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[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 164265

> Pippin wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/164197>:
> 
> << If James was stealing spells from the Prince's book, how could
> Lupin know so little about it? >>

Catlady: 
> What is the evidence that James was stealing spells from the Prince's
> book?

Pippin:
"It was I who invented them--I, the Half-blood Prince! And you'd turn 
my inventions on me, like your filthy father, would you?" -HBP ch28.


I can believe that the levicorpus spell spread like a fad, but James
strikes me as an early adopter. And Snape uses the plural.

Catlady:
 A few months 'when you couldn't move for being hoisted into the air 
by your ankle fits my image of Hogwarts School. And Sirius was there
 -- wouldn't he have looked surprised if Remus told a big whopper 
about school days?

Pippin:
Huh? I think you are mixing up two conversations. Lupin discusses
the Prince's book with Harry in HBP, well after Sirius's demise.
Nothing is said in OOP about hoisting students into the air being
a common practice, or about what spells were being used.


> Pippin wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/164239>:
> 
> << You want a brutal, sadistic hero who enjoys killing? Why go to all
> the trouble to turn Harry into something he isn't, when we already
> have such a character? Eggplant, meet DDM!Snape. >>

Catlady: 
> *DOES* DDM!Snape enjoy killing?
>
Pippin:
We saw that memory of zapping flies, and there's all those jars full
of slimy things. I like the idea that DDM!Snape's opposition to killing
people is purely moral, as opposed   to a visceral or animal aversion
such as Draco evinces.

Pippin