The Huge overreactions from a five minute time span.

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 150180

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Magpie" <belviso at ...> wrote:
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> Magpie:
> See, I find it immediately funny that one would pair "And it was 
also him 
> she crashed into, you'd have thought he would have learned not to 
get on her 
> bad side by now. Ginny isn't perfect, but at least she's not wishy-
washy. 
> She can defend herself (she does have 6 older brothers!)" with "I 
don't 
> think that this is mean, aggressive or bad-natured on Ginny's 
part, but 
> rather being a teenager with magical abilities..."
> 
> To me, yes, this is mean and aggressive and bad-natured.   It's 
not 
> defending herself, either. Good for Zach for not just "learning 
not to get 
> on her bad side." I couldn't figure out why everybody seemed to 
hate Zach 
> from the year before.
> 
> I bring it up because I think this is something that's getting 
lost here, 
> which is that somebody can be a great guy and a grade-A jerk at 
the same 
> time. It happens all the time.  I thought ever since PoA the 
Marauders 
> clearly taunted Snape cruelly (they tease him through the map and 
I assumed 
> that's the way they spoke to him in school), but I never thought 
this didn't 
> fit with the James who became an animagi to keep his friend 
company or threw 
> himself in front of the door to protect his family.  James' jerk 
qualities 
> go right along with this heroic ones.  What's great about the 
Pensieve is 
> it's not even just James being a bully (and nothing in this scene 
is taken 
> out of context--he's not being framed and there's no bit of 
Snape "starting 
> it" that's cut out) it's James being vain and an idiot, ruffling 
his hair 
> and looking to see if the girls were watching etc.  Harry has to 
forgive him 
> for that too.  Yet Harry himself could easily come across badly in 
a 
> snapshot from an enemy's pov too.
> 
> So it's not necessarily that James had to change all that much at 
all. 
> McGonagall, imo, is a perfect example of the kind of thing that's 
being 
> denied in the OP of the thread.  She gets positively misty over 
the 
> Marauders being such little scamps, and this is apparently when 
she's 
> remembering the kids who picked on Snape, not the Order members. 
People just 
> have personalities that strike other people differently--and it's 
not always 
> connected to them doing the right thing or not.  I liked James a 
lot more 
> after the Pensieve scene because he made me laugh in the way he 
was a jerk. 
> Ginny I can't stand.  In a book full of bullies she's the one I 
have no 
> warmth for.  Some people think Sirius is a jerk no matter what his 
tragedies 
> are. For some people Snape could turn out to be Aslan in disguise 
and still 
> be a jerk.

I'd like to thank you for that post it was something that I've tried 
to say so many times on another site.

Isn't it Harry that mentions how Ron ruffles his hair exactly like 
James did in the memory? And doesn't it bring a smile to Harry's 
face. I think that Harry may be closer to realizing the above point 
then some people think. 

Quick_Silver