'Serenity'
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And I can't understand why she gave us the scene at Spinner's End with the Unbreakable Vow if she didn't plan to twist it somehow.
And even I noticed that during that scene, Snape did a lot of, "Yes, I already know that" without offering any information to confirm that he did, in fact, know what Bellatrix and Narcissa were talking about.
I do wonder what's up with Peter Pettigrew rooming with Snape. It seems...odd. Someone in Literary posited that they are each being used to watch the other for V, which makes sense, but I'm curious if there's more to it than that.
Where was Peter at the end of OotP? I skimmed that book so quickly that nothing's really stuck.
No where. I don't think Peter was in the book.
So we last saw Peter after helping Voldermort return, then he pops up nearly two years later under Snape's thumb. Hmmm.
I do wonder what's up with Peter Pettigrew rooming with Snape.
I completely forgot about that.
I guess that's my biggest fear for Book 7, if it is indeed the end of the series. So many little things to be tied up, and I want them all. Not just the most important ones, or the ones related to Book 7's plot. I want to know what was up with Petunia in OotP, and ... well, crap, now I can't remember anything else.
On DUMBLEDORE BEING DEAD DEAD DEAD ... I'd like to raise a question I don't hear asked explictly very often -- if Dumbledore knew the DaDA position was cursed, and that no teacher ever stayed in the job for more than a year, then A.) Did he deny Snape the job because he KNEW that, and B.) Did he let him have the job because he knew what was going to happen?
if Dumbledore knew the DaDA position was cursed
Hmmm, Dumbledore's own means of getting rid of wizards he disliked. Dumbledore is just a bit creepy, isn't he?
I think he denied Snape the position knowing the Snape would prolly leave the school as the others have and wanted him at H'warts to keep an eye on him. I also think he gave it to him their 6th year knowing that he would probably not be able to teach the following year.
But wait! Wasn't Quirrell there for at least a few years?
I smell a RetCon.