HBP (with spoilers)

[rabidsamfan]

There are so many things going through my head right now...

Snape is still right on the border... You can't quite decide that he's evil. Alan Rickman is laughing with cruel delight somewhere...

There are a lot of young actors in Britain reading this and thinking, "I've got to kiss who?"

There's a great comment here which points out that the books are in identifiable genres... Now I have to go read again.

Fairy tale

Horror/mystery

Adventure

Victorian novel

Tragedy

Bildungsroman

Quest


Oddly enough, after looking at the deluxe cover on Scholastic the other day, I guessed that Dumbledore and Harry would be traveling in a memory together. And I'd guessed a while ago that the battered Potions book on the cover of ther British adult version was Snape's. (It doesn't matter when the book was printed, Harry you dolt! Snape probably had it at second or third hand.) So I'm feeling quite smug tonight. Exhausted, but smug...


More tomorrow...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Snape makes me think of stories I hear of either deep undercover cops or deep undercover informers. You can't just "show up" with the bad guys. You have to convince. And sometimes it gets so overwhelming that the line becomes thinner and thinner and then begins to blur so badly that the one undercover doesn't even know for himself where he stands. And let's face it. Snape just disposed of the only rock he could be sure to cling to. Now he has nothing on either side. Good God.

What did Dumbledore say to Harry at one point? It's the choices we make in life that define who we are. (Parapharsed.) I think that Snape still has the *big* choice still in front of him. Even now. Even if he doesn't think he does have a choice. And I'm willing to bet that he feels like he's never had a choice.

Oddly enough, I now doubt Snape the most, but I also have the most hope for him.

Enough wittering.

R- (PS. I know who R.A.B. is!)

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