James: Paragon?

[Alex boyd]

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I have one small thing I want to add about the Snape/James pensieve scene.  
I agree that we don't have enough information to develop an authoratative 
reading of this scene; *however*, I can't help thinking it's an important 
clue that James's choice of obnoxious-thing-to-do in this scene is to turn 
Snape upside down, revealing his undergarments....exactly as we see the 
Death Eaters doing at the Quidditch World Cup in GoF.  He easilly could have 
done something else (or, to put it another way, JKR could have made him do 
something else), so the parallel *has* to mean something.   (Unless it's a 
Mark Evans, of course, but it's such an important scene that I really don't 
think so.)

Exactly what, I cannot say....   though I think the person who posited a 
significant distinction between James's motives and his methods might be on 
the right track.

Alex