Harry potter

[tarotgal]

Oh my gosh... I know I've said this probably a dozen times already but I am getting SO much out of HP1 now that I've read through 5. LOL!

About Snape marking Harry during their first year: "Snape was so horrible to Harry. Could Snape possibly know they'd found out about the Sorcerer's Stone? Harry didn't see how he could-- yet sometimes had the horrible feeling that Snape could read minds."
Well now... if he's that skilled in Occlumency who's to say he's not just as skilled in Legilimency? He certainly uses it enough on Harry in the fifth book... why not a little bit in the first?

And now I'm wondering the whole time how very much of Harry's adventures Dumbledore is not only is aware of, being able to make himself invisible and all, but possibly even in control of to some extent- pushing Harry on somehow mentally- the dreams, the emotions, the desires, etc. I have such terrible feelings about the ending of the fifth book- what if Dumbledore had been there for a lot longer than just at the end? Grrr... I really don't know what to make of that man.

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[(Anonymous)]

Now I really want to read HP5 again! I want my friend to hurry up and return it already. But then it's been claimed by another friend, so I might even download it before I get a chance to read it again. I think I missed a lot of points, in my first reading... or maybe I'm just not as familiar with the books as everyone is,to be making all these links and connections?

girlwithtulips

[tarotgal]

I know for sure I missed a lot of points my first time through. And it's put a different spin on some of the characters and actions from other books. As for being more familiar- well, I've listened to the audio books SO many times- and yet I'm still picking up on little things (like the quote above from HP1) I'm sure it's nothing, but it makes for more interesting wheels to turn in my head :-)

It's certainly worth a second read before making up your mind on anything, though. I'm just not happy with Dumbledore in the fifth book at all... so I think I'm reading into all his actions in the other books now.

As for Snape... we never REALLY see him doing much good, apart from saving Harry when he's on his broom and levitating the kids to the castle on stretchers in book 3. Otherwise, it's just on his honor that he's on the good side... maybe he was actually trying to help Quirrel get past Fluffy? We don't really know for certain, do we?

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Six pages!? Wow. ::bounce:: I'm uber happy because I've never read a Neville sneezefic and have always wanted one and you read one of mine once and liked it but you just rock as a fic writer that way and I can almost pretend you're writing it on request because I wanted one and mentioned something and you're writing one and wow I'm typing quickly, what am I doing up at two thirty in the morning? DSJHDHNFDUIBFUFB!
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[tarotgal]

LOL Probably not the same thing I'm doing up at 2:30 in the morning... then again, I'm usually up until 6 or 7 in the morning these days so that's a safe bet.

Anyway, yes, feel free to pretend it's on request LOL! It's more like you honored me with a grand flash of lovely inspiration that wouldn't go away until I wrote. heehee ! But thank you much for the compliment about my writing. I always love trying new things so this has been a fun experience.

I was really hoping to have most of it done today... but oh well. We shall see how far I get before I fall asleep tonight. I'm working on a Dead Zone music vid at the same time LOL
But I will assure you the fic is going well... I'm trying to bring a lot of different parts of Neville out in this one... so we'll see what I finally end up with. He's really grown up a lot from book 1 to 5... but at the same time, he still has a lot of similar character traits. So I'm trying to stay constant with those as well. And I'm trying not to make him all "herbology master" boy, but it's hard not to play up his strengths in a fic, you know?
Or maybe you don't. Anyway, I am trying :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Since the end of GoF, I have had worries about Dumbledore. I was MOST upset by the gleam in his eye that Harry noticed when he was telling D. about Voldemort now being able to touch him. It was most out of character, even though in the next instant, D. returned to his usual self.

Of course, During OotP, I was frustrated to death over Dumbledore's lack of communication with Harry - and his stupidity in making Snape do the Occlumency tutoring. I did return to my sound faith in Dumbledore after the battle in the MOM. The way D., Fawkes and the fountain people fought together against Voldemort and the quiet but furious calm with which D. acted - those are true Dumbledore characteristics. I could understand completely what D. was saying to Harry afterward - I knew the problem long before D. admitted it - that he simply loves Harry too much. He did what he thought was best at the time - and probably it was for the best, given the way Harry felt like attacking D. when they did make eye contact - I believe D. was right to limit that at all costs. Dumbledore knows too much - he knows everything, actually - to risk letting Voldemort get into his mind through Harry.

Snape now is another story. When I finished the book, with all its pain - I wanted to blame some character for this, and I lit upon Snape. After all, if he hadn't had that trmeondous temper tantrum (all over a childhod memory) and thrown Harry out of Occlumency tutoring, then Harry would have possibly been able to resist Voldemort and none of the terrible things that happend would have happened! And even when Snape was teaching, he wasn't really HELPING Harry, he was just attacking him and then getting mad when Harry couldn't defend himself properly. Lupin and Black both stated that tutoring Harry in Occlumency was of the utmost importance and Snape had to know that too. Since we don't know what else Snape might have been doing for the Order, that was the one sure thing he was to do, and the task was even given to him by Dumbledore himself, and Snape simply gave up all because of a temper tantrum. That made me mad!


I'm certain you are right about Snape using Legilimency on Harry during the earlier books. What exactly are you worried Dumbledore has heard there from Harry before he (D.) is able to safely reappear?