James and Intent

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 187022

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

> Lupin tells us that "Snape was a special case, I mean he 
> never lost an opportunity to curse James, so you couldn't 
> really expect James to take that lying down, could you?"
 
> So we know that Snape was also a bully.


zanooda:

If we knew of an instance where Snape and a few of his Slytherin friends caught James alone and taunted him and did humiliating things to him - then yes, we would have known Snape was a bully. Just cursing someone in a hallway between classes is not bullying, IMO, and we can't know about anything else from Lupin's words. Besides, we are not discussing Snape, we are discussing James :-).


> jkoney65 wrote:

> I also wonder why Snape followed them down after the test.
> Sat near them and then walked past them when he left the 
> shadows and reacted like he was expecting an attack. 


zanooda:

Oh please :-)! He didn't even see them! He was reading his examination paper the entire time! And he "reacted like he was expecting an attack" because, knowing those two, he was always expecting an attack :-)!


> jkoney65 wrote:

> It almost seems like Snape wanted a confrontation after the 
> incident a week before.

Yeah, he is just that stupid to want a confrontation one against two, possibly four :-). Really wise :-).


zanooda, wishing we could agree to disagree :-).