[HPforGrownups] Re: James, a paragon of virtue? Snape, a paragon of virtue?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 124256

--- vmonte <vmonte at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Maybe you're right. But I think that if what you are saying is
> true, James only started thinking this way because of Lily. I just 
> don't see James, before Lily, as someone who thinks things through.

> His best friends include:
> 
> Wormtail - a kiss ass if ever there was one. 
> 
> Lupin - a teenager that needed friends and always kept his mouth
> shut when his friends were doing wrong.
> 
> and
> 
> Sirius - a teenager with serious parental issues. A guy who is 
> definitely acting out on a lot of pent up frustration.


Very true.  James was basically a good kid who didn't realize the
emotional dependency on him that his friends had.  For very different
reasons.  Personally I think that it was the possibly ramifications
of the Prank that brought home to James that Lily was right about
him: he badly needed to get out of that Marauder circle where he was
the centre and hub that the others revolved around.  He needed to
hear some other truths.

And when he reacted well to learning them, then he started to grow up
and deserved the Head Boy-ship (word?) in his last year.

Magda


		
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