good and bad Slytherins/Disappointment and Responsibility

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 175219

> Montavilla47:
> But it's not just what Lily says about James being a bully.
<SNIP> - Canon quotes regarding detention slip sortig

> Given how angry he is at Snape during this, you'd think he'd 
> notice if a) Snape was going around hexing people, too, or b)
> Snape was the only or one of the main victims.

Goddlefrood:

This bears a little response even without direct canon support.

The detentions in question where Harry was looking at the records 
of bygone crimes and punishments were set by one Severus Snape, 
iirc. Is it not then possible, as I posit, that he would have 
ensured that any adverse record of himself were removed?

It's the kind of thing I would expect him to have done and is not 
provable either way. Whether this is accepted or not, the argument 
that Harry only came across evidence of his father's and Sirius's 
wrongdoings in the records does not mean that he saw *all* the 
records. I severely doubt Severus's record was blemish free, it's 
just that Harry never saw anything adverse to Snape in what he 
*did* see.

In:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/175205

> Betsy Hp:

> Which means, I don't have all that much interest in diving back 
> into the books and finding pages and passages to back up my 
> theories. Which, if I were a dolphin means that at this point 
> I'd be saying, so long and thanks for all the fish.

> I'm a bit more waffely so I'll probably stick around for a bit
> longer. Or not. I don't know. But I do know I have very little
> interest in taking deep looks at DH. Life is too short for bad 
> books.

Goddlefrood:

I'm in a somewhat similar position, the last book really did not 
further my enthusiasm for the HP world evry much either.

It certainly didn't expound a great deal on Life, the universe 
and everything <g>