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.
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'Serenity'
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Frankenbuddha - Aug 08, 2005 11:45:17 am PDT #1010 of 3301
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Connie Neil - Aug 08, 2005 11:52:17 am PDT #1011 of 3301
brillig
Where was Peter at the end of OotP? I skimmed that book so quickly that nothing's really stuck.
Narrator - Aug 08, 2005 11:59:24 am PDT #1012 of 3301
The evil is this way?
No where. I don't think Peter was in the book.
Connie Neil - Aug 08, 2005 12:02:15 pm PDT #1013 of 3301
brillig
So we last saw Peter after helping Voldermort return, then he pops up nearly two years later under Snape's thumb. Hmmm.
Amy - Aug 08, 2005 12:12:14 pm PDT #1014 of 3301
Because books.
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.
victor infante - Aug 08, 2005 2:54:00 pm PDT #1015 of 3301
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
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?
Connie Neil - Aug 08, 2005 2:55:40 pm PDT #1016 of 3301
brillig
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?
Aims - Aug 08, 2005 2:56:41 pm PDT #1017 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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.
Aims - Aug 08, 2005 2:58:06 pm PDT #1018 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
But wait! Wasn't Quirrell there for at least a few years?
I smell a RetCon.
evil jimi - Aug 08, 2005 3:01:16 pm PDT #1019 of 3301
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
What he sees as "hate and revulsion" on Snape's face at the moment he's about to kill Dumbledore might actually be anguish and anger, that Dumbledore is making him do this horrible thing.
Nice.
I'm in the camp that thinks S and D planned what happened, as a way to firmly establish Snape's allegiance to Voldemort so he can go deep undercover. However, I'm not totally convinced that Dumbledore is dead. After all, we never actually "saw" his body after the attack, so we don't know who or what was under the robe Hagrid was carrying. Feigning death could spur others to finding hitherto hidden depths of strength or "goodness", while also giving Dumbledore the freedom to pursue the other Horcruxes and Voldemort without pursuit.
Then, of course, there is "R.A.B."; who is it and what else have they done against Voldemort?