Harry Potter Abridged! DH Chapter 30

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Snape: Good day, ladies and gentlemen! I know, I know—it’s been a long book without my awesomeness gracing the pages, but rest assured—from now on things will be better! This chapter will be from my perspective! Ahaha--! [Pause] What’s that? You said…I’m only in one scene of this entire chapter?! [Pause] And it’s really stupid?! [Pause] But my name’s in the chapter title! [Pause] Oh, that is not fair! [Cries] What’d I ever do to you?*

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*A/N: In all seriousness, it is good to have Snape back.

Musings on the Silver Doe scene

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I'm re-reading "The Silver Doe" again, and I'm more convinced than ever that Snape deliberately arranged for Ron to be there at the time.

Half the point of that whole scene was to heal Harry and Ron's friendship - Harry's friendship with his first-ever and best wizarding friend.

Remind me, what did Severus say Harry's real strengths against the Dark Lord were?

"a simple combination of sheer luck and more talented friends."

Albus focuses on Harry's supposed purity. Severus notes his friendships.

And the "need and valor" condition on the Sword, if it was real or at least if Severus believed it was real...

Harry's need, and Ron's valor. Answering Harry's call for help.

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Gollum not Gandalf: Meditations on Albus

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Another spark struck from Condwiramurs’  “Indestructable” series.  I started this, then got distracted by fresh posts and had to address them first.  This was sparked by Part II, in which she meditated on Galadriel’s gift to Frodo:  a light in dark places. And on the fact that only Gollum’s inner struggle, his better self against his worst, had him placed to step in when Frodo’s will finally failed.

Merciful goddess, Condwiramurs, you are right.  We all thought that Jo had modeled Albus on Gandalf, but he’s really a second Gollum.  (With a dollop of that silver-tongued wizard who had the hubris to call himself “The White” and to set himself up as an advisor to temporal rulers.)

Gollum.  At once the protagonists’ guide and their betrayer.
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