killing curses/ Draco's marks/ Snape/ Prank Redux/ Mandrakes/ Kudos for filk

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 35000

A post I sent last night has not yet appeared on list, so I will 
include some of its content in this post.

Marina Rusalka wrote:

> what were Lupin and Black planning to cast on Peter in the
> Shrieking Shack before Harry stopped them? Were they actually 
> going to AK the guy, or are there some forgivable killing curses
> out there?

Lots of 'em, like the one that blew up the street and killed 14 
Muggles. Remus and Sirius might have been going to ACCIO! Peter's 
heart right out of his chest, or conjure up ropes to bind him, not 
just around the hands, but around the throat, tightly. Oh, Cindy 
Sphynx already mentioned the latter.

FR mdawson_design wrote:

> Draco has been getting poor marks from all his teachers - refer to 
CoS - Draco & his father in Nocturne Alley & their conversation about 
Draco's poor marks (and specifically about muggle born Hermione 

In that conversation, Lucius said: "I would have thought you'd be 
ashamed that a girl of no wizard family beat you in every exam." That 
does not PROVE that Draco had poor marks, only that his marks weren't 
as good as Hermione's. If they were BETTER than anyone but Hermione, 
then they were good marks that a decent parent would praise. I want 
to believe that Draco is an intelligent child, altho' he (alas) does 
not act intelligent while feuding with Harry. 

DaeyMoon wrote:

> I mean anyone - even Harry - would be overwhelmed by the fame and 
> fortune that fall effortlessly into his life....it never seems to
> end. 

I think the Dursleys are enough to keep Harry from getting a swelled 
head, and don't need Snape's assistance.

Liz Sager wrote:

> and Lupin gets the eternal guilt of having killed someone in 
> werewolf form.

I've always kind of assumed that MoM law specifies execution for any 
werewolf who kills a wizard while in wolf form. I wonder if Remus 
would prefer to be executed rather than live with eternal guilt?

> Can anyone else see Sirius telling Lupin, "But he deserved it,
> Moony, he really did!" I can only imagine that Lupin losing his 
> temper would ensue. 

Oh, yes, Remus would snap back: "And did *I* deserve it, Sirius? 
You felt no hesitation about setting me up to be executed by the 
Ministry. I think I would be safer being your enemy than your 
friend." I can imagine those blue eyes (I say they're blue, canon 
doesn't specify) turning to icicles as the voice became utterly, 
utterly calm, controlled, and cold, and Sirius realised that he had 
never seen Moony so angry before... I imagine the Remus acts Even 
More Rationally than normal when he loses his temper.

> *imagines IrrationalTeenager!Sirius saying that* I can see that. 
> With the wide innocent eyes and charming good looks...but surely 
> Dumbledore would have seen through it?

I suppose Dumbledore saw through it and didn't call him on it. No 
harm, no foul. James had reacted heroically and shouldn't be punished 
by losing his friend. Dumbledore admires loyalty.

Erin Puddin wrote:

> Instead, I theorize that the two of them had an angry blowout in 
> which Sirius lost his temper and told Snape exactly how to go about
> getting to Remus. (snip) Sirius's continued references to Snape's 
> sliminess and nosiness, his insistance that "he had it coming", and
> his intense hatred of Snape for  essentially no good reason seem
> to me to be a defense mechanism.

I believe in the angry blowout, but I also believe that Sirius 
already HATED Snape before that, and he had SOME kind of reason. I 
can only fantasize what the reason was, maybe something *stinging* 
that young Severus said to young Sirius ... maybe a taunt about his 
family background ... maybe, when young Sirus already hated young 
Severus, as well as finding him physically disgusting, he secretly 
took a notion that Severus was trying to get into his pants and THAT 
was the real reasosn he kept spying on the Marauders ... and the 
Marauders are my age, in those days people had so much internalised 
homophobia that it accounted for a LOT of irrational behaviour. 

Maria McNally wrote:

> Will mandrakes ever serve a purpose to bring someone back from
> the dead? 

JKR has stated in interverses that Potterverse magic CANNOT bring 
anyone back from death. Death is permanent. In RL folkloric magic, 
mandrakes can bring wealth and act as an aphrodisiac, but them 
'raising the dead' only refers to one not-dead-yet body part.

Caius Marcius wrote:

> A Lord I Can't Name (filk)

ROTFL. This is an EXCEPTIONALLy funny one.