Sirius and Snape (again) + who is doomed

[anna_l_milton at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22325

Hi all, and now I march will ill-advised confidence towards my second 
post.

Koinonia wrote (re Sirius/Snape hatred):
> It was cruel and deliberate.  You don't just send someone in to 
meet 
> a werewolf without expecting some serious injury or death to that 
> person.  Even a 16 year old should know that.  If they don't then 
> Hogwarts isn't the place for them.  
> 
> There is so much more to the whole Snape/Sirius hate.  We don't 
know 
> all there is.  I'm not one who believes that all of this is the 
doing 
> of only Snape.  Snape must have done something so it's fine for 
> Sirius to send him to a meeting with a werewolf?  Goodness knows 
> Snape was probably a little on the nosey side but since when is 
that 
> a death sentence?  Ah, but I forgot.  Sirius is the good looking 
guy 
> so that means we are suppose to forget or ignore all the things 
that 
> Sirius does that is not very nice.

Hallelujah, thank you Koinonia for pointing out something that has 
been bothering me ever since I read PoA and ever since I found out 
about the collective Sirius adoration doing the rounds. Not that I 
have anything against Sirius fans, and we all know some of the best 
HP fanfics are Sirius-centered, but I just can't stand this 
whole "I'm better looking than you, I'm more popular than you, I'm 
better than you" mentality that seems to emanate whenever the actions 
of Mr.Black are discussed. Sirius sends Severus to either death or 
permanent hell and all is forgiven, but Snape (stil believing that 
Sirius is guilty) attempts to do the same thing and he's pillored. 
Over-reacting? Come on! Haven't you read/seen "Carrie"?

> My heart goes out to Lupin.  He is a fine man and I just adore 
him.  
> I would like to think there are friends and family members who are 
> there for him.  However, as nice as he is, he still can turn into a 
> murdeous beast at times.

I'm really fond of Lupin, he's one of the few sweet people who 
doesn't get on my nerves. I also hope he finds someone who is willing 
to look after him. Preferrably someone with a very resistant cage to 
be used once a month.

As for the one to snuff it, here go my two knuts on the matter:

Harry - I believe Harry will make it to the end. On the other hand, 
it would be somewhat hilarious to think, in a perverse way, that 
somewhere JK is sitting at her computer writing the end line to 
HP7 "and so Harry died, clutching at his scar." and chuckling away at 
our expense.

One of the Weasleys - My favourite Weasley is Percy (I tend to go for 
unpopular characters, don't I?), but there are disturbing signs that 
he may be hiding something evil... so if one of the Weasleys is 
doomed, it may be him. Then again it may not.

Voldemort - He's going to snuff it by the end of the series. Why? Not 
because he's the bad guy, but because he's so evil that to redeem him 
would mean turning him into Maria Von Trapp. And then there would be 
a collective puking over book seven all around the world.

Hermione - JK said Hermione is a caricature of herself when she was 
younger. The Harry Potter novels have a variety of themes, but I 
don't think literary suicide is one of them.

Dumbledore - He's the most likely to die, if only by the laws of 
nature. JK does a lot of mythology, and one of the crucial aspects of 
myth is the loss of the mentor in the coming of age.

Sirius - Maybe. Then again I see no logical reason why. Then again 
there was no logical reason for Cedric to die at the end of GoF, was 
there?

Snape - (Please God, no!) Double agents usually have sticky ends. But 
Snape strikes me as basically being one of those people Who Get 
Throught it All with a Cynical Comment. Source: every first-person 
hard-boiled spy/crime novel in the entire world.

Lupin: I hope not. But lycanthropy has no cure now, has it?

Draco Malfoy: Nah, he has too much of a duty to piss off Harry to be 
disposable. His father, on the other hand, has a Damocles' sword 
hanging over him as we speak...

Colin: JK said the next person to die would be a special fan of 
Harry's. According to one possible interpretation this could 
mean "move over Creevey, you're dead meat". Or poor Ginny could go 
out with a bang. Literally.

Oh, and have I mentioned I'm fond of black humour?

Sarcastically yours,

Diana (A. L. Milton)
Slytherin
11 inches, yew and unicorn hair