Forget The Aftermath Of The Marietta SNEAK Jinx Incident. Harry And Cho Were Def Not Gonna Work Out Considering

Forget the aftermath of the Marietta SNEAK jinx incident. Harry and Cho were def not gonna work out considering when going to Madam Pudifoot’s for their cringe date Cho remarked “Remember when that Sirius Black escaped…” lol can you imagine Harry not telling a girl he’s honestly into about Sirius? Granted the situation is trickier than that but still…

@bluethepineapple I love this! I will add that not only in HP is a snake the symbol of Slytherin but in Christianity it symbolizes giving into temptation for evil and in indigenous cultures it represents rebirth and renewal. It really fits into his story imo-his patronous being a snake because he gave into the temptation of power as a teen to only experience reformity or in the case of the snake’s meaning-rebirth and renewal as a spy who worked in the shadows to take down the group he was once part of for nearly two decades.

What do you think Snape's patronus would've been, before it became a doe? I like a bat, to keep up with the theme set up in Philosopher's Stone.

I assumed it was always a doe - although I think the implication with the Tonks' scene is that it was not.

I just really like the idea of this cruel, vicious man creating a Patronus of this beauty. There is also the fact that he seems to associate with mothers of the series - Lily, Narcissa and identifies specifically with his own mother. So a Patronus before this would have similar symbolism for me?

Althought bat would be really fun :D opening this question out to fellow Snape fans - @thedreamermusing @urupotter @dragonlordette (or anyone else) - what do you guys think?

hot snape summer week 2 - under the sea

Snape really wanted to deepen his knowledge about exotic magical water plants but refused to actually soak so he opted for an aquarium visit.

Aquarium is also known as a cute first date idea so he took himself out because he’s all about that self-care now!

#meta

i wanna know about the ring composition meta!

Ok, so, I am a bit unhinged about this 😂 I quite literally froth over all the parallelism, the foreshadowing and chiastic structure of these books, so I decided to put it all in once place and write a meta ... but the trouble is, there is SO much ground to cover that I am having difficulty breaking it down. Here are some of the main snippets and a few of my favourite points -

If something is characterised by chiasmus it denotes a structure in which words/events/stories are repeated in reverse order. For a Harry Potter relevant and more visual representation, it looks something like this -

PS, CoS, PoA, GoF, OoTP, HBP, DH

or refer to this excellent little diagram -

The chiastic structure and ring composition in Harry Potter can be broken down in a few main points -

The beginning (PS) and end (DH) meet - a story in which the beginning and end are at one point.

The 'big turn' or central line and Parallel halves - If the beginning and end are going to meet, the story needs a 'big turn' (a 180 so to speak) at some point to divide it into two halves, with the first half of the story being the outgoing and the second half, the returning. In the case of the HP books this is done by creating seperate sections (PS, CoS, PoA) that are placed against one another (OoTP, HBP, DH) across a central dividing line (GoF), thus making these halves parallels of one another.

Here are a few of my favourite examples of the joined beginning and end

The Forest Again: Harry's first encounter with Voldemort takes place in the forbidden forest, having stumbled upon the dead unicorn. This first encounter is echoed in 'The Forest Again' in DH which is to be Harry's supposed last encounter with Voldermort. 

Hagrid and Harry, together again (🥺): Hagrid brings baby Harry to Privet Drive on Sirius's motorcycle, Hagrid takes adult Harry away from Privet Drive on Sirius's motorcycle. Hagrid introduces Harry to the Wizarding World and is the one to tell him about Voldemort, Hagrid witnesses Harry's supposed death at the hands of Voldemort in The Forest Again and carry's his body to Hogwarts. 

Parents at Christmas (this one has to be my favourite): Little Eleven year-old Harry sees his parents for the first time over the Christmas Holidays, full of hope and longing, he is fascinated and absolutely entranced by their living reflections in the Mirror of Erised. On Christmas Eve in DH, Adult Harry visits his parents graves for the first time and, perhaps also for the first time ever, grieves fully. He sees his would-be home for the first time and experiences the murders of his parents through Voldemorts memories. 

The other Gryffindor champion (ahhhh another fav!): In PS,  Dumbledore awards Neville Longbotton, the decisive last-minute points necessary for Gryffindor's victory over Slytherin for the House Championship. Similarly, in DH, it is Neville's contribution in the final hour, his killing of the serpent Nagini with the Sword of Gyrffindor, that takes Voldemort over to mortality, thus ensuring victory once more. 

