Maraurders/he exists

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No: HPFGUIDX 168276

wynnleaf:
<SNIP>
> What I think many readers want is to come up with something that 
gives
> a better reason for the Marauders to hex Snape rather than just "he
> exists."  So readers imagine -- and even hope -- that JKR will in 
Book
> 7 show us something Snape was doing in school that would show he was
> just as guilty as the Marauders in perpetuating the feud, and that he
> somehow brought on their hexing by some nastiness on his part.
<BIG SNIP>

Alla:

Sorry, wynnleaf but professor Trelawney does not give you good grade 
as to figuring out intentions of this reader ;)  This reader at least 
does not **wants** or **hopes** for James to have a better reason for 
hexing Snape. I gave my reasons numerous times why I think (think - 
not hope at all) that "why he exists"") may translate or may not in 
something very definitive.

I could care less if marauders were bullies in their youth - I would 
not love them as characters any less, you know?

And of course I believe that their good deeds and heroic deaths are so 
much more than bullying in their youth, that I will easily forgive 
them that.

I do not need my favorite characters to be perfect, you know?

In the book I mentioned couple of times, my favorite character 
murdered his family by torturing them. 

So, if it turns out that two of my favorite characters bullied without 
provocation the greasy git, I will live, really :)

But I have good faith reasons to believe that it was not quite so.

Wynnleaf:
> 
> But as yet JKR has had numerous avenues to show us Snapes supposed
> guilt and hasn't done it.


Alla:

Yes, and as Neri said in OOP blood on James face went unnoticed by 
anybody. Plot constraints I think. Let's wait till book 7 and we shall 
see then :)

JMO,
Alla.