Iconography

[harmony_bites]

Title: Iconography
Challenge: Bookmark challenge
Team: The Order
Words: 100
Rating: PG
Characters: Hermione, Severus, Ron, Harry, Skeeter
Note: bambu345 posted a lovely drabble, Memento. Having read it, I told her that I now saw it as in the same mental universe as my drabble Losing Your Place-that in my mind Hermione next found Snape’s photograph. Bambu

Comments

[kribu]

Oh, I liked this... and the mention of Rita Skeeter. *grins*

I think Snape just didn't want to continue existing.

*sniffles*

That's just so sad to think of.

[harmony_bites]

It's my personal theory as to why no portrait (well, in the limited universes where Snape dies, cuz he's alive dammit!).

Cuz desertion of post? ::fumes::

Thanks for the comment!

[kribu]

That "reason" - desertion of post - quite made me fume too.

I mean - what was he supposed to have done then, at that point? Hex McGonagall and Flitwick so he could hang around? Pour out all his secrets to them, when the time was obviously not right (and not knowing if Harry was there or not)?

Argh. Especially in the light of Dumbledore's fabled escape in OotP, which was apparently amazing and heroic and so on, instead of being considered deserting the post... grrr.

[harmony_bites]

Well, also, when Dumbledore died, he did so as a result of an out-of-Hogwarts trip. And God, imo Dumbledore long deserted his post. It's obvious to me so many of his appointments were political, not educational (Grubbly-Plank being so much better than Hagrid and so on) and his favoritism to Gryffindor reeked.

And whenever I think of Snape in that post, trying to minimize the damage from the like of the Carrows, hated by the staff that had been his only friends, taking orders from a portrait... ::shudders:: I don't even want to think about it. No one had a more harrowing, heartbreaking tenure as Headmaster, up to the last words said to him in that office--"Coward."

Yeah, you unleased a rant again. But...

::fumes::

I need more "Enchanted" now to cheer me up.

[septentrion1970]

Ah, but he's waiting for her.

[harmony_bites]

::nods:: I'm glad Bambu let us know.

[redwine333]

Love it, I am so glad you did justice to the 'deserting his post' tosh, I love Hermoine's gentle regard...sigh :)

[harmony_bites]

I do hate that remark of Rowlings, but hey, more grist for our mill.

Thanks for the comment!

[silburygirl]

When that came out in the Prophet, Ron and I had to restrain Harry from paying Skeeter a visit.

Oh, they should have let him. Although I suppose an incarcerated hero isn't much good.

[harmony_bites]

Harry has a habit of glomming onto parental figures--even very flawed ones. He named his children after James, Lily, Albus, Severus (I'm sure Sirius or Arthur for next boy, Molly for next girl)

Harry already seemed to be championing Severus' memory from the minute he stepped out of the Pensieve. I wouldn't want to be in Skeeter's shoes next they met...

But yeah, it would have been fun...

Thanks for the comment!

[silburygirl]

(I'm sure Sirius or Arthur for next boy, Molly for next girl)

*shudders* There's something oedipal about the whole thing. Won't somebody please think of the children?

JKR obviously didn't have a name that elicited teasing.

[harmony_bites]

Albus Severus Potter...(ASP)

With a name like that, destined for Slytherin and to be the next Dark Lord...

(Unless he has more Snape than Dumbledore in him)

[bambu345]

::grins like mad::

Oh, this is a beautiful bridge ... just beautiful.

I love that she pilfered the photograph, and then kept it secret, at such a young age. I really could see her doing this.

[harmony_bites]

Given how Ron went postal over a kiss that might have never been two years old--well, not seeing her sharing.

And after all those years--she'd know the one place he'd never nose about is a book...

[bambu345]

I don't think she'd realize that she wasn't in love with Ron for a very long time. She loves Ron, no question, but only when their kids are at school would she see it. And that's when I think her very serious fascination with Snape would take root.

You're quite right. Ron would never look in one of her books.

[harmony_bites]

I could see it taking root earlier, but I agree she wouldn't see it for what it is till much later. If she had, hard to see her as having married Ron at all.