Potter Musings
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kerravonsenDumbledore must have a really good reason for not giving him the Defence Against Dark Arts job. Maybe Snape is so brilliant at Potions he'd be wasted in Defence Against Dark Arts.
Those Dementors are definitely in the category of "cruel and unusual punishment".
I'm reading _Goblet of Fire_ at the moment (well, not right now) and I know I'd better stop the Pottering after that, because I'm doing the dreaded skipping ahead, which demonstrates that the book is not holding my interest. Or maybe I just hate that slimy reporter. Somebody ought to cast a spell on her Quick Quill so that it can only record the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Or make it sing out "Liar, liar, pants on fire!" whenever it didn't. Or make her pants go on fire whenever she smarms and lies. I hate that woman.
Pigwidgeon is cute, though. Though I guess Ron's going to have almost as much trouble with packages as he did when he was using Errol.
Names. There are names here so ridiculously apt that it half feels like a parody. I mean, as soon as I saw the name "Lupin" I knew what his problem was. And other names that are just awful. I mean, take "Hogwarts" for example. Pig-warts. What an awful name. Beauxbatons is much nicer. Beautiful sticks. (grin)
I wonder if Pottermania is going to induce anyone to learn Latin?
Wormtail better not die -- he's needed alive to clear SB's name.
I wonder how far ahead JKR has planned this?
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Date: 2003-10-23 05:21 am (UTC)Do you feel any different about this now you've read OotP? Not that Snape is being fair or even wholly logical, to be sure, but when you read the Shrieking Shack episode in the light of the memory Harry sees in Snape's Pensieve in OotP... suddenly Snape's reasons for believing that a) Sirius is eminently capable of wanton cruelty and violence; b) Sirius has sufficient magical skill to Confund the Trio so that they aren't capable of thinking straight; and c) Remus will let Sirius get away with anything he wants up to and including murder, become a good deal more clear.
Snape is furious in the Shrieking Shack, he is upset, but he is not being totally unreasonable and stupid based on a mere "schoolboy grudge", as Remus tries to paint it and Harry & Co. all too readily believe.
Being a Snapefan (in my case, anyway) doesn't mean believing he's a sweet guy or that everything he does is right, but I do feel that he's the most complex and fascinating adult character in the books, especially since it's been broadly hinted at ever since Book 1 that Harry's perception of his character, actions and motives is unreliable and that there is a lot more to Snape's story we haven't been told.
Sympathy?
Date: 2003-10-23 09:08 pm (UTC)Indeed. Yes, my sympathies for Snape are wholly engaged. While I've never been physically bullied, I know what it's like to be at the bottom of the pecking order, and it's not nice at all. And I can understand why, just looking at Harry -- considering how much Harry is said to resemble James -- is going to remind Snape of the humiliation that he can't forgive. And it doesn't help that Harry is famous without asking for it. And I suspect that what Snape sees of Harry's life with the Dursleys (when he invades Harry's mind in the Occulumency lessons), rather than making him comprehend that Harry has had just as hard a life as Snape, is simply going to be seen by Snape as his just desserts for being James Potter's son. Unfortunately it's revenge without an actual crime...