Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB
Some serious anthropomorphizing here--I think the castle itself, as a fortress of deep magic, accepted Snape as Headmaster. A lot of Snape's memories in "The Prince's Tale" take place in the castle and Hogwarts grounds. It's like the castle knew.
He used crucio on the person in the Ravenclaw conference room.... and meant it.
FUNKLE! I always forget the word. I am a Grand Mistress of the Funkle!
I like the "conference room" imagery, though: Harry Potter and the Endless Meeting.
And I was talking about “Hogwarts teachers aren’t married”. That’s a “rule” that is stupid.
Alan Rickman was just hilarious in that movie! But my favorite line in that movie, and one I've used often, is Sam Rockwell's comment when Tony Shaloub and the alien girl start kissing, "That's not right!" LOL!
And Harry DID use Cruciatis several times.
Yeah!
There's nothing that says that. The teachers' private lives are not discussed, by and large. We don't know if, say, Flitwick is married or not.
If the movie is PG-13, they’ll definitely use it! They might even use it if it’s PG, ‘parental guidance’, after all.
Exactly the point I was going to make... I seem to recall some comment from Rowling in an interview that not all the teachers live at Hogwarts (easy to commute in from Hogsmeade, after all, and not everyone eats at the Head Table). Nothing says there’s no Mr. Sprout or Mrs. Flitwick back home.
Hey if that wart Kuchinich can get a tall red head, Flitwick can sure do better!
Grindelwald stole the wand from the previous owner, remember? So he was not the “true master” of the wand and it did nothing special for him. Dumbledore did win the wand so he was its master... I think... that was the implication anyway.
I never said that was the case, I was responding to someone else.
But IF that is a “tradition”, then I don’t think it would stop
Harry from attempting to change it if he wanted to.
The occlumency thing is funky, on the one hand Snape was pretty quick to give up teaching Harry, but on the other side Harry a definite “screw you I won’t learn from you” attitude. I think Snape tried but Harry gave him so much resistance, then went poking around in Snape’s head and that was pretty much it. As for his putting down Harry in front of Dumbledore I think that ties to the whole discipline and James thing, Dumbledore was fond of letting Harry do whatever, kind of like how James got to do whatever. I think Snape wanted the James beaten out of Harry so he could be more his mother’s son.
Maybe he did just the same.... Perhaps she's a widow in the wizarding world; or a cross-world bigamist.
On a slightly lighter note I think Neville showed the most bravery of anyone. Sure Harry went to die but he knew WHY and it was a darn good reason. Neville faced the dark lord and his army just to get one clear shot at the snake. Because his friend had said it was important. That was enough reason to stand before the horde and dive into certain death. After that I thought Harry’s duel was almost anticlimactic.
But also a reminder of love, and probably the only happy moments in his life. One of the things I’ve learned recently is that hate fades faster than love. Been helping to create my 20th high school re-union and I’ve found that the classmates I was fond of then I’m still fond of now, and the classmates whose names I couldn’t even say then without cursing I actually kind of like now.
But Snape never gave him any explanation for what he was supposed to do.
Contrast the scenes where Lupin teaches Harry Expecto Patronum and the occlumency scenes.
I don’t think Snape was really a very good teacher.
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