I don't know that I'd go for giant , but the title could actually work. Oh!oh! And Snape could be eaten by the snake. Or bitten, whichever.
I wanna die in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren, but guess that's off the menu.
Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DebetEsse - Jul 31, 2005 5:25:16 pm PDT #8791 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Fay - Jul 31, 2005 5:30:13 pm PDT #8792 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I think the Snake would be the one poisoned, in those circumstances.
beekaytee - Jul 31, 2005 5:37:26 pm PDT #8793 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Yes! Snakes!
Also, I'm wondering how the all powerful/valuable, potions book ended up back in circulation. Wouldn't Snape hang onto such a treasure? His beloved mom's book? All his valuable work? Kinda careless just leaving it lying around to coinky-dinkyly get into his sworn pita's hands, eh?
I'm suspicious.
Connie Neil - Jul 31, 2005 5:46:38 pm PDT #8794 of 10002
brillig
Over in Natter they were talking about ways to memorialize the departed, and LifeGems (which are made, I believe, from compressing the ashes) were mentioned. tommyrot said it owuld be cool to use them in Death Rays, and I thought they'd be perfect Dark Magic artifacts. Someone tell me not to write HP fanfic.
sumi - Jul 31, 2005 5:48:01 pm PDT #8795 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Connie! Write HP Fanfic, I would totally read it.
Kathy A - Jul 31, 2005 6:00:15 pm PDT #8796 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Fay, the chapter from OotP with Snape's Pensieve scene was "Snape's Worst Memory."
As to the Potions book lying around the Potions classroom, don't forget that Snape had been in charge of that room for some 15 years. I wouldn't be surprised if he had it stored for reference purposes in the cabinet, and forgot to take it with him in the transition to the DADA room.
Fay - Jul 31, 2005 6:03:04 pm PDT #8797 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
...but Snape's Worst Memory was just the scene with the Marauders, wasn't it? Nothing to do with his family?
::puzzled::
Sorry to be an ass - I don't have the book to hand, or I'd just check through it.
beekaytee - Jul 31, 2005 6:12:14 pm PDT #8798 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Very good point Kathy. Still? Careless.
Volans - Jul 31, 2005 9:08:01 pm PDT #8799 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Fay, when Snape is giving Harry the Occulemency (sp?) lessons, he takes memories out of his own head and stores them in the Pensieve. Then Snape gets called away and Harry looks in the Pensieve, and sees a wee Snape cringing in a corner while his father abuses his mother. (I think the abuse was implied, and the scene was the father yelling and the mother cringing).
The age of the potions book threw me off too. I immediately thought it was Snape's, because he's so good at Potions, but the age was wrong. But they did say that he'd no money, so his books would've been second-hand.
You know, we've never seen a Hogwarts graduation ceremony. There's the House Cup awarding dinner in a couple books, but never a graduation.
§ ita § - Jul 31, 2005 9:09:44 pm PDT #8800 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We didn't have a graduation ceremony -- do most UK high schools? The following autumn they did have an awards ceremony, though.