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Hi exxperidotxxd!
Oh, I'm certain that JKR never wanted us to think James possibly abusive or manipulative, just as she never wanted us to believe Snape to be a hero :-)
I do not believe that Snape is 'certainly no hero', just because the Author proclaimed him to be. I look at Snape's actions and judge him according to them. Same with James and Lily.
I reject Rowlings' worldview and substitute my own! Revolution Now!! Yeeaaahhhhh!!! *does Kermit armwave* *feels silly*
But seriously, JKR is either an incredibly bad writer (um, yeah, I'd buy that) or (and?) she has ideas about the way the world works, about right and wrong, which is *so* totally opposite mine that it simply *boggles* my mind that so many people swallow it. Frightens the hell out of me, I can tell you that.
Anyway, no matter *what* JKR says, if James and his cronies were at *my* school, they'd frighten the sh*t out of me, but they'd also be expelled because *my* old Headmaster wouldn't have stood for that kind of behaviour. Chances were that they'd have found themselves inside a policestation before they were thirteen..
But then, I could've said the same about the Trio (stealing, brewing illegal substances, joyriding, stealing candy from a shop, not to mention scarring a fellow student for life)
Oh, I'm certain that JKR never wanted us to think James possibly abusive or manipulative, just as she never wanted us to believe Snape to be a hero :-)
I do not believe that Snape is 'certainly no hero', just because the Author proclaimed him to be. I look at Snape's actions and judge him according to them. Same with James and Lily.
I reject Rowlings' worldview and substitute my own! Revolution Now!! Yeeaaahhhhh!!! *does Kermit armwave* *feels silly*
But seriously, JKR is either an incredibly bad writer (um, yeah, I'd buy that) or (and?) she has ideas about the way the world works, about right and wrong, which is *so* totally opposite mine that it simply *boggles* my mind that so many people swallow it. Frightens the hell out of me, I can tell you that.
Anyway, no matter *what* JKR says, if James and his cronies were at *my* school, they'd frighten the sh*t out of me, but they'd also be expelled because *my* old Headmaster wouldn't have stood for that kind of behaviour. Chances were that they'd have found themselves inside a policestation before they were thirteen..
But then, I could've said the same about the Trio (stealing, brewing illegal substances, joyriding, stealing candy from a shop, not to mention scarring a fellow student for life)