Snape and Marauders WAS :Draco and Intent

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 186880

 
> Potioncat:
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> The more we discuss the James/Severus confict, the more confused I become about James. The sequence of events that I expected were so different from what turned out...It's so hard to understand how or when James became a good person.
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Pippin:
There wasn't a life-changing event that made James grow up and be a good person. He grew up, and that was the life-changing event. It didn't happen dramatically or symbolically, or overnight. He just stopped being a bully the way Ron stopped making Uranus jokes or Dudley stopped throwing tantrums and screaming "Won't!" 

James always did get along with adults, so it's not like he had to learn how to be sociable. And he never had a grudge against the whole world. As far as James was concerned the status quo could go right on quo-ing.

I'm sure James thought that wizards and Muggles, and purebloods and Muggleborns, could manage to live in peace, and that put him at odds with some of the other purebloods and all of the Death Eaters. But that was grown up stuff-- meanwhile it was the school's job to make rules, and James's to see how many he could break and get away with it. 

But there's a difference between testing your limits, which a lot of teenagers do, and rejecting limits altogether.

Pippin