[HPforGrownups] Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

[Juli]

No: HPFGUIDX 118663


Hi everyone, This past week I've read a LOT of posts
abouth bullies and I've never found a place to put my
own point of view so here it goes.

At the beginning of the scene James is playing with the
snitch, Remus is reading, Sirius is just laying on the
grass and Peter is worshiping James, then as Sirius
comments that he's bored, they get up and walk towards
Severus. James reaches for his wand, Sirius makes some
funny comment and then the duel starts, Snape seems to
reach for his wand but James is faster. When I read
this for the second or third time an idea came to my
mind: this is a common scene, the Marauders and Snape
attacked each other whenever they had the opportunity.
I think in this scene James started the attack just
like in many other occasions Severus did, I know I
have no canon to support this, but by the way Sirius
and Remus explained it at the fireplace this is how I
get it.

I believe the reason they hated each other was just
that their personalities were completely different,
Sirius and James were the cool kids at school,
everyone liked them, they did good at school. Snape on
the other hand was unpopular, not attractive, and he
was into the Dark Arts. Snape wasn't exactly a weak
kid, and AFAIK bullies just made fun of the weak kids
because thay couldn't fight back, but Snape DID fight
back.

Juli