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		<title>By: Avoigmegidend</title>
		<link>http://thehogshead.org/deathly-hallows-initial-reactions-443/comment-page-1/#comment-435123</link>
		<dc:creator>Avoigmegidend</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>What is the cheapest web hosting company?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m want to set up a web site for my new business.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
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		<title>By: korg20000bc</title>
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		<dc:creator>korg20000bc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Welcome!
It&#039;ll be great to have your input.
This topic has a bit of age about and it would be excellent to start commenting on some of the more recent posts.  That&#039;s generally where the action is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome!<br />
It&#8217;ll be great to have your input.<br />
This topic has a bit of age about and it would be excellent to start commenting on some of the more recent posts.  That&#8217;s generally where the action is.</p>
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		<title>By: TonyP</title>
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		<dc:creator>TonyP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello eveyone, I&#039;m new to the forum
I look forward to sharing and exchanging information with everyone! 
I have been watching the forum for a while and I just decided to join and participate! 
See ya...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello eveyone, I&#8217;m new to the forum<br />
I look forward to sharing and exchanging information with everyone!<br />
I have been watching the forum for a while and I just decided to join and participate!<br />
See ya&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: jonathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1. each one of us wants to end DH our own way. some wants to have a detailed account of  what happened to characters - their work, kids, marriage, etc. but as far as the thread or leitmotif of the HP story is concerned, its USUALLY seen from harry&#039;s perspective (except for a few chapters). and the epilogue shows what harry values most, his love for his family.
2. about severus&#039; love for lily, all i can say is this to those who are dissatisfied: have you ever really loved somebody? if you have, then you would understand snape&#039;s choices.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. each one of us wants to end DH our own way. some wants to have a detailed account of  what happened to characters &#8211; their work, kids, marriage, etc. but as far as the thread or leitmotif of the HP story is concerned, its USUALLY seen from harry&#8217;s perspective (except for a few chapters). and the epilogue shows what harry values most, his love for his family.<br />
2. about severus&#8217; love for lily, all i can say is this to those who are dissatisfied: have you ever really loved somebody? if you have, then you would understand snape&#8217;s choices.</p>
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		<title>By: DaveCahonne</title>
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		<dc:creator>DaveCahonne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Laurien</title>
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		<dc:creator>Laurien</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey,

About snape:

I don&#039;t think Lily&#039;s love was the one thing that drove him to heroic actions.
We should interpret his love for lily more like what made him come to his senses.
It&#039;s like: making fun of a someone and afterwards learning that it&#039;s realy a nice person. You don&#039;t stop making fun of people afterwards because you liked the other one and felt sorry for the pain you&#039;ve put them trough, But because you see now that it was wrong. your liking of the person drove you to the conclusion. 

Snape did not just desire Lily, he realy cared about her. Unlike LV Snape was able to love, to love deeply and that makes him good to me, to be able to care about another than yourself is not evil or selfish. He stil loved lily while she did not return his love, he wanted her to live hapily with another man and their baby (and not be killed by LV) even when they had not spoken for years and he knew for sure they would not be together. HE cared that she&#039;d be happy.
That doesn&#039;t seems Selfish to me!

And for one thing; JKR makes it clear to me by telling us that you can &#039;regrow&#039; your soul after making a horcrux by feeling remorse, that when you really feel the pain of what you&#039;ve done you can become whole again.

Snape&#039;s love for Lily made him feel (when LV thought the profecy meant Harry and when she was dead) what he was causing other people to feel (by doing evil when he was e DE). 
And i&#039;m sure Dumbledore took his time to sit with snape and talk about what he&#039;d done.

You can be sure that snape did not act for the right reasons in the beginning but i would not say that that&#039;s still true during the events of the series.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey,</p>
<p>About snape:</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think Lily&#8217;s love was the one thing that drove him to heroic actions.<br />
We should interpret his love for lily more like what made him come to his senses.<br />
It&#8217;s like: making fun of a someone and afterwards learning that it&#8217;s realy a nice person. You don&#8217;t stop making fun of people afterwards because you liked the other one and felt sorry for the pain you&#8217;ve put them trough, But because you see now that it was wrong. your liking of the person drove you to the conclusion. </p>
<p>Snape did not just desire Lily, he realy cared about her. Unlike LV Snape was able to love, to love deeply and that makes him good to me, to be able to care about another than yourself is not evil or selfish. He stil loved lily while she did not return his love, he wanted her to live hapily with another man and their baby (and not be killed by LV) even when they had not spoken for years and he knew for sure they would not be together. HE cared that she&#8217;d be happy.<br />
That doesn&#8217;t seems Selfish to me!</p>
<p>And for one thing; JKR makes it clear to me by telling us that you can &#8216;regrow&#8217; your soul after making a horcrux by feeling remorse, that when you really feel the pain of what you&#8217;ve done you can become whole again.</p>
<p>Snape&#8217;s love for Lily made him feel (when LV thought the profecy meant Harry and when she was dead) what he was causing other people to feel (by doing evil when he was e DE).<br />
And i&#8217;m sure Dumbledore took his time to sit with snape and talk about what he&#8217;d done.</p>
<p>You can be sure that snape did not act for the right reasons in the beginning but i would not say that that&#8217;s still true during the events of the series.</p>
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		<title>By: Annie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doug (post #37)  

