Indestructible - Poll results

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All right, I've closed the poll and it looks like we've got a 6-4 majority in favor of dealing with the miscellaneous bits first and then going back to an in-depth look at Severus himself. So I should be posting something for that fairly soon - I'm working on writing it up now. Thanks for voting!

I've got some of the Severus material laid out as well, so I can post that as it gets done piece by piece. It's all just ridiculously tangled up in a big ball, is the problem, and there are many threads to trace. Particularly once we start dealing with his relationship to Voldemort. (It's quite interesting to go back and re-read the scenes in which they interact directly, few though they are, and look at all the details carefully.)

Not, of course, that I could ever wish for Severus to not be so beautifully complex. It just takes a little time to uncover all his secrets.

He wouldn't have it any other way, of course.

Indestructible VII - Miscellaneous Cards I

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All right, as promised here are the remaining miscellaneous bits I need to cover along with our look at Severus himself. I’ve decided to fold the discussion of occlumency in here too, since it’s not that complicated to need a long post by itself.

However, for the sake of length, I’ll be posting this in sections. The first three cards in this set first, and the other three later.

In “Part VI – Dark Marks and Dark Arts,” we moved ahead in the alphabet from A for Albus and alchemy, to D for dark and death. Let’s continue skipping along the alphabet here and see what we’ve got.

This time:

F, for flight.

I, for immortality.

L, for love. (Can’t forget that.)

Next time:

O, for occlumency.

P, for purity.

T, for tower, with a side jump back to C for cave.

Then we can get back to our main subjects, S for Severus and V for Voldemort. And then I can finally go back to talking about moral arcs and that gravity assist thing I mentioned a while ago, and explain my two readings of the last books. Which I’m really eager to do after I get through all this stuff.

So, onward.

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