Harry and James - only skin deep (was:Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons)

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 141206

> >>Valky:
> <snip>
> Harry was fundamentally against the Dark Arts at eleven, and he is
> told so often how *like his father* he is.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
Is Harry *really* so like his father?  I don't think so.  I think 
Harry *looks* like his father, and he enjoys flying, but beyond that 
I think they're shown to be completely different people.  In fact, I 
think if some sort of weird time warp happened and PS/SS Harry met 
up with an eleven year old James while shopping for school robes the 
two boys would not hit it off.  James would annoy Harry by prattling 
on about how he was going to get his parents to buy him a broom and 
sneak it onto campus, school rules be damned.  And maybe he'd talk 
about how he hoped he got into Gryffindor.  And perhaps he share a 
funny story he'd heard about Hagrid when Hagrid came to fetch 
Harry.  And then he'd cap it all off by asking Harry what sort of 
magic his parents liked to practice (not wanting to associate with 
dirty Dark Magic users). <beg>  Harry would be so completely 
disgusted he'd probably plead with the Sorting Hat, "not Gryffindor!"

Betsy Hp, going for short