Snape/Lily / Welcome / Karkaroff/Krum / name/Buffy

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Archgarchus wrote:

> I personally am a big champion of the Snape/Lily theory,

Welcome, Archgarchus (and all new members). There are enough 
Snape/Lily shippers here that they occupy a large and luxurious ship, 
the SS LOLLIPOPS (Tabouli, Mistress of Acronyms, created that for 
"Love Of Lily Left Ire Polluting Our Poor Severus"), with many 
different sections for different variations. (H'mm, what is 
T.A.B.O.U.L.I. an acronym for?)

Barbara bwerschkun wrote:

> since English is not my native language, I hope I have made 
> myself sufficiently understandable...

Like most of the posters who apologize for English not being their 
native language, you write English better than many native speakers 
do. Btw I agree with you about Great-Uncle Algie's toad and Crouch's 
Weatherby, and think that Ron looking hopefully at Fleur was another 
case of losing control. 

Eloise wrote:

> But how else do you explain that the way Karkaroff looks at Victor 
> when he enters the Yule Ball with Hermione is equated with the way
> Ron looks at Hermione?

In my opinion, I think that Karkaroff's motive for making nice to 
Viktor was 1) to help Viktor win the Championship, which would 
increase Viktor's financial value both as a Drumstrang Old Boy who 
could be boasted of, and as a superstar athlete, and 2) to get Viktor 
to like him so that Viktor would hire him to be hissports agent or 
financial manager, positions which give great scope for embezzlement. 
His objection to seeing Viktor being so attentive to Hermione at the 
Ball (he hadn't been watching Viktor in the Library) was that 
Hermione was a sharp thinker, not an airhead, who would glance over 
Viktor's contracts and financial records (simply helpfulness, not 
snoopiness) if she were married to him or even just 'good friends'.

I think that Ron's romantic jealousy and Karkaroff's wallet hostility 
were both described with narrowed eyes because of co-incidence, or a 
cliche for describing hostility.

> I've just realised that this opens up another path which I am not
> even going to look down

It seems to me that there are a bunch of Ron/Viktor shippers on ffnet.

Grey Wolf

> would like to ask the name experts of the list for the original 
> name(s) for a Buffy (but is too OT to ask directly).

My friend Roz named her childhood puppy Buffy because she was a buff 
(colored) cocker spaniel. Buffy Chandler was named after her maiden 
name: she was Dorothy Buffum Chandler.