A James Rant - Who was This Guy?

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No: HPFGUIDX 181344

Carol:
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We can also take as true, I think, that he referred to Remus's
condition as "your furry little problem" since Remus has no reason to
lie. He recalls the words fondly, but I find them demeaning and
insensitive. Lycanthropy as a "little" problem? It's like calling
blindness "your little vision problem." It's along the same lines,
IMO, as Sirius's "Wish it were full moon" and his silence in response
to Remus's "I don't."
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Alla:

Personal interpretation v personal interpretation of course, but I 
love, love, love that James' moment. I LOVE that he is sort of 
downplays Remus' illness here IMO, it sounds to me as what one friend 
would say to show that is what his lycantropy to him - furry little 
problem, nothing else. That lycantropy does not define Remus' for 
him, that is what I got from that moment. Again totally IMO.

Carol:
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And. like Alla, I wish
that the depiction of his death in DH matched matched Voldemort's
description of it. "He died fighting bravely" doesn't match the facts
as presented in DH: he died wandless and unprepared. The only thing
that matches earlier accounts (the Dementor-induced memories in PoA)
is his last words to Lily.
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Alla:

Right, me too. It was suggested to me offlist that when Voldemort 
tells Harry lies, he indeed lies twice in that scene – first saying 
that his parents died begged for mercy and then when this lie does 
not work, he starts manipulating Harry's emotions in a different way –
 that they died bravely fighting and you should live for them, etc.

It makes sense to me that Voldemort would lie to get what he wants, 
that his lie has nothing to do with James, but everything with Harry 
and manipulating him in this instance.

But there is something that still does not make sense to me. I am 
wondering what would be the thematic significance IF JKR did not just 
forget of showing that James died differently. If he died fighting, 
he died fighting, how is it worse looking from dying playing with his 
son and trying to save him and his wife even only by warning.


JMO,

Alla