James Potter and the Dark Arts (was Re: The Huge overreactions

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<joegoodwin1067@> wrote:

> > How do you end up with no one in an entire school 
> > liking you? Is the problem everyone else in the 
> > school or is it you?

Tonks:

> Point 1. How do we know that no one liked Snape and did not want to 
> come to his aid? Maybe it was that no one dared to oppose James and 
> Sirius.  How many people, even if the had pitty for the victim would 
> take on a bully? Or 2 bullies?  Lily was the brave one here, the 
> only brave one.

houyhnhnm:

"At school, Harry had no one.  Everybody knew that Dudley's gang hated
that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and
nobody like to disagree with Dudley's gang" (PS/SS2)