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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 150450

> Alla:
> 
> Erm.... presumption of innocence I sure may use selectively by the 
> luxury of fiction ( as in I am not obligated to give the characters 
> due process, if I don't want to :)), for example when I read about 
> the murder on the Tower, that is what it is in my head - murder, for 
> which Snape should be punished. If JKR decides to let Snape off the 
> hook, I will let her give me the reasons to let Snape of the hook, 
> but for now he is guilty, guilty, guilty to me. That is of course 
> precisely because it is fiction and I can have a luxury of thinking 
> that.
> 

Pippin:
You don't think JKR means to show us that presumption of innocence
is a good thing? That we really, really need it because it's so easy
to get things wrong when judging by appearances? Especially when
it's a character she makes a point of not wanting us to like?

I think Dark Magic is like the famous definition of obscenity -- 
you can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it. 
That's what Snape meant when he said it
was unfixed, mutating, indestructible. The gruesome pictures in the
DA classroom seem to say 'by their fruits ye shall know them. "

We are not told that teenaged Snape ever used magic to permanently
damage anyone.  We are told that he received wounds too deep for
the healing. So who was the dark wizard?

Pippin