And YES! Sirius' death was very Hollywoodized, it seemed. "He's dead? Huh. Move along...nuthin' to see here."
And it seemed so pointless. We keep hearing how upset and angry Harry is about it, and this is the closest he's come to losing family he cares about since he's become aware of such things, but it keeps seeming like she's telling rather than showing.
On the other subject as much as I'd love
for Lily to somehow be the reason for DDs trust in Snape (and given Plei's baby, I now want the title of book 7 to be "Harry Potter and the Man who Loved Princess Ticky-box"), I can't easily reconcile his lashing out at her as a "mudblood" when she was defending him with that whole scenario. I can still see a few ways Rowling can get there, but, as I said, her comments on Snape have always worried me. On the other hand, I just don't see why a true betrayer would be such an obvious villain for 6 books, but NOT be one for 6 books, if you get my meaning. How shocking would it have been if, say, MacGonnagal had been the secret Death Eater.
HP VI -- Frankenbuddha -- I totally understood Snape lashing out at Lily. I think that, if Snape loved Lily, it was unspoken. Then she witnessed him being humiliated and worse, intervened to "save" him. (To go back to BTVS -- "Halloween" I think, Xander was standing up to Bully Larry who was clearly going to beat Xander up. Buffy intervened and "saved" Xander. He was angry at her for doing so, because the beating was temporary but his reputation as a "sissy" would last much longer.) So Snape, in his wounded pride, lashed out at Lily by calling her the nastiest thing he could think of.
P-C, some of those were
hilarious.
My favourite had to be the
t /...............
one.
Also? Have now seen several episodes of
House.
House IS Snape.
Narrator - yeah, that's the one
way I can see for it to work. But given that Snape was once a Death Eater for real, there had to have been some genuine prejudices in there somewhere. Although I can also see Snape being more interested in power and skills than with purity.
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.
Not the trade, but the mass market PB. But it does have a very nice cover.
It looks like there isn't a trade edition of
Howl's Moving Castle
in the US or in the UK.
I still don't understand Snape calling Lily a "mudblood" when he is one himself!
Well, I think if I were hanging upside down in the air, hoist by my own
spell,
with my old grey knickers exposed to the elements and the iminent possibility of said knickers vanishing, then Captain Logic would have well and truly left my tugboat. I think he's just lashing out, and it's the first insult to hand.
And it sounds like he's got plenty of reason to dislike Muggles, if his father was a git AND a Muggle.
Speaking as someone who was bullied at school, Wee!Snape totally has my sympathy in that scene. His reactions bespeak someone who's been getting this shit from these people a LOT.
His reactions bespeak someone who's been getting this shit from these people a LOT
And now he has to be all supportive of the son of one of his chief tormentors, said son showing every sign of following in Dad's footsteps. It's a wonder Snape didn't poison Harry in Potions Class Day 1. "My word, Headmaster, I have no idea how he got hold of the monkshood-bubotuber pus elixer. Stupid boy."
