30 Days of HP Meme -- Day 10
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kelly_chamblissDay 1. Discuss how you got into Harry Potter.
Day 2. Your favorite book
Day 3. Least favorite book.
Day 4. Favorite female character.
Day 5. Favorite male character.
Day 6. Least favorite female character.
Day 7. Least favorite male Character.
Day 8. Thoughts on fanfic.
Day 9. Favorite Hogwarts Professor.
Day 10. Dead character you want to bring back most.
Severus Snape, definitely. I wasn't angry with JKR for killing him off -- she'd prepared us for it, the death makes narrative sense (in good and perhaps bad ways), the scene is movingly-written, and for all we know, Snape himself might have welcomed his end.
But.
I want my Snape back! And thanks to fanfic, I have him.
In fact, I've written and read so many "Snape lives" fics that he hardly seems dead to me at all. Somehow, the fanon versions of surviving!Snape have become more potent and real to me than the canon death.
Which leaves me in the odd position of not really missing the dead person I want to bring back most, because in the Dumbledorian sense of real*, he's still alive. So perhaps he isn't really my answer to this question.
The person who is still dead to me, and whose death hurts most, is Alastor Moody. Somehow he's harder for me to resurrect, fanonically-speaking, than Snape is. And because part of me sees him as a perfect het partner for Minerva, I feel her grief and loss, too. /g/
So yeah, I really want to bring Moody back from the dead.
(*"The Dumbledorian Sense of Real" = "Of course it is happening inside your head, Kelly, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?")
Day 11. House you would be in.
Day 12 Hogwarts subject you would most like to take.
Day 13 Spell you wish you could work without a wand.
Day 14 Thoughts on fanart (+ A favorite fanart).
Day 15 Favorite movie.
Day 16 Least favorite movie.
Day 17 Books vs. films.
Day 18 A part of the books/movies that makes you cry.
Day 19 Favorite 'ship(s).
Day 20 Your favorite villain.
Day 21 Favorite location.
Day 22 Thoughts on wizard rock.
Day 23 Character you think you are most like.
Day 24 Horcruxes vs. Hallows?
Day 25 Something you wish JKR had written about more.
Day 26 Marauders vs. Snape.
Day 27 The Invisibility Cloak, The Resurrection Stone or The Elder Wand.
Day 28 The Next Generation.
Day 29 How have you participated in the fandom over the years?
Day 30 In general, the effects of Harry Potter on your life.
Day 2. Your favorite book
Day 3. Least favorite book.
Day 4. Favorite female character.
Day 5. Favorite male character.
Day 6. Least favorite female character.
Day 7. Least favorite male Character.
Day 8. Thoughts on fanfic.
Day 9. Favorite Hogwarts Professor.
Day 10. Dead character you want to bring back most.
Severus Snape, definitely. I wasn't angry with JKR for killing him off -- she'd prepared us for it, the death makes narrative sense (in good and perhaps bad ways), the scene is movingly-written, and for all we know, Snape himself might have welcomed his end.
But.
I want my Snape back! And thanks to fanfic, I have him.
In fact, I've written and read so many "Snape lives" fics that he hardly seems dead to me at all. Somehow, the fanon versions of surviving!Snape have become more potent and real to me than the canon death.
Which leaves me in the odd position of not really missing the dead person I want to bring back most, because in the Dumbledorian sense of real*, he's still alive. So perhaps he isn't really my answer to this question.
The person who is still dead to me, and whose death hurts most, is Alastor Moody. Somehow he's harder for me to resurrect, fanonically-speaking, than Snape is. And because part of me sees him as a perfect het partner for Minerva, I feel her grief and loss, too. /g/
So yeah, I really want to bring Moody back from the dead.
(*"The Dumbledorian Sense of Real" = "Of course it is happening inside your head, Kelly, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?")
Day 11. House you would be in.
Day 12 Hogwarts subject you would most like to take.
Day 13 Spell you wish you could work without a wand.
Day 14 Thoughts on fanart (+ A favorite fanart).
Day 15 Favorite movie.
Day 16 Least favorite movie.
Day 17 Books vs. films.
Day 18 A part of the books/movies that makes you cry.
Day 19 Favorite 'ship(s).
Day 20 Your favorite villain.
Day 21 Favorite location.
Day 22 Thoughts on wizard rock.
Day 23 Character you think you are most like.
Day 24 Horcruxes vs. Hallows?
Day 25 Something you wish JKR had written about more.
Day 26 Marauders vs. Snape.
Day 27 The Invisibility Cloak, The Resurrection Stone or The Elder Wand.
Day 28 The Next Generation.
Day 29 How have you participated in the fandom over the years?
Day 30 In general, the effects of Harry Potter on your life.