Bullying WAS: Re: Prodigal Sons

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 140774

zgirnius:
Harry was very upset by seeing this memory of Snape's. So much so, that
he took the chance to Floo to 12 Grimmauld Place, where he discussed
this scene with Sirius and Lupin. Both of them could see how upset
Harry was, yet all they could tell him was that James grew out of this
sort of behavior, and he and Snape had bad feelings for each other form
the start. If Snape were a habitual bully, don't you think they would
have mentioned this to Harry? Harry is especially upset by what he sees
as James attacking Snape for no good reason. he specifically brings
this concern up for Sirius and Lupin. "nut he just attacked Snape for
no good reason, just because-well, just because you said you were
bored".

If there were some excellent reasons for James to dislike Snape,
wouldn't it have made sense to bring it up here? But no, the reasons
they give boil down to, James and Sirius were young and arrogant...


vmonte:
No, I don't think that they would have mentioned that Snape was a 
bully to Harry. JKR has a way of never letting her characters ask 
questions when she doesn't want her readers to have the information 
yet. But based on the bully that Snape is now, and the fact that he 
belonged to a club of bullys while he was a DE, I'm sure that he was 
one as a teenager too. 

I'm starting to think that Snape had something to do with recruiting 
Regulus into that nasty group of kids that later turned out to become 
DEs. If true, I wouldn't blame Sirius for loathing Snape forever. Even 
if ultimately it was Regulus's fault for joining in the first place.

Vivian