Snape and Harry again.

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No: HPFGUIDX 113312

> Pippin:
> 
> Snape's involvement in the dark arts, whatever it consisted of in 
> his Hogwarts days, seems to be the reason James didn't like 
> him, but there's a big difference between not liking someone and 
> picking on them. 
> 
> There's something a little too uncomfortably like religious 
> persecution in picking on somebody because you think their 
> beliefs are satanic. I really hope James wasn't like that.


Alla:

Oh, I agree, I definitely agree. If we learn that James and Co 
started picking on Snape simply because they knew that he liked Dark 
Arts, I would dislike that immensely.

I guess I did not make myself clear again. The situation which would 
mitigate James guit (Not absolve , but mitigate) for me would be 
when he or his family suffered direct hurt from Death Eaters and 
based on that James hated Dark Arts and anybody who likes them


Pippin:
>>  Snape was responsible for his own choices, but does that 
> mean that he must have been someone who would choose to 
> be a Death Eater before the marauders got to him?  Snape could 
> have chosen to deal with his pain in another way, but IMO that 
> does not make  James and his friends  in any way less 
> responsible for the pain they caused. 

Alla:

We don't know that. My answer would be yes,Snape would have become 
DE  even if he never met Marauders, your answer, I am guessing would 
be no.

That I cannot even speculate on. I don't see even smallest 
inferences to build anything on in canon.  I held James and Sirius 
100% responsible for what they did to Snape in pensieve scene. 
Nothing more, nothing less. That was horrible. But right now, I 
don't even know if anything remotely close to such scene ever 
happened again (except Prank, of course, but was not someone 
speculating that prank happened that night?)