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Post by Nene on Aug 2, 2007 13:48:25 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe...though I still considered Snape older...or maybe thats because [glow=beige,20,300]he was suposed to be bad.[/glow]. Voldemort if wasn't evil, would have around 65... I think the reason for many thinking this is probably Alan Rickman. He's definatly imprinted a specific image of Snape.
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Aug 2, 2007 15:14:11 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe...though I still considered Snape older...or maybe thats because [glow=beige,20,300]he was suposed to be bad.[/glow]. Voldemort if wasn't evil, would have around 65... I think the reason for many thinking this is probably Alan Rickman. He's definatly imprinted a specific image of Snape. True, but nevertheless I've always imagined Snape around 50's...For his knowlegde of potion making he should be teaching for more than 17 years.
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Post by Brae on Aug 2, 2007 15:25:08 GMT -5
[glow=beige,20,300]Neville[/glow] became a professor, he would be around 36 in the Epilogue, and to me it sounds like he'd been teaching for some time before that.
It's possible Snape could have been a professor from a young age. In Chapter 33 (where Harry looks into Snape's Pensive), Snape is already doing work for Dumbledore when James and Lily die - this would put Snape at approximately 21 (Using James and Lily's Birth and Death Dates as a guide). One COULD assume Snape is already a professor at this point.
Maybe they just do everything younger in the Wizarding world.
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Post by Nene on Aug 2, 2007 21:43:38 GMT -5
^I think that's more the case. There really is little mention of advanced training. (For an auror, yes.) As for his amount of knowledge... is the man not allowed to be intelligent? I was under the impression that he was highly gifted in potions. Look at HBP, it shows that he was incredibly gifted at potions at a young age.
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Post by Valancy on Aug 3, 2007 4:31:58 GMT -5
There is no wizarding university, so I assume that to be a teacher you just have to get enough experience to convince the Headmaster that you will be a good teacher. Snape was so highly talented that I'm sure he'd be quite convincing even at a young age. Besides, Dumbledore may have deliberately employed him to protect him.
Also, James and Lily's birthdates are given in the seventh book, and it's possible calculate from a date in the second book (when 1492 is 'exactly 500 years ago') that the books are happening in the 1990s. James and Lily being born in 1960 means Snape was born around then, too, and would thus be close to 40 in the end of the seventh book.
It's one of the things that annoy me about the movies, that they've made Harry's parents' generation too old. It always seems so poignant to me how very young James, Lily, Sirius etc. were when it all happened. Only in their early twenties. The movies lose that aspect.
(Still need to see the OotP movie. Working in the evenings and my friends being busy in the weekends doesn't make it very easy to find a good time to go and see it.)
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Post by Stephen - Yar Matey on Aug 9, 2007 14:36:03 GMT -5
[glow=beige,20,300]Rowling said the world was a sunnier, happier place after the seventh book and the death of Voldemort.
Harry Potter, who always voiced a desire to become an Auror, or someone who fights dark wizards, was named head of the Auror Department under the new wizarding government headed by his friend and ally, Kingsley Shacklebolt.
His wife, Ginny Weasley, stuck with her athletic career, playing for the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. Eventually, Ginny left the team to raise their three children - James, Albus and Lily - while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet.
Harry's best friend Ron Weasley joined his brother, George, as a partner at their successful joke shop, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Hermione Granger, Ron's wife and the third person of the series' dark wizard fighting trio, furthered the rights of subjugated creatures, such as house elves, in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement squad. The couple had two children - Rose and Hugo.
Luna Lovegood, Harry's airily distracted friend with a love for imaginary animals who joins the fight against Voldemort in the Order of the Phoenix, becomes a famous wizarding naturalist who eventually marries the grandson of Newt Scamander, author of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." [/glow]
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Post by Zujin on Aug 10, 2007 19:16:12 GMT -5
Hm. She's writing an encyclopedia or something and this'll all be in it right?
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Post by Stephen - Yar Matey on Aug 10, 2007 23:35:10 GMT -5
Hm. She's writing an encyclopedia or something and this'll all be in it right? Yea. When this will be written? God only knows! haha. Hopefully soon - and probably before the last movie comes out.
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Post by Zujin on Aug 11, 2007 21:21:31 GMT -5
Sweet.
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Post by Brae on Oct 20, 2007 16:38:07 GMT -5
Due to some PMs I have received from members (not just people who have posted in this thread), about the discussion regarding the latest revelation about Dumbledore. I have removed all evidence of it. I hope you all understand why I had to take this action.
I thank those who where discussing it for stopping the discussion on their own, as they both say their differing points of view would just lead to an argument. That is a testament to the maturity of the members of this board.
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Post by Valancy on Oct 20, 2007 16:46:05 GMT -5
I understand, and thank you. It will probably prevent people being further offended. It's a pity you had to remove the original revelation as well, as it was in itself only a matter relating to the books and I do feel the simple fact should be allowed to be discussed, but maybe you felt that leaving it in would have risked the recent discussion happening again... So if some people are wondering what has just been revealed about Dumbledore, search Harry Potter sites. I'm sure the HP fandom is discussing it very intensely.
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Post by Eppy on Oct 21, 2007 11:13:01 GMT -5
Yes, everyone is discussing it Wonder why it was never mentioned in the books?
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Post by Brae on Oct 21, 2007 17:15:18 GMT -5
Valancy - removing the original post was an accident on my part, sorry.
But I do agree leaving it up will open the door to discussions that may go awry.
I have no problem with you all discussing it. But, as always, please try to not be hurtful towards your fellow posters.
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Oct 21, 2007 17:44:50 GMT -5
I think everything is fine as it is now. There are certain subjects that are too delicated to be discussed like religion, sexual orientation and even political orientation. People have different opinions and they'll obviously defend their positions, but in delicated questions the better is leave them alone without discussion.
---------------------------- As for the books, I think it was not mentioned because the book doesn't really turn around sex...notice that the most normal thing among teenagers such as Harry, Ron, Hermione, Cho would be if they went to bed with their pairs...but they don't go, as far as its said in the books, so it was not really relevant.
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Post by Nene on Apr 11, 2008 10:35:34 GMT -5
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