From: WAY Vicki Kouchnerkavich <wayvk>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:35:27 -0400

I would like to comment on HP7 and Harry's relationship with Snape and how JK Rowling chose to tie this up.

I was actually discussing this with another library staff member and she pointed out when Snape was dying and said to Harry "Potter look at me" or something to that effect (I don't have the book in front me) that Snape wanted the last thing he saw in this life was Lilly's eye (via Harry). I certainly did not pick up on that thought and if that is what the author intended, it was a significant line in the story.

My 28 year son also picked up on several lines in this book, that he recalled hearing similar "lines" before. And I don't mean to discredit Rowling, these are just comments. There is a line by Albus Dumbledore with Harry about those not seeking power, having it thrust upon them. My son heard a line in the TV series Deep Space 9 and in a Shakespeare play using the power and thrust terms. Then the wonderfully surprising line by Mrs. Weasley to Beallatrix about "Not my daughter BIT....", was very close to a line from one of the Alien movies by Sigourney Weaver with her character Ripley stating to the queen alien, "Stay away from her (Newt) BIT....

I am not sure if I saw it here, but if so I apologize, check out on YouTube, the Harry Potter Puppets, very cute.

Vicki Kouchnerkavich Henika District Library (AW) Youth Services Supervisor 149 S. Main St. Wayland, MI 49348 269-792-2891
Received on Fri 03 Aug 2007 09:35:27 AM CDT