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Sirius Black and Severus Snape: The Narrative Stand-Ins for James and Lily Potter
At this point in the fandom, I think everyone is well-aware of the mirroring between Sirius and Snape - the fact that their lives more or less run parallel with each other with very similar life events (meeting their best friends who form the spiritual and moral centre of their lives in childhood, coming from deeply unhappy homes, making conscious decisions in their school years to get sorted into houses in direct oppositions to their childhood upbringing, making a fatal mistake leading to the deaths of their backgrounds, spending the rest of their lives in grief and atonement, confining themselves willingly to their childhood homes), but I do think the depth of their mirroring goes unnoticed in fandom in general.
Sirius and Snape - beyond their more direct similarities in terms of their character arcs - are also the two halves of James and Lily, and literally fulfil their purpose in the narrative.
James is the father figure, the more immediate source of comfort, the parental figure - up until the first five books - that Harry is most keen to know about. James' legacy is physical and emotional, leaving Harry behind tools to aid his journey such as the Marauders Map and the Invisibility Cloak. James's role in Harry's life is to be a spiritual guardian and role model, manifesting literally in the form of Harry's Patronus.
This is the role Sirius takes in Harry's journey. Sirius is Harry's father figure in lieu of James. Sirius is a guardian, a loving father, a source of comfort. Harry truly starts thinking about his father and hungers to know him in Prisoner of Azkaban, and it is in this book that he learns to cast the Patronus to defeat the despair of the Dementors, who are also most associated with Sirius Black in the series because of his imprisonment. This is also the book named after Sirius.
Lily, while being Harry's mother, is not who Harry thinks of when he needs comfort or guidance. He doesn't think of her at all until he is forced to in the sixth book, the Half Blood Prince, which is named after Snape, who is her stand-in. Crucially, while Sirius stands in for James as a guardian, Snape does not, because Lily's primary purpose in the narrative is not to be a guardian. It is something a lot more mystical, ancient, and in Doylist terms, plot-centric. Lily's purpose, while more abstract, is crucial to Harry's defeat of Voldemort due to her sacrificial love ensuring his survival in the first place.
This is why both Snape and Lily start receiving prominence in the narrative around the same time. In the 5th book, James comes off his pedestal, and significantly, his narrative stand-in, Sirius, dies at the same time. Harry is no longer a child with the death of Sirius, and with the new knowledge of the prophecy, must fully come into his own and take his place as the most important figure in the war. What he needs now is more relevant, more powerful, something to defeat Voldemort.
Lily's role in the books has always been a mystical one. It is her love that defeats Voldemort, a choice made possible by Snape. Her role in the narrative was always mysterious. We didn't know anything about her, really, until the last book, because her purpose is not pertinent at the level of character as much as it is theme and plot, both of which are also exemplified by Snape. Both Snape and Lily are figures shrouded in mystery, seemingly in the background, until it is made clear that it is their choices that are most influential to the entire plot of Harry Potter unfolding. Similarly, it is when Lily's role in Harry's life - which is the defeat of Voldemort once and for all to ensure her son's survival - is fulfilled, that Snape, her narrative stand-in, dies.
It also isn't a coincidence that you can see this symbolised in more subtle ways. Sirius Black is the figure in the story most associated with dementors, which are a symbol of his own grief and agony over James' death, and Harry's Patronus is a stag, and in this book, the patronus is a spiritual guardian to protect against despair and darkness, which is what Sirius is for Harry, a comforting, if imperfect, parental figure with whom he can be a child.
In the later books, the Patronus has another function, to deliver messages and lead a lost person to find their way back. We see this in the Half Blood Prince, with Snape going projection central over Tonks' patronus when they find Harry in the train. And more directly in the Deathly Hallows, when Lily's Patronus leads Harry to the Sword in the lake, which helps him destroy the Horcrux and a part of Voldemort, thereby fulfilling Lily's role in the narrative, of defeating Voldemort and ensuring Harry's survival.
If you needed any more reasons to mask... I can confirm that RSV is no walk in the park.
by Katherine Kahn
In the years before the introduction of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines, the virus was linked with substantial hospitalizations, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and in-hospital deaths among adults, according to a cross-sectional analysis of CDC data.
Adjusted analysis showed estimated RSV-associated hospitalization rates ranging from 48.9 per 100,000 adults during the 2016-2017 respiratory season to 76.2 per 100,000 in 2017-2018, reported researchers led by Fiona Havers, MD, MHS, of CDC's National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases in Atlanta.
Estimated hospitalization rates were highest among adults ages 75 and older, ranging from 244.7 per 100,000 in 2022-2023 to 411.4 per 100,000 in 2017-2018, findings in JAMA Network Openopens in a new tab or window indicated.
In addition, annual estimates of RSV-associated ICU admissions ranged from 24,400 to 34,900 for the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 seasons, respectively, while estimated annual in-hospital deaths ranged from 4,680 in 2018-2019 to 8,620 in 2017-2018.
"These findings validated RSV as a substantial contributor to respiratory illness and hospitalization among adults, especially older adults," Havers and colleagues wrote, noting that up to 136,000 estimated annual hospitalizations occurred among those 65 years or older.
Researchers used data from the CDC's RSV Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RSV-NET)opens in a new tab or window to arrive at their estimates. From the database, they identified a total of 16,575 laboratory-confirmed RSV-associated hospitalizations from the 2016-2017 to the 2022-2023 respiratory virus seasons. To estimate RSV burden, Havers and colleagues used adjustment multipliers to correct for the relatively low proportion of adults who were actually tested for RSV while hospitalized, as well as test sensitivity.
