Going Wrong / Florence (was: SHIP: CUPID'SBLUDGER & Cupid's Snitch

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No: HPFGUIDX 35381

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "charisjulia" <pollux46 at h...> wrote:
 
> Another thing that occurred to me is, is it likely that Slytherin 
> would have acquired it's evil reputation yet?

I always get the impression that it has been Traditional, for 
centuries, since the Founders' time, for Gryffindors and slytherins 
to hate each other. They don't need any reason beyond that their two 
founders were rivals to be top dog. 

> And one more thing: Florence must have been a splendid actress. 
> Sirius was so into her and never realized she was heading right
> down the path that leads to You—Know—Who's front door? (snip) It
> goes  against all my instincts to accept that Sirius had a 
> girlfriend that went Wrong and that's really what my objections 
> boil down to.

Sirius had a close friend who went Wrong, and never suspected. I 
don't think that Sirius had a steady girlfriend at all, but if he 
did, she *could* have gone bad. People do change. Okay, I allow as 
how we didn't see Wormtail display the kind of fanatic devotion to 
Voldemort that the presumable Mrs. Lestrange did, but people *do* 
change, sometimes into fanatics. I don't think Mrs. Lestrange's first 
name was Florence, unless JKR had a vicious personal enemy named 
Florence who gave her all kinds of bad connotations on the name, and 
I don't think Sirius was involved with the future Mrs. Lestrange 
(okay, maybe for a quicky, as I'm one of those who consider her 
Dead(ly) Sexy), but it *could* be that Mrs. Lestrange didn't care 
about purity of blood and wasn't especially into physical sadism, but 
simply became addicted to the pursuit of immortality, and believed 
that a good bit of killing was needed for that goal. 

If someone kissing Florence behind the greenhouses has to be 
essential to the plot (and I admit that JKR does drop Clues), and 
the way in which she must be essential is to explain The Prank, she 
could have been Sirius's KID SISTER, sneaking around behind Sirius's 
back with Sirius's enemy Severus. When Sirius heard from Bertha, he 
would have had words with Sis (he would start by telling her that 
she's too young and innocent to recognise a Bad Man who intends to 
harm her, and end up roughly washing her so she can learn the value 
of cleaniness and not touch anything so GREASY) and fisticuffs with 
Severus. Then when he soon (days) after ran into Severus trying to 
get into the Whomping Willow tunnel, they were all primed to have a 
quarrel in which Sirius became angry enough to tell him which bump to 
press to quiet the Whomping Willow. 

> Florence - -> Italy- -> the Renaissance - -> Art. Maybe Florence 
> will introduce the magical world of Art to the series! 

Umm, remember Firenze the centaur? What's in a Name 
http://www.theninemuses.net/hp/ says:
"Firenze is the Italian name for Florence, Italy. Thanks to Jenna for 
making the connection to Galileo Galilei, who was buried in Firenze, 
and arguably the greatest astronomer who ever lived. This seems 
fairly appropriate for a stargazing centaur."  Maybe Florence is the 
future Professor Sinistra. Maybe Florence (whether or not Sinistra) 
is half-centaur (cute horse ears, tail, and hind hooves, like Greek 
Silenos) and that is why it is considered so embarrassing to kiss 
her...