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Post by Miss Wings on Sept 4, 2015 14:12:01 GMT -5
Sat reading James Potter and the curse of the gatekeeper. The second full length 'fanfic' by G. Norman Lippert. I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised at the quality of the work. Keeps to J K Rowling's ideals and keeps up with Potter tradition. The author has published these online for free so anyone can access @ www.jamespotterseries.com . Definitely worth a read. And perhaps if you enjoy them you too may consider buying one of his other books. |
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 6, 2015 21:48:03 GMT -5
I may give it a try when I have time, thanks, though it sounds like a next generation fic and I am not that interested in them.
Speaking of HP news - I have seen the announcement of James Sirius going to Hogwarts all over the net, but a friend mentioned that she has seen many people mention that JKR supposedly confirmed that Lily was pregnant with her second child when she died, and that she tried to get James to bury the hatchet with Snape, so she could make Snape the godfather. Does anyone know where that comes from, or if that story is confirmed? I have to admit that it makes me nauseous ...
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 6, 2015 22:37:07 GMT -5
I may give it a try when I have time, thanks, though it sounds like a next generation fic and I am not that interested in them. Speaking of HP news - I have seen the announcement of James Sirius going to Hogwarts all over the net, but a friend mentioned that she has seen many people mention that JKR supposedly confirmed that Lily was pregnant with her second child when she died, and that she tried to get James to bury the hatchet with Snape, so she could make Snape the godfather. Does anyone know where that comes from, or if that story is confirmed? I have to admit that it makes me nauseous ... That rumour has been floating around since at least 2006. I have seen no actual confirmation from JKR that it is true and I haven't been able to track down the source of it, but it was probably someone's headcanon which got read as true and went somewhat viral on tumblr a few years ago amongst people who don't hate Snape or who ship Snape/Lily.
I don't mind the idea that Lily might have been pregnant a second time. After all she could easily have been a month or so pregnant without knowing about it on October 31st and then Harry and Younger Sibling would be about two years apart.
But the idea that, having not spoken to Snape in six years and having spent the last fifteen months or so in hiding, she still cared enough about Snape (especially since we don't know whether she knew that Snape was a Death Eater or that he defected) to persuade James into making Snape Younger Siblings godfather really doesn't sit right with me.
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 7, 2015 0:14:51 GMT -5
Ah, thanks. I have seen the idea mostly in fanfiction so far (and turned to flee at once), but my friend was complaining about that suddenly popping up a lot, so we were wondering. Neither of us has been able to confirm it, though. Hopefully you are right that just someones headcanon suddenly went viral again.
The pregnancy I can believe, too, but Snape as godfather ... urgh. As you know, I am not a Snape fan, and totally don't like that idea. Besides, as you said, it doesn't make sense from the bit we know in canon. And frankly, considering that it was Snape who ran with the prophecy to Voldemort and so caused the death of James and Lily, making him godfather seems more than a little overkill.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 7, 2015 1:59:03 GMT -5
And frankly, considering that it was Snape who ran with the prophecy to Voldemort and so caused the death of James and Lily, making him godfather seems more than a little overkill. I doubt James and Lily knew it was Snape who revealed the prophecy to Voldemort mostly because he was still alive in order to defect. I can't imagine any of the Marauders or Lily letting him live once they found out about that, double agent or not.
Which actually brings up something else. 1. Why was Dumbledore conducting an interview in a pub owned by a brother who hated him? 2. Did Aberforth tell Albus about the fact there was a guy eavesdropping on his interview? 3. If he did, why didn't Dumbledore do anything about it? I mean Christ, if Voldemort had known the second half of the prophecy then he wouldn't have attacked anyone.
This is the sort of thing which makes Manipulative or even Evil Dumbledore make so much sense to me because the number of coincidences which have to happen for this to actually happen in real life is just mind-bogglingly implausible.
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 7, 2015 5:27:19 GMT -5
Of course James and Lily didn't know, but Rowling did, and if she were to actually insist that Snape was supposed to be godfather, that would go a bit far for my taste. Particularly as I agree - Lily and the Marauders wouldn't be happy at all if they found out!
Btw, that's another thing about canon that annoys me. When Harry finds out, he's just supposed to go on as if Snape did nothing wrong, just because Dumbledore says so? Dumbledore may have trusted Snape, but Snape did his best to make himself hated by Harry, so why should Harry let it go? It doesn't appear very believable to me, to be hoonest. But then, Rowling seldom gave him really believable feelings and reactions to all these betrayals and tragedies in his life.
It's not only that. Why would Aberforth throw Snape out for listening to something relatively harmless like a job interview anyway? Even more so as his hated older brother was involved and I don't see him care if he was listened to? And if Aberforth really caught Snape in the middle of the prophecy, grabbed him and threw him out, wouldn't that have made some noise? So, why was the prophecy in that memory running so smoothly, without interruption?
