About Rome, may I say I love Rafa? He has been one of my best friends for years now, but when I spend time with him I truly realize how much I really miss him when he is outside so long. My sister Laura and me stayed at his place; by day we did wild tourism, and in the evening we went with Rafa, his girlfriend Stefi and sometimes his friends to have dinner and go out till late. We slept around five hours every day… Of course we slipped in every bus we took, went *walking* all the way up to San Pedro’s dome, suffered a hot-hell day visiting the Foro and the Palatino,
and a security guard threw us out from San Giovanni in Laterano, because we weren’t dressed modestly enough. Can you believe it? We wore long jeans and sleeveless shirts!!!! You can’t go sleeveless into the main churches, but you can wear shorts and a bikini if you pay the 12€ entry to the Vatican Museums... ejem...
In the weekend, we did a little excursion Isquia and Napoles. Isquia is very close to Capri, a bit longer and a bit cheaper (although not for much) Our hostelling had even a swimming pool (!!!) and the landscape and the sea was enchanting. Ahh... if I were rich...
On Sunday we visited Napoles, which is an... interesting city. Dirty in a way I’ve never seen (tons of rubbish left in the middle of the streets), but attractive nonetheless. We had lunch in a famous place, and look my pizza “margarita” with buffalo’s milk mozzarella! And look how it ended... XD

And look how it ended... XD

On the other side, Almeria has been relaxing. I went with J to his family’s flat there. It’s placed just in the middle of the town centre, so we have all the little restaurants and “tapeo” places just walking outside the house. Fish and seafood is very good there, so I’ve eaten a bit too much of those, cheap and so tasty... We spend the days in Aguadulce and the Cabo de Gata beaches, and I’ve napped quite a lot. Pity that is finished for me. Now I have to work, and continue my PFC...*sigh*.
But that also mean that I'm HERE!!!! F-list, I'll be checking you again at night!!! I don't believe I'll able to read what you wrote these past fifteen days, but at least, I'll be updated from now on ;)
And talking about LJ and fandoms...
About HBP, well, I want to have faith in Snape. I really want. I really need it, but... I think he is rotten. Really.
That theory about Albus ordering Snape to kill him is beautiful, but I cannot really believe it. I mean, I can't believe Rowling would write that. This is killing, people. Killing. Bad, bad, bad. Even if Albus was dying, Severus still *killed* him. Even if Albus' death saved Draco, or was useful that way, that doesn't free him of the fact he *killed on purpose*. What kind of message is to kill, even when is a necessary???? (as good!Snape theorists claim to be the case) I'm not against that idea per se, mind you, but I doubt Rowling will accept publicly in her books this ethical question: to kill one to save hundreds.
After all, Snape could have chosen differently: chosen to die, chose not to make that vow... And I agree that wouldn't be very Snapeish, but what we have? Snape in character has killed. He was a Death Eater, all we knew he had done very bad things, but now we have seen him kill, clear like water. I never thought he was good, as a fluffy gryffindor, but I thought he was on the right side. Now... I'm not sure.
Besides, in the Mugglenet and The Leaky Cauldron interview to JK Rowling, you can read:
"MA: Oh, here’s one [from our forums] that I’ve really got to ask you. Has Snape ever been loved by anyone?
JKR: Yes, he has, which in some ways makes him more culpable even than Voldemort, who never has. Okay, one more each!"
That smells bad for Snape, if you ask me...
Y ahora tengo que hablar un poco sobre perdidos!!!! Bueno, es casi un milagro haber seguido la serie con tanta escapada, pero entre los caps grabados y lo que miré en internet, estoy más o menos al día. Más o menos, aún no he visto los caps del pasado jueves (que están grabados), así que nadie me spolilee!!!!
Bueno, bueno, bueno, estoy alucinada con la serie. El Locke me da un... no-se-qué rollito... Mi madre me ha dicho que uno de los dos caps grabados es de él, a ver que pasa. Y que fuerte la historia del Sayer, de verdad, y la de Charlie también... Y bueno, que me contáis de la historia de los números malditos??? *____*
ETA: Look the incredible Sirius/Severus that
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Esa serie es increibel y espera a ver el 19 y 20, ya veras ya XDDDD
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August 8 2005, 11:24:51 UTC 6 years ago
I went to Rome once. It was fabulous. The only place I've been to in Spain is Barcelona, also fabulous. I love the architecture by Gaudi!
