Severus and the DADA exam /James

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 124027


> Finwitch:
> 
> I imagine a scene...
> 
> James&Sirius take Severus to Dumbledore's office in a manner of 
> police officers walking a prisoner. They, though not being even 
> prefects, get through Dumbledore's Gargoyle as easily as any 
teacher would.
> 
> Then, James starts talking about a confession - about being out of 
> bounds.
> 
> 'Of course, I could have chosen not to break rules - but that 
would have been murder. Severus Snape was about to meet a Gryffindor 
> Prefect, who was, due to his disease, unable to choose anything 
else but kill this intruder on his privacy. I, however, had the 
option to take this student away, to make that choice so I did'.
> 
> And all about saving Snape. "I'm not going to compete with Sirius. 
We're the best students now, and nothing you do, Severus Snape, will 
ever change that, because you owe your life to me".
> 
> And all in all, this provided James the sort of moral test he'd 
been yearning for, and so he was now able to stop defying rules and 
> concentrate on courting Lily.
> 


Valky:
Sorry to say Finwitch, as much as I agree with the precept of James 
yearning for a moral test, and most all else you have said on this 
thread, I kinda really dislike this one. 

In my imaganation both Sevvie and James are injured by Remus and by 
the end of the prank James is carrying Severus and not arresting 
him. I imagine the scene in a far more *truly* heroic way, and that 
James *really* coming out smelling roses, rather than with pretense 
of it, is the reason Severus could never forgive. Soon, soon we will 
know.

I don't think James did, nor ever could, get over his yen to be a 
moral champion, hence the order and his battles with Voldemort. 

Finally, (oops snipped it OK working from memory) I think we are in 
agreement, that Young Sevvie while pondering question 10 on his DADA 
OWl, if that is what he did, might not have fully realised that 
Lupin was a Werewolf, or he might. But either way the fact that he 
might be inclined to look so hard for ways to get others into 
trouble *is* a type of bullying and the word "snivelling" *is* used 
in close association to this behaviour.