So, a couple of questions I wanted to toss out about the Heads of Houses ( Read more... )

Sorry, the post was too long and I had to split it.
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I posted this on Snapedom in 2008 or so; my apologies to those who have already read it.

A comparison of Pride and Prejudice and JKR’s romances between James/ Lily and Severus/Lily.
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`“… but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Atticus Finch

“Crime… befouling the castle… suggested sentence… ”
“I want to see some punishment!”  Argus Filch

“… it is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn,”  Firenze

Let’s take a look at Harry’s first detention and the lessons that it taught him, shall we?

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This started as a response to the thread in sunnyskywalker’s last post, talking about the significance of “Draco’s tattling to Argus rather than to Severus.”  Talk about pennies dropping ( Read more... )

“Any woman can weep without tears, and most can heal with their hands.  It depends on the wound.” Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

If there is anything certain about the Potterverse, it is that there is an absolute gulf between Us and Them.  There are Muggles and their opposites:  Witches and Wizards.

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This was inspired by oryx_leucoryx’s reply to condwiramurs’s post “I would sell out the nation”; oryx was trying and not succeeding very well in fitting this new hypothesis, that the intrinsic crime of the Death Eaters was their stated intention to overturn Secrecy, with Albus and Tom’s conversation when Tom dropped by Hogwarts to ask for a job ( Read more... )

I just re-read what Rita wrote after reproducing Albus’s charming letter to his lover.  And it’s instructive, as Rita always is.  Here she is, in all her audience-wooing. muckraking glory:

“Astonished and appalled though his many admirers will be, this letter constitutes proof that Albus Dumbledore once dreamed of overthrowing the Statute of ( Read more... )

One of the more interesting points about Minerva’s rather harsh punishment of Harry, Hermione, and Neville in their first year is that she was punishing them for the wrong thing. 
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Another spark struck from Condwiramurs’  “Indestructable” series.  I started this, then got distracted by fresh posts and had to address them first.  This was sparked by Part II, in which she meditated on Galadriel’s gift to Frodo:  a light in dark places. And on the fact that only Gollum’s inner struggle, his better self against his worst, had him ( Read more... )