Teen Conflict (was: "Lapdog" and "snivel")

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 115313


Dharma:
I'm under the impression that quite a bit of the personality 
conflict between Sirius/James and Snape will come down to the 
assumption that each party must adopt the other's value system to be 
a decent person. > How do other list members perceive the conflict 
between James/Sirus and Snape during their school days? 

Valky:
I could not agree more, Dharma. Your impression is the image of my 
basic understanding of the canon.
 
I tend to compound the nature of the issue with the fact that "Dark 
Magic" and "Lord Voldemort" were the bane of the very society that 
these boys existed in, making James and Sirius view of what was and 
wasn't decent quite the highground of the two. And is probably why 
Snape was unpopular and James/Sirius the opposite.


Dharma;
Do we adequate information on the topic to make specific 
determinations about their behavior?  It would be interesting to 
hear other people's thoughts on this topic.

Valky:
There is a plethora of that in backposts if you like.

MHO about our use of information on this topic is that a lot of 
information tends to be ignored in the debate, not least of all and 
of most dissappointment to me the fact that *Dark Wizards* called 
Death Eaters were killing people's family members and taking over 
the WW at the same time in the backdrop of the pensieve event. 

I find it eternally frustrating that people can ignore this backdrop 
and reduce the 'Snape up to his eyeballs in Dark Magic" canon to 
disproportionate teeniness when debating it. 

Fact is, Dark Magic wasn't just *an* issue of those days it was 
*the* issue. And do we adequate that enough when making specific 
determinations? NO I think not.

Valky