...and I'm about the least scholarly HP fan there is, that Snape's just riding the wind to see who'll come out on top. For some reason, he really truly wants to survive (I say "for some reason" because I'm not yet sure what gets Snape out of bed in the mornings) and he wants to make sure that the victorious side still sees him as an ally. So he's not good, he's not bad, he's just somewhat amoral. Or has some really messed up/self-serving morals.
I also agree with the theory (was it here that I read it or somewhere else?) that Dumbledore was already dying and just let Snape get the glory/blame for it.
I haven't retrogradely read the books for stuff from the sixth book, but I do kinda think JK is making things up as she goes. Are we to assume that all the baddies who didn't use wordless magic in Books 1-5 (can't remember the name of it right now) had their higher-level magic abilities removed along with their consciences? Et cetera.
Oh God I HOPE Krum comes back and kicks Ron's freckled butt to the curve...and now I need to go scrub my mind clean from THAT image...but yeah, Krum is a sexay beast and no mistake. I don't buy the movie's insistence that he's a mere meathead who just stares at Hermione while she does her homework. I don't think real!Hermione would put up with that. Then again, I don't think real!Hermione, the one who got Umbridge chucked into a herd of angry Centaurs and has a long history of covert manipulation/arbitration of justice, would ignore the value of improvements on potions like the HBP's. Half the time she's all gung-ho about the prince being a girl, half the time she's sulking because someone dares to suggest a way that's better than the textbook. Um, Hermione HERSELF is probably better than the textbook - why hasn't she been doing stuff like this all along? And here begins my campaign for Hersnapeone...I totally could picture them inventing new brews together and bickering over the advantages of adding another ashwinder egg to the mix...
Incidentally, I could care less about the books in print form. I've never read one all the way through except for HBP, and I was a bit bored then. It's the *audio books* that made me a fan. They're better than the movies - Jim Dale has more talent than the whole first two movie casts combined - and he makes JK's writing what it SHOULD be, that is to say, a really fantastic story with inflection and emotion.
Well, now that this comment is longer than your original post, maybe I'll just shut up now...:-D
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Date: 2007-06-02 12:34 am (UTC)I also agree with the theory (was it here that I read it or somewhere else?) that Dumbledore was already dying and just let Snape get the glory/blame for it.
I haven't retrogradely read the books for stuff from the sixth book, but I do kinda think JK is making things up as she goes. Are we to assume that all the baddies who didn't use wordless magic in Books 1-5 (can't remember the name of it right now) had their higher-level magic abilities removed along with their consciences? Et cetera.
Oh God I HOPE Krum comes back and kicks Ron's freckled butt to the curve...and now I need to go scrub my mind clean from THAT image...but yeah, Krum is a sexay beast and no mistake. I don't buy the movie's insistence that he's a mere meathead who just stares at Hermione while she does her homework. I don't think real!Hermione would put up with that. Then again, I don't think real!Hermione, the one who got Umbridge chucked into a herd of angry Centaurs and has a long history of covert manipulation/arbitration of justice, would ignore the value of improvements on potions like the HBP's. Half the time she's all gung-ho about the prince being a girl, half the time she's sulking because someone dares to suggest a way that's better than the textbook. Um, Hermione HERSELF is probably better than the textbook - why hasn't she been doing stuff like this all along? And here begins my campaign for Hersnapeone...I totally could picture them inventing new brews together and bickering over the advantages of adding another ashwinder egg to the mix...
Incidentally, I could care less about the books in print form. I've never read one all the way through except for HBP, and I was a bit bored then. It's the *audio books* that made me a fan. They're better than the movies - Jim Dale has more talent than the whole first two movie casts combined - and he makes JK's writing what it SHOULD be, that is to say, a really fantastic story with inflection and emotion.
Well, now that this comment is longer than your original post, maybe I'll just shut up now...:-D