Trusting characters Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 118714


 
> Alla:
>> IF I will doubt ANY character's testimony, I will not be able to 
> support ANY of my arguments with canon's testimony.
> 
> Untill Sirius is PROVEN to be a liar, I will take his testimony 
> seriously, I see no reason not to.
> 
> I even take his testimony about Snape to be true, but I understand 
> why others may not want to, but not to take his words about James 
as 
> truthful? I see absolutely no reason why.

Potioncat:
I take some characters' testimony as fact, unless I have a 
particular reason to doubt it.  I take some characters' testimony as 
false, unless it is supported in other ways. For example, I believe 
DD tells the truth, but he's been known to tell only part of the 
truth or to actually mislead.

I trust McGonagall when she says Peter was not up to the standard of 
James and Sirius.  And it makes me wonder about all the "great" 
things Peter has appeared to do in the service of LV.

I would not take anything Sirius said about Snape at full face 
value.  I would not take anything Snape said about Sirius at full 
face value.  So I do not discount Snape being well versed in Dark 
Arts, but I wonder about it.  And I do not think Sirius intended to 
kill Snape, but I wonder about it.