'Just Rewards (2)'
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***SPOILER ALERT***
My favorite callback begins in book 5.
The first time I read book 5, I hit that scene and knew, KNEW!, that Petunia was talking about Snape. That's the point where I became absolutely certain that Snape was not evil, and that he had renounced the Death Eaters because of his feelings for Lily.
(Makes "Snape+Lily!!" handwavey gestures at Fay)
Ha ha ha ha ha
My sentiments exactly!
In other news, the French title for this volume is really much less subtle: Harry Potter et les reliques de la mort
With re: to Lily/Snape.
Where did Lily and Petunia and Snape grow up? Is Spinner's End close to Privet Drive, or is it another part of England altogether?
It would be neat if Lily and Petunia turned up to have grown up in a moderately magical town and that fueled Petunia's dislike even more.
I think it's neat that there's so much unknown about all these things. JK has a quote saying fanfic is like people moving furniture around in her house. She doesn't mind that it's out there, she just doesn't want to see what people are doing.
Where did Lily and Petunia and Snape grow up?
For some reason, I'm picturing their childhood as the subject of some animated cartoon. Jim Henson's Wizard Babies, or somesuch....
t am picturing Sev holding Lily's hand while waiting for the Hogwarts Express on that first day, and Lily's parents telling her to stick close to him . . . am tearing up
Shut up and read.
Heh. That about sums it up. I was saying on LJ that DH is where all the meandering of the previous books landed. Not all of it was vitally relevant, but I'm impressed at how it all came together.
There was a nod in there to Dean Thomas' backstory as well, which I think she said was cut from Book 2. He and his mother always assumed his father left them, but wasn't his father actually killed by Voldemort?
Where does it say his father was killed by Voldemort? I don't remember that part.
It's on Rowlings' site somewhere, apparently, but two minutes there drove me insane, so I couldn't find the link. There's always wikipedia, though.
Killed by Death Eaters, actually. I was close. And aha, wikipedia links to her site:
Hmm. I really hate that there's canonical info that isn't included in the texts themselves. Apparently people already knew about Aberforth being the bartender of the Hog's Head before this book. Not fair!