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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

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The Challenge for January 2011:

Lily revisited




Years ago (we've been around for a while, oh yes!)we had 'Severus and Lily' as a monthly challenge.

[info]alicekinsno1 suggested to take a closer look at Lily's character:

Maybe something that discusses the character of Lily more deeply? I'd love to see what some of your ideas are for just how Lily went from treating Snape so harshly and talking back to James, to being the stereotypical "saintly mother" at the end of her life. There's something about her personality that doesn't add up.

That is to say, how her apparently selfless decision to die for her baby makes sense in light of the way she treated Severus or even James. With possibly a side comment about how despite being so powerful and gifted she didn't really show any of that by dying pleading for her baby's life without even trying to take on Voldemort.


Please post your entries here or in a separate post. I'm looking forward to your entries.
If you have ideas for new challenges, please post them here. (This is a new list, your earlier suggestions are still in the old post).
  • Re: Pearlette to Duj

    Yes, it's the problem of being inconsistent or not. If you aren't, you get some rather icky results in places where the text seems not to intend such a thing at all. But if you don't try to be consistent in reading things, there's no guide as to how to interpret any instance of anything pretty much, so putting together any coherent reading of the text starts to fall apart into "well, I WANT it to be that way for this bit, and it doesn't MATTER what the text says since it's inconsistent anyway!" Which sort of gets away from the point of trying to read according to the text!

    Which is not to say that that doesn't occasionally happen anyway; I think maybe we are all prone to it a little bit, given the messiness of the text. I have to watch myself there too. But one can at least try to be consistent...but then things start to look really icky sometimes. Arg.
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