[HPforGrownups] James and Snape. Was. Re: Snape and Harry again.

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 114899

Sorry for the belated respnse, i've been off-line for a wheek.

> Alla:
>
> I agree with you that we don't know why James and Sirius called
> Snape that name and it could have been completely unjustified, BUT I
> would not apply Occam's razor just yet due to the fact that no
> matter how cruel children could be to each other, I don't think that
> JKR would stop and portray evil on such small scale only.

<snip>

> Yes, bullying is cruel and evil, but I just don't think that this is
> big enough to be the biggest evil in such series.


feklar:

She's not, that's just one of the many petty human evils she portrays, from
the Dursley's greedy banality to Skeeter's lies to Fudge's corruption.
Adding these smaller, non-Big!Evil evils makes the characters and their
relationships three-dimensional.  The books would be both boring and much
thinner if the only conflict were Harry vs. Voldemort.  While all of these
conflicts ultimately affect the main HP vs. LV conflict, they aren't all
about the Hp/LV conflict, they are about the characters' individual (and
often competing) needs, biases and desires.  To reduce them all to just
being about good vs. evil undercuts JKR's complex characterization.

Feklar