Maraurders/he exists
Neri
nkafkafi at yahoo.com
Thu May 3 02:50:09 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 168266
> Pippin:
> <big snip>
> But Lupin's opinion was and remains that James shouldn't have
> been judged harshly because everyone said it was cool and
> besides it was a vogue.
>
Neri:
But Lupin is the one Marauder who cuts Snape slack too, even when it's
very hard to do. You called, Severus? *Professor* Snape
he fought
very hard against my appointment, but he has his reasons
he cost me
my only job, but no big deal
he's superb Occlumens
we should trust
him because Dumbledore does
I'll never forget how he prepared the
Wolfsbane Potion for me...
So does ESE!Lupin has some intricate motive to make James, Sirius
*and* Snape look good? What is this motive, I wonder? Or, could it
simply be Remus the prefect again, wanting everybody to put past
differences behind and live together in peace?
> wynnleaf
><big snip>
> If she knew that Snape's reputation gave James an excuse for his
> actions, why would she ask him "what's he done to you?"
>
Neri:
Perhaps in order to start an argument with James, even though she
knows well what Severus has done to him. Or because she really doesn't
know.
You think this is unreasonable? Then tell me, how do you explain that
neither James, nor Lily, nor Sirius ever mention in one word the blood
on James's face and robes. As if it doesn't exist. As if Severus
didn't cause it to happen right in front of their eyes. Is this
reasonable?
This is something you can't blame on ESE!Lupin, you can only blame it
on Ever-So-Sneaky!JKR. She was obviously downplaying the part of this
curse until she could spring it on us again. And this is hardly the
only important detail in this scene that was reversed. In fact, I have
trouble recalling any other scene in the series that was so reversed
in a later book, and that's even *before* JKR had the chance to
explicitly revisit it after the tower.
And I haven't even mentioned yet that JKR has never actually told us
that James indeed took off Severus's pants. Oh, the incredible power
of a strategically placed ellipsis
let the readers believe what they
want to believe... let their sick imagination run wild... Probably
after OotP most believed that James had done it. Anybody wants to lay
bets now?
Lets face it, what we do see in this scene is deliberately misleading.
It was described by an unreliable, sneaky, manipulative narrator with
an agenda, and this agenda was to make the Marauders look bad and
Snape look good, so we'd all believe he's on our side until the tower.
And you want me to believe that poor little Snapy hadn't done anything
wrong to James just because Lily asks "what's he done to you"? Well
senora <g>, me got smart, me no buying it anymore.
Neri
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