---“The first thing Harry notices the next day is that Draco Malfoy is doing impressions of him fainting to laughing crowds. I know this joke will soon get old and people will stop laughing? But I can’t believe they’re even laughing at it now. ... What teenagers would find this funny?”
80% 0f TV is sh*te, so they’re missing nothing there. However in my mind, they *do* have a unique, rich and fascinating history of literature, music and theatre – JKR was just too busy with other things to develop their culture on the page. Apart from music briefly in GoF and the Yule Ball was just so she could indulge her unfeasible little Mary-Sue fantasy of the brilliant sports star, desperate to date the plain, shrewish and undesirable female – which happens *so* often in real life! With her rubbish record, I’ll just presume it’s an omission until she states otherwise – apologies if she already has!
As for Draco, I agree that it doesn’t seem the most hilarious of party pieces – maybe it’s his running commentary?
---“I do like the implication that Hermione really does dislike Divination because she can’t be good at it, but since it really does seem to be a crock, I can’t like it that much.”
If Hermione had had to face that flaw in her character, then she might have developed into the kinder, more understanding person that I thought I saw hidden under the shrillness and insecurity in the first few books. The one I really liked. However JKR avoided any hint of character growth for almost everyone – unless you include becoming a lot worse - so Hermione had to be right and Divination had to be rubbish – apart from the occasions when it was totally accurate in order to drive the plot.
---“The only reason I can even read this annoying chapter again is that at least I know JKR wrote Hagrid as an unpopular teacher that even the Trio eventually admit is terrible.”
I despise Hagrid. I despise every hair in his stupid beard, I despise every time he says “yeh” instead of you, and I despise (and resent) every second he forced us to spend in the company of the brother from Hades. For me, the ending of the film version of Chamber of Secrets is Hell on Earth. That said, he was Harry’s first friend in the Wizarding World and yet another father figure, so you could understand *his* early bias. I really hope that JKR meant to show that just because Harry liked and depended on someone, didn’t mean they were infallible – something every child learns as they grow up. However, so many other people got away with appalling behaviour with no hint of retribution in this series, I think it was a fluke. She probably just couldn’t be bothered to think up any more unusual creatures/struggled with writing the accent.
As for Hermione’s opinion of Trelawney vs. Draco’s of Hagrid – that’s the sort of total, apparently unrealized hypocrisy I expect from JKR.
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Date: 2010-03-05 11:23 pm (UTC)80% 0f TV is sh*te, so they’re missing nothing there. However in my mind, they *do* have a unique, rich and fascinating history of literature, music and theatre – JKR was just too busy with other things to develop their culture on the page. Apart from music briefly in GoF and the Yule Ball was just so she could indulge her unfeasible little Mary-Sue fantasy of the brilliant sports star, desperate to date the plain, shrewish and undesirable female – which happens *so* often in real life! With her rubbish record, I’ll just presume it’s an omission until she states otherwise – apologies if she already has!
As for Draco, I agree that it doesn’t seem the most hilarious of party pieces – maybe it’s his running commentary?
---“I do like the implication that Hermione really does dislike Divination because she can’t be good at it, but since it really does seem to be a crock, I can’t like it that much.”
If Hermione had had to face that flaw in her character, then she might have developed into the kinder, more understanding person that I thought I saw hidden under the shrillness and insecurity in the first few books. The one I really liked. However JKR avoided any hint of character growth for almost everyone – unless you include becoming a lot worse - so Hermione had to be right and Divination had to be rubbish – apart from the occasions when it was totally accurate in order to drive the plot.
---“The only reason I can even read this annoying chapter again is that at least I know JKR wrote Hagrid as an unpopular teacher that even the Trio eventually admit is terrible.”
I despise Hagrid. I despise every hair in his stupid beard, I despise every time he says “yeh” instead of you, and I despise (and resent) every second he forced us to spend in the company of the brother from Hades. For me, the ending of the film version of Chamber of Secrets is Hell on Earth. That said, he was Harry’s first friend in the Wizarding World and yet another father figure, so you could understand *his* early bias. I really hope that JKR meant to show that just because Harry liked and depended on someone, didn’t mean they were infallible – something every child learns as they grow up. However, so many other people got away with appalling behaviour with no hint of retribution in this series, I think it was a fluke. She probably just couldn’t be bothered to think up any more unusual creatures/struggled with writing the accent.
As for Hermione’s opinion of Trelawney vs. Draco’s of Hagrid – that’s the sort of total, apparently unrealized hypocrisy I expect from JKR.