James and Intent

zanooda2 zanooda2 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 12 17:44:11 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 187014

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> 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.


zanooda:

And I've started disliking him after OotP, LOL! But either way, I agree with you that it is much better to have a Toerag James than a Saint James :-). Even my husband, who doesn't like HP books and thinks JKR is a bad writer, says that showing James as a bully was a brilliant move :-).


> Alla wrote:

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


zanooda:

It is, isn't it :-)? I find it fascinating how much of ourselves we bring to our understanding of the characters.







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