Scene with likable James WAS: Re: Eileen Pince

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 156266

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Joe Goodwin 
<joegoodwin1067 at ...> wrote:
>> 
> wynnleaf <fairwynn at ...> wrote:
> My sense is that she *wanted* us to have some conflicting 
> information on James that would be very difficult to reconcile. 

Joe:
>   I think she did it to show he was human. 

Steven1965aaa now:

Also, a big part of part of growing up (forgive me please) is 
realizing and accepting that your parents are not perfect.  Up till 
then Harry has had an idealized vision of his father, in part of 
course because he has not known his father. I think part of all this 
is JKR letting Harry grow up past that idealized view (and possibly 
identifying with Snape a bit).  As to people's views on what James 
did, of course it was wrong, but I think Harry accepted what Lupin 
and Sirius told him -- a lot of people are jerks at 16, he grew out 
of it (or something like that, don't have the books here).