Ewwww Snape, The Hero?!

First thing is that Snape isn’t really a bad guy for people who still thinks he’s creepy and weird. In the early beginning of book #7 he’s at a meeting with the Deatheaters. He was the calmest out of all the Deatheaters at the meeting when Voldemort entered. I’m guessing the reason for that was because Voldemort trusted him the most. No one was really thinking that he might be a double- agent and working for Dumbledore. Later on the teacher at Hogwarts that taught about Muggles was killed. Snape couldn’t help it. It was either save her or the whole population of Wizards and Muggles. It was an important sacrifice that had to happen.

            If it wasn’t for Snape Harry wouldn’t have possibly found the Gryffindor sword and be able to destroy the Horcrux. In the beginning of the series I guessed it looked like he hated Harry. I’m guessing the reason for that was because he was the son of James. James used to bully Snape when they were young, that kind of blinded Snape to know that actually the only one who was doing the bullying was Draco. Then in the sixth book he kills Dumbledore. That made him look like the bad guy. But really he didn’t want to blow off his cover. His job was to help bring Voldemort down in any way possible and that meant sacrifices.

            The thing that I wanted to really figure out the most was why he agreed to help bring down Voldemort? Ever since he was a little boy he thought of joining Voldemort. Snape followed Voldemort’s tracks and eventually joined him. He would hang out with people that would do mean things like Dark Magic and who wanted to join the Dark Lord. His environment was nothing but joining Voldemort and doing cruel things with Dark Magic. So what made him turn back? Who or what was that light that showed him the right way? It was Lily. He had always loved her. Then when Snape found out that Lily would die by Voldemort he tried to warn them through Dumbledore. It was because of how deeply he loved and desired Lily that Snape was able to turn his head and come back, away from the darkness. I guess in a way he was Harry’s guardian but just didn’t show it the way you would expect to. Was it revenge that made him want to kill Voldemort?

Atherton: The House Of Power

Basically all I’ve read in this book is about a boy named Edgar finds a book in the cliff that he always climbs on. Since he can’t read the book because it’s not allowed in Tabletop, he has to climb all the way up the vertical mountain and finds a boy, Samuel who can read it to him. They only read a few pages of it before Edgar has to go back down so people won’t notice he’s missing. On Edgar’s second visit to the Highlands (on top of the cliff where Samuel lives) Samuel gets caught with the book and is locked up in a room. Edgar escapes and climbs back down. The Highlands is sinking down into Tabletop and they start fighting. Edgar finds a page from the book in his pocket and captures one of the people from the Highlands (Sir Emerick) and tells him to read him the page. Sir Emerick lies and tells the boy there’s a second book in the Flatlands (a barren wasteland full of creatures that nobody has seen). So Edgar takes the trip down to the Flatlands. It takes him a few days and he ends up with his shoulder bone popped out of its place, a missing pinky, and a concussion. But the good thing is he still livesJ.

            I actually found this book in my house. It was just laying there on a table and I never seen it before. I asked my dad if someone left it in his car and he said maybe. The cover looked really cool and I picked it up and started reading. I just wasn’t able to put it down once I started but since I’m only human I have to go to sleep sometimes. But even then it would be the only thing on my mind. I would always be thinking what would happen next. Then a few days later my sister said it was a book she borrowed from her school’s library. I WAS BUMMED OUT WHEN I HEARD THAT. I thought I would have to stop reading it and give it to her. But since she’s nice she let me borrow it for a weekJ.

            If I would have found out that I went all that way down to a barren wasteland of DEATH I would have been pissed off. It kind of brings me back to the saying all is fair in love and war. But I’m pretty sure there are limits to that. What kind of cruel human being would send a 12 year old boy down to his death? I guess in a way Edgar cheated death and he’s probably thinking of revenge. Edgars really tough to do something so dangerous like that. He did something that no one was able to do or have the guts to do. It just shows how much of a fighter Edgar is and will do almost anything.