Maraurders/he exists

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 168157

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "secretkeeper24" <Estama02 at ...> 
wrote:
> <SNIP>
> I usually lurk in this group, and even though this is a very 
> volatile subject I figured I'd try to put in my own opinion.
> 
> I don't see James' reply "just because he exists" as proof Snape 
> never did anything to cause these 'attacks'. To cool, popular 
> fifteen year old James, I think he found it sounded wittier to reply 
> in those terms instead of stating to Lily just yesterday Snape did 
> X, Y, and Z and that's why we are retaliating. 
> 
> I don't understand how in SWM some readers do not literally 
> interpret Snape's words in calling Lily a mudblood (Snape didn't 
> mean it...he was embarrassed), but then they turn around and take 
> the words James says (while he's trying to impress unsuccessfully, 
> mind you, the girl he likes) completely literally. 


Alla:

Oh welcome to posting :) I agree with your general argument, but I 
believe that James words are not to be taken literally simply for plot 
based reason, hehe.

I am thinking that by the end of book 7 we **will** know quite 
literally what James meant by " because he exists".

It was IMO way too early to tell us the details, just as we learned 
more about both curses involved in Pensieve memory **only** in HBP.

As Neri so nicely put, Levicorpus was overplayed and the curse that I 
believe was Sectusemptra was downplayed IMO.