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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 150440

> 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. 
> 

a_svirn:
No he does not. He did say that he was not proud of the episode, 
didn't he? He simply couldn't come up with a better explanation at 
the time and threw in this "hated the DA" excuse. 

> Valky:
> 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?

a_svirn:
I don't understand this logic at all. If the justification 
is "lame", how can it be "true"? In what sense it is true? In a 
sense that Snape was a baddie? He might have been at that, so what? 
It is also *true* that James was a bully, and that's what mattered 
to Harry.