| silveryouko @ 2003-12-16 02:31:00 |
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Snape finally posts. Does he seem a little bit...off to anyone other than me?
Comments:
| noirenails @ December 15 2003, 23:37:16 UTC |
I can't decide is he being just his nasty lovable self or has he just told he trusts Hermione in some manner. I mean, to let a student (even if it's Hermione) brew a potion? Especially after that inner desires incident?
(parent)| silveryouko @ December 15 2003, 23:48:47 UTC |
Yeah, it doesn't seem like he's being his fully nasty, very snarky self. I wonder if he's still really bothered by everything that happened.
(parent)| saffronlie @ December 16 2003, 00:12:57 UTC |
It's not just any potion, though. It's Wolfsbane, for Lupin, which Snape's had to slave over every month for years. By making Hermione brew it, it seems to signify that Snape's finished with Lupin in all ways. If she can do it properly, he could make her do it for ever after. (Hermione is nice enough and would feel guilty enough to do it for Lupin if she could, I'm sure. I'd say the only thing stopping her from doing it before would be the lack of a recipe or a doubt in her own abilities.)
Wasn't Snape working on a cure for the werewolf bite, and when Lupin found his notes it was the catalyst to bring them together? Now it seems like Snape really doesn't want anything to do with Lupin, to do anything *for* Lupin, or have contact with him at all, and I want to know why.
| noirenails @ December 16 2003, 00:18:49 UTC |
I didn't even think about that *slaps self*
Angst is all around. Everything sucks. Except j_h, ps and M.B.
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Anonymous @ December 16 2003, 00:24:49 UTC |
I suspect PS and M.B. do too :D I'd be quite heartbroken if they don't!
-nancyrose, logged in somewhere else
| notapipe @ December 16 2003, 00:59:01 UTC |
If Snape really DOESN'T want to work on the cure or the potion anymore, there are two things this suggests are possible:
1) Snape took it HARD. Hard enough to stop work on the cure, admitting a failure of his potions skill like that and giving up just isn't like Snape unless he has a significant motivation. He would rather consider the idea that Neville has evil genius skills than admit that he made a completely accidental mistake in his preparation of one of his potions; that's a shitload of pride. Even I admit my mistakes. In time. *wildly looks at incredulous stares* Hey. Shut up. Look up. I just implied that Neville is not evil, didn't I? See? I let go. (Even though he actually is evil. Just really really quietly evil. You'll see. YOU'LL ALL SEE. AND THEN I WILL LAUGH ON YOUR GRAVES CREATED BY HIS RAIN ACID AND FROGS AND YOUR REANIMATED CORPSES HE HAS DANCE FOR HIS NECROMANTIC PLEASURE. Well... at least he... uh... LIED to Sara about muggle/wizardy things. That's treating people as means and not ends, which is as bad as killing them or masturbating to Kant.)
But even in this case, he must have been rather impressed with what Hermoine was doing, even in spite of (perhaps in part because of) her fuckup.
2) He expects it may come to pass soon that he can't make the potion when it is needed. In such a case, he needs someone who:
A) has the skills to make the potion if and when he is neutralized or incapacitated;
B) can be trusted, this means a member of the Order or someone very close to it such as one of the Gryffindor Three. So no star-potions-student Draco, for example; and
C) is inconspicious and doesn't present a special problem, the twins might have the potions ability to do it, but they're just not a smart choice. Hermoine is.
Actually, a DE related thing could be involved in 1 as well, depending on what he expects and what happened on Lupin's mission. But that's not so likely.
I lean to 2. The fact that it is HERMOINE helps its case.
| notapipe @ December 16 2003, 01:54:32 UTC |
Certianly I can see the compossibility of both of us being correct, I just think that the second is sufficent, while the first is not, so we can stop there.
(parent)| notapipe @ December 16 2003, 01:56:31 UTC |
Okay. Er. I used the word compossible.
