Snape and Marauders WAS :Draco and Intent

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 186943

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jkoney65" <jkoney65 at ...> wrote:

> We really only see James from Snape's point of view.


zanooda:

In SWM we don't see James from Snape's point of view. JKR explained that Pensieve memories are objective, they don't show events from someone's point of view, but how they really happened :-). 

I think many of us have trouble believing that James changed because we were not *shown* how this happened :-). Yes, we were told many times by different characters that James was a good person, but we never actually saw it. The only scene we *saw* him in, however, is SWM, which was quite shameful, IMO. 

This is a very vivid scene that can't be erased from our minds *just* by other characters saying good things about James. This is something you need to see to believe, not to hear about it :-). Personally, I like to think that James changed after his parents died while he was still at school. There is nothing about it in the books, but I believe that such an event could push the boy in the right direction.

However, I still consider James one of the very few JKR's failures. She is able to create believable and appealing characters with just a few lines, but in this case she didn't manage to show me who James Potter really was ;-).