McGonagall announces Neville’s Gran should start appreciating the grandson she’s got instead of the one she wishes she had, particularly since he had the sense to hurl himself into battle with Harry at the Ministry last year. Many people consider this a kick ass McGonagall moment. Me, I’d be totally humiliated by having my teacher announce that the fact my grandmother doesn’t like me is common knowledge.
OMG yes. Neither character comes out looking well here, and it's more a cringe-inducing than empowering moment. We've come a long way since OOTP, Longbottom. A long way down.
Parvati gets a cameo to remind us she’s a boy-crazy airhead who’s dropped her favorite female teacher in favor of a sexy professor whose genitals she’s actually seen in class.
Shall we insert our "hung like a horse" jokes here?
What about the kidz, Scholastic? ;)
Harry and Ron do Snape’s homework, which is really complex.
Holy shit! They're actually attempting to do their own bloody homework??? Where are my smelling salts?
Excuse me as I collapse in a faint from shock.
Malfoy looks the way he did when Hermione punched him in the face. He was sitting in the third row at the Odeon Theater at the time, and was so surprised at the way the movie changed what happened he dropped his popcorn.
This is why publishing houses have editors and proofreaders. And this is why they drink. Heavily.
Because when stupid, glaring, obvious flaws like this come out in print, they get blamed. Not the overrated author who made the fuckup in the first place. Nor the marketing department who probably decided to skimp on editing & proofing so as to get the damn book out ASAP and cash in on the golden goose before kids books become passé and people spend their money on something else.
Btw, will that other obsessive love-ster be Snape? Stay tuned…
No, dammit – NO. I've switched off. Arrgh, the idea of Severus pining away year after year for Harry's dead Mum is just so fucking ludicrous. Even the potential for creepy necrophilia fails to pique my interest. For fuck's sake, couldn't they just be FRIENDS?
Recently some people have been suggesting Felix Felicitas is just a placebo.
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie...Cocaine. (http://community.livejournal.com/deathtocapslock/5552.html?thread=120240#t120240)
That's my take on FF, and I'm still sticking to it.
If Hermione were in the Muggleworld, I can totally see her being an office manager.
OI! Them's fighting words, sistermagpie! THIS office manager won't be taking that lying down! ;)
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Date: 2006-05-12 05:38 pm (UTC)OMG yes. Neither character comes out looking well here, and it's more a cringe-inducing than empowering moment. We've come a long way since OOTP, Longbottom. A long way down.
Parvati gets a cameo to remind us she’s a boy-crazy airhead who’s dropped her favorite female teacher in favor of a sexy professor whose genitals she’s actually seen in class.
Shall we insert our "hung like a horse" jokes here?
What about the kidz, Scholastic? ;)
Harry and Ron do Snape’s homework, which is really complex.
Holy shit! They're actually attempting to do their own bloody homework??? Where are my smelling salts?
Excuse me as I collapse in a faint from shock.
Malfoy looks the way he did when Hermione punched him in the face. He was sitting in the third row at the Odeon Theater at the time, and was so surprised at the way the movie changed what happened he dropped his popcorn.
This is why publishing houses have editors and proofreaders. And this is why they drink. Heavily.
Because when stupid, glaring, obvious flaws like this come out in print, they get blamed. Not the overrated author who made the fuckup in the first place. Nor the marketing department who probably decided to skimp on editing & proofing so as to get the damn book out ASAP and cash in on the golden goose before kids books become passé and people spend their money on something else.
Btw, will that other obsessive love-ster be Snape? Stay tuned…
No, dammit – NO. I've switched off. Arrgh, the idea of Severus pining away year after year for Harry's dead Mum is just so fucking ludicrous. Even the potential for creepy necrophilia fails to pique my interest. For fuck's sake, couldn't they just be FRIENDS?
Recently some people have been suggesting Felix Felicitas is just a placebo.
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie...Cocaine. (http://community.livejournal.com/deathtocapslock/5552.html?thread=120240#t120240)
That's my take on FF, and I'm still sticking to it.
If Hermione were in the Muggleworld, I can totally see her being an office manager.
OI! Them's fighting words,