Lily (was Complimenting a character )

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 184426

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
>----> 
> I'm no fan of Lily, but I certainly understand why she wanted nothing
> to do with MWPP for her first five years (and perhaps even her sixth)
> at Hogwarts. The mystery is why she ever married James at all. Surely,
> the absence of prejudice against Muggle-borns was not sufficient
> reason to fall in love with him.
> 
> Carol, wondering what Lily thought when she found out (no doubt
> post-Hogwarts) about her future husband's midnight adventures with a
> werewolf
>
Kamion

I think it is in Prisoner of Azkaban, that Lupin tells Harry his mother 
and father started to get out together, when they were made HeadBoy and 
HeadGirl, which is the 7th year.

Now as mysterious as it is that Lily falls for the charms of James 
Potter Dumbledore's reasons for making James Potter HeadBoy are.

Unlesh we include ruthless manipulation of course
James Potter was a shining student and therefor with his dislike of 
Dark Arts a welcome recrute for the Order of the Phoenix.
But bribing him into this by making Head-Mischief and Head-Arrogance 
HeadBoy doesn't sound as responsible schoolpolicy to me.

In retrospect it looks that Dumbledore was willing to have the whole of 
Hogwarts burned to the ground to block Voldemort. This may sound 
extreme, but having teachers employing with zero pedagogic skills ( 
Snape, Threlawney, Binns, Hagrid )says a lot of how important he 
education thought.

I think he was not below matchmaking too. There is no evidence in the 
canon that James Potter behaved much different from the first six years 
in the 7th year, only the remark that Lily deflated the size of his 
head a bit. I really wonder how solid a base that would be for a long 
lasting marriage. I even think that under normal circumstances it would 
have ended after 4 or 5 years, they only did not get that many years.