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[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one a little bothered by Dumbledore? Not only with the fact he could end up in the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Most Incompetent Headmaster of All Time" (though I'm sure there's worse. :P), but also because...he just bugs me. I know JKR was trying to write him as the "flawed Yoda", so to speak (and to be fair, he's nowhere near Yoda. XD), but it's also how...preachy he gets. Towards Fudge, for example. You know, in Goblet of Fire, with, "You place too much importance on purity of blood, yadda yadda et cetera et cetera" -- which considering how he treated Tom Riddle and the Slytherins is...slightly hypocritical isn't it? Probably bad writing on JKR's part, though. :/

Anyways, sorry 'bout the rambling. Thoughts?

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[sunnyskywalker]

Paradise Lost is a lot better if you've had a lot of the context drilled into your head before you read it. There's this passage that sounds like it's just talking about the cannons that Satan and co. built, but if you break out the Oxford English Dictionary and find out that "grain" can be referring to a rosary bead as well as powder, suddenly it's a sneaky anti-Catholic diatribe! Plus Raphael blushing when Adam asks him about angel!sex is pretty funny, and given that angels were explicitly established as gender-bending there really ought to be more fanfic about that.

But trying to read it while looking up every third word isn't very fun at all.

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

Wow...

I mostly just remember going off on random mythological tangents that were so long I had forgotten who was being compared to whoever it was by the time he got back to the story.

[sunnyskywalker]

Those got old, yeah. Focus on the angel!sex :D