Snape's memory

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 151911


> Amontillada adds:
> 
> Goddlefrood is right. I want to point out one more thing about the
> memory and James: this was only ONE incident in James' life, one 
trick
> he pulled. It isn't the sum total of what James was like. 
> 

a_svirn:
Certainly not. But it's illuminating nonetheless. Harry formed his 
initial opinion on Bellatrix because of the only one incident from 
Dumbledore's Pensive. The Longbottoms' torture trial is not the sum 
total of what she is. Surely there is more to her character that that. 
(She must be an efficient tutor, for instance, considering she taught 
Draco Occlumensy in a couple of months.) Still, it exposes her as a 
cruel and fanatical Death Eater. There must have been more to James' 
character than his propensity to bulling, but it does not alter that 
fact that he was a bully.