[ SECRET POST #3311 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3311 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's one of the cool differences between fiction and reality though! Unlike real people, fictional characters aren't secretly something other than what we're shown and told there in canon. The characters' final word on James is all we have, and if he were really still a terrible person outside of his friends' rose-colored perception of him, there would be something in the text letting us know that.

[(Anonymous)]

So let me get this straight... Harry is lead to believe for the first five books that his father is an all-around swell guy, a perfect person, etc...

...and then he sees his father via another person's memory tormenting someone...and it's enough to make Harry question what he was told.

If Rowling didn't want us to rethink our opinions on James she wouldn't have written it the way she did.

[(Anonymous)]

It's enough to make Harry think James isn't a perfect golden swell guy, it's not enough to make him (or us readers) think James is Satan 2.0

[(Anonymous)]

FFS Harry was concerned that James bewitched Lily into falling in love with him. It clearly shook him up.

[(Anonymous)]

He had the same reaction with Dumbledore in book 7, but he realizes that was a mistake, too.

[(Anonymous)]

That was because a lot of what was said about Dumbledore was false or unclear.

That wasn't the case with James.

[(Anonymous)]

There was one memory of James that Harry felt put him in a bad light. Once his friends explained a bit more to Harry, Harry believed them and calmed down, even smiled at something Ron did that reminded him of James in the Pensieve. I think that's rather telling of what JKR wanted readers to take from the memory, that James clearly wasn't perfect, but he wasn't terrible either.