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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 150438

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
>
> > 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. <snip>

> a_svirn:
> I think you read too much in this "hated the dark arts" explanation. 
> It's nothing more than a pious excuse for a nefarious deed. Cooked 
> up hastily by Sirius to reconcile Harry with what he'd just learned 
> about his father. It's much to Harry's credit that he didn't buy it 
> at the time.
>

Valky:
a_svirn, huh? I have got to say I don't understand how you can
extrapolate 'cooked up hastily' out of "and James -- whatever else he
may have appeared to you, Harry -- always hated the Dark Arts." I
can't think of anything that it looks less like than a hastily cooked
up excuse. Sirius really seems to believe in the virtue of this POV. 

Okay I could concede that Sirius hastily pieced together his first
impulse in reaction, and I think that the whole -Snape was a baddie
and that was what mattered to James- story is lame enough to be both
impulsive and *true* at the same time. So we really don't have to leap
into speculating that it was all made up to cover more nefarious
tracks, don't you think?