How difficult would it have been for Wormtail to be thin and cute? Or even plump and cute? Then ended up a mess due to 12 years as a rat. Bad people being unattractive and the reverse for good people is unbelievably clichéd. Lily is slim and lovely, while Petunia is thin and scrawny. It’s like the film makers who felt that the films had to become drab and grey, as they became ‘darker‘. Suddenly it’s dirty smocks for Dumbledore. As if a man can't wear magnificent velvet and still be a manipulative s.o.b. Thieves don’t actually wear stripy t-shirts, masks and carry sacks marked ‘Swag’ (apologies to non-Brits). If everybody’s looks reflected their characters, the world would be an easier place to live in.
Lupin is a subset of the above - attractive = good, unattractive = bad, and shabby = dangerous creature? Maybe he was proud, but he had two wealthy friends - couldn’t they fork out for a new set of robes to put over his tatty everything else?
I don’t understand anything about the whole Potters in hiding, AT ALL. On top of what you’ve pointed out, why didn’t Snape predict that ‘his’ perfect Lily was too maternal to watch her child die and just ask Voldemort to STUN her. It’d save Voldie the hassle of arguing with her, Snape would still have Lily around to refuse to come near him, and we’d have had Harry dead. Result! Also, why didn’t James become his own secret keeper, as Bill apparently was in DH? He’s such a brilliant and *popular* Wizard, why did it not occur to him? You’d think that that rule was only invented for DH! Also, how did Dumbledore, and the rest of the Wizarding World know that Harry was ‘The Boy who lived’? For all he knew, Voldemort killed James and Lily, then was called away urgently. Harry, unattended, then fell out of his cot and cut his forehead open. Nobody was there, nobody *knew* for sure - Dumbles must have just guessed. Funny if he was wrong. I expected something key to have happened at Godric’s Hollow, I thought there‘d be a big reveal. Sigh.
I cringed over Snape in DH. He had a complete character makeover ( him and a cast of thousands), and it was a mistake. Or maybe he just hid his inner idiot from us for 6 books. From a cool, snarky bully to yet another two dimensional plot device. Well done JKR.
I said before that it should have been possible to have a 2nd secret keeper in waiting, who’d automatically take over on the death of the current Secret Keeper. JKR had so many things happen to move along the plot, such as it was, and 90% of them made no sense at all. Surely it made more sense to maintain this neutral place to meet up (though there wasn’t much in the way of Order meetings in DH, that we saw anyway.)
I presume Moody put the enchantments up within hours of Dumbles plunging from the Astronomy Tower - constant vigilance! Maybe Snape managed to get into the house later, because Moody was DEAD and any spells he created therefore null and void - or they should have been. Don’t ask me why they still seemed to be working. Though as to why the Order didn’t go in there the day after Moody’s death and secure the place - I’ve got nothing.
Harry remains a self indulgent, whiny little punk. With the blessed absence of the Ginny Monster for 95% of this book, I was able to re-connect with my Harry Hate once more. Everything’s always about him, how it makes *him* feel bad. Ron gets upset because he fears he isn’t good enough. It never occurs to Harry that he isn’t good enough, that he achieves nothing on his own. The only thing he does in this book is die - and as Sirius points out, that’s like falling off a log. I bet if Harry tried that, he’d miss.
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Date: 2008-09-05 08:19 pm (UTC)Lupin is a subset of the above - attractive = good, unattractive = bad, and shabby = dangerous creature? Maybe he was proud, but he had two wealthy friends - couldn’t they fork out for a new set of robes to put over his tatty everything else?
I don’t understand anything about the whole Potters in hiding, AT ALL. On top of what you’ve pointed out, why didn’t Snape predict that ‘his’ perfect Lily was too maternal to watch her child die and just ask Voldemort to STUN her. It’d save Voldie the hassle of arguing with her, Snape would still have Lily around to refuse to come near him, and we’d have had Harry dead. Result! Also, why didn’t James become his own secret keeper, as Bill apparently was in DH? He’s such a brilliant and *popular* Wizard, why did it not occur to him? You’d think that that rule was only invented for DH! Also, how did Dumbledore, and the rest of the Wizarding World know that Harry was ‘The Boy who lived’? For all he knew, Voldemort killed James and Lily, then was called away urgently. Harry, unattended, then fell out of his cot and cut his forehead open. Nobody was there, nobody *knew* for sure - Dumbles must have just guessed. Funny if he was wrong. I expected something key to have happened at Godric’s Hollow, I thought there‘d be a big reveal. Sigh.
I cringed over Snape in DH. He had a complete character makeover ( him and a cast of thousands), and it was a mistake. Or maybe he just hid his inner idiot from us for 6 books. From a cool, snarky bully to yet another two dimensional plot device. Well done JKR.
I said before that it should have been possible to have a 2nd secret keeper in waiting, who’d automatically take over on the death of the current Secret Keeper. JKR had so many things happen to move along the plot, such as it was, and 90% of them made no sense at all. Surely it made more sense to maintain this neutral place to meet up (though there wasn’t much in the way of Order meetings in DH, that we saw anyway.)
I presume Moody put the enchantments up within hours of Dumbles plunging from the Astronomy Tower - constant vigilance! Maybe Snape managed to get into the house later, because Moody was DEAD and any spells he created therefore null and void - or they should have been. Don’t ask me why they still seemed to be working. Though as to why the Order didn’t go in there the day after Moody’s death and secure the place - I’ve got nothing.
Harry remains a self indulgent, whiny little punk. With the blessed absence of the Ginny Monster for 95% of this book, I was able to re-connect with my Harry Hate once more. Everything’s always about him, how it makes *him* feel bad. Ron gets upset because he fears he isn’t good enough. It never occurs to Harry that he isn’t good enough, that he achieves nothing on his own. The only thing he does in this book is die - and as Sirius points out, that’s like falling off a log. I bet if Harry tried that, he’d miss.