IIRC and other internet shorthand; Snape's relation to V and Harry

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 1836

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "storm stanford" <msmacgoo at h...> 
wrote:

> btw what is IIRC? usually I'm pretty quick but that has me stumped!

BTW of course being "By the way".... IIRC is in the same category: 

"If I remember* correctly".  *or recall.

These are the other most common ones:

LOL - laugh out loud  (implied that this is in response to a joke 
someone made, or I am laughing as I am saying something)
ROFL or ROTFL  - Rolling on the floor laughing
ROFLMAO  or ROTFLMAO - Rolling on the floor laughing my a** (or a***, 
if you're British) off.
IMO - in my opinion
IMHO  - in my humble opinion
imhotep - an Egyptian Pharaoh, not an internet shortcut!
IMNSHO - in my not so humble opinion
<g> grin - a different version of the 'smiley' :-)
(snip)  - not an abbreviation, but an indication that some quoted 
material is removed, as less relevant to the reply.

There are others, but these seem by far the most common.

On Snape's relation to Voldy and Harry, you've actually taken my 
theory further by speculating that Snape had gone with him to the 
house.

This is from a backchannel discussion I had with Vicki, before we 
separated these back out and posted them as notes on the Yahoo list 
circa 11 August.  Mine are the >'s, Vicki's the plain.

> This made me think of a possible different motivation for Snape's 
attitude
> toward Harry as well.
>  - What would Snape have done if Harry had been put in Slytherin?  
Would
> he
> have accepted Harry more?  I wonder if some of Snape's attitude may 
just
> be
> favoritism toward his own house.  What must he think of  Malfoy, 
Crabb &
> Goyle, too, knowing of their parents?  (Plus, what must the parents 
think
> of
> their kids being under Snape, if they know he was the spy in *their*
> midst?)
> 
        Yes, Snape definitely seems to favor his house but the 
animosity
towards Harry goes much MUCH deeper than house rivalry.  He lets 
Malfoy 
get
away with murder and seems, just my thoughts, to favor him even over 
other
Slytherins.  Maybe this is to lull Lucious into a false sense of
commaraderie or maybe its just the house.  The problem is that Snape 
is 
not
just a little against Harry.  He is grossly amazingly unfair in the 
points
situation.   (snip)

        Plus, I know that some people are starting to see Snape as the
secret hidden, dark hero, but to me he is still slime, even if he is 
not on
Voldy's side.  For all he dislikes and is hard on Harry, IMO, nothing 
makes
up for what he did to Hermione.  "I don't see any difference."  That 
is
horrible and completely inexcusable from a professor and I just can't
forgive him for that completely unnecessary hateful remark to a 14 
year
girl.  He could have let Malfoy get away with his curses without
deliberately stomping on a 14 year girl at a vulnerable moment.

> heads, but.... consider this scenario.  What if Snape was not just 
the spy
> in Lord V's camp, but was in fact considering moving against him - 
maybe
> working on a potion that would confer (even temporary) immunity to 
the A.
> K.
> curse, just to toss out an idea - and was lining up plans for the
> challenge,
> when Lord V. went after Harry & the Potters, and was defeated, so 
Snape
> never had his chance - after all, what a hero he would have been if 
he had
> defeated V from within the ranks, turned over the other DE's, said
- 
"I
> believed him at first but I came to see that he was wrong, there is 
not
> just
> power, there really is good and evil and Lord V. was evil".  But 
Harry,
> albeit innocently, by surviving and making V. discorporate, foiled 
Snape's
> plan for his spectacular rehabilitation and heroism.  Boy, that 
would 
be
> frustrating!
> (This also ties into disappointment at not catching Black in Book 
III - that might have been seen as a further chance to rehabilitate 
himself in wizarding public's eye too, but was also foiled by Harry.)


Interesting theory.  I kind of like it.  Dont know that I agree with 
it, but
I like it.

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SO you can see we had similar ideas, but the variation of Snape
having 
even gone with Voldy to the Potter's house is interesting.  I 
hypothesized instead that Snape had been the one to warn Dumbledore 
that Voldy was on the way, but it had turned out to be too late.  In 
fact, there is probably a nice little bit of fanfic one might write, 
if one took that tack, on what happened to *make* it too late.  Also 
interesting someone had suggested Lily was working on an anti-AK 
charmm, whereas I had suggested (and forgot) that Snape may have been 
working on an AK-vaccine potion.

-Brooks