Snape, Lupin, Tonks, Luna, Dean, Unanswered Questions

[casmir2012]

No: HPFGUIDX 172427

I liked the book, and it has many faults.  There were so many good 
parts, funny parts, endearing parts, and exciting parts.  Please 
excuse me for dwelling on the negative a bit more than the positive 
at the end of this post.

I have read in posts that people are hoping for a Neville/Luna thing, 
but a friend of mine said that Luna and Dean were holding hands at 
one point in the book.  I never verified it; but I believe her.

I wonder if Lupin and Tonks death wasn't just some twisted way for 
them to find happiness together.  It seemed Lupin really allowed his 
social status to control their relationship.  He was constricted, 
severely reserved.  Now that they are dead, there can be a full 
expression of their love; and their child is their legacy, their 
memory left on earth.
(Lupins death also follows the SCAR theory :)

Snape:
It seemed to me that Lily was the embodiment of purity, kindness, 
lovliness, gentleness, and love for Snape. I can't help but wonder if 
his view of her, the one that is able to feed him for almost 2 
decades, wasn't built more on an infatuation...an ideal or dream. She 
was the physical manisfestation of his fantasy...so how much of the 
real her did he really see or know? His abusive backgroud would 
pschologically set him up for such a consuming delusion.  And 
illusions are as sweet and comforting as we make them.

They knew each other for about 3 or 4 years when all that Hogwarts 
stuff went down, but it was limited contact being that they were in 
different houses, plus they were like 12 then 13. How much of an 
intimate relationship could they have formed in reality?  (But as DD 
says, just 'cause it's in your head don't mean it ain't real.)

So, in short, Snape is a man of extreme dilligence and endurance. He 
caught hold of a beautiful dream and never let it go. 
Harry's eyes would help him, in death, go back to his dream where 
he'll stay for eternity.  Look....at....me.  Very moving.

Here is a list of stuff I thought would, or should, be answered and 
wasn't:

What ever happend to the Dursley's? Hermione's parents? 

DD relationship to Pomfrey 

the personal lives of hogwart teachers 

the ford angula 

the phoenix 

a description of what happens to everyone down the road 

no closure on george, his business and life w/o fred 

how tonks and lupin's child grew up 

What Harry, Ron and Hermione do for a living 

tender moments with Ginny -it makes the relationship seem fake 

the book went on 300-400 pages about their camping trip of starvation 
for 9 months, but skimmed thru important deaths in one line. 

Malfoys???  what happened to them in society, everyone knew who they 
were now. 

Umbridges comeuppance? 

how is the ministry ran now?  anti segregation laws? more tolerance? 

I am hoping the movie will answer a few questions, but it probably 
won't. 

maybe JKR will address these things on her site. 

find out what Dudley saw/experienced while being attacked by the
dementors.  

Who used magic late in life?

There's more, but I'm getting a headache.

Here is a link to a great article about an HP encyclopedia being 
created. I am sure most of these left out facts will be explained in 
it. The article has other fun facts like Mr. Weasley having supposed 
to have died in book 5, and Lupins death was not originally planned.  
There is more, too.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/
(if it doesn't work, just google "potter encyclopedia" and click on 
msnbc site.)


By the way, you can't get me to believe that Hermione and Ron spent 9
months living together in a tent and never once slipped into a room 
together, using the "muffliato" spell on the door so that harry 
wouldn't hear them. :)