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

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181205

zgirnius wrote:
> <snip> Yes, in the one instance we see, he [Severus] definitely
makes every effort to fight back. I was not proposing he took a
Gandhi-esque approach to his problems with the Marauders. I was
suggesting that unlike James in the time period in question, Severus,
at least while he remained a friend of Lily's, did not go around
hexing people in the hallways just because he could. <snip>

> What he may have done or tried to do to Sirius or James, is a
totally different story, and I was not trying to address it. My own
guess is he certainly tried things. And sometimes they probably worked
quite nicely.

Carol responds:

I agree with you that it wasn't about politics, that Severus had no
qualms about fighting back even when he was outnumbered, and that
Severus probably didn't go around hexing people in the corridors or
Lily would have mentioned it and Harry would have seen his name
mentioned in those boxes of detention files.

But I'd like to comment on your last point, which is that he probably
hexed MWPP either when they attacked him (probably not publicly) or
when he could do so undetected. (Unfortunately for him, he didn't have
an Invisibility Cloak and they had the Marauder's Map, so they'd know
when he was following them around.

But, as Mike pointed out, there's no place to try out new spells to
see if they work, and I doubt that his roommates would have
appreciated it if he tried out Langlock, the toenail hex, and
Levicorpus on them. (Or maybe he did, and that's why they didn't come
to his rescue in SWM. ;-) ) OTOH, if he tried out his invented hexes
on the Marauders, "because he exists" (because he's a pest who tests
his spells on us as well as a busybody and a Slytherin who likes
Lily?) might have more meaning.

Carol, happy to be talking about Snape again and just tossing out this
idea to see what others think