James and Intent And Snape and Love LONG

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 187044

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

> ... that is how I feel too, but precisely for that reason 
> I disagree that we can label James as bully in anywhere but SWM.


zanooda:

I never thought James acted as a bully to everyone at Hogwarts or that bullying was his favorite pass-time :-). Even if he did, we don't know anything about it. When Lupin says that James was "hexing people just for the fun of it", it doesn't necessarily mean he targeted specific students. In fact, it is quite possible that Snape was James's (and Sirius's) only permanent target, because, as Lupin  said, "Snape was a special case" :-). Again, this is in accordance with my understanding of bullying, so someone may not agree :-).



> Alla:
 
> Well, I just found it to be a little bit hard to 
> understand argument since threads switch in midair 
> and as you note the change in topics can be abrupt. 


zanooda:

I wasn't talking about a change of topic, and I'm sorry if someone understood it this way. I wanted to say that Snape's previous actions and his personality traits have nothing to do with James's behavior in SWM (again, to me :-)). I don't care what spells he invented and if he ever used them on James. I don't care that he was an aspiring DE. 

What James did in SWM was cruel and disgusting, and I would still think that even if it was done not to Snape, but to Voldemort or Bella :-). That's what I meant when I said it was not about Snape at all, but about James :-). I didn't want to say we shouldn't talk about Snape, just that Snape himself doesn't matter to me in this discussion, it could have been anyone else :-). So I'm sorry if someone understood it as if I was telling people what to write and what not to write, LOL.