Indestructible - Masterpost

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

Having looked at the list of topics and ideas I still want to get to in my Indestructible series, and seen its length, I figured a masterpost of links to the parts in order might be nice to have. I'll add to this as pieces get posted.

Background stuff to read that might be useful, since I draw on the ideas implicitly in some essays, are terri's metas - especially Greater Love, her analysis of the Unbreakable Vow scene over at snapedom, and her writings on Albus - terri and swythyv's writings about the Birdbath of Doom and Merlin's test, and perhaps jodel's essays at redhen.

In-progress pieces are listed with tentative titles and numerals - the final breakdown will be determined as the posts are written.

Last updated: September 14, 2015.

Indestructible

Introduction and Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Intermezzo

Part V - The Wheels of Heaven

Food For Thought (some references that keep occuring to me as I work on all this - not an essay)

Part VI - Dark Marks and Dark Arts

Poll (closed)

Part VII - Miscellaneous Cards I (Flight, Immortality, Love)

Notes for Indestructible - chapters of interest and a patronus tidbit

An Addendum on Flight

Intermezzo II - Etymological Excursus

Eating Death? - a brief note on yew trees and deer

Part VIII - Miscellaneous Cards II (Occlumency, Purity, Tower and Cave) [in progress]

Part IX - Considering Severus Snape [in progress]

Part X - Wolfsbane: Severus' Boggart [in progress]

Part XI - Faithful Servant: Severus and Voldemort [in progress]

Part XII - my two readings of Severus' arc [in progress]

Comments

This is great, keep going!

[terri-testing.livejournal.com]

I will need to absorb before I can comment coherently, but I love what you are doing with this. Thank you, and keep going--I want to hear more!

Re: This is great, keep going!

[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I went all pink and stuttery just now, that you like it - I admire your essays and ability to wring sense out of canon so much. (Greater Love blew my mind. I keep rereading it.)

I'm working on more bits, though I'm wondering which bit to post next. Because this is becoming a bigger thing than I realized when I started. I had the unexpected revelation today that EVERYTHING in these books is, in one way or another, related to Severus and his journey. Everything. Might as well call them Harry Potter and Severus Snape, Books 1-7.

Harry's the outward physical hero. Severus is the inward moral and spiritual hero, who Harry has a huge time recognizing and coming to grips with. I could write a book on what PS/SS alone tells us about how to interpret these books. skjdhfk

Suffice it to say: that first potions lesson tells us what we need to know. And it's a huge clue that we get the Philosopher's Stone from inside the Mirror.

We have to become Alice, here. And go through the dark Mirror.

Re: This is great, keep going!

[jana-ch.livejournal.com]

I would say that Harry is the hero, while Severus is the protagonist—the one the story is actually about. In order to have a story rather than an incident, something or someone had to undergo transformation. Looking at the saga as a whole, Severus is the character who undergoes the most profound and meaningful change, as well as being the only one whose changes are morally positive. The Potter books are supposed to be a coming-of-age tale, but Harry at seventeen is not enormously different from Harry at eleven. But look at Severus at nine, and seventeen, and twenty-two, and thirty-eight, and you’ll see tremendous development.

It is also Severus’s actions around which the entire saga pivots. If there had been no Man Who Loved—to beg for Lily’s life—there would be no Boy Who Lived—to be saved by her sacrifice. Harry the Hero is a product of the decisions and actions of Severus the Protagonist—as warped by Albus the Evil Mastermind. (Voldie isn’t an Evil Mastermind; he’s a Bogey-man.)

Word!

[terri-testing.livejournal.com]

the Man Who Loved, creating the Boy Who Lived

As warped by the Evil Mastermind, while fighting the bogeyman--

Yes! What a recap!