....I still don't get how standing up for him and repeatedly telling James to leave him alone can be seen as a betrayal.
'her inaction to stop his choking' - Okay, I don't have OotP handy, so by all means correct me if I get the sequence wrong. As far as I remember, James first used Scourgify when Snape was still hanging in the air and it looked like he really might choke. Lily yelled at him to stop it and James promtply dropped Snape, leaving Snape spitting out soap suds but not choking. Maybe she figured that was appropriate after all the 'Mudbloods' he'd handed out. Again, by all means correct me.
'paying so much attention to James' - really not seeing the issue here. He was the leader and the instigator. She was arguing with him and trying to get him to back off.
'Near-laughter'? She looked like she was going to smile for about a second in between shouting at Sirius and James to leave him alone. Snape called her the equivalent of the n-word and took a running jump off the slippery slope.
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Date: 2009-08-13 06:05 pm (UTC)'her inaction to stop his choking' - Okay, I don't have OotP handy, so by all means correct me if I get the sequence wrong. As far as I remember, James first used Scourgify when Snape was still hanging in the air and it looked like he really might choke. Lily yelled at him to stop it and James promtply dropped Snape, leaving Snape spitting out soap suds but not choking. Maybe she figured that was appropriate after all the 'Mudbloods' he'd handed out. Again, by all means correct me.
'paying so much attention to James' - really not seeing the issue here. He was the leader and the instigator. She was arguing with him and trying to get him to back off.
'Near-laughter'? She looked like she was going to smile for about a second in between shouting at Sirius and James to leave him alone. Snape called her the equivalent of the n-word and took a running jump off the slippery slope.