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*** Do these boys also attempt to murder their peers or at least send them to certain death just for lulz? (If Sirus failed to understand what he was doing when he was sending Severus to Lupin, he wasn't a jerk - he was either a sociopath or a braindead).
**** It wasn't as if Sirius forced Snape into the shack where Lupin had transformed. Sirius all but dared him to go in there and Snape went of his own free will. While it was stupid of Sirius to do that in the first place, part of the blame falls on Snape for being stupid enough to go into a creepy shack based on a rival's opinion.
** Point of order for every reference to 'sociopathic tendencies' in this entire entry -- there is a reason that a clinical diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder (aka 'sociopathy') requires that the subject be over eighteen, and that is because several of the diagonostic markers are ''normal'' behavior for adolescents and are diagnosable only if they persist in an adult brain. In plain English... teenagers actually can be that huge a bunch of asshats and still grow up into sane people, so, the anecdotes prove nothing.
* ''Or'', how about we stay away from [[Ron the Death Eater]] and [[Draco in Leather Pants]] as the OP stated, and realize that yes, Snape, James and Sirius ''all'' did bad things but ''all'' also had reasons for doing so? Yes, they had varying degrees of justification, and yes, ''nobody'' in that scene was ''entirely'' faultless. But it was ''not'' entirely Snape's "fault" ''nor'' was it entirely James and Sirius's "fault." '''And why can't we just leave it at that?'''
 
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