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Calibremos las alternativas. Si Snape NO jura, se descubre como espía y a tomar viento toda su misión en un mkomento clave. Asi que a jurar, y luego veremos lo que hacemos. Y yo sinceramente creo que estaba dispuesto a morir en el momento clave para no tener que matar a Dumbledore, pero eso ya es una cosa mia.
Si Snape sube a la torre y se niega a matar a Dumbledore:
1) Cualquier otro mortífago lo habría hecho, y Snape hubiera muerto por no cumplir su promesa.
2) Si hubieran obligado a Draco a hacerlo, Snape no habría muerto, pero Draco habría quedado "marcado". Obviamente Dumbledore no quería eso.
3) Si Snape se vuelve contra los mortífagos e intenta matarlos a todos, lo más probable es que le hubieran matado a el, que por muy buen mago que sea, eran unos cuantos contra el solo. Se habría delatado como espía y cualquier cosa que tuviera entre manos se habría estropeado. En el improbable caso de que consiguiera desarmar e inmovilizar a todos los demás, Draco incluido, habría muerto por el juramento antes de poder darle el antídoto a Dumbledore y este también estaría muerto.
En fin, que no veo fisuras en la historia. En cuanto a matar o morir, Snape no es un angelito y eso lo sabemos. Es el asesino de la historia. Pero Rowling dice, y lo dice muy claro, que la obsesiçon de Voldemort es la muerte. No morir. Y Dumbledore se ha cansado de decir ochenta veces que no teme en absoluto a la muerte, que hay cosas peores... ¿suplicaría por su vida, entonces?
Me parece coherente. Ahora, ¿le espera a Snape un futuro color de rosa? No. ¿irá al cielo? Ni de coña. No es bueno, ni justo, ni santo, pero lo que ha hecho lo ha hecho bien. Cita cinematográfica: La Mision. Robert de Niro, el capitán Mendoza, el esclavista que mata a su hermano en un ataque de celos y decide hacerse sacerdote para purgar su pecado, en una misión entre los mismos indios que esclavizaba, pero cuando llegan los esclavistas no puede rezar y dejarse matar, saca la espada y lucha. Mata. Porque es lo que sabe hacer. Porque no puede quedarse quieto. Ese es su camino. ¿El fin justifica los medios? Puede que no, pero para él no hay otro modo.
Y sea justo o no, Snape es un heroe. Porque para destruir a Voldemort ha accedido a matar al único amigo que le quedaba, y ahora todos le odian. Dumbledore nunca le hubiera dado la clase de Defensa de no saber que ese era el final, ¿no?
August 8 2005, 13:56:03 UTC 6 years ago
Pero a ver, al tema, voy a hacer de abogado del diablo... Lo primero, por qué hizo Snape el voto??????????? Podía haberse negado!!! No se hubiera descubierto como espía en absoluto! Porque *quién* sospechaba de él? Belatrix! Y estamos entre los mortifagos; su pasatiempo es picarse los unos a los otros... amigable grupo que son. Pero aquí quien carda la lana es voldemort.
Si voldie cree a Snape, entonces bella puede decir misa. Es cierto, en el momento a snape le convenía aceptar el voto, pero cuando narcisa añadió la tercera cláusula él podía haberse negado.
Que digo, jurar la última parte, si es que sabía de que iba el tema (es el único escape que le veo, y me cuesta creer que snape hiciera un voto así a ciegas) significaba *desobedecer* abiertamente a Voldie!! Podía haber esgrimido eso en su defensa. La palabra de voldie es ley, él mismo lo dice... Pero lo jura. Lo jura cuando albus está vivito y coleando. E incluso si albus ya moría de la maldición en la mano (lo cual me parece muy probable) Snape no podía saber que esa maldición le mataría en un año, el plazo que *él sabe* que *draco* tiene para cumplir su plan. De hecho, si albus no hubiera ido a la cueva y bebido la poción, hubiera estado en perfectas condiciones para luchar, y habría hecho a ese grupo de mortífagos picadillo.
¿qué habría pasado entonces con Snape, hummmm? Todo viene de ese voto, todo viene de la *decisión* que Snape toma en Spinner End.
Podía haber dicho *no*.
