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
While I'm all for close scrutiny and critical review of animal experimentation, the current level of health enjoyed by residents of countries within western civilization would have been impossible to achieve without any research using animals whatsoever - both basic and applied. However, we are speaking of the wizarding world, that supports routine killing of animals by secondary school children in the course of their studies (case in point - Vanishing spells in 5th year Transfiguration; also the Transfiguration of animals into inanimate objects and unsuccessful Transfiguration resulting in partially transfigured animals). I don't see a coherent argument against using animals in magical medical research at all.