[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius and Prank again? Fools Rush in where Wisemen Fear to Go

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 130057

> Valky:
> The entire Marauders crew would simply
> have to be a bunch of murderous malignants for it to be remotely
> possible that Snape was completely innocent. Is anyone prepared
> to argue flat out that they are?


This is a straw-man argument.  Why does Snape have to be "completely
innocent" (of anti-Marauder feelings and trying to get them in
trouble, I assume)?  Is there some kind of sliding scale whereby
people we don't like are acceptable targets of dangerous pranks?

And the entire M. crew wouldn't have to be "a bunch of murderous
malignants" either; they'd just have to be a bunch of teenagers
having a particularly bad attack of the stupids.  Although since
Lupin and James weren't in on the whole thing, it really comes down
to Siriusly-Idiotic with a possible assist from Peter. 

I think that the internal dynamic of the Marauders was strained
somewhat by the Prank with a lot of shock and hurt feelings all
around.  Lupin's discovery the next morning of what might have
happened must have been traumatic.  

And for James Potter it must have been a wake-up call, the first real
incident that jolted him into looking at himself and his friends and
asking himself if perhaps Lily Evans didn't have a point after all. 
I can see him contemplating his acts not in the light of the mutual
support team that was the Marauders - my-best-friend-right-or-wrong
Sirius Black, insecure-and-grateful Remus Lupin, suck-up Peter
Pettigrew - but how it looked from her POV.  And I think the answer
rather scared him, as he realized how things could spiral badly out
of control.

I anticipate that we'll see that this was the beginning of James'
transformation into Head-Boy material and husband of Lily: he stopped
looking at his reflection in the mirror of his friends' and started
thinking about the bigger picture.  

Magda


		
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