pervy snape fancier

From the Department of Books You Gotta Wonder if JKR Had on Her Shelf:



The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, fifth edition, volume 2, p. 2893.

(The things you discover when you're standing around at Reference waiting for people to leave so you can shut down the desk computers...)

Scored hardcover first (American) editions of the first three books today at a used bookstore, so now I have a complete set of all seven. Yay! My trade paperbacks were getting a little worse for wear, despite careful handling. They look so pretty in a row on the bookshelf. If that fancy potion book from Xoanon (which has been delayed until August, grr) is book porn, then this is at least book necking in a movie theater.

Does anyone know of any fics where Lucius communicates with memory-Tom via the diary he has in his possession prior to CoS?

venturous asked, "you, dear flist, won't think I am crazy... for spending $40 bucks on an incredible green silk tie with silver dragons on it, will you?"

(Cue the chorus: "Of course not!")

Well.

You, dear flist, won't think I am crazy... for spending $271.60 on Ars Philtron: Concerning the Aqueous Cunning of the Potion and its Praxis in the Green Art Magical, edition Codex Vasculum, deluxe edition, bound in full bottle-green goatskin with marbled endpapers, gilt stamping, and slipcase, will you?

(Due to arrive "Midsummer 2008" according to the flyer, which I hope translates to "real soon now".)

In this post I blithered about how putting a wand up your sleeve is kind of impractical, and I didn't think it was actually done anywhere in canon.

That crow pie looks good, thanks; don't mind if I do. Ron does it in SS/PS, round about the troll scene, I think it is. If it appears anywhere else, I haven't yet seen, but all you need is one example to disprove an absolute.

That still don't make it right

Young Snape (ca. 11-12 I'd say) by kykywka

O.O... XD

So sweet, the serious lil' thing. (Although actually he looks rather at ease, there -- not scowling or anything.)

I swear, ickle!Severus is the only child in the world that actually evokes maternal ideas in me. And the really soppy "mama's little prince" (*koff*) sort, too, that lead to children getting very spoiled. :P

She also draws fun comics, like Harry Potter and the Seething Snape and Goblet of Fire pajama party.

also:

Severus and Sirius: Yearbook by wotchertonks7

"Sirius just can't behave, even for Yearbook photos and Severus can only take so much. Yes, that's Remus as the pervy voyeur."

more XD You know you love 'im, Sev.

Are there any such things as e-texts of the Harry Potter books? (Like, for money, I mean. I'm not talking copyright infringement here. I suppose I could scan them myself, but wow, tedious labour. How many pages total, exactly?) Eventually the day may come when I know the scripture canon as well as I do that of, say, MST3K, but in the meantime, it would be soooo helpful to be able to electronically search the text for certain keywords when I want to build up lists like "all references to [blah] across the seven books".

From latest chapter ("The Will of Albus Dumbledore") of Deathly Hallows sporking:

[Was the man he sought down there, the man he needed so badly he could think of little else,] the man who held the answer, the answer to his problem...?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. The answer is blowin' in the wind.

I sez:

How many times must I read scenes like this
Of Voldemort seeking some Wand?
Yes, and how many pages must I turn
Of camping scenes bleak and bland?
Yes, and how many times must Harry tune in
To visions conveniently planned?
The answer, my friend...

I dreamed some alternative middle chapters to Deathly Hallows that had more cowbell Severus. Or rather, I dreamed meta -- I was talking to someone about having read them. "You remember the part where..."

It was even more odd than that, because even in the dream, I was observing myself and thinking "what? did she and I read the same book?" (I usually dream in third person, but I rarely experience the observer as being a separate "me" with its own thoughts, as opposed to "a floating camera".)

Of course I can't even remember the slightest plot-point from these new and improved chapters, much less any of the phrasing I was quoting.

Dear brain:

STOP DREAMING HINTS OF FIC THAT I CAN'T POSSIBLY REPRODUCE OKAY. EITHER GIVE ME THE WHOLE THING WHILE I'M AWAKE, OR STOP TEASING.

Sincerely, me.

JK Rowling hints at eighth Potter

"If - and it's a big if - I ever write an eighth book, I doubt that Harry would be the central character. I feel I've already told his story," she said.

Gawd. Just shut up already. Leave it alone. Don't go there. Don't screw it up any more.

Okay. Now that I've got that bit of bitterness out of my system... I agree wholeheartedly that any putative eighth book should not be about Harry. I just hope, for the love of $DEITY, that she goes backwards instead of forwards. I don't want to hear about the next generation either. I know it's not realistic to expect her to write a book about who I do most want to hear about, but I would read a Marauders-era book, for instance. Or how about something more historical -- tell us about Albus and Gellert and how Dumbles earned that line on that Chocolate Frog card. Or maybe even further back than that -- a Founders novel? Sure! It could work. Or how about the time period when the Statute of Secrecy was passed? You just know I hope to $SACRED_THING that she's got the Potterverse equivalent of the Silmarillion scattered in notebooks lying around her house.

Push, Pull by Eunike

Every time Severus reaches out for Lily, he ends up pushing her further away from him. A series of melodramatic Snape&Lily moments, set in various times between their fifth year and her death.

~11k angsty/tragic kinda-romance, PGish. ( spring )

I liked the "broken reflection" setup of the two descriptions there, especially. But the fourth chapter made me want to cry: ( autumn )

But then, of course, we know what happens, because of the becauses, and... and... *sniffle*

I am such a huge sap, I tellya.

I think I'm sorting out my thoughts on whether I think this whole "you meet a perfect person when you're a kid and that's who you end up with" theme that plays out several times in Harry Potter (tragically, of course, in Severus's case) is a good thing or a bad thing. I hear a lot of people say "ew, creepy!" and it's true that there's a mode or setup in which it's very creepy. I imagined what my life might be like if I were still with any of the boys I had crushes on when I was about ten years old, and... yeah. No thanks. That would definitely be a sign of a lack of emotional maturation, if nothing else.

But there's also a mode or setup in which it is non-creepy, though goopily romantic and not all that realistic, and that's the What Dreams May Come style. The two main characters in that film are true soul mates, and at the very end they meet again, reborn, as children. This idea is the tear-jerkingest thing that ever jerked tears, for me (partly because, and here's some woo-woo and schmoopy TMI, I think myself and enotsola have this kind of relationship). It is probably inconsistent that I immediately apply this idea to Severus and Lily (and I know it requires a kind of non-canon reading of Lily) and am neutral to slightly negative about pair-ups like Harry and Ginny (after all, they do kind of deserve each other!), but what the hey.

This does mean I am bringing my own "baggage" to the story, as someone who misinterpreted my purposely over-the-top sarcastic thoughts on Deathly Hallows accused me of doing. But don't we all? Isn't that how art and literature work -- everyone identifies with different elements because of their own pasts? This is how it is possible to read things into a piece which the artist or writer may not have intended, but which are nevertheless valid.

( so where the fuck is the portrait at? (spoilers) )

I am super-unsatisfied by this answer. Super-unsatisfied! </space-ghost> However, ( more spoiler )

Well, that I can live with, I guess.

( spoiler-free as far as I am concerned, but some people are extra-sensitive about this sort of thing )