ACID POPS vs LOLLIPOPS (was:Re: Whom does Snape REALLY love?)

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 139408

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> Sirius' bent was more for over-the-top declarations of personal
> loyalty and dedication (a trait he shares with cousin Bellatrix, btw;
> it would be interesting to find out that a distant ancestor was an
> actor or actress).  His roar at Pettigrew in the Shrieking Shack in
> POA: "Then you should have died [for James et al] as we would have
> died for you!" struck me at the time as the kind of grandiose
> statement that adolescents make.  It's matched by Bellatrix's
> declarations in HBP Chapter 2 (sorry, had to return book to library
> so can't quote) about going to Azkaban and suffering there for her
> loyalty, only to be punctured by Snape's withering "you weren't much
> use to him (LV) there but the gesture was undoubtedly fine."

Marianne:

Well, yes, perhaps Sirius' delivery in the Shrieking Shack was over 
the top. But, JKR evidently meant this to be taken exactly at face 
value, judging by the recent TLC/Mugglenet interview. 

Maybe we should start of list of lines spoken by characters that make 
us cringe.

It just occured to me that Snape's comment to Bella mirrors Molly's 
comment to Sirius in OoP where she more or less tells him he's a 
rotten godfather because he's been in Azkaban for the last twelve 
years. 

Marianne, who would have liked JKR to provide us with a visit to 
Azkaban when the Dementors were in charge