Sirius and Prank again? Fools Rush in where Wisemen Fear to Go

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No: HPFGUIDX 130087

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Irene <irene_mikhlin at b...> wrote:

> The truth is that most people are just not prepared to believe that a 
> handsome, clever, popular and (most important) socially fitting boy
is a 
> bully. Especially if he chooses his targets carefully. People will
go to 
> extraordinary lengths to find excuses for him, and perform the most 
> amazing mental equilibristics on the way.

I think it is a bit more complicated. A person can be a bully to
another person, and to the rest of the world a genuinely kind, nice
guy. That is why they are socially fitting, because most of the time
they are social. I think this was the case with James and Sirius. They
probably bullied people who 'deserved it' e.g. people with a
fascination for the dark arts like Snape. 

And especially if the target fights back, it is difficult to see the
bullying, but it becomes easy in the eyes of the grown up, to just see
children fighting among each other, with the one who first resorts to
physical violence (or nasty hexes) in the wrong. What seems to be the
worst offence: giving someone a mouth full of soap bubbles (James)or
gashing a face (Snape)? 

Gerry