Scene with likable James WAS: Re: Eileen Pince

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 156250


> wynnleaf:
> <HUGE SNIP>
> > I'm curious as to why JKR has given us just one big scene with 
James
> > and that he's sooo awful in the scene.  Sure we see a sort of 
shade of
> > James at the end of GOF, but it's not really even him -- DD says 
it's
> > not even his ghost.  We don't actually get a scene with a likable 
> >James.

zgirnius:
I would add...yet. (That whole what the narrator chooses to let us 
see and when discussion springs to mind.) 

> Alla:
> We don't? I thought the scene of the man facing the Voldemort in 
hope 
> to defend his wife and son was pretty likeable. But that is just me.

zgirnius:
I would add rescuing Snape from Lupin to this list. On the other 
hand...<eg> we don't actually see this, or the scene to which you 
refer. The same can be said for various people who stated that he was 
likeable. *We* have not seen it.