IT IS TIME FOR A CAPSLOCK ENTRY

[leia131]

I FINISHED HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT IS ALL I CAN SAY.

AND NOW I AM READY TO DISCUSS THE HELL OUT OF IT WITH ANYONE AND EVERYONE WHO IS WILLING.

AND I DON'T WANT TO READ THE SEVENTH BOOK. I HATE ENDINGS. SOMEONE WILL HAVE TO COMPEL ME TO READ IT WHEN IT COMES OUT. SOMEONE PROMISE OK?

I feel better now.

Comments

[zartlila.livejournal.com]

I'm up for discussing it. I've been waiting for you to finish, after all!

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Heh. Here I am, finished and itching to talk!

[zartlila.livejournal.com]

and I need to be distracted from writing my lab report. What are we waiting for?

[btwnluvnhate.livejournal.com]

hey babe this isn't about hbp, but your party. I need directions to where you live. for your party

[haveaday510.livejournal.com]

CALL ME EMAIL ME IM ME TRACK ME DOWN AT 4 AM...

Somethin. This warrants lengthy discussion, I think.

And yes, in 2 or 3 years, I will hunt you down and force you to read the 7th book. Cuz face it, it needs to be done.

Thank You

[leia131.livejournal.com]

I know it needs to be done, and I want to and don't want to read it at the same time. So I appreciate your offer of help.

[abie-baby.livejournal.com]

megan, I will sit on you and read aloud so we can cry together.

I'm convinced there will be crying involved.

as for discussion- check the comments on my last post and send me your thoughts and doubtlessly maimed emotions.

ps- I'm not absolutely sure I BELIEVE that Snape is truly for the Dark Lord at heart. that murder must have had an awful lot to due with the idiotic oath he made. Think- he was great friends with R.A.B., was he not? On the other hand- why the bloody FUCK did he make that oath!? Barring a deep unrequieted obession with Narcissa that I have oft suspected, of course. I really loved Snape! He can't just turn on me like that. Far too cliche, anyway.
"Oh, he's evil."
"No, he's misunderstood."
"Evil."
"Misunderstood."
"Evil."
"Misunderstood."
"Evil."
"Misunderstood."
"Pardon, but, I am, in fact, quite deeply evil"
"Told ya so."

rubbish, says I. There's more to it. He's been made out to be too much a tragic and abused, misunderstood character to be dismissed as rotten.

[leia131.livejournal.com]

See, I don't really like Snape, and I have never liked Snape, so one would think that I would have been like "Aha! He killed Dumbledore! He is evil! I rock because I never liked him!" but strangely I am not.

Therefore, my intuition and intelligence tell me that there is more to the Snape story than we have seen. Some thoughts:

1. In my opinion, Dumbledore was going to die anyways, and his plea was for Snape to kill him.

2. Snape made an unbreakable vow to do Draco's task if Draco could not. Draco's task was to kill Dumbledore. He could not do it. Assuming Snape was on Dumbledore's side, Dumbledore would have known about the vow. As we saw in the cave/lake chapter with Harry, Dumbledore places others lives before his own. Ron stated at one point that if you break an unbreakable vow, you die. Thus, Dumbledore knew Snape either had to kill him, or die himself, and he chose to die so that Snape could live. For whatever reason he likes and trusts Snape.

3. Everyone seems to be forgetting that Snape and Dumbledore were both accomplished Legilmes/Occulmens (whatever the words are). Who knows what thoughts they could have shared on that rooftop?

4. We still do not know why Dumbledore trusts Snape. There must be a damn good reason, and I'm not buying the sob story about Lily and James as the whole truth.

5. If you notice, in the chapter with Narcissa, Snape definately doesn't really answer Bellatrix's questions very satisfactorily, but basically says "Voldemort trusts me so you should too." This is the same argument the Order uses, only it's Dumbledore and not Voldemort. If he were truly evil, I believe there'd be better explainations.

6. One of Snape's memories in OotP involved watching his parents fight. In HBP, we find out a little more about his mum and dad. I really believe that this has something to do with his personality and actions, and that we will understand come book seven.

7. I am defending a character that I don't even like. If he were evil, I would not be doing this.

8. I still don't like Snape, but he's not evil.

[abie-baby.livejournal.com]

I heartily agree with all of the above. 'specially the bit about Lily and James NOT being Dumbledore's "unquestionable" reason for trusting Snape. There's more to it than that- there's got to be. The surface has just barely been scratched concerning Snape. There's so much more to come. (in my humble opinion, of course).

Also- has anyone else noticed Dumbledore's gratuitous mention of his own staggering intellect. "Yes, Dumbledore, we all know you're brilliant. No need to remind us... again."

ps- I love Phlem. I'm going to start calling my own obnoxious bitch sister-in-law that. Hahahaha. I do love Ginny.

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Yes, Dumbledore tends to say how smart he is quite a bit, doesn't he?

Phlem. When I read the title of the chapter "An Excess of Phlem" I was worried. I thought Harry or Ron was going to develop a nasty head cold. I was relieved that it was only an annoying girl.

Ginny rocks.

[beckybrown.livejournal.com]

who is R.A.B in the seventh book?! tell me!

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Regulus A. Black.

I think. That is a theory, and only a theory.

[beckybrown.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT!!!!

i dont want to read the seventh book. i hate JK rowling. im angry at her. im mad how the hell could she do this to me! to everyone! its NOT FAIR. i thought it was the worst that can happen in the fifth one. OH NO NO NO NO what a jerk!!!!!!!!!!!

but it was well done despite the tragedy. (SOBS)

I MISS YOU LIKE ITS NOT EVEN COOL TO MISS SOMEONE!

i have new poetry. you have to read it I MISS YOU and I LOVE YOU!