Snape/Mrs Norris / What the Death Eaters Know / Knut=Canute

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 36378

Elkins and Tabouli said so many funny things that it would take all 
night for me to say LOL to each of them.

Elkins wrote:

> Forced to choose once more between these two paragons of masculine 
> desirability [Filch and Snape], would Mrs. Norris make the same 
> decision the *second* time 

Why can't she have both? If everyone agrees that a woman can have two 
children and love both of them, why doesn't the same argument apply to 
two husbands?

Tabouli wrote:

> "SNAPE LOVED **LILY**!

If Mrs. Norris can love two wizards, surely Snape can love two 
witches.

Eloise wrote:

> whilst Sirius hears the DEs in Azkaban complain about Karkaroff, 
> he apparently doesn't hear anything about Snape. They think he's 
> still loyal.

They don't mention him as 'good old Snape', either, because Sirius in 
GoF doesn't know that Snape used to be a Death Eater. And they don't 
mention young Barty, because Sirius didn't know whether young Barty 
really was guilty or had just been railroaded by his father. However, 
they *did* bitterly mention Pettigrew (or Wormtail, Sirius would 
recognize either name) as the person who led their Lord Voldemort to 
his and their overthrow, unless Sirius was lying when he told Peter 
that in the Shrieking Shack. I've always wondered how the imprisoned 
Death Eaters knew that Pettiegrew was the Secret not-Keeper when No 
One Else Knew.

> Secondly, have you noticed that Voldemort calls Lucius Malfoy by
> his *first* name? 

Yes, and forgives Lucius for more disloyalty than he punished Avery 
for. It seems very clear to me that Lucius is Voldy's 'teacher's 
pet'. At first, I thought that it was a social class thing: Lord 
Voldemort is still working-class Tom Riddle from the Muggle orphanage 
in his heart, still impressed by the upper classes, and tremendously 
impressed with himself that he associates with a toff. But when I 
started working on time-lines and Malfoy family history and 
genealogy, it seemed to me that ages and circumstances are right for 
Lucius to be Riddle/Voldemort's godson; Lucius's extreme evilness 
could be due to Riddle/Voldemort having been a major influence on his 
upbringing.

finwitch wrote:

> Knuts... A magical knot that tied the World

I keep thinking the Knut has something to do with King Canute who 
ordered the tide not to come in.