Artist	Song
Lake Trout	Riddle
Kings of Convenience	Surprise Ice
Chisel	Privileged and Impotent
Dismemberment Plan	Memory Machine
Belle & Sebastian	We Are the Sleepyheads
Chris Thile	Locking Doors
Broken Social Scene	Almost Crimes
Rolling Stones	Street Fighting Man
Godspeed You! Black Emperor	Static
Wilco	Ashes of American Flags
Elliott Smith	Christian Brothers
Beck	Nobody's Fault But My Own
Tom McRae	It Ain't You
Nick Drake	Fruit Tree
Belle & Sebastian	Dress Up In You

Comment:

Within the off-campus housing at Hillsdale College, there is a four-word toast which is dedicated to the school. The toastmaster lifts his glass and utters the first two words, "To Hillsdale!" Everyone else joins in with the next two words, a sentiment echoed in the chorus of "Dress Up In You".

This is another Harry Potter mix, as the first half of the title indicates. But it is a mix utterly unconcerned with Potter; this is a mix devoted to the riddle of Snape. Snape is the character with a closed mind, thanks to his skill as an occlumens. We have only the pensieve and Dumbledore's odd unrelenting trust as possible clues to what Snape is about.

This is a mix also about a real-life occlumens, in a world where all that is required is silence. He has that skill well-learned. Only a select few would suspect his radically different appraisal of this "city on the hill": the love which cuts like ice, the guy who is continually locking doors, and the crimes that almost are, but which fall short of requiring a street fightin' man. They stay static, but he cannot.
Ultimately, he isn't bothered by them. They never hurt him. The true fault for the hurt, if it was anyone's fault, lies with him for picking the wrong lottery numbers. Or it was the fault of a being who can never be held accountable, the being responsible for giving this occlumens his context. This is why he remains silent, because the secrets are irrelevant. There is hatred, but there is no one to hate.
Mix #52, an obscuration, made in April 2006.

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