post-hbp-reread
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karriezaiOkay, so, the HBP-reread ramblings promised yesterday. After the whole school shebang yesterday I really didn’t feel like it…
Firstly, Snape. I probably don’t have any more reasons than anyone else to believe he’s still a good guy… but besides little canon hints that jumped out at me on reread, I just have a gut feeling that he isn’t evil. It seems to me that JKR would be going against the theme she’s established in her books if she made Snape truly evil.
I think that for me one of the biggest hints that Snape is truly Dumbledore’s, not Voldemort’s, is the argument in the woods. All I can say is that if Snape was Voldemort’s, he wouldn’t be arguing with Dumbledore about his duties, I think. He would do what Voldemort told him to do. I don’t think I can explain this properly, but I’m sure I can’t be the only one feeling the same about this argument.
Personally, I think that at least part of Snape’s turn from Death Eater to Order member has to do with Lily. I think he was in love with her, or at least infatuated with her. I would think that there’s more to it than that… but it’s the feeling I get from reading this, particularly with Dumbledore mentioning something about Snape not wanting James and Lily to be killed—Harry scoffed at it later because Snape hated James, but all he could say about Lily was that Snape called her a ‘Mudbood’. Seems relatively weak seeing as we’ve seen plenty of evidence of Snape’s hatred for James, but very little concerning him and Lily. Lily did, after all, show him a lot of compassion as far as Harry saw in the Pensieve.
Um, yes, that’s all for Snape. Anything else I could say would be further repetition of things dozens of other people have thoroughly abused already.
The main thing that jumped out at me while reading that I feel might be worth digging into is Ollivander’s wands. It’s already been discussed that Ollivander’s disappearance was odd and that maybe Rowena’s item was a wand… and perhaps Ollivander was hiding it away.
Forgive me if someone else has already noted this, but I haven’t seen it: Neville says that his wand may well have been the last one that Ollivander sold, because he disappeared the next day. The way JKR drops small details that become important later, like the locket in 12 Grimmauld Place (which I fully believe is Slytherin’s locket), makes this very suspicious to me. Even if Rowena’s item wasn’t a wand, I think there’s something important to be found here, especially considering that Neville could have been in Harry’s place if events had unfolded differently.
I have a feeling I’m three steps behind on this and someone else has already gone into it far more thoroughly than I could -___-; So yeah. That’s all.
Firstly, Snape. I probably don’t have any more reasons than anyone else to believe he’s still a good guy… but besides little canon hints that jumped out at me on reread, I just have a gut feeling that he isn’t evil. It seems to me that JKR would be going against the theme she’s established in her books if she made Snape truly evil.
I think that for me one of the biggest hints that Snape is truly Dumbledore’s, not Voldemort’s, is the argument in the woods. All I can say is that if Snape was Voldemort’s, he wouldn’t be arguing with Dumbledore about his duties, I think. He would do what Voldemort told him to do. I don’t think I can explain this properly, but I’m sure I can’t be the only one feeling the same about this argument.
Personally, I think that at least part of Snape’s turn from Death Eater to Order member has to do with Lily. I think he was in love with her, or at least infatuated with her. I would think that there’s more to it than that… but it’s the feeling I get from reading this, particularly with Dumbledore mentioning something about Snape not wanting James and Lily to be killed—Harry scoffed at it later because Snape hated James, but all he could say about Lily was that Snape called her a ‘Mudbood’. Seems relatively weak seeing as we’ve seen plenty of evidence of Snape’s hatred for James, but very little concerning him and Lily. Lily did, after all, show him a lot of compassion as far as Harry saw in the Pensieve.
Um, yes, that’s all for Snape. Anything else I could say would be further repetition of things dozens of other people have thoroughly abused already.
The main thing that jumped out at me while reading that I feel might be worth digging into is Ollivander’s wands. It’s already been discussed that Ollivander’s disappearance was odd and that maybe Rowena’s item was a wand… and perhaps Ollivander was hiding it away.
Forgive me if someone else has already noted this, but I haven’t seen it: Neville says that his wand may well have been the last one that Ollivander sold, because he disappeared the next day. The way JKR drops small details that become important later, like the locket in 12 Grimmauld Place (which I fully believe is Slytherin’s locket), makes this very suspicious to me. Even if Rowena’s item wasn’t a wand, I think there’s something important to be found here, especially considering that Neville could have been in Harry’s place if events had unfolded differently.
I have a feeling I’m three steps behind on this and someone else has already gone into it far more thoroughly than I could -___-; So yeah. That’s all.
