Conspiracies and re-assessments

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 112478

 
> Pippin: 
> >  Why did James have to keep his continued private war with 
> > Snape secret from Lily after they became friends? Sirius makes 
> > it pretty clear that she wouldn't have approved. And James was 
> > an *adult* by that time, too. 
> 
> Valky:
> And I am sure the private war between them had also matured by 
that  time. Snape never missed a chance to curse James. By your 
argument  here I can presume that Snape had as an *adult* learned 
and mastered  far more dangerous and sadistic Black Arts curses by 
this time too.  So well done to James if he could still hold his own 
in battle with  Mature!Snape using basic spells like Scourgify and 
Expelliarmus.  Dont you think?. :D

Potioncat:
To be fair, if you're going to assume Severus Snape's magic became 
more intense, why don't you also assume Jame Potter's magic became 
more intense?  We weren't told that Severus used Dark Arts in the 
Pensieve scene when he was fighting with James.  

I'll accept that he knew them.  We weren't told how or if he used 
them. We are told that James hexed people in the halls just because 
he could.  At the time Harry saw these two teens, I don't think one 
was any better (or worse) than the other.  And at that moment, James 
was behaving worse.

Based on what we  heard about James in previous books, I believe he 
really changed as he matured!
Potioncat