Some punk loser rants on about life in general (not the MxPx album).

 
for anyone who doesn't read the messages at the end of the posts I make.

Alison defends James Potter.
An OotP spoiler of sorts.

(don't read if you haven't read the book)


Sure James was an arrogant jock when he was 15, but that doesn’t mean that he could never change. A lot of people are pricks when they are younger before they realise that bullying or thinking that your better then people means nothing in real life!

Ok, what did we learn from Snape’s memory:
a) James was (I repeat WAS) showing off. To Wormtail and more particularly Lily.
b) James hated Severus and vice versa, though it is unclear who really started it.
c) Lily was a good person. I doubt that she would ever have gone out with someone who was such a prat. Her sister was Petunia and her parents were proud of her. So she had an average childhood and I’m guessing (it’s a guess) that Petunia was never nice to her, but she still grew up caring and loving.
d) James and Sirius favourite past time was ganging up on “Snivellus”, and the hatred was mutable. My guess is that James would jinx/hex Severus one day and the next Severus would attack them the next.

Ok, so then we move on to Harry’s head visiting Sirius and Lupin. And here we learn:
a) That James hated all things Dark Arts (Lupin is excluded ‘cause it’s not his fault a werewolf bit him) and Severus had a passion for Dark Arts.
b) Sirius was never proud of the way the acted back then. It was childish and he admits that they were idiots and “arrogant little berks”.
c) Remus says that he should said something or done some thing (he is kind of the Hermione of the group, the voice of reason) and Sirius says that Remus did make them feel guilty and ashamed of some of the stuff they did!
d) That James never got over hating Severus. That Lily did go out with him in the seventh year “once James had deflated his head a bit” So he must have changed.
e) And a lot of people act like they are top shit when they're around 15-17. An example outside of this is us. KD has admitted that she used to pick on a girl when she was in high school and that she isn’t proud of it looking back. And I bet you’ve done something almost as low what James did and I believe that if I try hard enough I can find times when I picked on someone or didn’t do anything when my friends picked on someone else. We’ve all been there.

Okay, if I remember correctly, in PoA Remus explains of a time when Sirius thought it would be “amusing’ to play a prank on Snape. How he told Snape he could see a real werewolf and when James heard was Sirius had done he went to find Snape before he got hurt. He must have been decent to put aside his hate to save him,

So I do feel sorry for Severus Snape, but we shouldn’t hate James. He was a decent guy who just took his hatred too far! I didn’t like it but I also didn’t like a few other things in that book. I’m still depressed. And people can change, Snape was semi evil, on Voldie’s side but turned spy for Dumbledore. So anything is possible when a person character is concerned. It’s just my belief that James was conceited when he was young and came to realise that it was not the way to be.


hi, i was going to mail this to you but you said you were having e-mail trouble.

*****

Sorry, I still think he's an arsehole, no matter what you say. AndI never pay people out for no reason. There's always one, however small it is.
posted by muskawo at 7/10/2003 10:12:00 PM