Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 141130


> Valky:
> > Yeah I think Sirius might have been all but suicidal/homicidal 
before
> he met James, and it's to James credit that he didn't fear someone
> with the dark reputation of the Black family <snip>

a_svirn:
And afterwards he discarded suicidal which left only homicidal. 
Maybe he would have been better off befriending someone else after 
all? 

> Valky:
> In POA MacGonagall gives us the canon that refutes this statement
> Betsy. Nobody thought Peter was anything of a wizard. 

a_svirn:
McGonagall is only *one* person, surely? Besides "everybody" can by 
disastrously wrong at times. One of the history lessons. Pettigrew 
certainly was wizard enough to best Sirius and bring the Dark Lord 
back to power. 
> 
> Valky:
> James and Sirius most likely protected
> him in the beginning.

a_svirn:
Most likely. And he most likely sucked up to them. And James most 
likely enjoyed that. 

> 
>  
> Valky:
> If James was picking on Snape because of his looks and isolation, 
then
> what meaning does "Snape was neck deep in Dark Arts and James 
always
> hated the Dark Arts" have, except to argue point blank that Sirius 
and
> Lupin are a pair of liars.
> 
>
a_svirn:
To pick on someone simply because they like something you don't is 
just as bad as picking on them because of their looks and 
loneliness. Especially since it was Snape's looks and loneliness, 
rather than his research interests that got publicly ridiculed. As 
for telling lies, Lupin is adept in that. He has lied outright and 
by omission his life throughout.