Political positions of the characters/James reacting to Remus' lycanthropy.

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 Alla: 
> I mean, always hated Dark Arts seems to me as something that his 
> parents would have taught him, especially since as you said they 
> took Sirius in.

Potioncat:

I still find it hard to understand "James hated Dark Arts" as 
something he could learn from his parents, unless it was because of a 
very personal reason. For example, my children would learn that 
racism is wrong, that drugs are bad...but they probably wouldn't walk 
out of the house hating either of them. But if the Potter family had 
somehow been hurt by Dark Arts, and it was something James had seen 
or heard about in a vivid way, then it would make sense that he hated 
Dark magic.

For the record, I don't think using Dark Arts automatically makes one 
a follower of LV. I would think, regardless of your opinion of purity 
and blood, if you did not approve of dark arts, you would not follow 
LV. So someone like Snape might find himself more and more in 
association with LV followers.

Fast forward. Harry uses Dark Arts. Snape never officially finds out 
how he learned it and Merlin knows what DD and McG were told. McG is 
very angry, chews him out, and that's it. He has detention for the 
rest of the term. So performing Dark Magic doesn't get him sent to 
Azkaban or tossed out of school (although it could have.)

I suppose had James been alive, he would have sent a Howler.

Not sure of my point. Just that James seems very passionate about 
this at a very young age.