[HPforGrownups] Re: A James Rant - Who was This Guy?

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 181336

Mike:

> I was a James fan because I was a Harry fan. James wasn't my favorite
> character, Sirius was, but I loved the Marauders and their Map. I
> thought people were being fuddy-duddies for decrying the Marauders
> fun with a werewolf nighttime prowling. I thought that qualified as
> good wizarding fun, teenage ingenuity in the hijinks department. But
> without something decent on the other side of the ledger to balance
> the less sensible side, JKR has ruined my enjoyment of the Marauders
> backstory. Something I didn't think possible.

Lynda:

I tried to stay as unbiased as possible about James.  We only ever see him
through the minds of others in the story after all.  His friends, his
in-laws, his enemies, his teachers. All of which are in one way or another
more than usually biased for or against someone. So in the end. through all
of these various filters, I have no real concept of who James Potter was.
His friends liked him, his wife loved him, he was something of a
troublemaker at school, but seems to have pulled things together at a fairly
young age. That's not really a lot to go on, when the character in question
dies at the beginning of a seven book series and is only seen in retrospect.

Lynda


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