Nah. Not harsh. In fact I agree with everything you say about Sirius and most about Peter. I won't get into the other two at all, I can already feel my blood pressure rising. Though can't help noticing that James had a decent loving family as far as we can tell and still was a repulsive bully
But I will say that I'm sick of the whole Snape/Sirius comparison and who had a crappier life and should get away with more. As kids I could argue that "sucky life at home and merciless bullying at school " rather beats "sucky life at home and wonderful friends at school". Although to be fair we don't know for a fact that Snape had a bad home life, I had a fairly decent home life and can remember plenty of instances of my parents yelling at each other and me crying in a corner.
But as adults we have those 12 years in Azkaban vs. vague DE stuff, vague redemption, a job (even if it was in Hogwarts, Snape's equivalent of Grimmauld place in terms of what it has done to him emotionaly) and dealing with Potter. Sirius is definitely allowed to be more fucked up as an adult.
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Date: 2004-07-12 12:06 pm (UTC)But I will say that I'm sick of the whole Snape/Sirius comparison and who had a crappier life and should get away with more. As kids I could argue that "sucky life at home and merciless bullying at school " rather beats "sucky life at home and wonderful friends at school". Although to be fair we don't know for a fact that Snape had a bad home life, I had a fairly decent home life and can remember plenty of instances of my parents yelling at each other and me crying in a corner.
But as adults we have those 12 years in Azkaban vs. vague DE stuff, vague redemption, a job (even if it was in Hogwarts, Snape's equivalent of Grimmauld place in terms of what it has done to him emotionaly) and dealing with Potter. Sirius is definitely allowed to be more fucked up as an adult.