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[Aug. 9th, 2009|10:52 am] |
Guys, I cannot stop reading the ever-so-kindly-named "Dual Interpretations" thread.
Vaudree: All that indicates is that she heard the Marauder’s side of the story (either directly from them or from someone else) since the last time she talked to Snape. So we are in the same place where Snape could have entertained the theory concerning Lupin being a werewolf before or after he went down there.
Wendall: I don't really understand your theory about Snape only starting to theorise about Lupin being a werewolf after the whomping willow incident. He knew Lupin was a werewolf after this, it wasn't just a theory. He saw Lupin going in, he saw a werewolf in the shrieking shack, Dumbledore made him promise not to tell anybody that Lupin was a werewolf.
Vaudree: I never said that WickedBoy cannot come up with a theory - there is still the Scottish book. I don’t know whether Snape came up with his Lupin is a werewolf theory before or after the Shack Attack – the book doesn’t say. To say one way or the other is to make a theory – to make a prediction – as to what the Scottish book will reveal. Six months after the Scottish Book, discussion of the series will be truly over. [whining about Jo writing next-gen books]
It's just so pointless and stupid, yet I still can't stop! Here, I'll give you a little bit more of a post of Vaudree's.
Never really understood why Ron felt more threatened by Cormac than by Neville – what do you think JKR was trying to show with that?
Cormac went out for Ron's place on the team and actively went after Hermione. Neville liked Herbology. Why do you think he felt more threatened by the former?
can’t see HBP until it goes to Video but my son said that the movie was completely different than the book but Steven Van Ark says that basically they are the same. |
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[May. 8th, 2009|05:13 pm] |
I really ought to be writing any one of the four papers I have due next week instead of reading very old meta, but it was so wonderful to come across this old gem:
See, I'm a ceremonial magician, and I don't believe in "Dark Magick". Magick is good or evil in RL or in fantasy novels depending on what you do with it. [...]
This is why, in HoIF, [Dumbledore] writes off Juliana. Because she will never, ever be loyal to him even though she wants to do good and serves Tom out of a sincere belief that he is good.
And this is why, in canon, he writes off the entire house of Slytherin except Snape, and does nothing to change their view of the world. Because no matter whether they are good or evil in the end, they will never be his creatures.
And I loathe him for that.
And I think this is evil. No matter whether his ultimate cause is good or not.
As a true-sorted Slytherin, I'm not going to say that the ends never justify the means, but what I will say is that if the means you have to use to get the end destroy or invalidate the end you are trying to reach, your priorities and your cost-benefit ratio are ultimately screwy. |
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