DD / Thestrals / Dragons, Produced and Tickled, and Other Pleasantries

[pippin_999]

> Talisman:
> [Considering suitable boggarts for Snape] 
> 
> *cheers up*
> 
> >Hebridean Black - wings similar to that of a bat - feeds mostly on 
> >stags -ocasionally hunts big dogs *cough**cough**cough*
> 
> Let's add that he needs a lot of space for himself.
> 
> Talisman:
> >Oh, yes ma'am. 
> >No reason why a metaphor can't be played out in the plot.
> >There is always Harry's little observation that "Deliberately
> >causing mayhem in Snape's potions class was about as safe as poking
> >a sleeping dragon in the eye." (CoS 186)

Silmariel:
> Yes, I love that line. 
> 
> But a year ago, I didn't know what to do with such images, patronuses were 
> non-magical animals, animagi was out of the question, the vampire imagery 
> didn't make sense, and JKR sort of puzzled me not knowing why we made the 
> vampire-Snape connection. Well, madam, because of the multiple details 
> referencing vampire imagery, we had to make /something/ with them.
> 
> I rarely have the feeling that I don't need to consider other posibilities, 
> but when I found that dragon I could heard the click of the puzzle pieces. I 
> was trying to found sense to the dragon bits, and blip, they are tied to 
> bats... all that damned references to bats and vampires made sense after all.
> 
> It even makes sense in the -arachnid was it?- way he moves. Have you ever seen 
> a dragon walking in interiors?
> 
> Of all the things you can call a dragon, Harry, did you have to choose 
> coward?... <g>


Pippin:
Oooh! Good catch. If Snape is a dragon animagus it just might make sense out
of that out-of-sequence dragon memory in OOP...

"A great black dragon was rearing in front of him....His father and mother were
waving at him out of an enchanted mirror....Cedric Diggory was lying on the
ground with blank eyes staring at him...."

I've never liked the idea of animagus Snape because an animagus wouldn't
need to fear a werewolf. But if he's a gigantic dragon, then he wouldn't
dare transform in a space as cramped as the tunnel. Love it.

Pippin
who has cherished a tiny sliver of hope for Dumbledore, because while it's
true that the old guy with the beard always checks out, he has a disconcerting
habit of turning up again, one way or another. Merlin, Gandalf, Obi-wan...