King Arthur / Snape social class / thick!Voldy / stunned!Flitwick

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Severely Sigune wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2708 :

<< (King Arthur, to name another example, has the uncanny habit of
promising helpers "anything you ask", expecting everybody to ask for
money. Duh.) >>

In The Tale of Culhwch and Olwen in the Mabinogion, Arthur promises to
give someone anything they want but with a long paragraph of 'except
for' his horse, his dog, his sword, his spear, his wife, and so on.
That is where we learned that his dog is named Caball which means
'horse'.

(Btw a nitpick: that habit is 'unwise' not 'uncanny'. I think you may
be going by etymology, in which 'canny' means 'knowledgeable' which is
similar to 'wise', rather than usage, in which 'uncanny' means
something like 'supernatural and scary'.)

<< who has painstakingly eradicated any sign of his origins in his
diction and dress but somehow never found the acceptance and
admiration he considers his due >>

That reminds me, credit to Pippin for asserting, long ago, that
Snape's colloquialism when speaking with Filch while bandaging his
Fluffy bite demonstrated his working-class origin.

Dungrollin wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2756 :

<< I'd have preferred to have seen DD do something clever to 
get around Voldy's protections, than just have him describe the
obstacles and why they don't matter. Makes Voldy look a bit thick 
and incompetent again. >>

Maybe She originally wrote it that way but all her editors said they
couldn't understand DD's solution.

Pip!Squeak wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2771 :

<< BTW, did anyone else notice that Lupin claims Snape would have
killed Hermione and Luna when in fact Snape had only Stunned
Flitwick? Pippin? Did you notice that one? >>

Maybe Snape liked Flitwick, in contrast to hating Hermione and Ginny.