[the_old_crowd] Being naughty (spoilers)

[elfundeb]

Sing a song of sickles
A pocketful of rye
Four and twenty black crows
Baked in a pie

When the pie was opened
The crows began to sing
Wasn't that a tasty dish
To eat before the king?

Was that enough spoiler space?
I'll be eating some of that pie by the end of the post.

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More random thoughts; I rather liked Kneasy's list --

Kneasy:
> It's my sadist tendencies getting the better of me, you see.

We enjoy your sadist tendencies, here and elsewhere. ;-)

> I'm
expecting a bit of anguish from a vocal faction of the membership
as they have to get to grips with the fact that -

> DD requested Sevvy to kill him

Yea, this is one thing I got right, including Sevvy's reaction.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/142005

But in turn I must grovel and eat crow for the L.O.L.L.I.P.O.P.S. crowd.
Could never warm to that one.

> Nasty!Snape was actually Snape!DM, helping to protect Harry

But was he really Dumbledore's man?  It's not like he was protecting Harry
for the greater good.  Those black spots he was scrubbing away were on his
own soul.  TEWW EWW is much more OFH! than DDM!, which I suspect is one
reason why many Snapefans are more distraught at the outcome than those who
were sure he was ESE!

> the goodies fling Unforgivables hither and yon

Actually, this is a bit of a problem.  But it is a problem because JKR made
it so, by making the Unforgivables, well, unforgivable and then painting
Barty Crouch Sr. as evil to the core for authorising the Aurors to use
them.  On the other hand, the body count would have been even more lopsided
if Dumbledore's Army had considered Expelliarmus their most lethal weapon.

> DD flirted with Dark Magic practitioners

Wasn't it a good thing to exorcise his unbearable goodness of being?  I like
him the better for it.  The best saints always start out their careers with
some good old-fashioned sinning.

> the universal manumission of House-Elves didn't happen
> Slytherin House isn't abolished

I've addressed the state of the WW in another post, but do want to add that
the person who wanted to abolish the House system was old Voldy himself,
virtually compelling the system to be kept.  It promotes diversity anyway,
right?

> Puppetmaster!DD

Must eat a bit of of crow pie here.  Snape turned out to be far more
vulnerable to the old man than I had thought possible.  But I must say DD's
Legilimency skills give him an unfair advantage in this department; he could
pull strings to much greater effect than the usual clod.  And he didn't have
to pull Harry's strings at all.

> Sirius really was a plonker

Yes!  I'll be happy to serve up some pie on this one.

Debbie


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