Another Way To Look At James Potter: Did He EVER Improve

No Harry Potter fan wasn't surprised when it was revealed that as a child, James Potter had pretty much been an "arrogant toe-rag", and that is putting it kindly. But what if this bully of a spoiled brat didn't improve with age. What if he went from idiot to an actual dark wizard!


We all know James bullied Snape, who was best friends with Lily. When James fell in love with Lily, his tricky relationship with her best friend, Snape, was the only thing standing in his way. The only way to get Lily to like him back that would be guaranteed to work would take two complex maneuvers, but these were treacherous moves that could only be completed by someone evil. It was a chain of events that would, in some ways, make him worse than Corvus Lestrange IV.

A powerful wizard, he used the Imperious Curse to make Snape call Lily a Mudblood. He then modified his memory using Obliviate, Confundus and many more spells so that Snape thought he was entirely responsible for calling her this name. Let's be real, Snape would never have called Lily Mudblood without outside "assistance".


Once Snape was out the way, he could easily use a love potion on Lily with virtually no suspicion, because he had slowly squeezed every bit of self-confidence out of the only obstacle, Snape. This explains so many problems and things left extremely vague by J.K. Rowling. For example, when Harry asks Lupin about how his mom didn't hate his dad, Lupin says that they "fell in love in year seven", which really isn't much of an explanation. 

And this leads me to my second point: maybe James actually did something to his so-called "friends" so that they wouldn't ask any questions. I think that he likely used the Confundus Charm on Sirius and Lupin to make them have a hard time remembering some of James' exploits around the time this was going on, and this is why Lupin was so vague. Harry accepted this explanation because he wanted to believe his mother was happy.


However, James made a quite literally fatal mistake; he underestimated Wormtail and did not enchant the boy who he thought of as the most insignificant and stupid Marauder, the guy who would have played base if the Marauders were a band.

When Wormtail found out what James had done and was blanked about it by Sirius and Lupin, Peter Pettigrew felt abandoned, and was scooped up by Voldemort, who saw in him the potential to become a loyal servant just to get back at his former friends who had betrayed him. Wormtail gave up the details on where the Potters lived, and Snape wasn't the only one who Voldemort betrayed by killing the innocent Lily, and attempting to kill the, again innocent, Harry Potter.


So yeah. This obviously isn't officially canon. There could be a bunch of different reasons for this chain of underexplained events, but I enjoy writing these  even though I've already posted on my theories eight other times in three separate posts so... yeah. Sorry for not posting in a while, but I hope you all enjoy this one after the long wait. Please comment your thoughts below, and I'll see you next time. Noah (0 - 0)

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