James and Intent

[dumbledore11214]

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> zanooda:
> 
> That's a good point :-). But I don't actually doubt that James is a good person at the end of the book, I just wish we were shown how he became this good person, that's all. <SNIP>

Alla:

Right, but I also said that I totally understand why people are asking for another scene with James, you know? It is not like this wish is hard to understand for me, believe me.

I am not really arguing anything in this thread, and even when I am arguing something I am really not in the business of changing anybody's mind, and in this thread I really am not even arguing, I am just explaining what things that I read in canon made it for me totally sufficient the way James is shown.

And in fact as I said, SWM to me made something completely different, because before OOP I did love Sirius' character, but as to James, I was like really - oh James, that was Harry's Saint dead father. Whatever.

I've only started liking him after OOP, because that scene to me made him human, even if it showed him in the bad light. But it is not like all the other stuff that I learned about James to me went away, so to me instead of Saint guy, he became good guy with a flaw.

It is extremely interesting how differently we react to the characters.

JMO,

Alla