Three things coming to mind on listening to Half-Blood Prince

[sff_corgi_lj]

(Hey, it's better than listening to the news, right?)

• If Slugworth taught Snape, Lily and the Marauders Potions; and Snape's an unparallelled (as far as we know) Potions genius, especially as evinced by his student-era notes... why doesn't Slughorn speak more of how brilliant he was?  Certainly, there's to be some comparisons between a student and her son, but Snape's the one who went on to make Potions a career....
  


• Ron's watch that he received from his parents for his majority has stars in place of hands; we've seen Time Turners, for one, and we know that a simple locket's going to be a major player next book.  Is there something special about this watch?  Is it being waved before us the way we had 'oak-aged mead' whapped over our heads when Dumbledore visited the Dursleys'?
  


• I just noticed - aren't all Dumbledore's appointment notes to Harry being delivered by, and only by, members of 'Dumbledore's Army'?

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[mafdet.livejournal.com]

- Cuz I suspect that ol' Sluggy was a bit of a perv, and Lily's more attractive than Sevvie.

- It could be just a Really Kewl Wizarding Watch. On the other hand it could be significant. Perhaps something to do with astronomy?

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

ASTROloGY MAYBE?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

You should see waccawheel's drawing of Slughorn w/ the Black brothers; she said 'he's a bit of an auntie, isn't he.' ^_^

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

1. I contemplated the first question for fic, although "Frog Prince" won't be finished until I actually figure out an ending. But I decided that Snape didn't like or trust Slughorn, probably didn't make any particular effort in class, and furthermore, he didn't have the flair, attractiveness or family background that Slughorn would appreciate.

2. Since JKR killed K2K, I offer no speculations on Ron's watch, except that it probably is significant.

3. Not all: the first note is delivered by a girl named Demelza, whom we'd only met a short time earlier, when she won a place on the Quidditch team as Chaser. But there's nothing to suggest she wasn't in the DA, and was just never brought to our notice before.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Re: 1 - You and chrysantza agree in kind, good point.

Re: 3 - thanks, I've got the audio in the car, which means without much flailing about (and getting up from where I just got comfortable on the couch, finally) I couldn't check easily.

So it's Demelza, then... somebody, then Ginny, then Luna? [stares at clock with irritation]

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

Wasnt' it jack sloper first?
btw apologies for the ALLCAPS KWIKSPEL in my other coments.
liek isaid i'm not far inandatthe moment i'm findign it very funny that snape gives hrry detention on saturday and he gets alatter fro mdumbledore to comeot his office on saturday nighttoo (which means he'l lbe goen and everone thinks he's at snape's office andso forth...)

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[hugs] You're forgiven, once my ears stop ringing. ;)

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

wel my wo nears ar ringing now. can yo uprobab ybonfirm if chamomiel is resposnbiel for that strange senasatio as if osmething uses my head for one ofhtose beans that needs to be crushed?

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

SLUGHORN SUCHA BLODY oious na JUST LIEK REMUS LUPIN YO UKNOW, CRINGEWORTHY.
dear miser freud,
i am still not past chapter 10 of hbp. what kdk of hidden mesageam isendign myself?

i nother nes i quit takig nnote of details and clues to OH PAYATENTION TO because at some poit nafter i drownedina yaho grou pof discussio nwher every blody wordj kr wrote orsaid was takign tripple-edged I Jsut had to. quit. Every lok ,eveyr word that described someen's features, every tiem his eyes werementioned, he sixthousandtiems ewe've hear dthat snape loks lie kan overgrown bat bat bat bat 8yawns*

btw ithnk slughorn usedto be head of slytherin (has he said that or did iget spoieldfor this or is iti nm yuown head). Notice he knwos exaclty who to be itnersted in and who not to. for some Runknown? reaso nit didn't matter that snape was top in HIS POTIONS CLASS. HE TALKS MORE ABOUT lILY. PUT HIS BRAISN ITHE SORTING HET AND YOU'L GET MORE ACCURATE SLYTHERINS THEN WHEN SALAZAR HIMSELF CHOOSES FOR HIS HOUSE.

SAYS HE ONE WHO HAS STARTED OVER FRO MSCRATCH NWO SHE FINALY HAS THE THIGNI NBRAILLE. :p
LIEK ISAID, I'M NOT PASTTHE HOSUEOF GAUNT YET. bUT i"M BLOODY ITNERESTEDADN MORE CAPTIVATED NOW HAT I'M READING IT OFF-SCREEN *DUCKS ATAHT LAST COMMENT*

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Auuuugh, I keep FORGETTING. Sorry. :(

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

et no-oen pa ayttention to me. i'm one fothe slowest onthe block withthat book adn i'm perfect yfien wiht everyoen jsut posting whatever they watnto spoil about. don't cut stuf jsut for me. see? sincie have atextfiel ofthe thing i COULD HAVE bee ndone months ago. ah well...

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

My brain cell has nothing to say about the second and third items, but as for the first, Slughorn is notably... pragmatic. Even if the positions of career Potions Master, Head of Slytherin, and newly-anointed DADA Master at Hogwarts were particularly illustrious-- and JKR certainly doesn't make them seem that great; within canon, Snape doesn't seem to have worldly riches or screaming groupies-- what does Slughorn have to gain by praising Snape to any of the Slug Club, particularly to Harry?

Also, do we nec'ly know whether the notes were written by chibi-Snape himself instead of by Eileen Prince as a schoolgirl?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

:nod: to the first point - as the others have said, as well. That should have occurred to me, but I'm not used to thinking in popularity terms. :)

I'll have to get back to you about the 2nd point, if somebody else doesn't beat me to it. I think there's something specific to that later on, but I haven't got back there yet. I'm up to disk... erm... 11?

[h311ybean]

Errr...the professor's name was Slughorn. Slugworth was one of the guys who stole Willy Wonka's candy-making secrets.

But that would make a veeeeery interesting crossover!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[doubletakes] But I typed it right the 2nd time! Where the blazes did THAT come from...?

[h311ybean]

*reassuring pats* Well, the two names are a lot alike. When I read your entry, I had actually just skimmed over the "Slugworth" but then I realized hey, waitaminit...

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

But I don't even know why I typed that! :/

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

yo urefresh my memory o nthe 'correspondence betwee nwilly wonka and berty bott' fici wnatto write. ever sine I reread charlie and thechocolate facotry this weekend. wheee!!