I should put my new chapter up *is slothful*. Sorry :(
Anyway...
Making Harry appear to be a gifted student requires a Trio team effort.
I've said it before, but if you have to tear other characters down to make Our Hero look super-duper, something's a bit wrong. If Harry can't look like a smarty-pants without having to impair Ron and Hermione, it just makes it seem like the literary equivalent of hanging around with fat people so nobody notices how fat you are (or something).
If the Ravenclaws or Slytherins caught wind of them they’d every one of them have those notes copied into their own book by the end of the week and then pass them down to their housemates.
Well, considering the person who wrote the stuff was a Slytherin, and he apparently didn't, that might not be a wholly watertight theory. Then again, book seven might reveal something along the lines of Lily stealing the notes (no, he did NOT give Lily the notes out of unrequited love for her beautiful wonderousness, she NICKED THEM.) and becoming the Slug-pet of the 1970s through deceit. Oh YAY :P But if Severus didn't give the notes to anyone - well, he doesn't like people. We're only six-sevenths through the series, but it seems fairly plain :)
Harry begins to vaguely wonder if this kid has a name.
Harry so dozy. For crying out loud! Let's hope he isn't fatally distracted by something shiny in the Last Battle.
Trelawney reeks of cooking sherry by the way. She’s drunk! It’s funny!
Alcoholism, like certain matters of appearance, is merely a characterisation device and not anything to worry about. Clearly, she's too weak to stay off drink, let us point, laugh and maybe sneer a bit also. How very brave that is, dismissing vulnerable people! [/issues]
he’s actually, as usual, using the detention to make fun of and undermine Snape.
It makes me think that perhaps Dumbledore's behaviour isn't that of someone who "trusts" his employee. It's blackmailer's behaviour - as if Albus said "I'll give you a job, but you have to put up with whatever you get, because nobody else will have you and you know it". Probably not intentional, but an interesting thought :/
Dumbledore again puts off telling the story of his shriveled hand, which we never really get in full. “The ring did it,” doesn’t count.
Perhaps there'll be a great big reveal in book seven. Although I suspect not. We could be told certain stuff, but let's show people the Gaunts, the love interests and other extraneous crap. Actually, I don't mind the flashbacks, but I can still see that they shouldn't take several months to be over and done with.
Any guesses on what the natural conclusion to any of the other founder’s ideas would look like?
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Date: 2006-05-19 07:46 pm (UTC)Anyway...
Making Harry appear to be a gifted student requires a Trio team effort.
I've said it before, but if you have to tear other characters down to make Our Hero look super-duper, something's a bit wrong. If Harry can't look like a smarty-pants without having to impair Ron and Hermione, it just makes it seem like the literary equivalent of hanging around with fat people so nobody notices how fat you are (or something).
If the Ravenclaws or Slytherins caught wind of them they’d every one of them have those notes copied into their own book by the end of the week and then pass them down to their housemates.
Well, considering the person who wrote the stuff was a Slytherin, and he apparently didn't, that might not be a wholly watertight theory. Then again, book seven might reveal something along the lines of Lily stealing the notes (no, he did NOT give Lily the notes out of unrequited love for her beautiful wonderousness, she NICKED THEM.) and becoming the Slug-pet of the 1970s through deceit. Oh YAY :P But if Severus didn't give the notes to anyone - well, he doesn't like people. We're only six-sevenths through the series, but it seems fairly plain :)
Harry begins to vaguely wonder if this kid has a name.
Harry so dozy. For crying out loud! Let's hope he isn't fatally distracted by something shiny in the Last Battle.
Trelawney reeks of cooking sherry by the way. She’s drunk! It’s funny!
Alcoholism, like certain matters of appearance, is merely a characterisation device and not anything to worry about. Clearly, she's too weak to stay off drink, let us point, laugh and maybe sneer a bit also. How very brave that is, dismissing vulnerable people! [/issues]
he’s actually, as usual, using the detention to make fun of and undermine Snape.
It makes me think that perhaps Dumbledore's behaviour isn't that of someone who "trusts" his employee. It's blackmailer's behaviour - as if Albus said "I'll give you a job, but you have to put up with whatever you get, because nobody else will have you and you know it". Probably not intentional, but an interesting thought :/
Dumbledore again puts off telling the story of his shriveled hand, which we never really get in full. “The ring did it,” doesn’t count.
Perhaps there'll be a great big reveal in book seven. Although I suspect not. We could be told certain stuff, but let's show people the Gaunts, the love interests and other extraneous crap. Actually, I don't mind the flashbacks, but I can still see that they shouldn't take several months to be over and done with.
Any guesses on what the natural conclusion to any of the other founder’s ideas would look like?
Zacharias Smith :D