And we don't see them interacting outside of 'their own groups'. Though I wouldn't call the DA members they were friendly with before the DA formed as their own group. They were people they went to school with. As I said before, unreliable narrator.
With MWPP, a large number of people speak highly of them on a personal level. Peers, people they worked with, and people tangentially associated with them. It's very rare that people speak kindly of people that weren't nice to them. We don't see anything of the Marauders other than through Harry's mind, after him being told or shown things. We have to rely on filtered information through an unreliable narrator.
There's quite a bit of ddissension within the DA. We see plenty of causes of scuffles and whatnot, but they're generally limited to typical teenage things. I don't see much 'closing off to those who don't agree'. Over large issues such as Voldemort, well yes. But that's just normal, and not really an argument for whether or not someone is a nice person. Again, it all goes back to having an unreliable narrator.
Pansy joined the Inquisitional Squad. She's the ring leader of a rather cruel group of girls. She's vicious towards everyone who isn't a Slytherin - going out of her way to pick on people she hardly even knows, as shown in GoF, and is friendly towards no one but Draco. I can't accept that as pointing to her having a core personality of being a nice and kind person.
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With MWPP, a large number of people speak highly of them on a personal level. Peers, people they worked with, and people tangentially associated with them. It's very rare that people speak kindly of people that weren't nice to them. We don't see anything of the Marauders other than through Harry's mind, after him being told or shown things. We have to rely on filtered information through an unreliable narrator.
There's quite a bit of ddissension within the DA. We see plenty of causes of scuffles and whatnot, but they're generally limited to typical teenage things. I don't see much 'closing off to those who don't agree'. Over large issues such as Voldemort, well yes. But that's just normal, and not really an argument for whether or not someone is a nice person. Again, it all goes back to having an unreliable narrator.
Pansy joined the Inquisitional Squad. She's the ring leader of a rather cruel group of girls. She's vicious towards everyone who isn't a Slytherin - going out of her way to pick on people she hardly even knows, as shown in GoF, and is friendly towards no one but Draco. I can't accept that as pointing to her having a core personality of being a nice and kind person.