Why do people love rhe character of Snape but hate James Potter?
If i remember correctly from the books, it is said that James Potter and Snape hated each other since their time on the train, and James bullied him along with his Friends, the maurauders (i don't remember if he did it to anyone else). However, people forget that since he was a child, Snape hung out with aspiring Death Eaters, read Darks arts books, and called Lily a mudblood, even thought Snape was a half-blood himself. He held supremacist ideas despiste not being a pure-blood.
Om the other hand, The worst thing that James did to Snape was levitate him in his underware, whereas Snape created Sectumsempra specifically to INFLICT HARM. Furthermoee, Dumbledore himself tells Snape that he disgust him because Snape didnt care of an inocente baby (Harry) and his father were murder, JUST so Lily could be spared.
I think people idealize Snape because some SEE themselves reflected in him, whole others just reel sorry for him. Snape was physically unnactravtive, antisocial, and although he was intelligent he has bizarre ideas about Darks Arts and wizarding supremacy. Plus, the womam he loved never loved him back the way he wanted.
The You have James Potter: An athlete ( Quidsitch captain) just like his son Harry, a puré-blood, physically attractive, and popular. it is hard to see youraelf reflected in someone like him.
But people forget that James became an Animagus to help his Werewolf friend, Lupin, roaming his own sanity and facing the severe danger of being sent to Azkaban flr performing Auch illegal Magic. They also forget that he gave his life for hia son anf his wife. He joined the Order of the Phoenix to fight Voldemort, supporting the financially with his own family fortune, which he also uses to fully take care of and maintain Sirius Black.
Finnaly, he stopped bullying Snape because Lily asked him to, and Even thought Lily rejwcted him many times, James NEVER called her a mudblood, unlike Snape (who wasnt even a pure-blood)