Chapter Thirty Three--The Prince's Tale

[erastes]

This endeavour having caused Erastes to have a nervous breakdown, she’s had to take herself off to a remedial writing course where she is being soothed with the cool application of the proper use of colons and gentle repetition of sentence structure until she recovers.

Her spork therefore will be conducted by our old friends The Random Death Eaters (1 and

Comments

[minkhollow]

::applauds the Random Death Eaters:: Brilliant job. (I also love how two random Team Evil guys are the BEST INFORMED OF ANYONE about Muggle culture. XD)
Also, all this 'high, cold voice' nonsense has finally alerted me to JKR's dream casting for old MoldyShorts: Truman Capote.

[jodel_from_aol]

What totally floors me is that we are actually expected to accept this to be the *same* Snape as the mysterious "Half-Blood Prince" of the potions book. The two supposedly are occupying exactly the same space and time.

Sorry, this does not compute. The Prince of HBP was the über!Snape, this one is the terminally clueless Emo!Snape and they are *not* the same person at all. We've got yet another case of disposable personality transplants.

Most of the fans would have happily kept the über!Snape, I cannot blame them, but I would have been perfectly satisfied to keep the canon!Snape of books 1-4. Rowling, however, killed him and replaced him with a sockpuppet.

[duniazade]

Canon!Snape from books 1-4 was just perfect. Über-Snape was a bit too much, but it was fun. Terminally clueless Emo!Snape is nauseating, and indeed incompatible with the previous ones.

I suspect JKR equates "realism" with "meaningless" and "pointless". If it doesn't make any sense, then it's real.

[erastes]

It's the same the whole way through the saga, you could do a table on every character from Harry to Snape (with the possible exception of DD) and mark them as, not as character progressions, but as completely different people! Look at Remus for gawd's sake!

[jodel_from_aol]

Not through the *whole* saga, I think. I really do not see any discernable shifts of personality *anywhere* in books 1-4. Shifts of information or understanding, yes, perhaps, but the characterization is highly consistent. Some characters are Johnny One-Note, but it is always the *same* note.

With the *possible* exception of Sirius Black who went from being half deranged in PoA to channeling a fairly convincing (if later revealed as hypocritical) "wise counselor" mode in GoF. But that shift was still more plausible than not since he'd been taking a tropical rest cure for the past 6 months or so.

It wasn't until OotP that we suddenly had at least a couple of personality transplants per book. And everyone had their memory wiped at the opening of each book to keep them all starting from the same place every time.

[erastes]

*giggles* yes! Everyone is fighting, dying or consoling each other and Harry legs it to his boyfriend's room to have a good old MOPE. Perfect, and so In Character!

:)

[jodel_from_aol]

That's why none of the good guys shot to kill in the last battle. They thought they were in a Disney battle where everyone gets filthy and no one gets hurt.

The only person on the "good" side who seems to have managed to kill anyone in the final battle was Molly. Even Tom managed to off himself.

[shyfoxling]

Lance: Brave Sir Harry!

Chuck: *sings* He is packing it in and packing it up, And sneaking away and buggering off, he's going upstairs, to have a big mope...

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

*clings desperately in the corner to some completely made-up version of Lily that it isn't vaguely nauseating to think of Severus as devoting himself to, thus making it actually sad that they didn't work it out*

[erastes]

What I enjoyed hugely was (one of the very few things) that he still loathed and despised Harry despite him being Lily's son.

Glad to make you laugh!

[shyfoxling]

Nope. Forget it, she was a c*nt.

Whoa, relax. You are preaching to the choir. I am hip to snapedom. ;) That's why I said "some totally made-up version of Lily". My wistful, foolish self dwells in an AU. :)