...the Lily/Snape dynamic like Tonks/Remus was a concept she plucked out of the Internet.

*laughs* That...actually makes a disturbing amount of sense!

Believe me, I've thought about it. I might even meta it someday... "Harry Potter & The Plots Fandom Wrote".

For another example of plot character development out of the blue, see Sirius. From being the man of the profoundly deep, "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals," about Crouch's treatment of Winky, to mistreating his own house-elf one book later! I know that explanations can be offered for this, that one can be blind to one faults where one can see them clearly in others, but when you have to do that much interpreting/explaining away, it's a sign that there's something wrong with the text.


:D That is such a brilliant perception on your part. I had completely forgotten Sirius' profound "if you want to know what a man's like..." You are, of course, completely right in that there is a sharp disconnect from a man that says something like that and a man that treated Kreacher the way he did. Of course, one can say that that's Sirius being a hypocrite, but even then, it's strange that Harry never thought so. Even the Omniscient Dumbledore when he's blaming Sirius for his own death, doesn't say "Sirius should have known better".