Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons

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No: HPFGUIDX 140746

Spotsgal:
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> Just because people are the same age doesn't mean that they are
> equals.  James and Sirius were much more powerful (in many 
different
> senses of the word) than Snape was.  While they were not in an
> official authority position (as with the present-day Snape), they 
were
> certainly strong people picking on a weak one.



Yet the person who defends Snape (Lily) states quite clearly to 
James that he, James, is as bad Snape. Snape appears to be the meter 
stick used to measure "badness" at Hogwarts during the time of the 
Marauders. How did Snape get the reputation for "badness"? Surely he 
must have done some bad things at Hogwarts...unless you are saying 
that Lily is simply a gossip and spreading slander. 

Perhaps people laughed at Snape because they liked seeing someone 
like him get a taste of his own medicine once in a while. He did 
after all invent the spell that was used to hoist him up. Maybe the 
Marauders where popular for the very reason that they could "stick 
it to Snape" so to speak. Everyone loves the kids who beat up the 
school yard bully.

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