HBP: Chapter Two

[amanuensis1]

Warning: Do not post any comments here if you have read beyond chapter 2 of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

This is the discussion post for Chapter 2 of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (and for all chapters prior to chapter 2). SPOILERS are expected to be contained in these comments for all of these chapters--though not for later

Comments

[luthien]

Yes! It's already jossed one of my stories in progress but I'm just so pleased to finally KNOW that I don't care!

[nosinabook]

I had the very same thought, Moon. What has Snape done???

[tulipsaside]

Hi im one of those people who doesnt mind being spoiled... and I can't get the book till tomorrow... (trust me I've begged enough book stores today trying to get it early) ....anyway, what exactly has Snape done, and what about this character of his?

Please please someone spoil it for me... i really would love to know!

[smaragdgrun]

Hard to tell thus far. But he's clearly playing both sides, defending his loyalty to Voldemort when challenged by Bellatrix. And definitely a double agent for the Order.

And then promising to protect Draco when he does something under Voldie's orders to help release Lucius, I think.

Oh, and Wormtail is living upstairs in Snape's book filled Muggle-neighborhood run down house.

[violet_musings]

D'you think it's about Lucius? I'm wondering if Draco isn't supposed to try to do something to Harry...seems more likely it would have something to do with someone at school, at any rate. Though if his 'detour' is in Ch. 6, that might be too soon for school, I suppose.

[smaragdgrun]

hmm, yes -- I think that's more likely.

[violet_musings]

...the long blonde hair streaming down her back gave her the look of a drowned person.

Them's words of doom, them is. D-O-O-M, that spells dead! (Well, it did for Sirius, anyway.)

I think I shall begin to ship Snape/Wormtail now. *nods decisively* Yes, I think I shall.

DRACO! *clings*

[sunkise23]

oh wow, that's just.... :scrubs out brain:

[_hannelore]

Especially when Wormtail declares he's not there to just fix tea. Ha!

[moriann]

I suspect the task Draco's been given is to kill Harry

I don't think so. Voldemort would probably want to kill Harry himself. He seems to be the person who takes defeat very personally. He'd try until he succeeds (or Harry does) but he wouldn't use his lackeys for it. To catch Harry, yes, to weaken him, too, but he'd want to do the deed himself.

[fitchersvogel]

I assumed Draco's sent to kill Dumbledore. Not in a duel, obviously, more the backstabbing-at-dinner sort of murder. As one of his pupils, he could poison his lemon drops or whatever...

[moriann]

As one of his pupils, he could poison his lemon drops or whatever...

My God, half the tea I was drinking ended up on my monitor.

That would be soo below the belt.

Duuude.

[mctabby]

Is this the fanficciest chapter that ever chaptered, or what?

I was nodding my head and thinking "yes, this is a rather good Narcissa, quite in character" - as if this was any one of the countless versions of Narcissa I've read in the past three years.

Anyway, I'm now shipping Narcissa/Cho. Let JKR's weepiest females cry all over each other.

Bet the Pettigrew fans are tearing their hair out. *pets soothingly*

And Snape... a room of his own, at last! "walls were completely covered in books"
*revels in the Snapeness of it all*

Re: Duuude.

[applegnat]

*nod* Ficciest ever chapter.

Re: Duuude.

[cellia]

So. True.

But you know, that's also kinda the reason I like it. Suddenly JKR has given her ebil villians a touch of dimensionality!

I'm also amazed at how um, well, *cool* Snape seemed here. He's never seemed as cool and suave in the books as ficcers have made him, but maybe that's because he's been dealing with snot-nosed brats and childhood enemies. With other adults, the ficcers were right!

I'm so being made happier by this book than I thought I would be.

Re: Duuude.

[e_dork]

I'm also amazed at how um, well, *cool* Snape seemed here.

That's how I felt reading it. I'm so glad JKR's begun building up all three of those charachters.