It doesn't seem curious at all.
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This was surprisingly poetic and lovely when I saw it earlier today. The end was a little odd, but I really liked the whole thing more than I expected.
posted by amtho at 5:48 PM on January 16, 2016
posted by amtho at 5:48 PM on January 16, 2016
This really makes me hate Harry all over again.
posted by shakespeherian at 6:04 PM on January 16, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by shakespeherian at 6:04 PM on January 16, 2016 [4 favorites]
I quite enjoyed this, thank you. The emotions that Alan Rickman could convey with such few words...especially that scene where he finds and cradles Lily's body...move me so much.
posted by annieb at 6:17 PM on January 16, 2016
posted by annieb at 6:17 PM on January 16, 2016
When they reboot the series in fifteen years and get someone age appropriate to play Snape (who I believe dies before turning forty), I will be very disappointed.
posted by ovenmitt at 6:28 PM on January 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by ovenmitt at 6:28 PM on January 16, 2016 [1 favorite]
But the rebooted series will have a black Hermione as the primary protagonist so the loss of Rickman will be painful but still we be balanced by some good.
No Maggie Smith as McGonagall would be unpossible though.
posted by vuron at 6:38 PM on January 16, 2016
No Maggie Smith as McGonagall would be unpossible though.
posted by vuron at 6:38 PM on January 16, 2016
This really makes me hate Harry all over again.
Harry was not the adult in that relationship. Harry was not in a position of professional responsibility over the children in his care. Harry was an orphaned child and teenager in basically constant mortal peril. It is not incumbent on children to accommodate the emotional issues of the adults in their lives.
posted by yasaman at 6:39 PM on January 16, 2016 [6 favorites]
Harry was not the adult in that relationship. Harry was not in a position of professional responsibility over the children in his care. Harry was an orphaned child and teenager in basically constant mortal peril. It is not incumbent on children to accommodate the emotional issues of the adults in their lives.
posted by yasaman at 6:39 PM on January 16, 2016 [6 favorites]
Harry was also not in possession of (and not allowed to be in possession of) the full facts of the entire situation he was tangled up in. He was doing the best he could with the limited facts he had and the limited amount of deduction he was able to do given his reduced set of information.
He was truly a flawed hero, but mostly because nobody was willing to take the time it would have taken to give him all the facts he would have needed to develop a fully-formed picture of the world.
This is what most children in complicated lives grow up with, and when they do things that seem difficult or illogical from the adult perspective, it is generally because they are striving to make sense of an illogical world in which adults are hiding facts from them to "save them" or whatever.
I feel for Harry across the series of years of his schooling, but I truly have sympathy for Snape because he is, in many ways, the actual hero of the story. Over many years, he sets up the situation that ultimately results in the defeat of Voldemort, but only at great, extended personal cost to himself, emotionally and physically and ultimately mortally.
Someday some Tarantino-inspired filmmaker is going to do a single film that distills the Snape story into a single movie, and it will be heartbreaking and violent and cathartic in strange ways.
posted by hippybear at 6:46 PM on January 16, 2016 [6 favorites]
He was truly a flawed hero, but mostly because nobody was willing to take the time it would have taken to give him all the facts he would have needed to develop a fully-formed picture of the world.
This is what most children in complicated lives grow up with, and when they do things that seem difficult or illogical from the adult perspective, it is generally because they are striving to make sense of an illogical world in which adults are hiding facts from them to "save them" or whatever.
I feel for Harry across the series of years of his schooling, but I truly have sympathy for Snape because he is, in many ways, the actual hero of the story. Over many years, he sets up the situation that ultimately results in the defeat of Voldemort, but only at great, extended personal cost to himself, emotionally and physically and ultimately mortally.
Someday some Tarantino-inspired filmmaker is going to do a single film that distills the Snape story into a single movie, and it will be heartbreaking and violent and cathartic in strange ways.
posted by hippybear at 6:46 PM on January 16, 2016 [6 favorites]
What I particularly loved about this edit is, you are going into it with the instruction that you should be looking at Snape's performance. And, when viewed from that lens, you really get the sense of Snape's frustration that he is supposed to secretly care for Harry, but from his perspective, Harry is fucking it up. The James side of Harry is dragging everything down, putting everything at risk. Harry is not worthy of all the work everyone is doing for him. You fucking little twit! We're fighting a war here, for you, and you can't even pay attention in Potions class!
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 7:00 PM on January 16, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 7:00 PM on January 16, 2016 [3 favorites]
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I do have to say, every time that anyone talks about Harry having his mother's Lily's eyes, I end up thinking about this song from the musical adaptation of The Secret Garden, which also has a dead mother named Lily.
posted by hippybear at 5:37 PM on January 16, 2016 [3 favorites]