chainsmokingmutt: moonlightdancer26:slytherinnpride: “Five against one, very brave.” God
chainsmokingmutt: moonlightdancer26:slytherinnpride: “Five against one, very brave.” God, Harry and Severus were so brave.❤️Also… FUCK PORKER!!!At least Dudley genuinely felt remorse and apologised and ACTUALLY grew up… not just in appearance, unlike a certain someone cunt. “James Matured! He changed!”Define Maturity: Does jinxing Snape behind Lily’s back knowing that she would be upset maturity? Is sneaking out at night for cheap thrills and abandoning your wife and infant son maturity? Is roaming around with a Werewolf every full moon and putting villagers at risk maturity? Is trashing a Muggle Police Car and not reversing the damage a sign of Maturity? Simply stopping the abuse doesn’t make you a better person. You should show remorse and you do your best to make amends(Dudley). And despite all that your bully victim has every right to not trust you and still resent you. James matured because it was convenient for him. He didn’t have lasting psychological trauma nor was he ostracized by the entire school. “But Sirius and Remus said he changed! Lily wouldn’t have married him if he didn’t! And everyone at Hogwarts spoke highly of James!”Sirius and Remus are James’s best friends(it’s a stretch for Remus but Sirius practically worshipped James) and they tend to show biases. When Harry confronts them after witnessing SWM both of them attempt damage control. Sirius says that Snape deserved what he got and Remus tries to downplay James’s behaviour. Lily isn’t a Mary Sue. She too is deeply flawed. She perceives herself as morally superior and shows signs of Hypocrisy. She doesn’t see the Marauders’ bullying as anything serious and brushes it off under the pretext that they atleast don’t use Dark Magic. Sirius says that James continued his bout with Snape behind Lily’s back:“She didn’t know too much about it, to tell you the truth,” said Sirius. “I mean, James didn’t take Snape on dates with her and jinx him in front of her, did he?”It also depends on which Lily we’re talking about. Is it the Lily Evans who had an inextinguishable flame within her who despised James with every fibre of her being or is it the suspiciously meek Lily Potter who’s friend circle has been reduced to James’s friend circle. Is it the meek stay at home housewife who doesn’t get mad when her husband sneaks out at night thereby endangering her and her infant son? Is it Lily Potter who is suspiciously out of the picture when it comes to making important decisions in the house? “Everyone spoke highly of James!”Everyone who wasn’t James’s target spoke highly of him. Everyone whom James didn’t hex senselessly spoke highly of him. Do you think Snape was the only victim? I doubt that. People didn’t interfere in SWM because they either enjoyed the bullying or they were scared of intervening and both are highly plausible. There must have been dozens of students who must’ve had a bone to pick with James but couldn’t and now they had to watch as their former bully was immortalized as a Martyr. -- source link