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... )

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Dumbledore referred to a life debt as a "bond" and "magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable" (PoA, Ch22).

If then, life debts work something like Unbreakable Vows, what if the debtor (the person who owes his life) either harms or places his creditor in danger?

Would this have any consequences on Snape, who owed his life to James and, after ( Read more... )

Ok, I have a theory, it's not really a "new" theory , and i have a feeling that not many people will agree. But my theory is that the main characters (5 of them) from the WMPP era were in love with Lily.

James Potter
DUH.. she was his wife.

Remus Lupin
I think that Remus and Lily are very similar, even though Lily is popular, she is smart and logical ( Read more... )

When I first started writing about Remus Lupin, I did a bit of research into wolves to shed some light on what makes our favorite werewolf tick. I am not at all an expert on the subject, but wolves, like humans, are pack animals, and their psychology is not all that different from ours. So I offer this essay as an exploration of the dynamics among ( Read more... )

Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Remus Lupin, James Potter, Lily Evans; Sirius, Regulus, Bella and Narcissa Black. Some of most interesting adult characters of HP verse were the product of a decade marked by the first rise of Voldemort, and all of them made a choice in the war which shaped and defined them thereafter. Approximately at an age when ( Read more... )

How Many Admirers Had Lily Evans?This essay will explore the possibilities suggested by some of JKR’s answers at the TLC-Mugglenet interview: specifically, why Voldemort was willing to give Lily Potter a chance to escape and who, other than James, was in love with Lily. I’m working on the assumption that the answer to this second question not only ( Read more... )

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Cross-posted to Godric's Hat and fernwithyWe had a thread like this on the Quill for awhile (I'm not sure where it went off to, and I can't get to it at any rate), but as a writer, the question of how the Marauders functioned as a group interests me. I also came from a high school group with large segments still connected, so it interests me on a RL level ( Read more... )

This is one of a couple Marauders essays I've hastily written out since the upsurge of Marauders-bashing began post-OotP. I've much more to say than what I wrote in this particular essay, because this deals with two very big issues that are going around in the fandom right now: Remus/Lily, and evil!James ( Read more... )