Complimenting a character WAS: Re: HBP CHAPTERS 7-9 POST DH LOOK

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 184366

Potioncat:
> > LOL, the fact that you said, "It was funny" made me think you
thought it was odd or unimportant. Here you were complimenting Snape!
That reminds me of "For a first attempt that wasn't as poor as it
might have been." ;-)
> > <SNIP>
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Hey! It is me, remember? Me **paying compliment to Snape**. I think
I deserve an A plus for effort.
> 
> Heee, I just had an idea for the thread, and let's see how well it
will go.
> 
> Pay a sincere, canon based compliment to the character you dislike
and explain why.
> 
> As many compliments as you can manage with explanations and only to
the character or characters you dislike, characters you like will not do.
> 
> Okay, let me try real hard to manage another one for Snape.
> 
> He is talented researcher and inventor of the spells, potions, etc.
I mean, really talented, those spells and improved potions directions
were really cool.

Carol:
Way to go, Alla! BTW, I agree with you that Snape's not demonstrating
the Unforgiveables is odd and requires an explanation *if* Barty Jr.
was telling the truth about their usually being shown to sixth-years
(and I'm not sure that he was).

Let me see. I think that the Crouches, father and son, were both
brilliant and powerful Wizards and that the misunderstanding between
them was tragic. Barty Sr. meant well, IMO, however misdirected his
policies and actions.

Sirius Black was also brilliant and talented. His family set him a bad
example, and he's to be complimented for opposing them and not
becoming a DE like Regulus. (Sirius is a kind of foil to Barty Jr.,
who also opposed his father but went in the other direction.) Sirius's
loyalty to his friends, especially James and Harry, is exceptional.

Bellatrix, surprisingly, cares enough about her sister to try to keep
her from going to Snape for help, and her loyalty to Voldemort is
unquestionable.

Umbridge? It's hard to find anything good to say about such a
despicable character, but she must have been intelligent and highly
persuasive to talk Fudge, Percy, and others into believing that
Dumbledore was a doddering old fool and Harry was a lying show-off.
Doesn't make me hate her any less, though!

Carol, giving Alla that much-deserved A plus for her compliments to Snape