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[thymidinekinase]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Spoilers behind the cut-tag after some non-spoiler remarks.

10 PM, local indie bookstore. Cloak - check. Red hair - check.
Weasley-ish spouse - check. Prepaid book card - check. I entered the shop to find my
half-baked costume out-shone by several fully-baked ones. There were two
spot-on Trelawneys, one a

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[thomasyan]

You didn't think maybe it would be Snape who would buy the farm due to the Unbreakable Vow? If I hadn't known (damn all spoilers to hell!) that DD would die, Snape might have worked as a diversion for me.

Snape seems to me to still be on the side of good, albeit a continuing world class asshole.

[thymidinekinase]

I wonder if the reason Albus trusted Snape so much was that he'd made an unbreakable vow to protect the Order or possibly to protect Harry. That would explain why he won't acutally attack Harry and keeps protecting him while hating his guts.

odd question

[anonymous]

hey...i saw your icon in response to reading Barb's (psychic_serpent) livejournal and i THINK that's a Northwestern University mask that you're wearing. I am a senior on the team now (sharon). are you an alum or someone i just don't realize that i know?

*~sharon~*

Re: odd question

[thymidinekinase]

Well-spotted. I fenced varsity at NU in 1997-1998, my first year of graduate school. I sparred with the club for the next few years while I worked on my degree.

not about Harry but...

[adidas33k]

It's marie here...I looked up the answer to the crossword about the small intestine, it's posted in my journal if you haven't gotten it yet.