Scene with likeable James WAS: Re: Eileen Pince

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 156298

Irene: 
> But that's the point, we don't know anything about
> grown-up James. The only fact we know - he was
> prepared to die for his family - does not prove
> anything about his character either way.

Pippin:
We do know some other things. James defied Voldemort
three times. That took rare courage, especially since as
a pureblood it wasn't his fight.

 We're also told that saving Pettigrew from
the vengeance of Sirius and Lupin is something that James 
would have done. In other words, he would have opposed his
friends if he thought what they were doing was wrong.  JKR
has already made it clear that she thinks this is the highest 
form of moral courage. 

I think the pensieve scene is there to make us think about
the possibility  that James *did* change. If we believe what
Sirius says about him, he really was a bully and a law unto himself
for a while, until something  "deflated his head a bit" as Sirius put it. 
And I think we are supposed to be wondering what that thing
was. 

Pippin