Important: Do not talk to people when you are doing a paper on modality.
| allthat_jazz @ December 16 2003, 10:56:52 UTC |
Oh, I like the sound of explanation number 2. Even though it has major potential for Snapegettinghurt! wibblege. But then again, what is NA without wibblege?
(parent)| therealycats @ December 15 2003, 23:43:53 UTC |
Teeheehee. How I do love sadistic potions masters :D HEEEEEEEEEE! :D
(parent)| notapipe @ December 16 2003, 00:26:55 UTC |
I thought NA had a rule against student/teacher relationships.
(parent)| small_rodent @ December 18 2003, 10:43:13 UTC |
You do know that I must kill you now for linking to such a long and well written fic in the middle of finals week. Especially a WIP.
(parent)| saphywaphy @ December 18 2003, 14:11:02 UTC |
Well, it's not technically a WIP since it'll never be finished (save for the outline of the rest of the story Riley posted.)
(parent)| notapipe @ December 20 2003, 03:23:09 UTC |
I completely understand. I deserve it too, since it never will be finished and FINALS WEEK. *hates on*
But you'll have to catch me first.
| dr_jekyl @ December 16 2003, 03:05:54 UTC |
He is off somehow. I can't quite place it. He seems a little too... gentle or tired or something. Maybe, as others have said, resigned about something. I don't like the idea of him giving up making the Wolfsbane, if only because it means that he thinks that things are probably well and truely over between Remus and himself. It might be that Remus is back in with his knight-in-shining-armour.
And he's given Hermione permission to bug him about the potion during the holidays when everything else in the post indicates he's thrilled at the idea of no contact with the student body for the holidays.
(... and the wild speculation continues)
| snowballjane @ December 16 2003, 04:24:12 UTC |
I think the reference to 'tricks' bears wild speculation. Does he still think the whole alleged kidnap was a trick? Was it? Or does he think the whole Snape/Lupin relationship was some kind of elaborate Gryffindor conspiracy designed to hurt him?
Whichever, I suspect that asking Hermione to make the Wolfbane is pure Remus avoidance. Although it's interesting that the 'Hmm' icon is used as it's probably about the softest one.
But however fascinating all this is, I do miss the sweet-snarky conversations of the past few months.
| allthat_jazz @ December 16 2003, 10:58:55 UTC |
It looks as if he's completely given up on Lupin. *wibble*
(parent)| thsfuhqinsux @ December 17 2003, 03:40:54 UTC |
Unless I'm wrong and I could be, it's the piece in the original Fantasia movie where the mountain turns into the devil and plays with all of the lost souls. I have always loved that piece. But very forboding.
(parent)| annotated_em @ December 17 2003, 13:57:08 UTC |
That's actually Night on Bald Mountain, and the quiet bit at the end is the Ave Maria.
(parent)| thsfuhqinsux @ December 17 2003, 15:43:12 UTC |
A Night On Bald Mountain was the name that was given to that piece of animation, but the music that was played in it (at least the first part) was Toccata & Fugue in D Minor.
(parent)| annotated_em @ December 18 2003, 12:52:53 UTC |
Huh. I could have sworn Toccata and Fugue was from the beginning segment that had the curvy lines and stuff--the really abstract part.
(parent)| i_satin @ December 17 2003, 10:34:34 UTC |
The Tocatta in D Minor is a very, very famous piece usually played on an organ, preferably in a church :-) It's very dramatic.
Everyone knows it; you probably just don't recognize the name.
Here is the tocatta, and here is the fugue. Enjoy.
</de-lurk>
| i_satin @ December 17 2003, 10:40:24 UTC |
Whoops, that is toccata of course. I caught the vibe from Snape's player :-)
(parent)| vassilissa @ December 17 2003, 01:17:27 UTC |
I don't CARE! He asked Hermione to prepare the Wolfsbane Potion! That means there's going to be a Lupin around then to need it!
*overexcited, squeeful, and using too many exclamation marks*
(Snape's player? It's spelled Toccata. Also, I heart you.)