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Posted on 06/17/2004 7:09:03 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Can Lupin come teach me?
Thanks. Wife is in Slovakia on a missions trip with the choir.
Oh? Are you referring to Snape here, or someone totally different?
Snape, mostly. I wanna hear his full biography.
Hmm... you'd probably have to defeat a horde of rabid Remus-fans for that privilege. He's not bad, I'll admit, but Sirius... mmmm...
Oh, and thought I'd clarify that it's not really the older Sirius, in the books, that I like so much as the younger one. There's that one scene in Phoenix - I know they're jerks - and then, anyone with a flying motorcycle is cool.
Hmmm, didn't think of adding "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"--hmmm. . .
I was tending towards "Ranma", too, though I think the magic might also make for interesting martial arts in a "Kenshin" context. For "Ranma", I'm thinking that those pools which cause everyone to transform are really gates linked to Hogwarts and the animaguses, which is why they cause people to transform. Then Voldemort disguises himself by transforming himself and invades Ranma's world, so Harry has to go stop him. But Voldemort of course ends up falling in love with Ranma's female form, which leads to much silliness. . .
PS: Just decided Ranma's teacher is a panda animagus :)
Sorry, that's too bizarre even for me. Ugh.
Figgers. They've both got that "Aragorn Desperately Needs a Shower" thing going...
Um, yeah, they do. Not that that means anything... sure...
But Aragorn doesn't clean up well, you know.
Hmm, then I could have Draco Malfoy fall into the pool and get turned into something--I'm thinking a frog. . .
Yes, that is bizarre! Um--how about solo adventures of Nearly Headless Nick? Then John Cleese could combine HP with Monty Python skits. . .
There's that one scene in Phoenix - I know they're jerks
Yeah, they were. And I'm still wondering if we're going to hear more about the in-between years, 'cause right now...well, that didn't portray any of them in a very good light. Harry's Dad REALLY came off badly, and I feel like Sirius' "boys will be boys" kinda explanation fell short of a good excuse. Granted, I wish Remus were more forceful at times (he didn't rebuke them, for one), but at least he recognized he hadn't done what he should have done.
Nearly Headless Nick: "It's only a flesh wound..."
ROFL! Hey, that's a thought: Nearly Headless Nick could be the ghost of the Black Knight :)
"OK, some spoilers included here, so..."
Not listening! :)
Two things you might want to consider: one is that it's Snape's memory. If you saw it from, say, Remus's memory, it could look a little different. And Snape may be slightly sympathetic, but he was an evil little git - he hung out with future Death Eaters, he apparently was well into the Dark Arts.
The other is that the incident involving Snape almost getting eaten is in the future at that point, and a lot of us think that incident caused at least some of the Marauders to do some serious growing up. Not Sirius, probably. He would have taken longer but if that whole Azkaban thing hadn't happened, might have become quite a decent human being.
Oh, and James was rather showing off there. He doesn't come off well, no.
"Response in spoiler-text:"
I'm being tempted. . .Must--not--read--spoiler--text. . .Expecto patronum!
I'm not saying Snape was a nice, pleasant little boy. And I don't think he'll ever be a jolly fun character - he specializes in being a thoroughly unpleasant git. He just loovvves to find people's sensitive spots and dig. But you do have to feel for him just a bit...he obviously had a rotten childhood and may have gotten sucked into the Dark Arts because it made him feel important.
I hadn't thought about the part where they had to rescue him being still in the future, though. I guess that gives them some growing up time. I still think James was (at that time) an arrogant bully who deserved a comeuppance.
Just read the books...
They're fairly mild spoilers, really...character related rather than plot related. But...you'll get there soon enough.
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