Of note, RSV severity "appeared to be comparable to or possibly more than the severity of influenza and SARS-CoV-2" in hospitalized adults. In the study, about 19% of adults hospitalized with RSV required ICU care and 4.3% died in the hospital. In comparison, CDC data from the 2021-2022 season found that 15.5% of hospitalized adults with COVID-19 required ICU admission and 4.6% died, and 13.3% of patients hospitalized for the flu were admitted to the ICU and 4.6% died, they explained.
Also, estimates of RSV-associated hospitalizations in older adults were comparable to the burden of influenza-associated hospitalizations during milder influenza seasons.
Hospital deaths associated with RSV were highest among those ages 75 or older, at 5.8%. From the 2016-2017 respiratory season through the 2022-2023 seasons, adults 75 and older accounted for 45.6% of the hospitalizations, 38.6% of the ICU admissions, and 58.7% of the in-hospital deaths associated with RSV.
Deaths due to RSV were probably underestimated because the analysis did not include deaths after hospital discharge, Havers and colleagues noted.
The first-ever RSV vaccineopens in a new tab or window (Arexvy) received FDA approval in May 2023, followed by approval of a second vaccineopens in a new tab or window (Abrysvo) in June 2023. An mRNA RSV vaccineopens in a new tab or window (mResvia) was approved earlier this year as well. CDC recommendationsopens in a new tab or window now say that all adults ages 75 and older should receive a single dose of an RSV vaccine, as should those ages 60 to 74 years who are at increased risk of severe RSV disease.
"Given the large numbers of potentially vaccine-preventable hospitalizations and deaths associated with RSV, increasing vaccine coverage among adults at highest risk could reduce associated hospitalizations and severe clinical outcomes," the authors wrote.
Atypical patterns of RSV circulation occurred during the COVID pandemic. Lower hospitalization rates were observed during 2020-2021 and 2021-2022, whereas increased circulation and an earlier peak occurred during 2022-2023.
On average, only 43.5% of the hospitalized adults with acute respiratory illness whose data was included in the RSV-NET catchment were tested for RSV. During 2016-2017, RSV testing was performed in 30.4% of adults ages 18-49 years with acute respiratory illness, 33.1% in those ages 50-64 years, 31.5% for those ages 65-74 years, and just 27.7% of those ages 75 and older. During the 2022-2023 season, these proportions increased to 56.1%, 61.2%, and 61.6% for those age groups, respectively.
Clinicians frequently don't test for RSV in hospitalized adults with respiratory illness because of limited awareness of RSV as an important pathogen and because results do not generally change disease management, the study authors noted. Importantly, standard tests for RSV are now recognized to have lower sensitivity than previously thought.
The analysis had several limitations, including that RSV-NET data may not be generalizable to the entire country. Also, assumptions used in the adjustment analysis may have overestimated or underestimated the burden of RSV disease.
Study link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2826104
Could you please stop tagging in the jumblr section I understand what your doing but you post graphic content and it is not related to Jewish community postings
It is 100% related because the self proclaimed jewish state in the self proclaimed jewish homeland is currently carrying a genocide and atrocities against children for the benefit of both Israeli jews and the diaspora, meanwhile these get to spend their days comfortably safe from the inflicted horrors of Israel and the IDF chattering about important topics such as how encountering the Palestine flag in a store was an antisemitic hate crime in willful ignorance, which has lead to these atrocities to fester and continue more than they should have with the approval or at least complete apathy of the jewish community both online and in life. do not try to play obtuse with me
fuck I can not stress this enough Palestine, fuck your Islamic Narnia, there is literally no genocide happening what you’re bitching about is a war you fuckwits started, it’s actually a major shame how gentle Israel has been to yall because my American ass would have actually carpet bombed the fuck out of anyone who pulled some shit like October 7th.
>"there is literally no genocide happening what you’re bitching about is a war you fuckwits started"
>"it’s actually a major shame how gentle Israel has been to yall because my American ass would have actually carpet bombed the fuck out of anyone who pulled some shit like October 7th.
☝️ Jumblr's strongest, less genocide slutted soldier. Thanks for the Freudian slip and thanks for reiterating that the USA and it's soldiers are Israel's lapdogs though ❤️
Israel DID and has been carpet bombing Palestinians before Oct 7th and since then. @icantthinkofausername can't seem to think at all it seems because if they could then they'd know that Oct 7th has been a response to the on going occupation of Palestinians
And yes it's a genocide and no your dumbass doesn't get to dictate that.
Twenty-one tons of potatoes are up for grabs at Potato Palooza on Monday.
The nonprofit’s set to receive a donation of 21 tons of tubers this weekend from suppliers in the Midwest. Hoping to get the starchy vegetables to people in need, the nonprofit will host a “Potato Palooza” event on Monday in Park Hill.
“Anyone is welcome to come. They can bring tote bags, wagons, you could back up your pickup truck if you wanted to,” Hissong said. The event is 9 a.m. to noon at the Park Hill Food Recovery Hub, 6090 East 39th Avenue, on July 27.
i love that every pokémon is someone’s favourite pokémon. it doesn’t matter how much you dislike a pokémon or how forgettable you you think a design is, out there is someone who thinks it’s their baby. my coworker who only discovered pokémon through pokémon go absolutely loves tangela and has a small army of fully powered up ones. at an expo once i saw a woman at a booth desperately trying to find an onix plushie because it was her daughter’s absolute favourite. i talked with someone recently who announced sudowoodo as their tippy top favourite. every single one is loved by someone and idk, i think that’s gotdang heartwarming
