I’ll start by saying that @roonilwazlinweasley is one hell of a coward if their reaction at seeing my answer is to block me. Your statement is unsupported, and rather contradicted, by canon—I have just proven that. So perhaps before spouting shit you should meditate on how dumb and cowardly you look when facing canon evidence.
As for you, @remuslupinslefttit, and what you wrote in the tags, I will suggest first for you to read my second answer above.
Severus Snape, as a Death Eater, murdered no one. In the First War, it is well possible he was a mere potion dealer or the kind, that he never had the Dark Mark until he was already a double agent working for Dumbledore. His only crime is to have delivered half of a prophecy. He didn’t know that the prophecy could target Harry and his family, he could never know Voldemort would take it this way. But the moment he understood, he asked Voldemort a favour: to spare Lily. That’s the maximum he could do: asking James or Harry to be saved would be illogical and thus, suicide. It would also be useless. The fact he asked Voldemort to spare Lily made it possible for her to cast sacrificial protection, since she bypassed her chance to live. This, in turn, allowed Voldemort to be blasted off for the next decade, the First War to be stopped, and Harry to survive. Snape’s first betraying action allowed Voldemort to be somewhat killed.
James would rather risk jeopardizing the Fidelius to have fun.
And that’s not the only thing Snape does of course. He does everything he can to protect the whole family. And then for the whole world. That’s redemption.
You’ll find lots of evidence that Snape never was of the murderous Death Eater type, and in fact managed to keep his soul whole by not killing anyone, and rather doing intel work.
Snape is argued not to be a murderer, not even as a Death Eater.
James is, as you saw in the Muggle scene. Sirius is, considering he was, by his words, obsessed with killing Peter (to the point of breaking Ron’s leg, strangling Harry, terrorizing a whole school for a year, and nearly traumatizing the Trio while grinning because he was about to kill Peter). Lupin is (he was about to kill Peter too; he tries to convince Harry to kill people rather than use his signature spell, Expelliarmus, which Harry learned thanks to Snape).
My point with the Muggle officers is that if your goal was to prove James matured in any way: he textually did not. No proof he did so much as apologize, or made up for his sins. That’s shitty compared to Snape. In fact the few scenes of him depict Order member James as quite the anti-Muggle bigot.
James is the one who traumatized those Muggles, and seemingly killed the wizards that were coming at him. Like a murderous Death Eater indeed.
Again, lots of evidence in the books that James resembles Death Eaters, especially Draco Malfoy (sexual assault GoF/OotP, Muggle attack GoF/Prequel, prejudice HBP, bullying OotP...). Quite the irony that Snape’s crimes as a Death Eater were milder than James’ as anti-Voldemort, and that Snape’s penance was spectacular compared to James keeping on the behaviour he had as a Hogwarts student.
Snape changed and became a better man. James did not and he kept being a manipulative bully who torments Muggles and leaves his family at home just so he can goof around.
Manipulative indeed: you still keep your mouth shut on how he lied and hid important things from Lily just so he could bone her.
Or the fact that he seemed to "mature" just so he could fuck a girl he obsessed over and literally stalked, blackmailed, threaten to hit, and that renders his "changement" invalid. (And no, using a voice that sounds "more mature" to flirt with a girl who rejects your advances is not the kind of maturing a reader would like).
As for your complain regarding Sirius name-calling Snape: I thought your point was about them growing up? Oh, anyway.
You bring up the same argument that he does it as revenge, notably because Snape’s telling of the prophecy is what caused the Potters’ death. Problem is, that’s again not the reason invoked for Sirius to bully Snape. As I said previously:
Shoot, looks like Sirius is the bigot, here!
You argue that Sirius bullied Snape because he somehow knew Snape gave info to Voldemort, and somehow must be blamed for the way Voldemort decided to interpret the Prophecy (which Snape had no control upon), or how Voldemort killed the Potters (it is Voldemort’s fault only; if anything, Snape asked him to spare Lily, and Voldemort ignored it, you cannot deny Snape’s intent was to protect them all, as clearly stated and proven in the books). Because of the fact Snape was a Death Eater, and thus must have killed people.
First, I’d like to remark that’s what Lupin was talking about: your arguments are not based on evidence but on prejudice. They’re also inaccurate and biased because Sirius did not name-call Snape only once, he did it for decades.
Second, I’ll add your argument is based on non-canon supported assumptions. In Goblet of Fire, before Snape revealed his Dark Mark to the Minister in an attempt to make him take measures against Voldemort (as the Minister was denying Voldemort’s return), Sirius had no idea Snape ever was a Death Eater, or ever worked for Voldemort in any way.
During the whole scene, it is Harry and Ron who try to convince Sirius that Snape must have been a Death Eater or a generic Dark Wizard, trying to make up evidence.
It is Sirius (and Hermione) who argues against it. And yet, he still bullies Snape. Just before, he said:
Quite hypocritical, don’t you think, from filthy-haired "Pad"?
In PoA, he rejoiced in the thought of trying to kill Snape for daring to hope he could get his bullies expelled like any normal school would. It is only at the mention of Snape’s name that Sirius strays his eyes away from his object of obsession, Peter as Scabbers, and asks about Snape to Lupin (a behavior that kept on for years, judging by the fact Sirius admits as a teen he kept watching Snape during the Defence OWLs, ignoring the girls around him).
Sirius sure did not need for Snape to be a Death Eater, let alone for the Potters to die, before name-calling him while in school. Amongst other things, of course.
Perhaps instead of telling others what to criticize and for me to "learn how to spell", you should learn to shut your mouth and listen (or in this case, read) when someone who visibly knows the books more than you do explains the situation with solid proof that can debunk your feeble grasp at canon. You should worry more about your lack of literary comprehension rather than a few problems of spellling.
You should also worry at how you just proved our point. The original post criticzed the Lames ship and, in general, the fans who can never make Lames work without bashing Snape. That was illustrated with your reactions.
You’re not able to defend James without comparing him to Snape.
By the way, why not try someone better, like Hermione, to compare/antagonize him with, if Snape is that low to you? If your only way to make James look better is to compare him with what you consider shit, then it does not bear well for your fav.
You’re not able to defend your Lames ship because the only thing you can do is spout off Snape-hate that is, when you dig a bit deeper into it, completely invalid. Which also speaks of poor maturity, if you need other people to give you arguments and plant a ridiculous point of view for you to seem like you have a tiny bit of an intellectual mind (you don’t).
You’re not able to make anything without mentioning Severus Snape. Your favs and ships don’t stand up if not for him. It isn’t the ship or the characters that you appreciate, it is merely the hate you pour onto a fictional character. It’s all about Snape in the end. You stray far off any subject of debate to revert back to Snape-hate like a fanatic would. Quite interesting how obsessed with him you can be. I guess love and hate are sides of the same coin. One of them is just... less mind-numbing and toxic. Talking about love of course, in case you did not understand.
By the way, you have two spelling errors in your tags.
