bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

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> SSSusan:
> This is true--we've no backstory for James' early life yet.  OTOH, 
we do know that Sirius wanted to escape his pureblood, DA-leaning 
family, and where did he choose to go?  To James' family.  *Maybe* 
that was because James was his best buddy by then.  Or *maybe* it was 
that James and his family were *known* to Sirius to offer up a home 
where the Dark Arts were detested.  Because we can't know this one 
way or the other, I just don't see any reason to believe that Sirius 
was misremembering.  Yeah, James was an ass here.  But maybe he was 
just an ass.  A truly DA-hating ass.  I don't see any compelling 
reason to not read the scene this way.


Alla:

Oh, Susan, I wish you would not stay out of this thread. :o)
I agree absolutely. Wonderful nickname for James, by the way. He was 
a jerk, nobody disputes it, but I also see no reason to deny him 
ideological convictions at the age of fifteen, because I think 
teenagers are pretty capable of having them and I still think that 
there are hints that he did hated Dark Arts always.