Lucius taking over, Lupin/Sirius colouring, FLIRTIAC

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 35054

Eileen:
> Lucius didn't want Voldemort back at all, imho. After all, how would 
Voldemort look at a party? Lucius was living the good life, chumming 
it up with Fudge, donating to worthy causes, and suddenly, Voldie's 
come back, and wants to go all Snidely Whiplash. I'm looking to Lucius 
to betray Voldie when the time comes, and can't see why Voldemort 
isn't expecting it. Much as I hated Voldemort, I'm secretly hoping 
that the plan backfires on Lucius.<

Yes indeed.  Lucius is a snobbish, dandified society noble if ever I saw one.  A veritable Sloane.  All the same, what with Voldemort's descent into cartoon villain land, I'm frankly all in favour of Lucius taking over the Reins Of Darkness.  He has much more panache and credibility than Snake-Man.  Plus, we have his son at school with Harry, to make things even more interesting.  What would happen?

Then again, would Lucius want to rule the world?  (What do people think?)  I wonder if Lucius has had life too easy to build up the sort of vicious, ruthless ambition he'd need to drive him to such lengths.  Tom Riddle was fuelled by hatred of his Muggle father and orphanage; what would fuel Lucius?  A disdain for Mudbloods?  Ha.

Amy Z:
Catlady wrote of Lupin's eyes:
>>(I say they're blue, canon doesn't specify)
>
>Leaving us each to muse in perfect freedom.  (I usually see gray.  Maybe 
>light brown.)

I've always seen Lupin and Sirius' colouring reflecting their temperaments.  Lupin, with his mild, calm nature, should have a mild, calm colouring and appearance.  Pale and slightly waxen skin, light brown, prematurely greying hair on the thin and straight side (not balding, just not thick), small to medium in height and slender, clean-shaven, eyes a mild brown or grey.  Fragile looking but with unexpected strength when put to the test.  Looking young from a distance but older and older as the viewer approaches.  A stalwart man of careful movements and a quiet but resonant voice.

Sirius, OTOH, with his fiery, tempestuous nature, should be a man of fiery, tempestuous contrast in his appearance (Viggo who played Aragorn is the right type).  Thick, springy black hair, blazing blue eyes, light olive skin, heavy brows, medium to tall and muscular.  A passionate man of expansive, dramatic movements and  a loud, expressive voice.

Elkins:
> Outlandish?  Subversive?  Nonsense!  FLIRTIAC is *overwhelmingly* 
implied by canon.  Indeed, were I ever to abandon the liminal 
pleasures of the shoreline for the absolutism of the wide-open sea, 
FLIRTIAC would be my vessel of choice. <

At last!  (Tabouli dabs at happy tears).  Spurned and smiled at indulgently for all these months, FLIRTIAC finally has a genuine supporter!  I agree that there's got to be something in it myself, but I have my hands full of LOLLIPOPS and rarely have the time to sneak into the FLIRTIAC dinghy and polish the oars.  Maybe I just have this conviction that anti-social nasty people are produced by misfortune in love!  (although when I consider my own eternal misfortunes in this domain, I get a little worried by this...).

I want to know what happened to Mr Norris. I want to know why Mrs Norris (apparently a cat) is such a crafty, baleful ally of Filch's, and why she shows up on the Marauders' Map, and why she's the only creature that Filch seems to call "my sweet" and care for enough to stroke and cry over when he thinks she's dead (instead of plot to torture).  I'm sure that Filch being such an anguished Squib and so determined to learn how to do magic must have some significance.  Could the cat shape be a curse Mr Norris put on his cheating wife, which he maliciously set up so that it could only be broken by Filch himself?



Koinonia:
> I just like Snape much better and I'm hoping 
for something better than unrequited love making Snape turn into a DE.<

(Tabouli, suspecting that most listmembers are by now well and truly tired of her voluminous defences of her favorite ship, flourishes her last two LOLLIPOPS)

But it's NOT "just" unrequited love, as I keep on trying to tell you!!  LOLLIPOPS does *NOT* say that Snape is a weak mushball with nothing but a pathetic unrequited crush behind the wheel!

It's an abusive childhood making him bitter and vengeful, it's being victimised in high school, it's being sorted into Slytherin and feeling alienated from the Good Side, it's joining the DEs and building up to a moral crisis, it's feeling marginalised and betrayed and self-loathing and jealousy, etc.etc.etc.!!!  There are a *LOT* of other things besides catalyst Lily in the LOLLIPOPS equation, as I see it; the theory is dense and complex and takes almost everything in the books about Snape and his schoolmates into account.

(Tabouli subsides, heaving and with eyes glittering)


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