Snape and Harry again.

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No: HPFGUIDX 113272

Magda:
>> Well, as I pointed out in my post earlier today, we have three 
people
> who make comments indicating that the James-Snape feud wasn't an
> equal one: Lily ("What's he ever done to you?"), Lupin ("Did I ever
> tell you to lay off Snape?") and Sirius himself ("Well you made us
> feel guilty sometimes..." and "...arrogant berks, you mean").  
> 
> No one has addressed those comments or explained how they could 
jibe
> with a Snape who was could give as good as he got.  Lily also 
points
> out that James hexed people "who annoyed you just because you 
can". 
> Not "people who were bullies" or "people who were hassling little
> kids" - but just people who annoyed him.  
> 


Alla:

    Sorry, Magda. I was too involved into discussion with Pippin. :o)

    Well, Lily's comment is the easiest to address. Whatever 
ideology underlined James/Snape or Sirius/Snape possible conflict , 
she may not have known about it. She after all only started to go 
out with James in his seventh year and may not have known much about 
him except what was happening on the surface.

    What do you mean, " People, who are hassling little kids?" That 
is today related. Of course Lily could not know what kind of teacher 
Snape will turn out to be to her son.

     Lupin's comment is the hardest to address of course. I could 
have given you some possible speculative ideas, but it would be a 
bit too speculative even for me. I think I used my limit of 
speculations for today. :o)

     Sirius' "arrogant berks". Well, they were "berks". I am just 
saying that it is possible OR NOT that Snape was one too.

     I hope I am being clear that I am only exploring possibilities 
and it is also possible that Snape was a constant victim of 
Marauders throughout the school and eventually Marauders' bullying 
drove him to become a DE. 

No, sorry. When I wrote it, the second part of the sentence made me 
cringe. Even if we discover that Snape never fought back and 
Sirius' "Snape never missed a chance to curse James" was a lie, I 
will still dispute that anybody except Snape was responsible for him 
becoming DE. Unless of course, somebody literally kidnapped Snape 
and forced him to take the mark. 


 Alla, who wants to complain about having absolutely no        
inspiration for writing work-related paper today and about the 
necessity of spending the whole day writing tomorrow. :(