Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 141177

 > >
> > 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. 
> 
> 
> Valky:
> Well you know, I never said it was any better. However, James
> definitely thinks the former of Snape most of all, and not the 
latter,
> I am sure, and that is my point, the pensieve scene does not 
clearly
> represent this about James, but we know that it matters because of
> what Lupin and Sirius tell Harry. 


It matters to Lupin and Sirius, because they didn't want Harry to 
think bad about James. But what does it matter to us, readers, when 
we know – and you seem to agree – that whatever James thought it 
didn't make his behaviour any better? Honestly all that "he hated 
the Dark Arts" excuse sounded lame even for Harry's ears – and he 
wanted desperately to be reassured. 
a_svirn