Some (once private) thoughts on HBP/relationships/Snape's background

[Jen Reese]

Hey Hey we're the Monkees

People say we Monkee around

But we're too busy singing

To put anybody down.

(Now *those* are great

lyrics.)

Hah.


> Snow:
> 
> Not that I have any objections to Aberforth but he does seem to 
cry 
> for the position. My own thoughts quickly turned to one Alice 
> Longbottom who we now know of being a member of the Order but have 
> never truly been introduced to her. Alice as the key character can 
> explain quite a bit about why she may have been tortured along 
with 
> Snape info, which could be the reason why her and her husband had 
> been tortured. 


Jen: I'm leaning toward Alice, too. Because JKR has promised 
information about Lily in Book 7, really *significant* information. 
Not many people around who can give Harry that. (Unless the 
omnipresent Snape holds every clue to Book 7. Bah). But maybe Alice 
can, as an Order member, a contemporary, a new mom of a child 
born 'as the seventh month dies'. I'm hoping Alice will recover 
enough to drop a memory in the Pensieve for Harry, and discover a 
new relationship with her remarkable son as well.

And she looks to be the one most likely to recover. Frank's a goner 
I'm afraid. I had hopes for both after OOTP, but not now.

I guess another way Harry could hear about Lily is when he visits 
Godric's Hollow. Perhaps someone living there will remember Lily and 
have a story to share. Or he'll find some charmed object Lily left 
for him. But I'd so rather it be Alice. :(

Jen