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I’m glad this came up again, and I’m not going to use spoil text, because at this point, people should darn well have read it.
My wife and I played the Harry Potter version of SceneIt last night, so I was in the mood to read parts of 6 again.
We know who the HPB is, and we know he wrote the spells. Harry makes a euphoria potion for Slughorne (who holds the memory about horcruxes) using the HPB recipe. Slughorne remarks on his ingenious use of peppermint and wonders how Harry though of it, then says it was the absolute epitome of his mother’s style to do something like that.
Lily’s style of potion making… showing up in a recipe by the then future potions master Snape… Snape can’t be a Voldemort stooge. And still, I go back to him telling Potter to improve his occlumency skills when he should have been killing him, or taking him hostage to present to Voldemort.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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