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Post by marygracerich on Jan 22, 2022 21:25:54 GMT -6
I don't see how Snape would be after DADA unless he wanted to be unemployed rather suddenly. That or dead. I recently saw a fan theory that he wanted it because he knew it was going to be Harry's most important class and he wanted to make sure it was taught to him properly. Not sure I buy it. To paraphrase Ron in HBP (movie): It's a creepy class; he's a creepy bloke. I heard that to. There is a book that does a deep dive into Snape and the author talks about that in the book. I think she uses things like when Snape stepped in to teach DADA when Lupin is ill as an example of when he would step in to teach the class. She also sites him choosing to do the dueling club knowing that Lockhart is an idiot so that the kids learn something. The better choice would have been flitwick because he is a dueling champion. But Snape volunteers for it. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:26:00 GMT -6
Harry has a lot of bad luck at Quidditch matches. I think I'd take it as a sign.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:27:00 GMT -6
Hermione quickly changes from "you're going to get us expelled" to "let's set a teacher on fire"
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Post by marygracerich on Jan 22, 2022 21:27:10 GMT -6
Hermione is twisted. She sets a teacher on fire. She is only 12. 😂
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Post by enchanted on Jan 22, 2022 21:28:16 GMT -6
Hermione is twisted. She sets a teacher on fire. She is only 12. 😂 It's a good thing she's on the good side, because otherwise, Voldemort would win. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:28:19 GMT -6
Hermione is twisted. She sets a teacher on fire. She is only 12. 😂 She's pretty vindictive. We see it over and over with her. I think she'd make a great Slytherin if she wasn't a Muggleborn. |
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Post by marygracerich on Jan 22, 2022 21:28:29 GMT -6
Harry is so little in comparison to the others. Especially the Slytherins. The Gryffindors are a much younger team, all things considered. Like Katie Bell is a second year. Angelina, Alicia, and the Weasley Twins are third years. Wood is the oldest at a 5th year. Especially since canonically he is small for his age because he isn’t properly fed. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:29:08 GMT -6
Hermione is twisted. She sets a teacher on fire. She is only 12. 😂 It's a good thing she's on the good side, because otherwise, Voldemort would win. Have definitely read some fics with that twist. Evil Hermione isn't that different from good Hermione. |
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Post by marygracerich on Jan 22, 2022 21:29:30 GMT -6
Hermione is twisted. She sets a teacher on fire. She is only 12. 😂 She's pretty vindictive. We see it over and over with her. I think she'd make a great Slytherin if she wasn't a Muggleborn. Agreed. She puts a woman in a jar for MONTHS. Granted, skeeter deserved it but still it was twisted. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:30:16 GMT -6
She's pretty vindictive. We see it over and over with her. I think she'd make a great Slytherin if she wasn't a Muggleborn. Agreed. She puts a woman in a jar for MONTHS. Granted, skeeter deserved it but still it was twisted. Plus the jinx she puts on the DA list. I'm pretty sure Marietta Edgecomb is permanently scarred from that. |
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Post by marygracerich on Jan 22, 2022 21:30:45 GMT -6
Agreed. She puts a woman in a jar for MONTHS. Granted, skeeter deserved it but still it was twisted. Plus the jinx she puts on the DA list. I'm pretty sure Marietta Edgecomb is permanently scarred from that. Yup. She has permanently disfigured someone. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:31:07 GMT -6
I recently saw a fan theory that he wanted it because he knew it was going to be Harry's most important class and he wanted to make sure it was taught to him properly. Not sure I buy it. To paraphrase Ron in HBP (movie): It's a creepy class; he's a creepy bloke. People want Snape to be better than he was. So, so badly they want it. Rowling thinks he's better than he was. That's part of the problem. She tries so desperately to make him a good guy. It just doesn't hit well. |
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Post by enchanted on Jan 22, 2022 21:31:17 GMT -6
@icedtea They really do.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:32:30 GMT -6
Poor Harry. The first presents he ever remembers getting.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:34:34 GMT -6
I'm sure there are many papers out there about how people become obsessed with shit men like Snape, but I want to also write one. I think casting has a great deal to do with it too. Alan Rickman's cadence and delivery is the kind that wills end shivers down your spine. And Rickman's a good guy, so people think of him and Snape as the same, when they are very much not. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:35:00 GMT -6
Harry has some real bad luck. The first book he picks up is one that screams.
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Post by marygracerich on Jan 22, 2022 21:35:23 GMT -6
Actually Filch, he can hide.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:35:59 GMT -6
Harry has some real bad luck. The first book he picks up is one that screams. Hogwarts, at its heart, is a really scary haunted house. And yet we all want to go there. |
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Post by enchanted on Jan 22, 2022 21:36:58 GMT -6
Rickman might have been a good guy, but he plays shit men so well.
Snape, Sheriff of Nottingham, Hans Gruber, Harry (Love Actually).
Still mad at him for making Professor Trelawney cry in that last one.
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Post by marygracerich on Jan 22, 2022 21:37:32 GMT -6
Harry has some real bad luck. The first book he picks up is one that screams. Hogwarts, at its heart, is a really scary haunted house. It’s like the least safe place ever. Kids are injured, unsupervised and nearly die on the regular. The podcast Goblet of Wine jokes all the time about the death quota they must have at hogwarts each year. A certain percentage of students have to die every year. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:39:14 GMT -6
I know Dumbledore put the mirror there hoping Harry would go exploring with the cloak. I bet he was hiding all the days Harry visits to make sure he got the full effect and to manipulate him a bit more.
Why else would such a potentially dangerous and powerful magical artifact just be hanging in an empty room?
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Post by marygracerich on Jan 22, 2022 21:39:25 GMT -6
Ok friends I don’t want to do this but I don’t know how much longer I am going to last. I think I need to go to bed. It’s 10:40 here and I have been up since 6:30. I really want to finish watching because I love it but I am exhausted.
I hope you all enjoy it! I will catch up on the thread tomorrow.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:39:53 GMT -6
Harry has never seen his parents. This is what he imagines they would look like if they were with him now. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:42:31 GMT -6
I think Richard Harris was a much better Dumbledore. He has the doddering old fool act down well, as well as the more soft spoken bits. It's such a shame that we lost him before the end of the series.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:43:32 GMT -6
Harry has never seen his parents. This is what he imagines they would look like if they were with him now. I reject it, athn, I reject it. Reject it all you want. I will live in my truth. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:45:25 GMT -6
Hagrid is way too naive.
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Post by enchanted on Jan 22, 2022 21:47:15 GMT -6
I think Richard Harris was a much better Dumbledore. He has the doddering old fool act down well, as well as the more soft spoken bits. It's such a shame that we lost him before the end of the series. Is a confession that I like both Dumbledore actors (aside from "calmly" asking about the Goblet of Fire)? I don't know that Harris could have portrayed the strength needed in the later movies. ETA: The reason for the recast is sad. |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:47:20 GMT -6
Love the smug look on Malfoy's face. And then to see it fall off it.
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:48:39 GMT -6
I think Richard Harris was a much better Dumbledore. He has the doddering old fool act down well, as well as the more soft spoken bits. It's such a shame that we lost him before the end of the series. Is a confession that I like both Dumbledore actors (aside from "calmly" asking about the Goblet of Fire)? I don't know that Harris could have portrayed the strength needed in the later movies. Probably. Also, this:  |
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Post by athn64 on Jan 22, 2022 21:51:10 GMT -6
I know he's evil, but I feel like I'd be team Lucius in thinking Dumbledore is a terrible headmaster. Let's send first years into the woods with monsters and something that is killing unicorns, which has to be exceedingly evil.
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