Conspiracies and re-assessments

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 111938

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Justine" <sweetface531 at y...> 
wrote:
> Pippin:
> James's motivation isn't unclear at all. He hated Snape 'because 
he exists' and his friend was bored with celebrating.
> 
> James was not a willing, conscious ally of Voldemort, nor do I 
> think he ever wanted to become one. But the world isn't divided 
> into evil people and non-Death Eaters either.
>  
> Alla:
> Sorry, Pippin, but "because he exists" could cover A LOT of 
things. Who knows what encounters James and Snape or Sirius and 
Snape had prior to that. 
>

> Justine:
> In James's mind, he's battling evil,
 
Valky:
<Snip say no more..Justine I agree >
THis is the singular crux of the entire matter and the thing that 
Harry is, and some of us are, yet to realise.

James may have been Wrong; Stupid; Arrogant; Cruel; Vicious; etc etc

Label it in a thousand ways but the the end result of what ever 
James was still leaves his own personal sense of nobility entirely 
in tact because he is fifteen and is making a mistake. 
It is *not* an unknown quantity that James thinks Snape is evil, its 
a given. We are standing a step before knowing that James was a 
Knight at heart and put himself to hazard willingly and fearlessly 
in canon. The space between here and there becomes a chasm the size 
of how much speculation we pour into Snapes Character, not James'.

JKR on Snape: (Paraphrase) You shouldn't like him _too_ much.....