Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7?

[lealess]

No: HPFGUIDX 147497

If you want something BANG-y, a person whose weakness or treachery 
will shake Harry to his socks, how about the first dead Marauder?  
James Potter may have led himself and Lily to their deaths.  Penned 
in at Godric's Hollow, having defied Voldemort three times, he may 
have felt he needed to finally face Voldemort and get the hiding over 
with, too arrogant to believe he couldn't win.  One of the Marauders 
could have been with him in this plan, subsequently too out of touch 
and then too ashamed to admit their folly.  Perhaps Sirius Black
?  
Making Pettigrew the secret-keeper might have been a deliberate 
attempt to force a confrontation with Voldemort, unbeknownst to 
Pettigrew.  Perhaps Black confessed the plan to Lupin the night Black 
died, noting that Harry was like his father after all, so inflamed to 
save someone he loved he actually created a danger.

All of the Marauders seem to have serious flaws, thus leading to ESE-
Lupin theories.  What do we know about James?  He was good at 
Quidditch as a chaser, was a troublemaker, hexed many 
students, "saved" Snape's life -- maybe not altruistically, was 
infatuated with Lily for a long time, became Head Boy (not a 
recommendation -- had Draco remained at Hogwarts, he probably would 
have been Head Boy, and Percy was Head Boy).  He hated the Dark Arts, 
but did he really appreciate what they were?

James grew up as the center of his family's attention.  He liked to 
be admired, so much so he let Peter slaver over him far longer than 
necessary in Snape's Worst Memory, until it got on Sirius' nerves.  
Considering he offered to stop hexing Snape if Lily went out with 
him, maybe James attacked Snape in the first place because Lily 
spared some affection for the greasy misfit.

And was Lily's affection for James ill-gotten?  After witnessing 
Snape's Memory, Harry thought James must have forced Lily to marry 
him.  Was Harry wrong?  (Well, given that it is Harry
)  James 
deflated his head in 7th year, but still cursed Snape behind Lily's 
back, so had he really changed?  Considering the things he had gotten 
away with throughout his life, he may have still felt he was above 
reason, in the form of Dumbledore.

The books are filled with flawed father figures.  It is possible 
James may have been flawed in ways we have not seen.  Snape has, in a 
rather pathetic way, been trying to give Harry information about 
James for some time now.  Harry has continued to hold to 
identification with his father.  The revelation of a James who was 
actually serious flawed, occurring perhaps at Godric's Hollow, might 
finally be the thing to jolt Harry into trying to understand the 
motivations of others.

An even more Evil idea: perhaps James decided the most important 
thing was not losing Lily. He may have resented the attention Harry 
received from Lily.  He may have been the one who bargained for 
Lily's life, only to be killed by Voldemort right away.

Well, it's BANG-y, although ESE-Lupin is more plausible in my mind, 
and more understandable.

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