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.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Frankenbuddha - Aug 01, 2005 7:04:33 am PDT #8842 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
DavidS - Aug 01, 2005 7:20:10 am PDT #8843 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
sumi - Aug 01, 2005 7:29:06 am PDT #8844 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Aims - Aug 01, 2005 7:33:08 am PDT #8845 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I still don't understand Snape calling Lily a "mudblood" when he is one himself!
Fay - Aug 01, 2005 7:43:01 am PDT #8846 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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.
Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2005 7:45:57 am PDT #8847 of 10002
brillig
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."
Aims - Aug 01, 2005 7:49:08 am PDT #8848 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
said son showing every sign of following in Dad's footsteps.
How so? I'm curious because I've never seen that much of James in Harry, aside from looks and what Snape infers.
Polter-Cow - Aug 01, 2005 7:49:12 am PDT #8849 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't think Kate visits Bitches, and I'm a-scared of Natter, so congratulations, Kate!!
Kate P. - Aug 01, 2005 7:58:31 am PDT #8850 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Hey, thanks! And good call; I'm hardly around either Natter or Bitches these days, and Literary seems a pretty appropriate place for this.
Jeff Mejia - Aug 01, 2005 8:00:51 am PDT #8851 of 10002
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
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).
That is actually not in the Pensieve memory - it was a memory that Harry picked up from Snape when he (for the only time) fought back during an Occlumency lesson. The Pensieve memory was all one continuous memory.
One point I've stumbled across in my re-reading - In Goblet of Fire, it was stated that Snape became a spy for Dumbeldore before Voldemort's downfall. So theories that Snape's "change of heart" is due to his (unrequited) love for Lily and his regret for causing her death rests on shakier ground.