After 20 years in this fandom, I'd seriously gotten to a point where I thought I'd seen everything. But seeing a Sn*pe stan posit that James only joined the Order to "show off" is a level of idiocy I never thought attainable.
@mppmaraudergirl It’s called desperation 🤣🤣
- The guy who from at least the age of 11 despised pureblood supremacist bigoted bullshit
- The guy who immediately accepted his friend had a condition that was terribly painful, stigmatised af, and dangerous, and his reaction was to think - cool with this, and how do we help the chap?
- The guy who along with his mates became animagi and risked Azkaban on a monthly basis to help make his friend’s monthly transformations less traumatic
- The guy who at the risk of being killed or turned, saved Snape from being killed by a werewolf (because Snape had the stellar idea to try to break into the place where he knew a real life werewolf was being kept on the full moon, purely because he wanted to out Remus because he hated him and the marauders). I don’t care what excuse you come up with “oh he only did it to save his friend” - yeah, regardless of his alleged motivation, he still risked his life.
- The guy who at the time that the wix world was at war was chosen by his school as Head Boy because he had the moral authority to be a good leader at a time of crisis
- The guy who joined a secret, illegal, dangerous underground organisation as soon as he finished school in order to fight said murderous bigoted wankers who were hell bent on torturing and killing muggleborn wizards (such as his beloved wife) and muggles
- Note this guy was a very rich pureblood who could have sat on his arse and done nothing but show off his Quidditch skills, play with his equivalent of sports cars/elite university/jet-setting/clubbing etc and play international level Quidditch
- Or he could have thought sod it, I’ll join Voldy and his mates (cough, cough, Severus -I’m so in eh supposedly love with Lily- Snape) who at this stage were winning the war and outnumbered those fighting against him by 20:1 (canon)
- The guy who along with his kickass, talented wife was so skilled and talented a fighter that Voldemort himself tried to recruit them despite knowing they were a blood-traitor and mudblood (you’re telling me Voldemort tried to recruit him because he was short of show-offs on his team, yeah? The guy who had Lucius Malfoy in his bro band?)
- The guy who along with his wife defied Voldemort three times? Which was such an extraordinarily difficult and dangerous thing to do that Voldy immediately narrowed the field down to two couples when he learnt the prophecy…
- The guy who kept fighting against Voldy when members of the Order were dropping like flies
- The guy who stepped in front of Voldy wandless to buy his wife and baby time to escape and who was killed by him?
- The guy who when he appeared out of Harry’s wand had this effect on Voldy:
“And he came… first his head, then his body, tall and untidy-haired like Harry, the smoky shadowy form of James Potter blossomed from the end of Voldemort’s wand, fell to the ground, and straightened like his wife. He walked close to Harry, looking down at him, and spoke in the same distant, echoing voice as the others, but quietly, so that Voldemort, his face now livid with fear as his victims prowled around him, could not hear…”
Bro, dude, pal - he may have been a painful teenager who was mean to and hexed Snape (and vice versa - canon) but to say he wasn’t brave is, sadly for you, simply not true (and most Snape stans will admit this, regardless of what else they believe about James)