The Huge overreactions from a five minute time span.

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 150128

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kemper <iam.kemper at ...> wrote:
> >Joe continues:
> > Were Sirius and James both guilty of a lot of pranks? 
Absolutely. Did they get punished? Well we see Harry having to go 
through all the dentenion forms, including many of James and Sirius. 
The truth is that they were mostly normal boys who often tease, 
prank and pick on each other. They were not nasty and if Sirius is 
nasty to Snape after they left, well frankly I think it is totally 
understandable. Snape is nasty to everyone.
> 
> Kemper now:
> The truth is that James and Sirius were the cool crowd, and Snape 
was gigantic nerd.  Jocks against the D&D kid.  No where in the 
scene do we see status as equal.  

Tonks:

I strongly disagree with Joe.  Now maybe it is because I am a 
female, but I don't see teasing, pranks and picking on others 
as "normal" behavior!!  It is wrong, wrong, wrong!!!  It is like a 
so called practical joke. They call that type of joke practical, 
because the perpetrator can get away with what is basically a 
vicious attach on another by disguising it as a "joke".  But it is 
NOT a joke, it is a way to hurt another person without that person 
having any recourse because the perpetrator says "oh, it was just a 
joke" 

So I agree with Kemper. Snape was a victim of the 2 bullies. I think 
James was a total a--.  Like Harry, I wonder what Lily ever saw in 
him.  I would guess that while I might have liked her, I would not 
have liked James even as an adult. Poor little arrogant rich boy 
that he was, he probably just learned to hide it from her.  

Tonks_op