Conspiracies and re-assessments

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Pippin:> 
> It seems to me whatever reasons there were, the feud had its 
> own momentum by then, or surely James wouldn't have 
> considered dropping it if Lily would go out with him. Would Harry 
> even consider dropping his hatred of Malfoy or Snape just to get 
> a date? 


Alla:


I disagree. Frankly, I never thought that James was saying that 
seriously. Anythign to make Lily get off him.

I would say that feud was always there, too bad I am just 
speculating .



 Pippin:
> We've never come to a consensus on the meaning of Dark Arts. 
> Isn't one of the difficulties that it's difficult to be consistent
> and still carve out an exception for James and his friends, 
> studying illegal magic and roaming a village with a Dark 
> Creature in tow?  Maybe we shouldn't be trying so hard. 


Alla:

No, we won't. Where in the canon it clearly says that Animagi is a 
Dark Magic?
Sure, they have to register, but it is not forbidden to do so, as far 
as I remember.
So, I don't think I am carving an exception for James and his 
friends. :o)

I know how much you like Remus :o), but the fact that Minsitry 
considers him a  Dark Creature, does not show that JKR considers him 
to be such, quite contrary. 


> Pippin
> thinking that James's defenders are doing a good job of adding 
> hypocrisy to his list of virtues ;-)

Alla:

Eh, why?