[HPforGrownups] Re: James, a paragon of virtue? Was: Why Do You Like Sirius?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 124411


--- nrenka <nrenka at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But what is almost more important if we're trying to get into
> James' 
> psychology here is that it seems fairly clear that *James* thought
> of 
> Snape as a Dark-Arts loving type of character.  That's the thing
> that 
> Sirius and Remus harp on when Harry comes to see them; that may be
> a 
> retrospective emphasis, but it may be their expression of what they
> remember as having been deathly important at that place in time.
> 


Actually, Sirius and Remus don't "harp on" it: Sirius mentions it
once, gets a sideways look from Remus and doesn't mention it again.
Remus doesn't mention it at all, preferring to use the "school cool"
inadvertantly arrogant defence.  By the end of the conversation,
after they're assured that Harry's chillled out a little, they're
back in reminiscing mode.

And if going up against Snape was an anti-DA statement, why bother
hiding it from Lily?  After all they were dating; why couldn't James
have explained it to her: "See, it's my ideology, he's just into bad
stuff that you really wouldn't approve of".  Nope, I don't buy it.

Magda


		
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