notes to self: things to muse on re HBP
HBP finally came back in at the library, so i'm re reading that as well. lol. re reading for me is a bit obsessive. back and forth through the book a few times before i stop hyperfocusing.
so i can see that dumbledore knew his time was coming.
he tells off the dursleys. ( i bet he's wanted to say that ever since harry came to hogwarts )
he makes a point of telling harry how remarkable he is, how much he is valued (by dumbledore).
he gets aggitated (!?!?) until he is confident that harry has really gotten that it's voldemort's obsession with the prophecy which gives it weight, not the prophecy itself.
this frustrates me: in all the other books when there was something harry *should* tell someone (eg. his scar hurting, what the occlumency lessons are really like, what happens in his detention with umbridge etc) he doesn't. in this one he DOES (malfoy) and it's brushed off. i don't think that it is acknowledged enough by dumbledore etc that he is being more open now. that he's not hiding it all away. no wonder he does! with the reception he gets.
now i'm not saying i am won over to this yet (don't get too smug merlin!) but there really are a few references to snape being batlike and swooping about in his black cape etc. so maybe, JUST MAYBE there could be a slight smidgeon of a glimmer of something significant there. perhaps.
(i still prefer the spider imagery....)
in the penseive chapter, when harry goes to the orphanage, the box of everyday objects mentioned. these are souveniers (sp?) tom has taken from those he has hurt/scared. a yo-yo. a silver thimble and a tarnished mouth-organ are mentioned as being 'among them'. so obviously there are more items.
the quote from the end of chapter 13 says
'The ring's gone,' said Harry, looking around. 'But I thought you might have the mouth-organ or something.'
Dumbledore beamed at him, peering over the top of his half-moon spectacles.
'Very astute, Harry, but the mouth -organ was only ever a mouth-organ.'
And on that enigmatic note he waved to Harry, who understood himself to be dismissed.
mmmmmmm could the silver thimble mean anything?
mmm baby crying. better go.
so i can see that dumbledore knew his time was coming.
he tells off the dursleys. ( i bet he's wanted to say that ever since harry came to hogwarts )
he makes a point of telling harry how remarkable he is, how much he is valued (by dumbledore).
he gets aggitated (!?!?) until he is confident that harry has really gotten that it's voldemort's obsession with the prophecy which gives it weight, not the prophecy itself.
this frustrates me: in all the other books when there was something harry *should* tell someone (eg. his scar hurting, what the occlumency lessons are really like, what happens in his detention with umbridge etc) he doesn't. in this one he DOES (malfoy) and it's brushed off. i don't think that it is acknowledged enough by dumbledore etc that he is being more open now. that he's not hiding it all away. no wonder he does! with the reception he gets.
now i'm not saying i am won over to this yet (don't get too smug merlin!) but there really are a few references to snape being batlike and swooping about in his black cape etc. so maybe, JUST MAYBE there could be a slight smidgeon of a glimmer of something significant there. perhaps.
(i still prefer the spider imagery....)
in the penseive chapter, when harry goes to the orphanage, the box of everyday objects mentioned. these are souveniers (sp?) tom has taken from those he has hurt/scared. a yo-yo. a silver thimble and a tarnished mouth-organ are mentioned as being 'among them'. so obviously there are more items.
the quote from the end of chapter 13 says
'The ring's gone,' said Harry, looking around. 'But I thought you might have the mouth-organ or something.'
Dumbledore beamed at him, peering over the top of his half-moon spectacles.
'Very astute, Harry, but the mouth -organ was only ever a mouth-organ.'
And on that enigmatic note he waved to Harry, who understood himself to be dismissed.
mmmmmmm could the silver thimble mean anything?
mmm baby crying. better go.
posted by jkr2 | 9:15 pm
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oh my goodness. i have just finally revisted granger's site and found this letter.
if it wasn't for the fact that it's well written, thought out and to the point, i would think i wrote it!!!! hehehe.
pretty much my thoughts exactly (though i hadn't considered all the 'cannon fodder' a foregone conclusion)
http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/home.php?page=docs/JohnShipping&PHPSESSID=48c1cb0544378be0d8439770d2f308e5
haven't even read down the page yet. it's the first letter here from regina.
this one is an example of (imo only of course!) the mental gymnastics that people are willing to go through to justify some of snape's actions as 'he must be nice deep down as well as good'. most of it is irritating to me, though some good points are brought up. however this paragraph is fantastic.
http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/home.php?page=docs/GoodSnape2
It is also hidden. Forgiveness is sometimes spoken of, even in our Muggle world, almost as though it's-- well, magic. Just say the words, and everything is fixed: a Reparo spell for broken human beings and their broken relationships. In practice, however, forgiveness often fails of its ultimate goal, the restoration of relationship, and can work its healing only on the wronged person, the one doing the forgiving. By choosing mercy, the Potions Master has decided not to make himself a living flask for the corrosive brew of bitterness and revenge. But because those who wronged him have never sent him that essential message: "I know I injured you, and I am sorry; I won't do it again," Snape is caught in-between-- a sort of Splinched forgiveness. He is extending mercy toward people he does not trust, doing good to those toward whom he still feels anger and fear-- protecting Harry from Quirrellmort and, as he believed, from Sirius Black the mass-murderer, brewing up perfect batches of Wolfsbane for Lupin, even informing no-longer-a-murderer Sirius, under cover of a sneer, that his animagus secret is no longer safe from Lucius Malfoy. But this splinch is not only painful, it's dangerous. The temptation is always present to slide over from anger and fear into outright hatred and retribution. I wonder whether Snape didn't slip a little when he told his Slytherins about Lupin's "furry little problem." After all, it's a good thing to get a werewolf as far away from the children of Hogwarts as possible, isn't it? So easy to find an unassailable reason to do what your less noble inclinations are already suggesting.
i love the idea of forgiveness being a 'reparo spell' for relationships, and also the danger of being splinched by incomplete resolutions.
Which it seems to me is why Christ commands us to forgive, and never says to do so only when asked.
When we do things Christ's way, then we don't end up being "splinched" like that.
oh yes. of course.
jesus was very forward about going to those who we needed to forgive, even so far as going to those who had something against US. bitterness is something so insidious and cancerous to the soul.
the observation here though, that interests me, is that sometimes we can try and just 'say it' and then still be embroiled in the bitterness that we haven't let go of.
forgiveness is something to be a part of our everyday life, but sometimes true forgiveness takes a lot of emotional and spiritual work.
if we are not willing/able to do this work then we become legalistic and think we just have to 'tick the box' and everything will be ok. this is when we can get 'splinched'....
legalism is easier than grace.
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