bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 118587


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:
 
Hickengruendler: 

I snipped a major part of the story.
 
Valky:

> How can you possibly question whether the Dark Arts are worse than 
> childish pranks.
> He is killing people, potioncat.

Hickengruendler:

Is he? Well, maybe yes, as a Death Eater, that's possible. But I'm 
sure he wasn't killing people as a student. If he were, and everybody 
would have known that, than for sure he would be in Azkaban. The 
problem is, that we don't know what the Dark Arts really are. Are 
they just the Unforgivable Curses? Or is it just delving into 
dangerous magic? Anyway, there's nothing to suggest that teenage 
Snape was killing people left and right. In fact, canon contradicts 
this. Snape told Dumbledore, that Sirius proved himself to be able to 
commit murder at the age of sixteen. If Snape did so, too, and for 
some inecxusable reason weren't sent to Azkaban, than surely 
Dumbledore would have reminded him, of that. And even if he did, than 
the Marauders couldn't have known about that, because they would have 
told Harry (at least Sirius would, for sure). We did saw him killing 
flies, but then, I'm sure we all have already killed a fly. And at 
least one of the so-called childish pranks from Sirius could very 
well have killed Snape. How do we know that Sirius didn't attempt 
murder here? Maybe Snape's suspicion was right. And it's not that 
Sirius ever felt sorry for this.

Hickengruendler, who really thinks, that if the storyline weren't 
told from Harry's point of view but from a more objective one, Sirius 
would look as bad as Snape. A nasty, prejudiced and dangerous man 
(with a sad life, that makes his behaviour undertandable), who 
nonetheless decided to fight for the good site. It's just Harry's 
rose-coloured point of view, that makes look Sirius better.