[HPforGrownups] Re: Conspiracies and re-assessments

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 112482


--- dumbledore11214 <dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Alla:
 
> Several people (myself included) responded something to the effect 
> that even though James' actions in the Pensieve scene were 
> undoubtedly CRUEL, it is hard to condemn the person as evil based
> on 
> such scene, especially since we can infere or speculate that James 
> and Snape had  an ongoing feud AND there are could be reasons why 
> James disliked Snape. Mitigating circunstances so to speak.


You know, if you'd ended the sentence at "...based on one scene." But
you just had to drag in the possibility that Snape somehow brought
the whole thing on himself by feuding with James.

Let's look at Lily's comment: "What's he ever done to you?"  Or
Lupin's question during the fire chat: "Did I ever tell you to lay
off Snape?" Or Sirius' response to that question: "Well, you made us
feel guilty sometimes."

Those three quotes don't sound to me like it was some kind of mutual
hexing feud.  I might buy the claim that Lily wouldn't know about guy
stuff and it might have been kept from her.  But that still leaves
Sirius and Lupin: did they not know if Snape was hexing James in
return?  

And, yes, I think James was serious in offering to lay off Snape if
Lily would go out with him.  He probably thought it was a reasonable
offer: we'd both get something we want!  

Magda


	
		
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