Snape and Marauders WAS :Draco and Intent

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 186950

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> What is shameful about the scene where James is entertaining 
> baby Harry?


zanooda:

Nothing :-). It is a sweet and sad scene (sad because we know what is going to happen in a few minutes ;-)). However, it didn't change my opinion about James. I never doubted that he loved Lily and Harry and died trying to protect them, so it wasn't exactly a revelation. Love for the family is not a sure sign that someone is a wonderful person.

Lucius loves his family and so does Vernon. I'm sure both would protect the loved ones with their lives, but still, both are nasty or even cruel to *other* people and *their* children. The death scene makes me feel sorry for James, sure, but it doesn't show me his transformation. It shows that he was brave, but I always knew that :-).



> Pippin:

> We'll learn from Lily's letter that he was frustrated 
> about being shut up in the house, and yet (unlike Sirius)
> we don't see him take it out on other people.


zanooda:

If Sirius had a wife and a child in the house with him, maybe he wouldn't have taken it out on them, either :-).