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

[thefortressiserlohn]

No: HPFGUIDX 37790

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...> 
wrote:
> 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.