And some of the parallel halves

in CoS Harry takes a wrong turn in the floo network and ends up inside the vanishing cabinet at Borgin and Burkes where he spies on Draco Malfoy. In HBP, Harry once again finds himself spying on Draco Malfoy at Borgin and Burkes when he should be with the Weasleys, suspicious about what Draco is purchasing, which incidentally turns out to be, yep, the very same vanishing cabinet.

Both CoS and HBP have major plot points around the significance of a mysterious book, CoS - Tom Riddle's diary, HBP - the Half Blood Princes textbook.

In PoA Harry is introduced to his godfather, in OoTP (need I say more? 😭) he loses him.

In PoA we witness an authetnic prophecy made by Professor Trelawney, in OoTP we witness the authentic prophecy made by Professor Trelawney.

In PoA Snape is furious with Harry at the story's end, he is borderline unhinged because he suspects Sirius's escape has everything to do with Harry. in OoTP Harry is furious with Snape at the story's end, he is borderline irrational after Sirius's death for which he wants to believe Snape is responsible.

There are many, MANY more, but these will have to suffice for now, this is already turning into a thesis 😂

The last point where the ring composition in HP is concerned is -

The rings within the rings - What really takes this from interesting to remarkable is that not only is the series as a whole structured this way, but so is each individual book. Each and every book has its own joined beginnings and endings, an echoing midpoint and story turn, and chapters that echo one another across the story in axis. There are rings within the rings. 

Some super quick examples of this are (it's important to note that the chapters mentioned below are almost always each-others actual numerological parallel within the book) -

First and last chapters of CoS (1-2, 17): Harry meets Dobby on his Birthday, Dobby gives him a dire warning and tries to imprison him to keep him away from Hogwarts. In the latter, Dobby's warnings come to fruition and Harry gives Dobby freedom.

Chapters 4 and 20 of PoA: The trio frets over Scabbers failing health, mysterious longevity and about the ministry's efforts to capture Sirius. In the latter chapter, the trio corner Sirius, learn of Scabbers real identity and the true reason behind his seemingly ill health.

Chapters 8 and 30 of GoF: Harry sits in the top box with Barty Crouch Jr, Ludo Bagman, top Ministry officials and the Malfoys a the Quidditch World Cup. In the latter chapter, Harry finds himself sitting in spectator-full courtroom to watch the trials of Barty Crouch Jr, Ludo Bagman and other former Death Eaters by top Ministry officials.

Fourth and Fourth last chapters of OoTP (4, 35): In what is Sirius's first appearance in this book, we see him fighting with and pulling a curtain over his mother, an insane member of the Black family. In what is Sirius's last appearance in this book, we see him fighting with and being sent behind a veil by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange, an insane member of the Black Family.

Again, there are many, MANY more but I think I'll stop rambling and save them for the meta 😆 sorry for the extremely long winded answer here!!

Ngl they should’ve gotten Dumbledore to wear slightly toned down bohemian style clothes to keep with his eccentric, but powerful aura.

I love fashion in films, if a film has good fashion It makes it inmediatly 200% better, something I liked about hp is given how cartoony the world was, it was perfect to gave the wackiest, most royal witchy wizardry wardrobe imaginable, instead we got ugly grey dumbledore for 6 out of 8 movies. FUCK!

Snape lovers, canon text, word of God: Snape was morally grey and did both good and bad things. He is an imperfect, messy, realistic victim of trauma and abuse and he also perpetuated some of that abuse in his own way. His redemption arc is only meaningful because of the bad things and because he recognised them as such and gave up the entire rest of his life to atone for it, doing miserable things he hated, being a person he hated, never experiencing love again. He couldn’t undo the things he had participated in, but he was a necessary piece in winning the war and without him Voldemort would have won. There is nothing more he could have possibly done; if he had gone to Azkaban or killed himself he would not have been able to play that part. He did not get off without punishment because he punished himself every day by giving up his life and any chance of happiness to do it, believing he would always be hated and no one would know his true loyalties or sacrifice. He was murdered before he could even know it hadn’t all been in vain, a death that even the murderer recognised was for petty reasons. He is a jerk, he is selfless, he is mean, he is a victim, he is a former Death Eater, he is a hero. He is all of these things at once and that’s what makes his story compelling.

Snape haters: lol he was the devil and he died because he was bitten by a snake, which he deserved because he was mean to students sometimes