curious...lovehonorlifeNovember 13 2005, 09:32:03 UTC
Any chance you'd be interested in having your writing on a website of satire/reviews of all things fantasy/sci-fi? I have a friend who's starting one up, and looking for people to submit.
Mary GrandPre seems to be the only person on the planet who believes Snape has a beard. Every other, and I mean EVERY other picture I've seen has him clean shaven. I really dislike the Jafar-clone she draws, but it has the advantage of being distinctive and different
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I also liked that Snape sounded like he was in pain.
JKR also had Lupin mention Regulus earlier when the body of Igor Karkaroff was found. She wanted us to remember Regulus. Sirius seemed to think Regulus was an idiot and a coward, but Sirius isn't always right about such things, especially when he had all the reason to be jealous of his brother.
Sirius seemed to think Regulus was an idiot and a coward
That right there is proof to me that RAB is this Regulus guy. Because it completely fits Rowling's simplistic notion of how to set up a surprise twist--we're told Regulus is a coward so we're supposed to be amazed when we learn he wasn't. It's exactly the same line of reasoning used in the Half-Blood Prince mystery--assuming you'll take it on face value that Snape's too full-blooded to be Halfy and that you won't bother doing any critical thinking at all.
I keep wanting to think you've all gotten it wrong, because it'd be really neat if you all thought it was Regulus and it turned out to be someone totally different, but it's all too obvious, too pat, too Rowling. I've seen more complex mysteries watching professional wrestling.
Mary GrandPre seems to be the only person on the planet who believes Snape has a beard. Every other, and I mean EVERY other picture I've seen has him clean shaven.
*nods* There's a picture of Snape, drawn by JKR Rowling herself, that shows a clean-shaven Snape. Matter of fact, Alan Rickman in the movies totally looks like a live-action version of that picture, which I'm given to understand was drawn before the movies were even cast let alone made.
Hey, Mike, I've been reading this book called "Reginald Arthur Brown and the Secret Horcruxes," and it is so awesome! It's an action-packed roller-coaster ride, with thrills, chills, and spills! Reggie Brown is such a competent, brilliant wizard, and he always knows what to do and how to finesse his way through tough situations! And at the end, the book jumped into my lap and gave me oral!
It's the greatest book ever and if I had to suggest a book to spend four months reading, it'd definitely be this one. I'm definitely gonna check out the other six books in the series. Sorry about how things turned out with that thing you're doing.
Heck, if you want to go by monograms, maybe Snape is the reincarnated version of Salazar Slytherin.
I made my daughter, who didn't have her younger sibs to contend with, tell me who died. I was fairly certain it was Dumbledore, with all the putting things in order he was doing. That blackened hand didn't make me think it would be someone else, either. But JKR has a habit of leading readers down a primrose path to the wrong conclusion.
So, I don't mind spoilers. Getting to that point is half the fun. Maybe more than half. She wouldn't tell me how it was done, though she did let it slip that he was killed. 'I won't tell you who kills him' was what she said. So I had another mystery to work through while I was at it.
"You were the CHOSEN ONE!" with heartbroken disappointment... Yeah, it would have fit. Perfectly.
Loved your list of spoilers. Don't forget that biggie: Holmes didn't die at Richenbach Falls. Moriarity did.
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I don't know how to spell that fucking word for the life of me. Couldn't they have just called themselves 'Whiny Emo Rock Group?'
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And totally agree on the Evanes Evenece Whiny Emo Rock Group.
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You're not really helping River out here...
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JKR also had Lupin mention Regulus earlier when the body of Igor Karkaroff was found. She wanted us to remember Regulus. Sirius seemed to think Regulus was an idiot and a coward, but Sirius isn't always right about such things, especially when he had all the reason to be jealous of his brother.
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That right there is proof to me that RAB is this Regulus guy. Because it completely fits Rowling's simplistic notion of how to set up a surprise twist--we're told Regulus is a coward so we're supposed to be amazed when we learn he wasn't. It's exactly the same line of reasoning used in the Half-Blood Prince mystery--assuming you'll take it on face value that Snape's too full-blooded to be Halfy and that you won't bother doing any critical thinking at all.
I keep wanting to think you've all gotten it wrong, because it'd be really neat if you all thought it was Regulus and it turned out to be someone totally different, but it's all too obvious, too pat, too Rowling. I've seen more complex mysteries watching professional wrestling.
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*nods* There's a picture of Snape, drawn by JKR Rowling herself, that shows a clean-shaven Snape. Matter of fact, Alan Rickman in the movies totally looks like a live-action version of that picture, which I'm given to understand was drawn before the movies were even cast let alone made.
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It's the greatest book ever and if I had to suggest a book to spend four months reading, it'd definitely be this one. I'm definitely gonna check out the other six books in the series. Sorry about how things turned out with that thing you're doing.
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I made my daughter, who didn't have her younger sibs to contend with, tell me who died. I was fairly certain it was Dumbledore, with all the putting things in order he was doing. That blackened hand didn't make me think it would be someone else, either. But JKR has a habit of leading readers down a primrose path to the wrong conclusion.
So, I don't mind spoilers. Getting to that point is half the fun. Maybe more than half. She wouldn't tell me how it was done, though she did let it slip that he was killed. 'I won't tell you who kills him' was what she said. So I had another mystery to work through while I was at it.
"You were the CHOSEN ONE!" with heartbroken disappointment... Yeah, it would have fit. Perfectly.
Loved your list of spoilers. Don't forget that biggie:
Holmes didn't die at Richenbach Falls. Moriarity did.
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