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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

[info]sylvanawood
1/3/11 04:02 pm
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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).
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  • Re: Lily, Sev, Mary, dark magic

    [info]summeriris
    1/15/11 12:20 am (UTC)
    I'm not saying that there is a definitive explanation about what qualifies as Dark Magic. I'm saying that the Dark Magic spells that we do see only injure or kill their victims. That seems to be their purpose. So for me it seems quite reasonable to say that Dark Magic causes harm/death to the victim, hence the term Dark. Why do you think the spells are termed Dark? I don't think any Dark Magic spell is created to be done at parties as entertainment. They are created to be weapons and they are not nice. But then I don't think guns are nice either and I'm leery of knives. A very peaceful person, me, myself and I.

    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

      [info]00sevvie
      1/15/11 01:54 am (UTC)
      They we aren't really disagreeing. My point all along was what you said in your first sentence: that in the text there is no definitive explanation. (I'm not saying it's unreasonable to calls spells that harm dark, I'm ONLY pointing out that that is a personal interpretation, not an explanation the text puts forward itself.) Therefore all the explanations we propose are personal interpretations. Which is fine; it's just that occasionally a specific interpretation gets treated as if it were textual canon, which was why my argument came up in the first place actually. I'm not saying your interpretation is wrong or unreasonable, I'm only saying it's one of multiple possible interpretations of the text. I'm not trying to insult, sorry if I do. I'm only trying to be clear about what argument I am actually putting forth.

      • Re: Lily, Sev, Mary, dark magic

        [info]summeriris
        1/15/11 08:02 am (UTC)
        It's fun to discuss things sometimes. The only information we get from the text really is that some magic is Dark with a capitol D. But yes we are agreeing that whatever it is, it's not good.
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