Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
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.
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.
Connie! Write HP Fanfic, I would totally read it.
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.
...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.
Very good point Kathy. Still? Careless.
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.
We didn't have a graduation ceremony -- do most UK high schools? The following autumn they did have an awards ceremony, though.
Hec, is your copy of Howl's Moving Castle by any chance a trade paperback? I've found hardcover available online and mass market PB locally, but I'm looking for a trade, if I can find it.
We didn't have a graduation ceremony -- do most UK high schools?
I've never heard of one. Public (which means private, 'murricans) Schools mostly have some kind of prize day, but at state school you just set off the fire alarm after your last exam and go to the pub.