[HPforGrownups] The Huge overreactions from a five minute time span.

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 150105

Joe Goodwin wrote:
> Snape's worst memory has to be the single most hysteria-inducing
> piece of Harry Potter. It gives rise to a lot of clap trap including:
> 

I was not aware that we have one, approved way on reacting to the books 
and everything else is a blasphemy. So it would be nice *not* to be told 
what are we supposed to feel.

> 
> 1. Snape would be a teddybear if only the mean old James Potter
> hadn't tortured him in school.

No one has ever said that.

> 
> 2. James and the other Marauders were really nasty people and
> Dumbledore let them get away with everything.

Don't know about really nasty, but James and Sirius were pretty nasty, 
yes. Sirius still was as a grown-up. I'll give James a benefit of doubt 
as to how he turned out after school.
This opinion is not based on the 5 minutes scene. I got the bully vibe 
off them even before OoTP. If yahoo search was not such a heap of 
rubbish, I could prove it too. :-)

> 
> 3. Now we have James and Sirius sexually harrassing Snape.
> 
> Can we just put these things to bed now? 

If these things don't want to go to bed of their own free will, to put 
them to bed would be a coercion. ;-)

I wonder why Harry, after watching this scene, didn't just calmly walk 
away from it, saying "My father was a great guy".
Even leaving Snape out of it, James's offer to Lily to trade her favours 
  for getting what she wanted was horrendous enough. Enough for Harry to 
speculate whether James was capable of sexual coercion (or dare I say, 
rape?). Hysterical, silly little boy, right? I don't think so.

Irene