[HPforGrownups] Re: Color Symbolism, Snape's past + a few 'compliments'

[Rita]

No: HPFGUIDX 44461





Eloise:
 >(welcome Rita!):

Thank you very much!

She goes on saying about McGonagall:

>I can't refute that, nor do I wish to. But I don't think it's clear. 
>Being a member of 'the old crowd' (if she was) doesn't automatically mean 
>that she knows about Snape's past. Sirius and Lupin *are* members of ' the 
>old crowd', but they don't seem to know. I think is would have been 
>imperative that as few people as possible knew his role, whether trusted or

>not. 

You've got a point there and are probably more right than I was. What you go
on to say makes me a bit uneasy:

>We don't see McGonagall's reaction to Snape's dark mark, so we don't know 
>whether she already knew, or whether her face registers shock or revulsion.

>Neither do we see Molly's or Bill's reactions, though I don't think they
knew 
>about it. In fact, even Sirius apparently doesn't react to it. 

Why doesn't anyone seem to have a reaction to the revelations that are being
made? A little later, when Snuffles transform Mrs Weasley does react!  Maybe
it means nothing at all, maybe there's still something that JKR has to tell
us before we understand that scene.

And now I would like to tell some people how much I liked some of the things
they wrote:
1- Zelda, your portrait of the young Sirius Black is very, very close to the
way I imagined him.

2-Jodel, who's description of Lucius Malfoy is just a masterpiece! Although
I don't quite agree with the 'mistresses' part of it. It may be something
really 'aristocratic' but I see in him a sense of honour and of what's
becoming to someone in his position that would make it seem quite below him
to have mistresses.

3-Daharja for the fascinating Dumbledore/Crookshanks theory.I don't know how likely it is, but it's definitely *very* fascinating.