JKR's Books list, and ACID POPS vs. LOLLIPOPS

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 157458


> Abergoat writes:
> I have absolutely no idea what ACID POPS vs. LOLLIPOPS is but your
> post above was a side-splitter!

zgirnius:
It is an entertaining custom on this list to give one's theories 
acronymic names. 
ACID POPS: Alas, Cissy is Despondent. Perhaps Old Pal Severus? 
LOLLIPOPS: Love of Lily Left Ire Polluting Our Poor Severus

A list of such acronyms may be found at "Inish Alley" in the Database 
links.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/database?
method=reportRows&tbl=28.

(Gee, I JUST got the pun, now I feel slow...Inish Alley. Tee hee.)

Abergoat:
> I've heard the Sydney Carton reference before...I vaguely recall a
> Lucy. Would you refresh my memory?

zgirnius: 
Yes, Lucy is the right association. They are characters from Charles' 
Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities".
SPOILER WARNING for that classic novel, a favorite of mine:
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Lucy loves and marries Charles Darnay. She is pretty, caring, 
fiednly, and just all around way too perfect (my opinion). Sydney 
Carton, whose client and friend Darnay is, also loves her, but is 
beneath her socially, economically, and also because he drinks too 
much and is somewhat disreputable as a consequence. She is friendly 
to him. (I have seen it suggested Snape's unpleasant manner is the 
modern-day equivalent of this fault of Carton's, possibly by Sydney 
in the earlier post she mentions).

Anyway, Carton happens to be the spitting image of Darnay physically, 
so when Darnay is arrested in Paris during the Terror (he is a 
Frenchman of aristocratic lineage), and less drastic means of 
obtaining his release fail, Carton takes his place in prison (and 
thus on the guillotine) to assure Lucy's happiness. MAJOR tearjerker.

Lily is, of course, dead, so the story of Snape is bound to be 
different in some particulars. However, I was really struck by the 
comparison and it is yet another reason I am picking up a box of 
Kleenex on my way to the local Barnes and Noble next summer.