V and Lily, simplicity, unicorns, loooong unsnippets

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 27993

Cindy:
> So why would Voldemort be reluctant to kill Lily?  Maybe he needed 
her alive for some reason, like she had some information he needed.  
The information was valuable, but not so valuable so as to distract 
Voldemort from his main mission, which was to kill Harry.<

Or maybe he wanted to keep his double agent Snape (desperately in love with her) on side?  (quoth the captain of the Good Ship LOLLIPOPS).  When exactly did Snape defect from the Death Eaters?

Rowena (after complete paragraph from Dawn Treader showing that CSL qualified his different boy spiel):
> Doesn't sound all that simplistic or 'fairytale'
to me. In fact Eustace goes on having his tiresome
moments right up to 'The Last Battle'.<

Yes, yes, I realise CSL qualified his account of the transformation of Eustace, I actually quoted this same paragraph with page ref in early September.  And in all fairness, I suppose Eustace does have the occasional tiresome moment after his reform (though not enough for us to immediately recognise his voice in the books, which we often can in HP).  All the same, I maintain that CSL is writing "fantasy world" centred adventure stories with much simpler characterisation than JKR, which was my main point anyway.

On unicorns (says Tabouli, deciding it's time for a new thread):
What do people think of JKR's portrayal of unicorns?  Every fantasy author seems to have a different interpretation.  From memory (can't be bothered checking GoF, as I was meant to be at a party an hour ago - arrgh, this list is taking over my life!), JKR unicorns start out gold and hornless and then go silver and then white and horned.  Is she basing this on some historic archetype, as she has so many other creatures?  (e.g. house-elves).

Ahem.  Just a quick tip - I'm not a Moderator, and don't want to get accusing here, but uh... about 50% of the last 4 or 5 digests I received were long long long unsnipped quotes on the end of short top-posted messages, including thrice quoted Yahoo promotional paragraphs.  Now, I do have a functioning Page Down key, but...




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