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Dear friends, one more day to go...



and here you find Severus using a new muggle technology - twitter!!!
what would be like, if Snape would use it as online-diary... (just a little fun I had the last month)

http://twitter.com/sevysnape

Sorry to make a separate post for this, but for some reason the site won't recognize my attempts to comment on the original post at any length (it keeps giving me an error message). However, I found the essay interesting and thought-provoking, and wanted to respond somehow. So I'm writing a separate post - I hope this is ok.

Janus:

As I said in my short comment to your post, this is a very interesting essay, with a perspective I haven't come across before. On a number of points I agree with you, particularly about using real emotions as a method of occluding, creating a 'face' for the legilimens to see. It accords pretty closely with my understanding of Sev's Occlumency. And yes, he is a complex man full of contradictions - verbally brutal to his students, yet willing to charge into danger when he thinks they're hurt, full of resentment and hate but also deeply loving, a DE and a member of the Order, etc.

However, I do have real questions/confusion on some points. Please don't feel attacked - I agree with you on some things, and for the rest I honestly am interested in hearing your response. I guess I'm trying to get a better understanding of your Sev's psychology. Please correct me where I misinterpret things!

This might be pretty long.

A little birdie told me that March's challenge is Snape and All Things Muggle, and I see that today is the last day of the challenge. I originally posted this pic on my LJ for its 3rd anniversary, but I was wondering if y'all might get a kick out of it too. It's entitled, "Addicted." I'll have to exclude myself from winning the challenge because this is a collaborative piece between me and my Hubby. Please click here for a larger version, and click here if this reference escapes you.

All right, since it’s the end of March and I apparently have time to write insanely long responses to other people’s challenge entries, I might as well go ahead and attempt to put my thoughts on Sev and Voldie into some kind of order. J Be warned that this is not a proper essay arguing a point, but merely a long (very long!) ramble about my thoughts on different aspects of Sev and Voldemort’s relationship. Tangents, long detours, etc. may be ahead.

 

I'm glad to post this entry for the SNARC contest for tablelands --> http://tablelands.livejournal.com/
Thanks for the entry!

Snape goes shopping!


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is there more???? do you need more time? let me know!!!!!

There are a lot of unanswered questions about Snape and Voldemort...was Snape really the Dark Lord's right hand man, and if so, was he always, or did this only occur after Voldemort's return post-GoF? And how did Voldemort manage to recruit Snape and the other Death Eaters in the first place? I've seen it pointed out in other posts that what we see of Voldemort doesn't paint him as a particularly cunning or charismatic leader. It seems that aside from Bellatrix, most of the Death Eaters are serving him mainly out of fear.

Sorry if I'm hogging space on the board, but for some reason my brain is on a Sevvie-meta kick and won't be stopped. ;) I was thinking about the infamous Prank a little while ago, and a couple of things occurred to me, or at least became clearer. Sorry (again!) for the length. Perhaps I overanalyze these things....but then again, that's what fandom's for, isn't it?

(You know, for the first five books I actually liked Sirius as a character  - I thought he was something of a jerk and a hothead, but he was interesting, and I was praying he wasn't on the chopping block all through OotP. I was hoping for something really juicy in his backstory to explain his hatred of Severus - who at that time I was only vaguely interested in as a character. Now, after seven books, a few more years of experience, and a great deal of thought, I much, much prefer Severus. At least he seems capable of growth. A shame that JKR wasted good characters by rendering them so much flatter than they originally seemed. Anyway.)