Christmas&Halloween, New teacher, Most Scary Character,Lucius&Snape, Dark Souls

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No: HPFGUIDX 23779

Hi everybody,

After a period of relative lurkdom (I've got hooked by fanfiction- 
need I say more?)
I'd like to write a really, really long post about the topics covered 
recently:

Christmas & Halloween: Actually, Christmas is never "celebrated" in 
the religious
 sense: There are presents and Christmas trees, that's all. And the 
food is on even
higher gastronomic standard, including traditional elements, like 
turkey and
Christmas pudding. And that's it. IMO, these elements don't indicate 
any religious
preference, more so as the Christmas tree is, as has already been 
observed, an
originally pagan symbol that has made its way into Christian religion.
And I think that Christmas and easter holidays merely serve the 
purpose of
sending the students home when the Muggle students are at home as 
well- to
avoid questions from the neighbours like "Oh, Mrs Finnigan, I've been 
wondering
which school Seamus attends, as he's always coming home at such odd 
times!" 


The person close to Harry that will become a teacher: Nice at it 
would be to see
Neville teaching, I think that we will actually see the person 
teaching and so it
can't be him, being in the same year as Harry etc. It must be one of 
the older
students or somebody who has already graduated. My shuddering guess 
is 
Percy- he might have trouble at the ministry in the near future and 
Dumbledore
might offer him this possibility. Would be bad, as he' my choice for


The Most scary character: frankly, he scares me more than Peter
Pettigrew. Along with Barty Crouch Sr., he is one of those persons 
who in
the name of law and order would do anything. I was rather impressed
by what Ron said about Percy being able to throw the whole family
into Azkaban if he thought they deserved it. I see a major crisis 
between
Arthur and Percy coming along.

Lucius likes Snape: Sorry, I've forgotten whose post this was in, but 
it's 
fairly recent. Now honestly, I don't think of two DEs "liking" each 
other. Being a DE automatically excludes such feelings as love and
respect. I mean, they aren't co- workers and I don't see them going
for a post slaughter drink, chatting amicably about ways to hold your
wand while doing the Cruciatus Curse. 

Rosmerta wrote:
<Most men one meets in real life fall into the utterly-
<normal, slightly-nerdy-with-heart-in-right-place,
<or post-jock-jovial categories, yet who inspires
<the female fans? Outre (Sirius), outre (Lupin), 
<and outre-with-stringy-hair (Snape).

Yes, but that is definitely a female archetype: The
man with the tortured soul who makes you dream of
being the one able to redeem him. Romantic archetype,
to be exact. That's why they are so interesting.
Or did anybody ever hear anything about a Hagrid fan
group? The Hagrids of this world are what we deal with
daily and it's a good thing, because having our lives
full with Snapes, Siriuses and Lupins would be
quite exhausting, wouldn't it? (But nice, wouldn't it?
says the little voice in my head.)

Susanna (who hopes all this made sense as she has
slept very little and is not sure her brain is 
already working properly)