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** During the PensieveFlashback in the \\\"Guys Like Potter\\\" number, Lily flirts with James Potter and accepts a date with him... Right after he tormented Snape (and \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'before\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\' Snape called her \\\"Mudblood\\\").[[hottip:*: This example was deleted before, so here\\\'s the explanation: In the book, Snape called Lily \\\"Mudblood\\\" before she ever even considered James as anything but an arrogant toerag, so she had a legitimate reason to be angry and want to get back at him in \\\'\\\'that\\\'\\\' setting. In AVPS, their places are switched: \\\'\\\'Lily\\\'\\\' is not only openly flirting with Snape\\\'s enemy, James (which would be dickish enough), but she did it \\\'\\\'right after she told James off for bullying Snape\\\'\\\'. In this setting, Lily is just a straight-up {{jerkass}}. It still doesn\\\'t excuse Snape calling her a Mudblood.]]
KickTheDog is a cruel action meant to show a character as villainous. Team Starkid was not trying to expose Lily\\\'s jerkass nature. This was a JOKE. A \\\'\\\'single\\\'\\\' joke meant to parody the AllGirlsWantBadBoys fallacy. All the characters have jerkass lines for the sake of being funny. If that counts as kicking the dog, then Ron and Dumbledore would have kicked the dog to death before intermission.
Lily is not meant to be a villainous character. The whole Snape/Lily storyline was done as a parody of the [[http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2007/12/16/the-internet-nice-guy-rears-his-ugly-head-once-more/ \\\"Nice Guy\\\"]] mindset, and demonizing Lily here is CompletelyMissingThePoint. While Snape was portrayed sympathetically, being a self-described [[DoggedNiceGuy \\\"Nice Guy\\\"]] is not a desirable thing.
KickTheDog is a cruel action meant to show a character as villainous. Team Starkid was not trying to expose Lily\\\'s jerkass nature. This was a JOKE. A \\\'\\\'single\\\'\\\' joke meant to parody the AllGirlsWantBadBoys fallacy. All the characters have jerkass lines for the sake of being funny. If that counts as kicking the dog, then Ron and Dumbledore would have kicked the dog to death before intermission.
Lily is not meant to be a villainous character. The whole Snape/Lily storyline was done as a parody of the [[http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2007/12/16/the-internet-nice-guy-rears-his-ugly-head-once-more/ \\\"Nice Guy\\\"]] mindset, and demonizing Lily here is CompletelyMissingThePoint. While Snape was portrayed sympathetically, being a self-described [[DoggedNiceGuy \\\"Nice Guy\\\"]] is not a desirable thing.
