Conspiracies and re-assessments

[Alex Boyd]

No: HPFGUIDX 112507

Valky (I think, I'm a little confused) wrote, among other insightful
things, 

>-- James saw a Dark man in Snape, and 
> he was *not* all that wrong. 

I have to say, I'm not sure where you get this.  I think if we were
"supposed" (there's that word again....) to read James as acting out
of conviction that Snape is a Bad Man and has it coming to him for
those reasons, we'd have heard him say *something* that's open to that
interpretation.  Perhps when Lily asks him "What's he ever done to
you?", if not before.  Maybe he'd say "Hey, there's that evil git
Snape, who we saw knocking a muggleborn student down the stairs last
week, let's get him," instead of "Excellent.  Snivellus."  His remarks
are a bit of puerile wordplay with Snape's name, not a condemnation of
his existence on moral grounds.  

Alex