Borders is giving away stickers with every copy of HP7 reserved in advance of the release date. You get to choose whether Snape will betray the forces of good, or finally prove his innocence.
When the Borders clerk wasn't looking, I made off with one of each. What a madcap!
If you're into this sort of thing (and a few of you are), go ahead, grab one of these jpgs and post it before Saturday.
Snape is loyal. That's my two cents, sticker or no.
Posted by: uneasy rhetoric | July 18, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Where's the "Snape Will Run as a Democrat in '08' sticker? (There's a "Snape Will Run as a Republican," too, but I think everyone expects that.)
Posted by: Dan | July 19, 2007 at 12:58 AM
What's all this "Harry Potter" craziness I've been seeing? Is it some kind of ceramic industry tie-in?
Posted by: Anthony | July 19, 2007 at 05:24 AM
I think it has to do with pro-wrestling, sweetie.
My vote: Snape is loyal.
Posted by: pam | July 19, 2007 at 06:24 AM
I think we'll find out Snape is Harry's real father.
Posted by: 'mouse | July 19, 2007 at 07:28 AM
OK, there went my appetite for the day.
Harry (hanging over a cliff): You lilled my father.
Snape: Dumbledore never told you what happpened to your father...
Harry: He told me enough. He said you and Wormtail sold him out to the Dark Lord!
Snape: No, I am your father.
Harry: No, that's impossible.
Snape: Search your feelings, Harry. You know it to be true. And by the way, Hermione Granger is your sister...
This could be the most original, thrilling scene possible in the hands of a great director. So for God's sake, don't let Lucas get near it...
Posted by: Anthony | July 19, 2007 at 08:09 AM
Snape is totally loyal. I think it's one of the only sloppy plot points Rowling has--she's trying so hard to convince us he's evil (while building up our complete trust in Dumbledore)that there's no way we can believe it.
Two days!!
(I wouldn't read Digg if that's something you do. My husband says people are peppering comments with spoilers. BASTARDS!)
Posted by: Kimberly | July 19, 2007 at 09:56 AM
Even better:
"The Breakfast Wand"
Harry, Hermione, Neville, Draco and Pansy are forced to do detention (without wands or spellbooks) in the dungeons of Hogwarts while Snape and Filch bitch about how Dumbledore ruined their lives. John Hughes can direct.
Harry: Emilio Eztevez
Hermione: Molly Ringwald
Neville: Anthony Michael Hall
Draco: Judd Nelson
Pansy: Ally Sheedy
Snape: Ben Stein
Carl the Janitor: Jeffrey Jones
Posted by: Anthony | July 19, 2007 at 10:58 AM
I'm in the Snape is loyal camp.
Posted by: maya | July 19, 2007 at 11:41 AM
I can't believe all you sheeplike Snape fans. Occam's razor, people!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 19, 2007 at 04:52 PM
I wouldn't call myself a Snape *fan* per se, but Dumbledore had a reason to trust him that we never heard about and I'd put money on it coming back around in the last book. (tomorrow!!)
Posted by: Kimberly | July 20, 2007 at 10:49 AM
snape-like sheep fans? is this knitting blog now?
Posted by: e | July 20, 2007 at 06:52 PM