More thinking about HP7: remorse and transformation of character

I've been mulling HP7 over some more, specifically about remorse. I told gina_r_snape I'd like to do an essay on the subject.

Before I could get started, however, I ran across this essay, about Snape's story arc in book 7. I really urge you to read it, it's excellent. And I'm going to riff on some of what she was saying in that essay in the remarks I have that follow, so read it first.

( Anyway. Remorse. )

Another possible Flint

Here's a darn good question that choralgirl asked me about book 7, harking back to something that happened in the Chamber of Secrets in book 2:

( Here's the question )

Comment settings changed again

Anonymous comments are going to be turned off for awhile. I'm tired of deleting spam.

Wow

I just realized that this journal recently received its 30,000th comment.

My, you people are loquacious.