James and Intent

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 186978

> Alla:
> And I also wanted to add it somewhere, so this seems as good place as any about another reason why I totally buy reformed James. Well, of course as an aside  I never thought of him as totally bad guy in school and believed that his interactions with Snape are at least in part based on his hatred of Dark Magic, so it is not like I have to buy the transformation from horrible James to great James, however I certainly think that he did bad things in school as well, so I did think that he needed to grow up.


Montavilla47:
I don't get how a hatred of Dark Magic justifies (or even partially
justifies)  what James and Sirius do to Snape in SWM.