werewolf/fanfic/speculation / Hermione's name / Snape

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 31254

Mahoney wrote:

> Firstly, er, what is the plot-hole-that-must-not-be-named?

It's in PoA (book 3). As summarised in the Lexicon: "Why did Lupin 
transform into a werewolf only when the full moon came out from 
behind the clouds? Don't werewolves automatically change shape at the 
full moon, whether or not there are clouds? ... 

"JKR's partial answer: "The moon wasn't up when he entered the 
Shrieking Shack." (Sch2)" and even if the moon wasn't up yet when he 
entered the Shack, why didn't he transform *inside* the Shack *when* 
the moon rose? (Uh, Sch2 is a citation to a Scholatic website chat 
which is listed in Sources of the Lexicon.)

> Secondly, re all the rest of the werewolf stuff ~ what the huh? 
> Registry, Support Offices, Capture Unit, Werewolf Code of Conduct? 

In PS/SS (book 1), after their History of Magic year-end exam: "That 
was far easier than I thought it would be," said Hermione as they
joined the crowds flocking out onto the sunny grounds. "I needn't 
have learned about the 1637 Werewolf Code of Conduct or the uprising 
of Elfric the Eager."
 
The others are in FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM. Page xiii 
USA: "werewolves, meanwhile, have been shunted between the Beast and 
Being divisions for many years; at the time of writing there is an 
office for Werewolf Support Services at the Being Division whereas 
the Werewolf Registry and Werewolf Capture Unit fall under the Beast 
Division." 

By typing that, I have discovered that Newt Scamander doesn't use 
enough commas. He also DID NOT give enough information about 
Werewolves in his 'chapter' on them. Not even how to distinguish the 
werewolf from the true wolf (the question that Snape asks the DADA 
class when he is subbing for Lupin). 

Susanna Pigwidgeon wrote:

> I personally find it much easier to write e.g. a Snape-monologue, 
> making him explain all about his past, than putting together an 
> organized analysis.

Demonstrating my theory in a fanfic is harder than writing it out as 
an intellectual arguments. Because a few things that I argued for 
quite beautifully and actually believed turned out not to be true 
once I set out to wind up the little character-dolls and let them 
walk through walk through my story. I wanted Severus to be quite 
sincerely fond of Draco, and found that that required endowing Draco 
with far more intelligence and stiff-upper-lip than he ever showed in 
canon. 

Lexicon Steve wrote:

> it seemed like the kind of name two professional types would chose
> for their daughter because it shows how clever they are,

Hermione's 17-year-older Muggle sister also has a fancy Shakespearean 
name: Cressida. [Is there still a model of car named Cressida? Once a 
friend reported seeing one with the vanity-plate TROYLUS.] Here is 
the URL for Cressida Granger: 
http://www.lineone.net/express/00/11/05/city/m0300-d.html

Gwen/Lee wrote:

> I see the contributive factors in Snape's past--his insecurity (see
> below), his bitterness, and his upbringing--as things that make him
> almost incapable of love. He is entirely unable to laugh at 
> himself. He cannot stand ridicule or derision (at least not to his
> face) and he just clings to his authority like a life preserver. 
> This is not someone who can let his guard down enough to let 
> someone else in.

In canon, we only see him through Harry's eyes, and almost only when 
dealing with students. One exception is when Filch is helping bandage 
his leg in PS/SS, another is in CoS when the teachers send Lockhart 
to hunt the monster that has taken Ginny in its lair. Neither of 
those scenes show him laughing at himself, but they do show him less 
wound-up than with the students. To Filch: "Blasted thing," Snape 
was saying. "How are you supposed to keep your eyes on all three 
heads at once?" He is not troubling to hide behind his authority or 
dignity with Filch. 

I wish we could see him one-on-one with Dumbledore. Does anyone doubt 
that Snape absolutely trusts Dumbledore (admittedly a special case)? I 
am sure that Snape loves Dumbledore (non-romantic, non-sexual) and I 
believe that Dumbledore can and does gently cajole and tease Severus 
into laughing at himself. 

Cindy Sphynx wrote:

> I wonder if the thing Snape had to do to earn Dumbledore's trust
> was turn in or set up all of his old Slytherin buddies, namely 
> Rosier, Wilkes, Dolohov and possibly even Karkaroff? 

Avery, who must have talked himself out of Law Enforcement trouble, 
as he was in the Death Eater circle in the graveyard, was mentioned 
as one of that clique of Slytherins. Dolohov was not. I fantasize, by 
the way, that they weren't the most elite clique of Slytherins but 
young Severus loved them more than they loved him: that he loved them 
for being the first friends he ever had, and they found having him 
around to be beneficial to their grades (marks).

I cannot imagine Dumbledore demanding human heads as a price 
(metaphorical human heads). Anymore than I can imagine Voldemort 
being reluctant to set up some of his loyal followers to be killed (or 
captured as long as they were unable to tattle), if killing them would 
persuade the Light Side of the bona fides of a loyal DE whom Voldemort 
had sent to the Light Side as a double agent pretending to have turned 
against the Dark Light, but really serving the Dark Side by reporting 
back to them and by feeding false info to the Light Side). And I 
suppose that Voldemort would not be pleased with a follower who showed 
more loyalty to friend (or spouse or parent or child) than to the Dark 
Lord, such as by saying: "My lord! Please don't make me kill my 
friend/spouse/parent/child. He/she is 
completely loyal to you!"

But Dumbledore, I believe, is unusually good at reading the human 
heart, and he can see the difference between the man who dutifully, 
painfully, turns his friends in because they did wrong, and the man 
who dutifully, painfully, turns his friends in because it's part of a 
complicated plan.

To me, it was that Snape, having decided that what his old friends 
were doing was evil and must be stopped, and being unable to talk 
them into stopping (and I suppose he couldn't have tried TOO hard, 
lest they report him as being a traitor to the Dark Side), he would 
then arrange for the Light Side to stop them. Hoping that the agents 
of the Light Side would stop them without killing or injuring them, 
and would 'deprogram' them rather than sentencing them to Azkaban. 
But sadly aware that his hope was unlikely to come true.

> In a weird way, Snape would be able to identify with James a bit. 
> James died due to a betrayal by an old friend, and Snape caused his 
> own friends to die through his own betrayal. 

> OK, it's not L.O.L.L.I.P.O.P.S., but is it totally lame?

Well, *I* obviously don't think it's lame, because it's in my fanfic 
about Snape. http://www.schnoogle.com/authors/catlady/BD01.html when 
the slider is about halfway down the slide: it's Snape remembering 
when Harry et al were Sorted.