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I've been writing up some of my thoughts on Voldemort and Severus, and it's made me realize how central flight is. Both to Severus' relationship to the Dark Lord, and to his character and arc in general. It all unfolded suddenly in my mind last night and became clear.

It's one of the hidden keys, an important one - like in Filius' challenge in PS/SS.

I know how it works - I'd figured out that part already (I'll explain when we get to Voldemort). And where Severus got the idea - that's obvious.

But I just figured out when and why Severus decided that he needed to work out the secret of unsupported flight.

Not for himself. That's not Severus' strongest motivator.

And not as a welcome-back present for the Dark Lord, although ironically he's the only one Severus ended up teaching the magic to.

For Harry.

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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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