Yeah, if Dumbledore had leaked the other half, too, the attacks should not have happened. It's so easy to think that Dumbledore wanted to set the prophecy in motion - and to control the child of prophecy. That's why fanfictions along that line make so much sense.
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 7, 2015 7:21:06 GMT -5
The thing is, he does. I mean, okay so he finds out that Snape defected back immediately afterwards but still. You just found out that the guy is the reason your life has been shit and it's like 'Severus Snape was a hero'. That's one of the reasons I hate hate hate Albus Severus' name. I mean he names his other two kids after his parents and then one after the guy responsible for their death. WTF Harry.
Presumably because the prophecy orb was a magical recording which was somehow created separately but at the same time.
I can understand Aberforth throwing Snape for listening at a door, I mean the Hog's Head must be the venue for some shady dealings and there has to be a certain amount of confidentiality amongst criminals.
Which makes no sense *expressive hand gestures*. If Voldemort 'marks him as his equal' then 'either must die at the hand of the other'. Which means if Voldemort doesn't mark anyone then anybody can kill him.
Bearing in mind that we're given no real context for what it was like in 1980, with the war at its height, but if Voldemort really was as powerful as all that, I suppose the idea of a light-sided equal to Voldemort would probably sound like a great idea. Possibly enough to ignore that that would provide Voldemort with functional immortality for the next decade at least.
Of course that's all predicated on the prophecy being accurate and we don't know that it actually was. I mean if the Hallows hadn't existed, even with Harry having a soul fragment in his head which allowed him to come back from the dead, if Harry hadn't been Master of Death they wouldn't be equal at all.
And we don't know if it was because nobody else fucking tried to kill Voldemort with any sort of success. I mean, fucking hell. Dumbledore had ten years of Voldemort being an incorporeal spirit in which to do something, anything to try and kill him (and if he didn't think he needed too....well then why the fuck was Harry at the Dursleys) because of the fucking prophecy.
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 8, 2015 5:37:45 GMT -5
And that's exactly what annoys me so much. What on earth was JKR thinking when she wrote that?? It is simply unrealistic. Save, of course, you assume that Dumbledore used heavy compulsions or something to make Harry act this way. The orb, maybe, but what about Dumbledore's memory - which was the one Harry watched? Shouldn't the disturbance be included at least as background noise? If it could not be heard inside, I don't see how Snape in turn was able to understand what was said inside. Sure, but who knows what strange interpretation Dumbledore came up with; his thinking seems pretty convoluted to me. Let's have a closer look: "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...You could probably assume that Dumbledore thought that only being marked would spark the 'power he knows not', and only then the prophesied one was able to vanquish the dark lord? Besides, if LV killed Harry, then he would be mortal, right? So, just set up the Potters to be killed and voilà, problem solved, everyone can kill Moldyshorts now! Wouldn't put it beyond Dumbledore to act like that. If you ask me, JKR couldn't decide if to do it with Lily's protection, the Hallows, the Master of the Elder Wand or whatever, so she mixed everything together for an ending that makes less and less sense the more you think about it. Language, dear  Personally, I got the impression that Dumbledore just doesn't have the guts to kill anyone, possibly since the death of Ariana and unresolved feelings of guilt. Sooo ... just sit back and wait for the saviour to grow up and work to mold him into a martyr, so he doesn't have to get his own hands dirts. We don't see him do anything about the Horcruxes even after the Diary was revealed and he must have known what it was. And he did nothing whatsoever to explain to Harry how to deal with these evil devices, either. Smells very like a setup, doesn't it? Of course, the alternate explanation would be that Dumbles wanted Harry killed, so then he could wade in and kill an hopefully weakened Voldemort and be the hero again. Yeah, I know, too many fanfics ... Oh, and Harry was at the Dursleys to keep him a good little boy that looked up to AD as his saviour from the hell his relatives put him through and did what he was told. |
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Post by Miss Wings on Sept 11, 2015 14:15:40 GMT -5
JK always mentions the true HP stuff on Twitter, if it's not on there it's a rumour.
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Post by Miss Wings on Sept 11, 2015 16:43:13 GMT -5
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Post by RandomPasserby on Sept 13, 2015 6:32:37 GMT -5
Eh, I knew that.
Mostly because mort does not have a pronounced t in French and it doesn't take fluency to realise that Voldemort is also vol de mort.
I still say Voldemort with the t though. Mostly because I can't believe that Tom Riddle who grew up in a London orphanage in the 1920's would know enough French to know what it meant until after he'd created it.
Also this
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Post by Kitty279 on Sept 17, 2015 2:26:28 GMT -5
Lord Earldom Vomit? ROFL! No wonder that idea was discarded ;D And all the dildos showing up ... yeah, must have been a teenage boy who came up with that. The French seem to have a tendency to leave out endings, from the bit I remember of my own holiday in France. French pronouncation was rather weird to me, to put it mildly So I am not too surprised the t should be dropped, considering all the other letters in other words that seem to be there just for decoration ;P (and yes, I know, that's not nice to say) |
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