he never saw the best of him
Jul. 26th, 2007 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ununoriginaldays late, but i reckon i'll still hop on the boat with my obligatory post-book 7 ramblings...
i jus realised tho, tat lily was never dead.
'death is but crossing the world, as frens do the seas; they live in one another still. for they must needs be present, tat love and live in tat whic is omnipresent. in this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. this is the comfort of frens, tat tho they may be said to die, yet their frenship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.'
----william penn, 'more fruits of solitude'
of course, there's bound to be spoilers here, which is why it's under the cut. and mainly the entry is so tat i can vent my feelings with regards to severus snape. i have opinions on other characters as well, but i've not shed so many tears over any one of them.
1stly, complete vindication. i've believed strongly in snape from the end of book 1 - of course, alan rickman and numerous brilliant pro-snape fics have bolstered my confidence in him, but as the whole series progressed, it became more and more evident tat snape was not evil. in fact, he's like THE fucking martyr of the whole harry potter story.
following which, disbelief. i knew snape dies the day the book was released, but din't really noe how - and i have to say, it was rather anticlimactic. i was imagining him maybe stepping in front of harry to block voldemort's curse or something along those lines, but, well... tat could be my melodramatic imagination and too many fics speaking. prob slammed the wall with my fist a few times at the end of tat depressing chapter...
then jus total devastation. the tears were flowing non-stop during 'the prince's tale' - and there will always be certain keywords tat will set me off from now on. snape was never good in the conventional sense, he wasn't a goody-two-shoes, he was malicious, din't really see the 'harm' in dark magics or the damage they could wreak, drawn to power, and he also wanted to be included amongst his peers. yet dun we all, to a certain extent, at one point or another, desire these trappings? anyone who says to the contrary is lying or in deep denial. but at the core of it all, his unshakeable ability to love, to hold onto it and to keep it burning bright - even if it was for jus one person, redeemed him, made him so much more than the rest of the characters in the series. for me, at least.
there's heaps more i can say about him, i haven't really plumbed the depths. i'm sure more will come out of me as i discuss and 'debrief' with my fren tml.
1stly, complete vindication. i've believed strongly in snape from the end of book 1 - of course, alan rickman and numerous brilliant pro-snape fics have bolstered my confidence in him, but as the whole series progressed, it became more and more evident tat snape was not evil. in fact, he's like THE fucking martyr of the whole harry potter story.
following which, disbelief. i knew snape dies the day the book was released, but din't really noe how - and i have to say, it was rather anticlimactic. i was imagining him maybe stepping in front of harry to block voldemort's curse or something along those lines, but, well... tat could be my melodramatic imagination and too many fics speaking. prob slammed the wall with my fist a few times at the end of tat depressing chapter...
then jus total devastation. the tears were flowing non-stop during 'the prince's tale' - and there will always be certain keywords tat will set me off from now on. snape was never good in the conventional sense, he wasn't a goody-two-shoes, he was malicious, din't really see the 'harm' in dark magics or the damage they could wreak, drawn to power, and he also wanted to be included amongst his peers. yet dun we all, to a certain extent, at one point or another, desire these trappings? anyone who says to the contrary is lying or in deep denial. but at the core of it all, his unshakeable ability to love, to hold onto it and to keep it burning bright - even if it was for jus one person, redeemed him, made him so much more than the rest of the characters in the series. for me, at least.
there's heaps more i can say about him, i haven't really plumbed the depths. i'm sure more will come out of me as i discuss and 'debrief' with my fren tml.
i jus realised tho, tat lily was never dead.
'death is but crossing the world, as frens do the seas; they live in one another still. for they must needs be present, tat love and live in tat whic is omnipresent. in this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. this is the comfort of frens, tat tho they may be said to die, yet their frenship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.'
----william penn, 'more fruits of solitude'
