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First, this is your weekly 'waaaa! writing' post brought to you my ability to only have ideas and writing ability when I'm no where near my computer.


Secondly I've been reviewing Half-Blood Prince the way i experience Hp mostly these days: with stephen fry's audio book versions. Si I've been thinking about it again. I still think its the weakest Potter book for me. But I know others like it.

But why is it called 'Half-Blood Prince' that's never more than a subplot and it elevates snape to a position only Harry and Sirius have otherwise to be mention in a title.

Second why does it matter that Snape is the Half Blood Prince? I mean its a nice bit irony that Harry learns so much for the book and never from Snape but its not important to the plot of Deathly Hallows nor does it seem to be to be thematically important.

But I'd love to hear i'm wrong and its actually very important. Any ideas?
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In an, not really successful, attempt to kick start my muses I've been re-reading the HP series and I am currently partway through Prisoner Of Azkaban. I'm currently at Harry's first Patroneous lesson. And Lupin had this to say on how to make Patronuses:

"with an incantation, which will work only if you are concentrating, with all your might, on a single, very happy memory'

Why is this significant? Well think about other times in later books when Harry produces a patroneus: In GoF, in the maze he thinks about celebrating the end of the tournament. At the start of OotP he thinks about gettng to see Ron and Hermione again. In his OWL he pictures Umbridge sacked.

And none of these are memories. They are happy thoughts, and hopes for the future. Looking forward, not back. imagine if I were less the science student and more versed in literary and thematic criticisms that would be very significant.
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All right, so I have a Livejournal. No idea what I'm going to write in it but for the moment, that's neither here nor there. This post is mainly filler to stop livejournal whinging at me that I haven't made any journal posts. Thus far; the interface seems overly complex and confusing but I'm sure I'll pick it up eventually.

So yeah, mainly here because of AFF so I might make random posts musing about my adult writing and plot ideas and so forth that i'll never get around to actually writing and posting.


Sounds like SUPER FUN TIMES to me.

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