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> > Carol:
And there's no indication that anything terrible has yet happened in 
his young life to stir him up and start him thinking about serious
issues like VW1. Hogwarts is a haven, and the students there live a
sheltered life without even knowing it--as James will learn later 
when he starts losing friends and family and the Order members are 
picked off one by one.


Alla:

Nothing traumatic happened yet? Could be, but surely he saw the war 
around him, since Voldemort already emerged by their fifth year.

Could James develop by seeing the sufferings of others?


Nora:

snip.

 It seems that Voldemort's ideas were an issue while that generation 
was at school, and that these ideas mattered--witness the reaction 
to the use of 'Mudblood', just as strong then as it was in a present 
instance.



Alla:

I will even doubt how much of haven Hogwarts was against Voldemort's 
ideology, with the war already taking place. It seems to me that 
party lines were drawn and everybody knew who will be fighting on 
whose side.



Nora:
 Interesting that Dumbledore compares James and Snape to Harry and 
Draco, in the first book--that's an ideological clash as well as a 
personal one, although neither of them is exactly debating politics 
and philosophy in the halls, either.
>

Alla: Agreed, definitely.