Does James' bullying arises to the level of sexual harassment/

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> Alla: 
> > Well, that's your interpretation, Pippin. I am doubting very 
much 
> > that JKR's intention was to show James sexually harrassing 
Snape. 
> > Remember what Lupin says that at one point half of the Hogwarts 
used 
> > Levicorpus. Are you going to tell me that it is a metaphor for 
half 
> > of the school sexually harassing each other? I doubt it very 
much.
> 
> 
> Pippin:
> 
> Lupin does not say that half the school was threatening to take
> anyone's pants off. He does say he thought James and Sirius
> went too far. Apparently he wasn't talking about levicorpus,
> since as you say half the school was using it and Lupin doesn't
> take it too seriously when Harry asks him about it later.

Alla:

Wait, I am confused now. You were talking about Levicorpus though, 
no? You see James using Levicorpus as sexually harassing Snape or 
did I misunderstand you completely? When half of the school used 
Levicorpus then  yes, I think it is highly probable that many people 
had their pants taking off. Do you see this as sexual harassment or 
do you see something different in pensieve scene as metaphor for 
sexual harassment?


Pippin:
>  We see James trying to bribe Lily to go out with him (also
> sexual harrassment) and Harry wonders once or twice 
> if James forced her to marry him. If JKR wanted to show
> James's behavior as innocent fun, that's a strange way to go
> about it.

Alla:

 Innocent fun? Of course not - bullying is not an innocent fun no 
matter how you look at it ( and nowhere in my post I called it an 
innocent fun), but calling something that half ot the Hogwarts was 
doing as sexual harassment is taking it on the whole new level, IMO, 
which I am not prepared to do.

Oh, and no, I would not call what James asked of Lily to be a sexual 
harassment either. IMO of course.

Alla