The January Challenge: Lily revisited
The Challenge for January 2011:
Lily revisited
Lily revisited
Years ago (we've been around for a while, oh yes!)we had 'Severus and Lily' as a monthly challenge.
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: Lily, Sev, Mary, dark magic
Re: Lily, Sev, Mary, dark magic
It is an interpretation allowed by the text, but there are other interpretations ALSO permitted by the evidence we have in the text. The TEXT ITSELF does not state explicitly that the interpretation you make is correct or not, so nobody can say their interpretation of dark magic is the only correct one. It does not give a definitive account of what dark magic is; that is a matter of *interpretation.* That is my point. That you are making an INTERPRETATION, which is not the same thing as something spelled out by the text itself as a clear coherent theory of dark magic. I am not offering a counter interpretation of what dark magic is, I am pointing out that it is something we must necessarily interpret because it *is not spelled out textually.* Am I being unclear?
Re: Lily, Sev, Mary, dark magic
PS, I think that Memory Charm that Lockhart used and it backfired on him. I would term that as Dark. Anything that would wipe out a human being's memory as permanently as that did, is certainly Dark in my book.
Re: Lily, Sev, Mary, dark magic
Re: Lily, Sev, Mary, dark magic