Guerilla ? (Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 118686


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:

> Potioncat:

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> But my point was replying to a post far up thread that said that 
> James and Sirius were fighting a war against a DE.  I don't think 
> they thought he was a DE.

I don't either.  But I do wave a little bit of a flag for the idea 
that they thought he was a Dark-Arts loving type, and that could be 
part of the reason they were persecutorial towards him in school.  
(That was the point of the post numbers I tagged in the .sig line).

DE, no, as I don't think anyone would actually be a full-fledged DE 
while at Hogwarts.  Recruit the kids after they graduate, not 
before.  But certainly keep an eye on who looks promising, who shares 
the pureblood ideological orientation, who is interested in the Dark 
Arts (which seem to be based on something of an ethic of force and 
exploitation according to the desires of the caster without respect 
for the subject integrity of the victim) and shares the ideas behind 
them.  "No good and evil, only power" sounds about right.

We don't know if this accurately describes Young!Snape, and if the 
perception that it *did* was a component of motivation for James and 
Sirius.  I think the latter makes sense, if you stitch together the 
arguments from the past few dozen or so posts.  We are being drawn a 
picture of the Voldemort!Ideology, and it is not a pretty thing,  
composed of a number of aspects that all nest together snugly.

-Nora drops off into sleepyland...zzzzz...