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I had a hard time with Albus Severus, but Teddy told me to get over being a muggle

After I thought about it, she was right. In the Wizardry world with little Hugoes and Siriuses and Remuses running around, what's an Albus Severus!
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I had a hard time with Albus Severus, but Teddy told me to get over being a muggle

After I thought about it, she was right. In the Wizardry world with little Hugoes and Siriuses and Remuses running around, what's an Albus Severus!
Not to mention is you're a pureblood, you've got Lucius and, what was that Lestrange again? I could never spell the names of those two brothers. Rabastan and Rodolphus? Something of that nature.
Scorpius Malfoy doesn't seem that bad when you're ancestor is Phineas. (It sounds like a bird about to be roasted, honestly.)
Elphius Doge? Dedalus Diggle? Albus Wulfric Brian Percival Dumbledore? (Maybe not in that order, I'm starting to lose track.)
We were just used to the Potters and the Weasleys with their more normal names... but the Wizarding World makes an art out of the most outlandish and odd names the can think of.
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Lol at Mcdirector. I didn't have a problem with the name Albus Severus. It's just that I found it REALLY hard to believe that Harry would name his son after a bloke he had hated for years as had his Dad before him just coz he loved his Mum. And as for James and Lily..... I thought it was unrealistic - like the whole epilogue actually. Oh, and I LOVE the names Remus and Sirius!!!
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Lol at Mcdirector. I didn't have a problem with the name Albus Severus. It's just that I found it REALLY hard to believe that Harry would name his son after a bloke he had hated for years as had his Dad before him just coz he loved his Mum. And as for James and Lily..... I thought it was unrealistic - like the whole epilogue actually. Oh, and I LOVE the names Remus and Sirius!!!
As soon as I knew there was going to be an epilogue, I was waiting for Harry and Ginny's kids named James and Lily. Although I thought it was more likely for Harry to name him Sirius Remus or Arthus or something similar, than Albus Severus (yes, the Severus part especially.) Still, I think JK did it to solidify the idea of redemption for Severus, and I definitely won't complain about that.
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As soon as I knew there was going to be an epilogue, I was waiting for Harry and Ginny's kids named James and Lily. Although I thought it was more likely for Harry to name him Sirius Remus or Arthus or something similar, than Albus Severus (yes, the Severus part especially.) Still, I think JK did it to solidify the idea of redemption for Severus, and I definitely won't complain about that.
naming the son Severus also shows Harry's simple nature of the regular good guy always ready to take the high road.
As to hating Snape all of those years- when Snape shared his memories with Harry - more memories than he needed to as Harry only needed to know the last memory with DD - Snape was being vulnerable to Harry for the first time - I felt like it was an olive branch. -as the French proverb states, "To understand all, is to forgive all."
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naming the son Severus also shows Harry's simple nature of the regular good guy always ready to take the high road.
As to hating Snape all of those years- when Snape shared his memories with Harry - more memories than he needed to as Harry only needed to know the last memory with DD - Snape was being vulnerable to Harry for the first time - I felt like it was an olive branch. -as the French proverb states, "To understand all, is to forgive all."
Well, Severus had an alternate motivation in showing Harry the other memoriesn which was trying to make Harry trust him and believe the memories were real- because there were definitely many times in DH that if Harry had been told this by Snape, he would have had serious doubts and possibly a plan of Voldemort's. But then again, everyting with Severus is a double-edged sword.
I love the French proverb- it seems very much like something Harry would live by. Err, kind of. At least in and after Deathly Hallows.
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Well, Severus had an alternate motivation in showing Harry the other memoriesn which was trying to make Harry trust him and believe the memories were real- because there were definitely many times in DH that if Harry had been told this by Snape, he would have had serious doubts and possibly a plan of Voldemort's. But then again, everyting with Severus is a double-edged sword.
I love the French proverb- it seems very much like something Harry would live by. Err, kind of. At least in and after Deathly Hallows.
I too felt that some of the memories were to help Harry understand what he must do, but I still think he showed more than he needed to, like his most painful - calling Lily a mudblood and the aftermath
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I too felt that some of the memories were to help Harry understand what he must do, but I still think he showed more than he needed to, like his most painful - calling Lily a mudblood and the aftermath
One of my big revelation moments that I thought was done very well was realizing Severus' memory from OotP was his worst- not because he got hung upside down with his own spells, but because it was the day he called Lily a MudBlood and broke the relationship he cared the most about.
Its' another reason that I admire Severus so much, is that side of him that loved Lily, did so much for Harry, went to Dumbledore- and in the end he kind of just laid it all out there for Harry, the very person he didn't want to know, because this was the last, this was beyond lies, beyond the past, the final absolution. He can still think of Harry, of the war, of his duty- which he finally has every excuse to discard, hopeless as it is for himself and the one he fought to protect, or so he believes. (Although at some point I would guess he may have figured it out, knowing and working for Albus as long as he did.)
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One of my big revelation moments that I thought was done very well was realizing Severus' memory from OotP was his worst- not because he got hung upside down with his own spells, but because it was the day he called Lily a MudBlood and broke the relationship he cared the most about.
Its' another reason that I admire Severus so much, is that side of him that loved Lily, did so much for Harry, went to Dumbledore- and in the end he kind of just laid it all out there for Harry, the very person he didn't want to know, because this was the last, this was beyond lies, beyond the past, the final absolution. He can still think of Harry, of the war, of his duty- which he finally has every excuse to discard, hopeless as it is for himself and the one he fought to protect, or so he believes. (Although at some point I would guess he may have figured it out, knowing and working for Albus as long as he did.)
I would hazard to guess that Snape may very well be one of the most remembered characters years down the road. He's, quite simply, the tragedy of the series, - he didn't have a moral flaw, as we all thought, - he was just the most lonely child/man on the planet earth.
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One of my big revelation moments that I thought was done very well was realizing Severus' memory from OotP was his worst- not because he got hung upside down with his own spells, but because it was the day he called Lily a MudBlood and broke the relationship he cared the most about
I hope people caught that - because many were critical that being humiliated was his worse memory, calling him shallow in a sense,- when he had witnessed death, become a DE, etc.-
I was always suspicious that there was more to that memory...
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