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Fantastic Potions and How They Helped Albus Dumbledore in HBP

Aug 06, 2006 02:54

Reconciling the death of Albus Dumbledore with Severus Snape's loyalty to him.

On Aug 12, I revised and vastly expanded the essay and changed the title to “Fantastic Potions and How They Helped Albus Dumbledore during HBP”; it was reworked to include excellent comments from readers, to fill in areas that were unclear, to include my latest ideas ( Read more... )

stoppered death, felix felicis, snape, dumbledore, avada kedavra

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Re: stopper? felicitys_mind August 6 2006, 19:56:15 UTC

I'm repeating myself since someone already voiced this objection ( ... )

Re: stopper? meep August 6 2006, 20:30:13 UTC

I know Snape wasn't referring to stopping death, but I think one can think of the "stopper" as "containing" death... stoppering it up so it does not progress farther. I don't think he means antidotes, per se, which would =reverse= death, but something that would freeze what had occurred...

(zombie Dumbledore...ok, maybe not)

Re: stopper? beyond_pale August 6 2006, 20:00:39 UTC

Yeay team "put a cork in it!"

Re: stopper? beyond_pale August 6 2006, 20:14:16 UTC

wow, after obsessing ten minutes over your astute "waxing potic" observation, I bring onto the floor Sanpe's consistently masterful use of language and the tightrope he treads. I'm developing this astonishing parallel between his first speech to the Harry-cohort Potions and Defense classes.

He has to keep happy two sets of masters, and two sets of child-spies. Just as his "unfixed, indestructable" satisfied both Hermione and, presumably, the Slytherins in the class, his abstract use of stopper was likely intentionally highly open-to-interpretations in an effort to promise two things to two audiences. Me likey this.

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