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This is kind of junky, but it's the best thing I pulled off all week.
I was saying to someone in another post, James seems to cast a very long shadow over everyone who was connected to him, even more than a decade after he died. It colors how alot of people see Harry both positively and negatively, but rarely accurately. Harry doesn't seem to mind most of the time, at least not until after he sees the memory in Snape's pensieve, but really, being constantly compared to someone you've never met, being told "you did what your father would have done and I can give you no higher praise than that"... Harry was a sweet kid in the beginning and he found it all warming and comforting, but sooner or later that kind of thing must get suffocating. I think Ron got off easy with just five older brothers to live up to. How do you live up to a dead man?
Also, don't try and make sense of which hand Harry holds his wand in. There's rarely any rhyme or reason to my assignment of left and right handedness. I think I'm a bit dyslexic about it--they're reversed my my left and right, but I often draw in mirror mode. And even more often I just stick the wand in whichever hand is most conveniently positioned. And yes, I am aware that James's feet are comically small...
I was saying to someone in another post, James seems to cast a very long shadow over everyone who was connected to him, even more than a decade after he died. It colors how alot of people see Harry both positively and negatively, but rarely accurately. Harry doesn't seem to mind most of the time, at least not until after he sees the memory in Snape's pensieve, but really, being constantly compared to someone you've never met, being told "you did what your father would have done and I can give you no higher praise than that"... Harry was a sweet kid in the beginning and he found it all warming and comforting, but sooner or later that kind of thing must get suffocating. I think Ron got off easy with just five older brothers to live up to. How do you live up to a dead man?
Also, don't try and make sense of which hand Harry holds his wand in. There's rarely any rhyme or reason to my assignment of left and right handedness. I think I'm a bit dyslexic about it--they're reversed my my left and right, but I often draw in mirror mode. And even more often I just stick the wand in whichever hand is most conveniently positioned. And yes, I am aware that James's feet are comically small...