Hating Dark Arts (was re James' essence...)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 154039

> Julie:
> Now I wonder if James has a very specific reason for hating the 
> Dark Arts, as Alla suggests. Something that happened during his
> childhood, perhaps, that made him hate Snape and perhaps most
> Slytherins (or any other kids from "Dark Arts" families) from the 
> moment he came to Hogwarts as an eleven year old. I think it is
> entirely possible. That hate between James and Snape--and between
> Sirius and Snape--that apparently existed from that moment they
> all started school (and didn't yet even *know* each other, to the  
best
> of our knowledge) seems entirely too personal to be engendered
> by a learned and generalized distaste for a particular brand  of 
magic. 
>  

a_svirn:
Possible, but not very probable, I'd say. If it were the case, WHY 
didn't Sirius said so? Here was his godson appalled and badly shaken 
at what he'd just witnessed, wanting badly to be reassured. He 
actually broke into the headmistress's office, just to talk this 
over with Sirius! And what had Sirius to say for himself and for 
James? "He was a bit of an idiot, Harry, but he hated the Dark 
arts!" Not surprisingly, Harry wasn't much impressed.