Poor Ron. Last book, flying brains grabbed him with their film-like tentacles and mind raped him. This book, he gets poisoned and has a stone from a goat's stomach shoved down his throat... and Hermione won't get busy with him
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Snape wasn't actually hung upside down from a tree. They used levicorpus on him and scourgified his mouth for calling Lily Evans a mud-blood. That scene makes just about everyone look like total assholes. James and Sirius attack Severus for no apparent reason, Snape is a racist and tries to use an illegal hex on James, Wormtail acts as Sirius and James' little cheerleader and the prefects (Lupin and Lily) hardly make any effort to stop any of this. Lily does call James on being, well just about everything Snape always accuses him of being, but then makes fun of Snape's underwear.
...scourgified his mouth for calling Lily Evans a mud-blood.
And you don't see him calling anybody else a 'Mudblood' after that. Sometimes the old remedies work. ;)
James and Sirius attack because Sirius is bored. That's the right age for that, it seems. About the same time, my eldest and his friends stole a bunch of stuffed toys from a florist. And were caught. And mortally embarrassed because of all the cute widdle red and white valentine's toys they were making off with at sixteen years of age. As well as placed on probation and all the wonderful intro to the justice system that goes along with it.
Peter was creepy. Practically fangurling James and Sirius. I'm surprised he didn't orgasm, wet himself, then faint.
And yet, there was something so realistic about that scene. That's exactly the way 16-year-old assholes would act if they had magic powers.
In real life, they beat Snape up after school and he eventually came back with a friend and small arsenal and killed 16 students and a teacher before pulling the gun on himself.
Yeah, there's something creepily familiar about the way the characters act in Snape's worst memory. That's why people react so strongly to it. Even if you were never bullied or were the bully, you probably know people who were. Or you were like Lupin and didn't want them to notice you. I've never seen anyone act quite like Peter (I really thought he was about to shoot his load), but I have seen other kids just standing there watching a fight like it was some great entertainment.
In real life Snape went on to bully those who were below him in the food chain.
Or you were like Lupin and didn't want them to notice you.
And here I was, thinking Lupin just didn't want to get his friends mad at him by pulling prefect status. But, yeah, this does sound right. How's he supposed to know, even if they're his best friends, that they won't turn on him, or make him part of the featured entertainment? He probably knows they won't, but at times like that, it's better to be safe than Levicorpused.
You're probably right that he just didn't want his friends to get mad at him. After all, they loved him enough to become animagi for him. Then again, Lupin has some serious issues about people turning on him, because he's a werewolf.
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And you don't see him calling anybody else a 'Mudblood' after that. Sometimes the old remedies work. ;)
James and Sirius attack because Sirius is bored. That's the right age for that, it seems. About the same time, my eldest and his friends stole a bunch of stuffed toys from a florist. And were caught. And mortally embarrassed because of all the cute widdle red and white valentine's toys they were making off with at sixteen years of age. As well as placed on probation and all the wonderful intro to the justice system that goes along with it.
Peter was creepy. Practically fangurling James and Sirius. I'm surprised he didn't orgasm, wet himself, then faint.
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In real life, they beat Snape up after school and he eventually came back with a friend and small arsenal and killed 16 students and a teacher before pulling the gun on himself.
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In real life Snape went on to bully those who were below him in the food chain.
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And here I was, thinking Lupin just didn't want to get his friends mad at him by pulling prefect status. But, yeah, this does sound right. How's he supposed to know, even if they're his best friends, that they won't turn on him, or make him part of the featured entertainment? He probably knows they won't, but at times like that, it's better to be safe than Levicorpused.
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