harry potter
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rmNo, I've not finished it yet, I'm just unable to contain myself on a variety of subjects.
I feel so smug.
Because yes, while the book provides material for the Lily/Severus theory, it's not cannon, thank god.
Nor has he been revealed to be a vampire.
And I love that he has some weird expertise in a subject that isn't even taught at Hogwarts. Quel surprise.
Now, as to the "Snape's Worst Memory" chapter....
At first, I was like "fuck you! that can't no way be his worst memory. FUCK YOU!"
And then I came to several realizations.
The first, is that Harry doesn't view the complete memory, and is in fact interrupted by Snape just as it's about to get _really_ ugly. Rowling tends to be pretty deliberate about the scenes and sentences she doesn't finish, and I really think this is supposed to make us think that whatever else happened that day was definitely more fucked up after the girls cleared out.
Second, Snape is mentioned repeatedly as removing several strands of memory -- so what are the other two? My bets? The day he joined the Death Eaters and the day he went begging to Dumbledore.
Third, the jar of cockroaches that explodes over Harry's head? Perhaps I've read too much fanfiction (no, correct that, I know I have), but my first though wasn't that Snape was chucking the jar at him, but that it was a bad moment of uncontrolled wandless magic on his part.
And finally, JKR is so fucking with the fandom. I'm sorry, but she has to have read some of this shit. Because you can't tell me the woman wasn't chuckling with mad and spiteful glee as she wrote "Harry's heart began to pump very fast indeed. Defense against external penetration?"
I feel so smug.
Because yes, while the book provides material for the Lily/Severus theory, it's not cannon, thank god.
Nor has he been revealed to be a vampire.
And I love that he has some weird expertise in a subject that isn't even taught at Hogwarts. Quel surprise.
Now, as to the "Snape's Worst Memory" chapter....
At first, I was like "fuck you! that can't no way be his worst memory. FUCK YOU!"
And then I came to several realizations.
The first, is that Harry doesn't view the complete memory, and is in fact interrupted by Snape just as it's about to get _really_ ugly. Rowling tends to be pretty deliberate about the scenes and sentences she doesn't finish, and I really think this is supposed to make us think that whatever else happened that day was definitely more fucked up after the girls cleared out.
Second, Snape is mentioned repeatedly as removing several strands of memory -- so what are the other two? My bets? The day he joined the Death Eaters and the day he went begging to Dumbledore.
Third, the jar of cockroaches that explodes over Harry's head? Perhaps I've read too much fanfiction (no, correct that, I know I have), but my first though wasn't that Snape was chucking the jar at him, but that it was a bad moment of uncontrolled wandless magic on his part.
And finally, JKR is so fucking with the fandom. I'm sorry, but she has to have read some of this shit. Because you can't tell me the woman wasn't chuckling with mad and spiteful glee as she wrote "Harry's heart began to pump very fast indeed. Defense against external penetration?"
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Date: 2003-06-23 09:33 pm (UTC)And..yeah. I was thinking that she must have at least dabbled in fanfic reading.
(I have little of substance to add - just finished the book, am still thinking about it..)
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Date: 2003-06-23 09:41 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-23 10:01 pm (UTC)I was pleasantly shocked to see his past and character being more explored.
..I can't really articulate it right now. :/
And to see both James and Harry as being...not quite perfect...I may have to reread the novel really darn soon.
(Though I need to go reread book 4 again, as it seems to me right now that OotP is very different from the previous novels, and that might just be distance talking.)