[HPforGrownups] Re: Scene with likeable James WAS: Re: Eileen Pince

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 156341

Joe Goodwin wrote:
>
> The entire scene lasts what, five minutes maybe?
> 
> I think making any deep character judgements about ANYBODY based on a
> five minute segment of their life is deeply flawed.

It's not only the 5 minutes of OOtP. To me, James and Sirius read like a 
couple of bullies even before that book was published.
(And now that Yahoo does half-decent search, I can prove it. Messages
38387, 43255 and surrounding threads).


> 
> Oh one more thing. Can we please stop calling people bullies because
> they hexed someone?

Do you thing that Dudley is a perfectly normal teenage boy as well? If 
no, can you please provide a definition of "bully" that includes Dudley 
but excludes the Pensieve scene?

And I'm going to repeat it again: "everyone is doing it" is a silly 
justification, that a bully himself can use. But unworthy of a grown-up 
person. In a group of 30 teenagers only 1 or 2 can be bullies. There 
will be one or two victims, and the rest will be neutral. Enablers, if 
you will. *Not everyone is doing it*.

Irene