Originally Posted by Psychotic
Dumbledore : Slytherin is winning ?
Dumbledore :
Dumbledore : 899, 9999 pts to Gryffindor, for being my favorite house. Not biased or anything.
Dumbledore : Slytherin is winning ?
Dumbledore :
Dumbledore : 899, 9999 pts to Gryffindor, for being my favorite house. Not biased or anything.
I refer to this scene every time I play mario party when the bonus stars are handed out
Dumbledore : Slytherin is winning ?
Dumbledore :
Dumbledore : 899, 9999 pts to Gryffindor, for being my favorite house. Not biased or anything.
I thought this scene was very out of character for Snape when I re-read it but years after I realised it wasnt just because of the mauling thing. It was because Snape thought Sirius was the one who betrayed Lily and co to Voldemort
Last edited by blackmage_nuke; 03-14-2014 at 04:26 PM.
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Have a nice day!!
I imagine Snape becomes a very different character, with different motivations than we originally saw, in a second read through, knowing how he felt about Lily, etc. (Still excuses nothing)
Like how in Snape's Worst Memory we originally thought it was the worst because he was publically humiliated and all that (at least I did), but with some hindsight, we can see that really its because that was when he lost his only friend by being an absolute dick to her. :3
Dumbledore : Slytherin is winning ?
Dumbledore :
Dumbledore : 899, 9999 pts to Gryffindor, for being my favorite house. Not biased or anything.
It sends a bad message when you let the Voldemort Youth win.
Pretty disappointed with the Helena Ravenclaw and her mother's diadem business in the book. That was one of my favorite scenes in the movie, and I always liked that Tom has tricked it away from her and defiled it with blackmagic and that she was reluctant to trust anyone else with it. I also like that she gave him a riddle to help him find the diadem in a true Ravenclaw fashion. I also super love Kelly MacDonald.
The scene in the book felt rushed and unimportant as if she cared very little about the diadem. It was as though it was thrown in there for quirky trivia in revealing about Helena's death and the Bloody Baron. I am disappointed.
My chief complaint about Book 7 is that...Dumbledore was completely right about everything. You might remember in Book 6 he predicted the two unknown Horcruxes would be an object from one of the Founders and his pet snake.
I was absolutely certain going into the book he'd be wrong about Nagini. Like, Harry would go through a lot of effort to kill the thing and then Voldemort would laugh in his face. "You think I'd put part of my soul in my pet? GET REAL POTTER."
But nope, there were no surprises there at all. it was the crown of Ravenclaw and the damned snake and then Voldemort basically killed himself by being that retarded.
Bleh.
I loved that Snape was a good guy all along. In a way I could see it coming but not to the extent of how important he was to beating Voldemort. I also love that one of my favourite music artists of time had a 4 second cameo in The prisoner of Azkaban.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bWOfqJZuHs
Ride ze shoopuff
I will show you my hidden horcrux...
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Not all Slytherin's are bad and Gryffindor's are not always good. Hell Peter was a Gryffindor and he was willing to let Harry's parents die, and serve Voldemort.
Tru Dat.
Not all Slytherin's are bad and Gryffindor's are not always good. Hell Peter was a Gryffindor and he was willing to let Harry's parents die, and serve Voldemort.
Also, McClaggen was a knob and he was Gryffindor. I suppose he was hardly evil though compared to Pettigrew.
Slytherin's pendant was mentioned in the Order of the Phoenix when they cleaned Sirius' house. It must be when Molly had problems casting a spell and was all like "you must think bad of me who cannot even do this ..."
What I did not really like was that Harry was pretty much invincible throughout the whole series because of his mother's love, then the dual core, then being able to come back from the edge of life and death and being the owner the Elder Wand. At least the final battle should not have been that one-sided because Harry owned Dumbledore's wand.
Even though it had the same problem I like the final movie more as it had an actual final battle that was not just one page long like "Avada Kedavra" - "Expelliarmus" - Voldemort hurt itself in confusion - Voldemort faints.
What I do like is that Dumbledore was still shown to be the total hero. I mean many people were like "Boo, he planned that for Harry and he was an ass when he was young" but he did it for the greater good, always supported Harry and still planned that Harry could survive so except not telling him there was nothing really "bad" as there was no actual problem for Harry and he was save even after sacrificing himself so he did not just want Harry to die for that and that's it. And he even felt bad about himself but Harry did nseot lo faith in Dumbledore. He is my most favourite character in the series and if you ask me he is the true hero, a man who sacrificed his own life to help Snape getting Voldemort to trust him. And to not feel totally bad about him as reader he was also given the curse so he did not have much time left anyway.
The whole house point thing was "riddiculus", even though it is meant for a total happy ending for every book, but they did not win all the time. Still it was random for the story itself.
Last edited by Sephiroth; 03-15-2014 at 12:17 PM.
The pendant had nothing to do with Molly having trouble against the boggart; she wasn't wearing it, they threw it away.
The house point system is in place to teach them about accountability and how your bad (or good) behavior affects your classmates. Of course, it's not really like Harry or Ron ever cared much.
I didn't say it was the reason I said it was the time when it was mentioned, so the cleaning part.
For the first...four or five books, Slytherin = House of Evil. That's undeniable. They are all racist, all the girls are described as being ugly, they cheat at Quidditch... They have no redeeming qualities at all.
Now, in theory, Slytherin House isn't so bad. Dumbledore said in CoS:
"Listen to me Harry. You happen to have many qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his handpicked students. His own very rare gift, Parseltongue - resourcefulness - determination - a certain disregard for rules."
And then Phineas Black's quote in HBP:
"We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, when given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks."
Salazar Slytherin probably was suspicious of Half-Bloods and Muggleborns because at that time, being a witch was kinda dangerous. But over time his pragmatism was warped into just generic discrimination, racism and hatred.
Yes, people like to say "well the Slytherin we see in the books is post-Voldemort. A lot of the kids are sons of Death Eaters and Slytherin House probably wasn't always like that."
Okay...but since it's THAT Slytherin House we saw for six books, it's the one that matters. And it is demonstrably ugly and hated by every other house in the school.
There were a grand total of 3 good Slytherins in these books - Snape, Regulus and Slughorn.
If we're counting Snape and Regulus amongst the good Slytherins--because they turned from evil--then you've got to count all three Malfoys. In the end, they just wanted to be together and didn't care about Voldemort winning. I mean, Narcissa saved Harry's life in the forest. Even if it was only so she could eventually save Draco, it came from a place of love.
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