I think Harry would have been happier if Snap had never moved on from his “staring at the floor and making snuffling sounds” stage. This amusing line led me to ponder on the difference between Snape and Dumbledore's sharp tongues — the difference is that Dumbledore's is always shot through with a sense of humor rather than of malice.
The plothole-plugging potion is brilliant. Though I wonder how a potion could affect inanimate plotholes...
I very much like Faustus' line “Actually, I’m not at all sure it would be a good idea. But it would be a triumph of science, and that is even better.” It's better, I think, that he have considered whether something is a good idea and decided that science is more important, than that he merely too single-minded to have noticed that there's a distinction between the two values.
The replacement of Rosencrantz by Snape, and no one else being the wiser, seems very Shakespearean to me. With a little twist for the movie-goers that the actor of Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is the same one who plays Snape's enemy Sirius — I'm sure Snape would be unhappy to hear that they are very like. Though it's not clear to me that you actually intend any crossover from R+G (you already have plenty of other material to draw from, and the manner of G's speech doesn't quite match Stoppard's off-stage version of him).
I had to do some Googling to find out the significance of the Cambyses, King of Persia part. I guess it's the source of the "lamentable comedy" in the title?
Anyway, I liked it and I'm looking forward to seeing more.
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The plothole-plugging potion is brilliant. Though I wonder how a potion could affect inanimate plotholes...
I very much like Faustus' line “Actually, I’m not at all sure it would be a good idea. But it would be a triumph of science, and that is even better.” It's better, I think, that he have considered whether something is a good idea and decided that science is more important, than that he merely too single-minded to have noticed that there's a distinction between the two values.
The replacement of Rosencrantz by Snape, and no one else being the wiser, seems very Shakespearean to me. With a little twist for the movie-goers that the actor of Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is the same one who plays Snape's enemy Sirius — I'm sure Snape would be unhappy to hear that they are very like. Though it's not clear to me that you actually intend any crossover from R+G (you already have plenty of other material to draw from, and the manner of G's speech doesn't quite match Stoppard's off-stage version of him).
I had to do some Googling to find out the significance of the Cambyses, King of Persia part. I guess it's the source of the "lamentable comedy" in the title?
Anyway, I liked it and I'm looking forward to seeing more.