The Huge overreactions from a five minute time span.

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 150118

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Joe Goodwin 
<joegoodwin1067 at ...> wrote:
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(snip)
>    
> If I remember right Harry, who has zero experience in these 
matters, speculated that his Dad might have tricked his Mom into 
going out with him. No, not a hysterical little boy but certainly a 
teenager who tends to over react.
>    
> I think we can safely safe that Lily Potter didn't feel she was 
being coerced or do you think she was so stupid as to marry someone 
who tried to do that to her?
> 
> Joe
>

Sorry, not remembered rightly. Harry wondered if James had forced 
Lily to marry him. Rather different, for example, from James turning 
up when Lily thought she was meeting a girlfriend and chatting her 
up.  

To me 'forced marriage' = rape, or if you want to differentiate 
between the two, use of love potion to give false consent.  Of 
course I agree that Lily wasn't coerced into marrying James and 
didn't feel that she was being coereced, but that's irrelevant.  
What Harry felt (briefly) at the time, after seeing James' treatment 
of Snape, was that James was capable of so forcing her. 

Leah (who has never seen Snape as a teddy bear, but hopes that there 
will be hope for him)