James and Sirius as Bullies (WAS: student!Snape keeping Lupin's ...)

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 181202

> Montavilla47:

> Hexing a younger student (younger meaning from an earlier year): 
No one
> that I recall.  Ginny hexes people older than she is.   Fred and 
George 
> try out their candies on people younger, but I don't think that's 
hexing.

Magpie:
Just to throw out one correction here, since you have doing things 
to younger people as a category I would say going after somebody 
younger than they are is pretty common for the Twins, whatever they 
happen to be doing. I would consider turning Neville into a canary 
or giving Dudley the tongue the equivalent of hexing because the 
result is pretty much the same. They hex Draco, Crabbe and Goyle 
along with the Trio in GoF and both try to physically attack Draco 
in OotP (Fred and Harry do beat him up, but George is held back by 
someone else), which seems like it would be the same type thing. 
Also one of them hexes Zach from behind, iirc, in the DA. 

Actually, when I think of moments where the victim's age is a factor 
it's almost always with regards to the designated bully characters--
Harry brings up Dudley going after Mark Evans, Hermione notes the 
Slytherins pushing ickle firsties out of the way in OotP. But if 
someone's done something to deserve a hexing or a beating, age 
doesn't matter.

-m (who wouldn't consider everything here bullying, since context is 
often important...though of course some bullies use the context to 
their own advantage in bullying with the "can't you take a joke?" 
approach)