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[ebonlock]

Snape's death, now are we to believe he died from the venom or from bleeding to death (or perhaps the combination of the two?). I can't quite buy the venom angle, for one thing he's been handling toxins his entire life, for another Arthur was bitten multiple times and survived without too much difficulty, and even if a bezoar wouldn't have neutralized the venom (and as venom could be used as a poison and imbibed rather than being received in a bite, it should be able to), are we to believe he wouldn't have kept some sort of anti-venom on his person? Severus is a planner, nearly to an obsessive-compulsive degree, he's had to be in order to stay alive for so long. So he couldn't have foreseen that working for a guy with a great big venomous snake might make preparing for getting bitten by said snake rather prudent?

Now let's consider the bleeding out thing. If I'm not mistaken Ron nearly bled out after he was splinched earlier in the book. Hermione pulls out her bag of holding and uses some dittany to staunch the bleeding. Was she all out by the time they reached the Shack? Did she lose her head and forget about it, but still have the presence of mind to conjure a damn flask? Or did she think Severus was getting his just reward and so stood by and watched him die? I don't recall any mention of the fact that the dittany was all gone after the trio took care of their burns but it's a possibility. It's certainly the one I'd like to believe as the other two are not terribly flattering to the character.

It's not that I hated the scene entirely, it just doesn't feel quite logical to me somehow and I can't seem to shake that.

But, on an unrelated note, I was also thinking that what might be fun to read would be scenes from the book told from an entirely different character's perspective. If I felt inspired enough I'd take a whack at "The Silver Doe" from Severus' point of view but I am lazy and will hope someone else will take the plot bunny and run with it. But my question to you guys is, if you could re-write one scene or chapter from another perspective, whose would you choose and why?

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I could swear I'd read one of your Riddle fics, but are they in your journal's memories? If so I'll go check them out. If not I shall beg you for URL's :)

[windrose.livejournal.com]

They're on my fic page, but here are direct links: Devil's Advocate, and the sequel Love, Blood, & Rhetoric.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I'd read Devil's Advocate before but not Love, Blood & Rhetoric. I have to say I rather preferred your version of the final battle to all that Elder Wand nonsense. Though I will admit every time I say DEATHSTICK!!! I have to laugh.

Also prefer your Tom to the rather one-dimensional version we got in the books. If I knew you didn't already have enough on your plate I'd be hounding you to do your own version of his story as a young adult as he slid into evil.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

You know, every time I read the name Deathstick, I would invoke Ash from ARMY OF DARKNESS: "This is my DEATHSTICK!" *vbg*

Also prefer your Tom to the rather one-dimensional version we got in the books.

Well, yes. That was one of the reasons I wrote the things. Really, the books do make one wish someone had sent JKR a copy of the How To Be An Evil Overlord list.