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fluffyllama!
-Re: HBP.idlerat is right about the wank, and amanuensis1 is right about the book. [Spoilers, of course.]
-vejgurl is doing chapter-by-chapter HBP commentary, so if you like that sort of thing, check it out.
-More Death Eater cards fromappleviking! Igor Karkaroff and Walden Macnair.
-I happened to see some non-fandom people in some forum talking about HBP, and noticed something interesting: They hated Chapter 2. It ruined the book, they said, because it gave away so far in advance that Snape was evil. It hadn't occurred to them that Snape might not be evil. This really drove home for me why Snape has to be Good -- if he isn't, what's Chapter 2 for? Yes, I know people have pointed this out already, but I think the sheer idiocy of Chapter 2 (assuming an evil Snape) was masked for me by how entertaining the chapter is if you're in fandom. Casual readers understand this more easily... but they tend to think that JKR just did bad, rather than that she's bluffing us.
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Before the tooth-gnashing starts -- I didn't add the tinytext, and I don't know what it says. It was part of the model I was using:
fluffyllama!-Re: HBP.
idlerat is right about the wank, and amanuensis1 is right about the book. [Spoilers, of course.]-
vejgurl is doing chapter-by-chapter HBP commentary, so if you like that sort of thing, check it out.-More Death Eater cards from
appleviking! Igor Karkaroff and Walden Macnair.-I happened to see some non-fandom people in some forum talking about HBP, and noticed something interesting: They hated Chapter 2. It ruined the book, they said, because it gave away so far in advance that Snape was evil. It hadn't occurred to them that Snape might not be evil. This really drove home for me why Snape has to be Good -- if he isn't, what's Chapter 2 for? Yes, I know people have pointed this out already, but I think the sheer idiocy of Chapter 2 (assuming an evil Snape) was masked for me by how entertaining the chapter is if you're in fandom. Casual readers understand this more easily... but they tend to think that JKR just did bad, rather than that she's bluffing us.
-Icon.
Before the tooth-gnashing starts -- I didn't add the tinytext, and I don't know what it says. It was part of the model I was using:
