, Severus jumps up with his wand 
ready and James throws a locomotor mortis.  At Lily's command, James  
counters it and Snape stands up. Nothing is said about his wand.  
Lily tells James off making him mad and walks off and at that point, 
James jerks Severus back into the air and offers to take off his  
pants.Either  Severus had his wand, but did not cast a curse while 
James and Lily were arguing, then James threw one without warning. 
(Was Severus the one fighting fair?)


Alla:

As to fairness - NO, two on one is not fair by any means, but Snape 
did have his wand out and it tells me that with small luck he could 
have turned the tables on James easily enough. Good question is why 
didn't he cast the curse while James and Lily were arguing? Maybe he 
did not want to harm Lily? I doubt that he had very nice feelings 
towards James at the moment or EVER. :)


Potioncat:

Whatever many good things James will go on to do, at this particular 
time, he was a real jerk.

Alla:

As I said many times, I do consider Pensieve scene on its own to be 
plain and simple bullying. I do think though that whatever happened 
there has VERY long backstory. We'll see.
Was James a jerk at fifteen? Absolutely. Was Snape one? YES, IMO, if 
only judging by the name he called Lily.