You said:  &quot;All that may be true, but the charge against Albus, both as a teenager and as an adult, was not that he was a bad person. It was that he was tempted by power, and was far too willing to use others to further â€œthe greater goodâ€.

&quot;Harry would have consented, had he known the truth - he really was willing to die to defeat Voldemort. But Albus never bothered to tell him the truth in any of their heart-to-heart chats. Instead that was left as yet one more unpleasant task on Snapeâ€™s plate, to be done only at the last possible moment.&quot;

I think the reason Dubledore didn&#039;t tell Harry can be paralleled in Scripture.  On the Cross, there is a moment when Christ is in despair and cries out &quot;My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me.&quot;  (or left me in my time of need.  I believe God withdrew his spirit and support of Christ in this very trying time so that Christ could make a conscious decision to fulfill his mission to the bitter end.  He CHOSE to give up the ghost.  I think Harry had to do the same thing.  He needed to CHOOSE to sacrifice himself to Lord Thingy without the hope of coming back.  This makes his sacrifice complete.  It is this willingness to die for others with no thought for himself that seals the protection on the rest of the wizarding world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doug (post #37)  </p>
<p>You said:  &#8220;All that may be true, but the charge against Albus, both as a teenager and as an adult, was not that he was a bad person. It was that he was tempted by power, and was far too willing to use others to further â€œthe greater goodâ€.</p>
<p>&#8220;Harry would have consented, had he known the truth &#8211; he really was willing to die to defeat Voldemort. But Albus never bothered to tell him the truth in any of their heart-to-heart chats. Instead that was left as yet one more unpleasant task on Snapeâ€™s plate, to be done only at the last possible moment.&#8221;</p>
<p>I think the reason Dubledore didn&#8217;t tell Harry can be paralleled in Scripture.  On the Cross, there is a moment when Christ is in despair and cries out &#8220;My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me.&#8221;  (or left me in my time of need.  I believe God withdrew his spirit and support of Christ in this very trying time so that Christ could make a conscious decision to fulfill his mission to the bitter end.  He CHOSE to give up the ghost.  I think Harry had to do the same thing.  He needed to CHOOSE to sacrifice himself to Lord Thingy without the hope of coming back.  This makes his sacrifice complete.  It is this willingness to die for others with no thought for himself that seals the protection on the rest of the wizarding world.</p>
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		<title>By: Annie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Boggart, 

About the person who came to magic late in life.  JKR did an online interview the other day (see Mugglenet.com for transcript) and was asked that question.  Her answer was along the lines of &quot;Sorry!  I changed my mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boggart, </p>
<p>About the person who came to magic late in life.  JKR did an online interview the other day (see Mugglenet.com for transcript) and was asked that question.  Her answer was along the lines of &#8220;Sorry!  I changed my mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: reyhan</title>
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		<dc:creator>reyhan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So  we can at least agree that he did good things, even heroic things.

And someone who does good things, and even heroic things is a - ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So  we can at least agree that he did good things, even heroic things.</p>
<p>And someone who does good things, and even heroic things is a &#8211; ?</p>
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		<title>By: Daryl</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daryl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I still think that Snape was NOT a good person. All of the prejudices that he had as a death eater, he never truly changed. Yes, he did good things, but those were only because of the guilt he felt over Lilys death, and NOT because he actually wanted to do good. He was still the old Snape, still just like many of the other Death Eaters, only he had a stronger motivation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I still think that Snape was NOT a good person. All of the prejudices that he had as a death eater, he never truly changed. Yes, he did good things, but those were only because of the guilt he felt over Lilys death, and NOT because he actually wanted to do good. He was still the old Snape, still just like many of the other Death Eaters, only he had a stronger motivation.</p>
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