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

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 124435

>> 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
 
 
> Valky (??? - I assume, as unsigned) 
> Oh I bet he did tell her that actually. And she curtly replied:
> "Oh right, James. If that's what it is then you had better bear in 
> mind that hypocrisy, *I* don't approve of." Followed by a long 
> exhortation of reasoning why attacking Snape publicly simply wasn't
> going to serve the said ideology, with a fair slather of honest 
> reprimand to balance it. 
> 
> James did stop humiliating Snape publicly, but the private battle 
> between them continued, simply because they couldn't stand the
> sight of each other.

I refer to OOTP, Chapter 29, pages 591-592, Cdn. paperback:

"'Even Snape?' said Harry.

"Well," said Lupin slowly, "Snape was a special case.  I mean, he
never lost an opportunity to curse James so you couldn't really
expect James to take that lying down, could you?"

"And my mum was OK with that?"

"She didn't know too much about it, to tell you the truth," said
Sirius.  "I mean, James didn't take Snape on dates with her and jinx
him in front of her, did he?'"

So I would submit that Lily was not aware that James and Snape were
continuing their relations in the normal manner (to use a
value-neutral expression).  Why hide it from her if there was
principled reason for it, if it was an anti-DA activity?

Answer: because it had nothing to do with Dark or Light or a
philosophy of life, it had to do with teenage male logic and the
results that followed from it.

Magda ( who thought it was  a rule that we signed our posts?)



	
		
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