LK: One of the most blessedly generous archives of fan imagination, collectively, is the Remus and Sirius fanworks world. Anybody who's wondering what is behind this devotion to a different reading of Remus Lupin than the one the author is giving us here… It's not hard to find.

JC: If you're going to Google image search, be careful, as always.

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Snape deliberately taught Harry and Draco to use Expelliarmus instead of attack. This early training in defensive disarmament became the signature magic of both boys, the only magic that these seventeen-year-old boys needed. You don't have to be wealthy, and no amount of power or wealth can necessarily defend you against this simple thing that even a kid can do.

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Snape, the true Snape, does not want Harry to cast an Unforgivable because it would damage Harry's soul. He knows that because Snape, having just cast an Unforgivable, is just about to die from the pain of it because we know Avada Kedavra -- if you cast it successfully -- rips your soul apart. He's just killed Dumbledore; his soul has been ripped apart, it's incredibly painful.

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