Someone said shippers are people who identify with the other half of their OTP and want to marry the other half. I'm not sure how that works with R/S since most of the fans of the pairing are straight girls/women. Then again, from some fics you'd get the idea that Remus is actually a teen-aged girl. I quite like the idea of two lonely people finding happiness in eachother, but I'm by no means a shipper. Also, Remus being with Tonks doesn't mean his relationship with Sirius (whatever it was) wasn't important. JKR really should have seen the weird reaction of some fans beforehand, but we are talking about a woman who said she finds the shipper wars entertairning. Hope she at least got what she wanted.
I barely fathom the Ron/Hermione/Harry stuff because they're such famous characters that I know a lot about them even though I'm not a fan. The Remus/Sirius stuff is way too inside for me to fathom. Like, okay, Harry's grandfather (except he isn't) is supposedly in love with a werewolf except he's dead and except some chick with a funny name loved him first except nobody really knows that for sure and it doesn't matter because the one guy's a werewolf and the other one's dead.
It's sort of like the difference between "Will Superman end up with Lois or Lana?" and "Will Moonstone end up with Hawkeye or Baron Zemo?" One's famous and the other is obscure and kind of irrelevant.
The Easily Misunderstood Mr. Snape
anonymous
November 1 2005, 07:02:19 UTC
I admit, the whole "Dumbledore begs before killed" struck me as really out of character. Dumbledore, even back in book one, viewed death as just the next great adventure. So unless Rowlings willing to have him pull a Saruman (from Lord of the Rings), it's more likely that he decided that the best course of action would be to have Snape kill him. Which would deal with all the "who's side is he really on?" questions - at least as far as Voldemort and the Death Eaters are concerned. Which, in turn, would let Snape bring about the victory of the light
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I usually prefer to lurk, but since no one else has mentioned the vanishing cabinet, I will. In the previous book, Fred and George push one of the Slytherins, Montague, into the cabinet when he tried to deduct house points from Gryffindor. He reappeared a few days later, stuck in a toilet and utterly disoriented. It seemed to be there mainly for laughs at the time, but in light of HBP, it's ironic.
See, I think what you just told me should definitely been spelled out in HBP. Draco does a perfectly servicable job of explaining the Cabinet here, but by that point, it's too late. If I'd known about the VC earlier on, it'd be much more satisfying when Draco makes the big reveal that this was the lynchpin to his plan all along. And it's not like this book has been stingy on Fred and George, so they'd have had plenty of opportunities to reminisce about their "hilarious" antics.
The author assumes you read the previous books and silently seethed when potentially causing someone permanent brain damage was played for jokes and thus would remember the cabinet. At least when Draco brings it up.
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It's sort of like the difference between "Will Superman end up with Lois or Lana?" and "Will Moonstone end up with Hawkeye or Baron Zemo?" One's famous and the other is obscure and kind of irrelevant.
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