Luego, es muy posible que snape le dijera a Albus que voldie había ordenado a draco matarle, y que si draco fallaba le tocaba hacerlo él. Es muy posible que albus, viéndose moribundo, y ... *apreciando/amando* a Snape quien sabe porqué, siendo capaz de ver todas las razones que tú has enumerado antes: salvar a draco, lo imposible de la situación, proteger a snape, proteger a Harry... instara a Snape a matarle, como quizás ya habían incluso discutido.
Pero el hecho de la decisión primera, el hecho que moralmente determina si Snape es un héroe o un villano, es ese voto en Spiner End. Y me temo que Rowling no se va a meter en un "fin justifica los medios".
buaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh.... Ç___Ç convénceme de lo contrario, por fa...
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And I think that you know I am all for evil Snape, so there is nothing I can do to make you feel better. Other than remind you that evil is sexy.*hugs*
August 8 2005, 14:00:32 UTC 6 years ago
It's good to have internet again... :)
August 8 2005, 13:32:02 UTC 6 years ago
I'm happy having you back *big hug*
Well, what can I say to an evil!Snape theory? I'm not convinced. Perhaps I'm still in denial. But the interview piece is really intersting, I didn't know that.
My personal hunch is that Snape is working alone at the moment. That he looks after himself and no one else with the aim to stay alive after the end of HBP. And that the moment will come that Snape recognise that he NEEDS the Order's and / or Harry's help to survive (and he can flee after Voldies death much better when all the people are partying like the last time). But at the moment it's all to fresh and my theories change pretty fast.
August 8 2005, 14:07:16 UTC 6 years ago
About snape... well, I was so in denial that I wanted to believe "Albus orders Snape to kill him" very badly. The problem is, the flaw in that theory is the Unbreakable vow. I mean, Snape *really* swear to kill Albus in the *next* year, because is the time Draco has to do it and fail. And at the moment, Albus was right, and it was NOT foreseeable that would change. In fact, doesn't change! He has his rotten hand in the same way all the year, and only because of the potion Albus is deathly sick again! So, when Snape made that vow... hell, there was not excuse!!!! *___*
August 8 2005, 14:44:47 UTC 6 years ago
I can imagine. I'm always happy to have my own bed back, after a holiday. And working is always bad ;D
You're right that Snape got his hands dirty the moment he took the vow. The visit of Narcissa and Bella could have been a trap (what kind of DE would Snape be if he had refused?)
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As for Snape, well.. poor guy. I still have to believe he's good, somehow. My little mind can't accept much else. I mean, if it turns out he's bad after all.. that would be SO cliché. Here's this guy, he's not attractive in looks or personality, he can be a real bastard at times, but.. oh, he's EVIL. That would just be sad. Not everyone who's on the "right side" is necessarily a "good person".
I'm not yelling at you, just at JKR. XD
August 8 2005, 14:14:18 UTC 6 years ago
oh, don't say that! (lottery or a rich husband are always possible) and USA is so big that you can travel and discover quite a lot of marvels in your own country, which is great... :)
About Snape... well, it's funny, but your reason is, mainly, my best defence against my own fears of snape evilness. I mean, it's true, would be ssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooo cliché!!!!!!!!! so... tedious. So disappointing. Only, I can't see the miracle Rowling has to do to save him. :/
August 8 2005, 15:30:44 UTC 6 years ago
you can wear shorts and a bikini if you pay the 12€ entry to the Vatican Museums... LOL! even sculptures in this Museum are 'partly' covered with acant leafs, so I would feel really bad going there in bikini :D. In Italy I've only been to Florence, but as it was February we didn't had to worry about our clothes XD
and that Snape thing ....maybe it's like - it's bad, but someone has to do it? dying will be the easier way. maybe he knew he lost his life and was ready to do do anything to make Voldie die? I've got more and more theories, but I can't believe that he's evil...
August 9 2005, 14:59:21 UTC 6 years ago
yes, it's really hard to believe that Snape it's evil... I mean, I wouldn't mind that much if he is evil but independant, as you say. I'd hate if he is only a Voldy's bunchmen. :/
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Sorry, I am burning with envy at your holiday.
August 9 2005, 15:19:03 UTC 6 years ago
And yes, they are very strict about how you are dressed in Rome's main churches, San Pedro amongst them. To show shoulders and knees is forbidden.
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Italy's food is worth an big album, and that pizza was so lovely, it smelled so good, and my camera was so near me, that... it was inevitable.
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