Yesterday I was linked to a very interesting essay on Kia/
serraasuka's journal theorising
Minerva McGonagall as a Death Eater. I sort of instantly dismissed it in my mind - said something like 'the word useless is relative, rah rah rah' which I STILL do believe. I mean, almost anything is relative is it not
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"It would be just like Rowling, whose favourite author is, by the way, Jane Austen, to have that sort of juxtaposition between Snape and McGonagall."
yeah, I think that's why it's there. But, like you, I think it's going to be, if it comes out,&isn't it just left for people to notice&other people to skim over&then go "auuugh, it's just a kids book", then it'll be more like "well, snape has done this&this&this&this."
I read something good about Snape the other day, saying what a funny sort of 'hero' he is. Not sure who/where it was though.
my english teacher reckons that snape is the only "proper" character in HP!
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Like I said, I know it sounds strange but a part of me hopes that it's true. Because I thought about it, flicked through the books to the parts in which she is present... and she really... doesn't do anything most of the time. It may not mean she's a Death Eater, of course, perhaps it means that there is something she is yet to ( ... )
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hrm, unlike you - I think that apart from her loyalty to Dumbledore (and :. the order) she's mainly a civilian character, like Molly&Arthur. I do love her to bits, but I don't think she has any stunning role to come.
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I don't know about that though - she is a part of the Order, and I'd like to know what it is that she's done exactly. And I'd like to think she was smarter than canon currently makes her out to be, oh well, it's an interesting thing to think about.
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You don't think she's portrayed as smart? I can see her having done something awesome in the last war, maybe having some close relative that died also but not a lot, to be honest.
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