By request here is my examination of Albus Dumbledore and some of his actions and possible motivations thereof.

This essay is quite long so I have broken it up into multiple parts so please bear with me. Also, these are just my interpretations of events as portrayed in the books. They are just my opinions, I respect the fact that many absolutely ( Read more... )

“You should keep an eye on Dudley. It’s probably too late for Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. I feel sorry for Dudley. I might joke about him, but I feel truly sorry for him because I see him as just as abused as Harry. Though, in probably a less obvious way. What they are doing to him is inept, really. I think children recognize that. Poor Dudley. ( Read more... )

I proudly present what's in the title ;-)

( Skirmish, excluding too much about that thingummy on the Tower, of which I've had enough ;) )

This is actually an essay I wrote a while ago but I believe it remains the only Harry/Bellatrix shipping essay in existence. I accidentally deleted it while doing a clean-up of my LJ; it has been edited and reposted since.

( Pseudo-ljcut to my journal...)

Greetings, all,

For your perusal, a Ranty McMeta about Nymphadora Tonks posted in my LJ: her personality attributes, the consistency of her characterisation in OotP and HBP, writing her as a character, and bemusement at the phenomenon of Tonks-hate in fandom.

The Deconstruction of Miss Nymphadora Tonks.

Enjoy,
Gun

as a longwinded response to reddiej's examination of Harry's scar in Half Blood Prince (in lieu of commenting there with this), and also as penance for the delay on my (4 pages and counting!) second half of the Chapter 12 Read-Through, I offer this fragment that I just so happened to have lying around, all formatted and ready to go somewhere (I originally ( Read more... )

First post in this community . . .

I wrote a mini-essay on Snape and Harry's (canon) relationship in my personal LiveJournal in this post. There are also some Snape micro-essays in the comments to that post, for those who care to peruse them, including one on his relationship with Lily.

I hope you enjoy reading them . . .

Persephone

Over the last few weeks I've been working on a much bigger article on the machinations of Dumbledore, and a question occurred to me, what happened between the end of GOF and the beginning of OOTP to Sirius? Somehow Sirius goes from hiding out, but free, to trapped in a house that seems designed to drive him insane. How is it that that happens? ( Read more... )

This is my first time posting here!

Here's an essay about how each of the last two books has a theme, a recurring idea that ties together Harry's emotional progression, the overall plot and the actions of the supporting cast, and the tone of the books themselves. Follow the fake cut:

( Themes in Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince )

Snape's actions at the end of book five have been used by both sides in the good!Snape/evil!Snape debate. The good!Snapists say that Snape's actions (namely, telling the Order that Harry had run off to the Department of Mysteries) thwarted Voldemort and saved Harry's life. Thus, Snape must be good. The evil!Snapists, however, note that a goodly ( Read more... )