drink - Snape/Malfoy - Lexicon - Weird Sisters

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 28314

Susanna/pigwidgeon37 wrote:

> Though even this might be preferable to pumpkin juice which I 
> imagine must be quite horrible... 

I am sure the pumpkin juice is made by magic and is nothing like the 
real pulpy liquid that can be squeezed from a pumpkin. I imagine it 
as being a cold, clear, refreshing, orange colored drink that tastes 
rather like a pumpkin pie, or a sweet potato pie, i.e. with a spicy 
taste more complex than just a lot of cinnamon.

laoisecronin wrote:

> i've just been re-reading ps/ss and i noticed that it says numerous
> times that Malfoy was Snapes favorite student! why?

I believe that Malfoy really is Snape's favorite student: he's not 
putting on an act. 

I believe that Snape likes Lucius in an admiring way and really 
believes Lucius's tale that he only served Voldemort because of 
enchantment, and when he made that gesture in GoF when he heard Harry 
say that Lucius was at the Death Eating meeting in the graveyard, 
that was Snape's shock and horror to discover that Lucius really is a 
sincere Death Eater. Therefore he has no reason to hold Lucius 
against Draco. Once he knows that Lucius *is* a Death Eater, he could 
just as well be eager to save Draco from joining the Dark Side as to 
punish Draco for his father's sins. As for why Severus likes/admires 
Lucius and Draco, chalk it up to Slytherin Chauvinism (Draco earns 
the House points, at least with his father's gift of Nimbi) plus the 
same reasons as (some) fanfic writers (like me) go for good!Draco, 
despite canon: admiration of and attraction towards their social 
standing, elegance, good looks (at least by comparison to the canon 
description of the other Slytherins), self-confidence, and wit. Draco 
DOES say witty things against the Blast Ended Skrewts, but you can 
replace 'wit' with 'wealth' on the list of characteristics. The 
attraction to their social standing is snobbery and to their wealth 
is greed, but there is nothing immoral about attraction to the other 
characteristics I mentioned.  

Alex P wrote:

> "We had to do a report on our hero at school, and I did mine on 
> you, Mr. VanderArk"

Is that true? How wonderful! But how did you learn enough about 
Lexicon Steve to do a report on him, other than interviewing him, in 
which case he would already know about the report?

Meril Nymphaea wrote:

> Well, one of them is male, at least. It's mentioned in Quidditch 
> Through the Ages.

I *can* find *my* copy: "Pride of Portree ... Their most famous 
Chaser, Catriona McCormack, captained the team to two League wins in 
the 1960s, and played for Scotland thirty-six times... Her son, 
Kirlie, is lead guitarist with the popular wizarding band The Weird 
Sisters."

Does it strike anyone else as strange that Whisp specified that it is 
a *wizarding* band? Does this imply that it is more common for 
wizards to be lead guitarist with Muggle bands?

Anyway, before QTTA provided the above information, I kept asking 
whether the members of The Weird Sisters were humans or half-giants 
or hags or what, but as their lead guitarist is stated to be human, 
I'm willing to believe that the whole band is human until I'm told 
otherwise.