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Original poster: geri_chan

Sorry for the cross-post to those who are on my Friends list. This was HP-related news, but not specifically related to Snape, and I wasn't sure if it was okay to post it here, so I went ahead and posted a rant on my personal journal. However, Sylvana gave me permission to post it here at Snapedom, and I thought some of you might be interested. Feel free to ignore if you've already seen this.

When I saw this article on the Leaky Cauldron about Steve Vander Ark of the Harry Potter Lexicon being sued, along with his publisher, by Warner Bros. and JKR, I was shocked. I've never met him, but he seems like a nice guy and die-hard HP fan from his Pottercast "Canon Conundrum" segments, various interviews, and his posts on the Lexicon. Obviously no one but a fan would have put such a tremendous amount of work into building the Lexicon. And JKR has praised the Lexicon in the past, given them a fansite award, even admitted that she used it to check up on facts sometimes when she was writing.

Original poster: guinnevere_b

Last night I went looking for a certain fan story I enjoyed, but the link was broken. So I went to the author's blog and, what do you know, she had taken down all of her fanfics, basically because they disagreed with Joanne Rowling's ideas about the nature of Severus Snape, and in her estimation Joanne Rowling is a genius, so she'd rather not be reminded that she ever got it all SO WRONG, thanks very much.

How ironic: she's a much better writer than JKR. DH was utter crap: Rowling wrote herself into a corner throughout the span of the first six books, and then relied on several Old Saws to cut herself an exit, right through the wall she was backed up against. Unfortunately, it was a load-bearing wall, and by the end of DH the entire structure had collapsed.

It troubles me that so many people would rather suck up to an author who got most of her characters' psychology, not to mention the morality, all wrong, than to think for themselves.

Of course, she's rich and popular and rather attractive, so it fits in neatly with her philosophy of life. Sad, really.

Original poster: pythia_delphi

I am thoroughly fed-up, as I am sure most of you are, of JKR's constant bad-mouthing of Snape any chance she gets to be on a public platform. Is she taking subversive delight in ticking us off? Instead of going into a rant however, I thought of posting this poem, an excerpt from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald, which seems to aptly sum up my feelings on the issue.

Original poster: geri_chan

Something has been bugging me ever since Half-Blood Prince came out: did Snape's fellow Slytherins and Death Eaters know that he was a half-blood, or did they think that he was a pureblood? The Prince's Tale chapter in DH seems to indicate that he was readily accepted into Slytherin--welcomed by Lucius Malfoy and befriended by Avery and the other budding Death Eaters. I can't see them welcoming a half-blood into their ranks so easily, but wouldn't they have been able to tell by his last name that he probably wasn't a pureblood?

Original poster: sigune

The other day I was contemplating the new information Deathly Hallows gave us on Snape, and I found myself puzzled at an odd chink in the chronology of events in Snape's schooldays:

- In Prisoner of Azkaban, we learned that Sirius lured Snape to the Shrieking Shack on a night with a full moon when he was sixteen.

- In Order of the Phoenix, we learned that James hung Snape upside down, and Snape called Lily a Mudblood, in fifth year when they were taking their OWLs, and would have been fifteen.

- In Deathly Hallows, it transpires in "The Prince's Tale" that the Shrieking Shack incident took place before the Worst Memory.

What do you make of this? I would very much like to know your opinion on how to deal with this. Which do you think is the logical sequence, and why? Or how would you explain away the apparent contradiction?

snapecast

Original poster: sylvanawood

Happy or unhappy about DH? This is a list with past rants and reviews. This list will be updated from time to time.

General rants and links

dh_oh_shit was preserving my sanity after the release of DH. It contains many links.


Ofiicial (or semi-official) Deathly Hallows reviews

Missing from 'Harry Potter' – a real moral struggle by Jenny Sawyer

Harry Potter and the Ignominious Cop-Out –– New York Magazine Book Review by Sam Anderson

'New York' Book Critic Sam Anderson's 'Deathly Hallows' Reading Diary

Chapter-by-chapter reviews of Deathly Hallows by Daniel Hemmens on ferretbrain:

Chapters 1 - 12
Chapters 13-23
Chapter 24-Epilogue
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Afterword

A more general essay by Daniel Hemmens: Acts of Sacrifice
And Harry Potter and the Doctrine of the Calvinists, an essay about predetermined fate, also by Daniel Hemmens.

Harry Potter and the Qualified Recantation on The Life and opinions of Andrew Rilstone




Deathly Hallows reviews by fans

Review of the Deathly Shallows by the_bitter_word (the term was invented by bluestocking79)

 sigune's views on Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Plot-holes by subtle_science







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