[HPforGrownups] Re: Conspiracies and re-assessments

[caesian]

No: HPFGUIDX 111927

>  > > Caesian  wrote previosly:
>  > snip.
>  > >thus far,  no Major character, presented from
>  > > the outset as sympathetic or trusted  by Harry, has been
>  > > reversed.  <
>  > >
>  > > Pippin:
>  > > What about  Pensieve!James?
>  > >
>  > Alla:
>  >
>  > Was James reversed though, Pippin or did he just acquired
>  some  greyness in him?
>  >
>  > James was painted as a boring Saint. JKR added some
>  colours to him.  If pensieve Scene was James at his worst, than 
>  to me he has  along  way to go before I consider him to be evil<
>
>  Pippin:
>  ::blinks:: IMO, grayness was studying illegal magic and leading a
>  werewolf through a populated area for kicks. Evil is holding
>  someone against their will and threatening to strip them naked
>  in public. Does evil have to be wearing a robe and a hood before
>  we recognize it?
>
>  Pippin

Caesian:
Oh for heaven's sake. :: slaps forehead ::  I see the light!  I mean, 
even though (obviously) the author intended that when we look back on 
that scene, we'll all realize that it was Lupin who was really, really 
evil.  Lupin who kept trying to read his book, and didn't laugh when 
James insulted Snape.

But I'm just going to have to eat my words on James.  Even if he /was/ 
well liked by students and staff alike and he was head boy (probably 
just following in Riddle's footsteps, right)?  Even if 
so-saintly-she's-Canonized Lily eventually considered him reformed 
enough to marry him.  And although he actively defied Lord Voldemort in 
the defense of good in general and friends in particular, and then died 
in the defense of his wife and son - well, I for one think that one 
moment at the age of 15 is enough to put him on the evil list for good, 
don't you?  And I don't mean sorta-not-nice, or 
can-be-repented-of-later evil, I mean "evil" - as in eating little 
children or wishing genocide on Muggleborns.

And after that revelation, I realize I'm probably doomed too, just for 
writing this snarky email (not to mention all the stuff I did when I 
was 15!) - but,... I might as well send it anyway, because thinking 
about doing something and then not acting is even worse, right?  sigh.  
Caesian, more silly than snarky, who thinks that Pippin enjoys logic 
play, and the humor in it, too 

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