I've gotten behind here as well at the_snarkery *curses own laziness* So thought I'd reply to a few odd entries. Hope ya don't mind.
It has the air of something that needed to be got out of the way, in places.
I imagine it's setting up for the next book, and some kind of resolution re: Muggles. Magpie's latest entry made some interesting points on this...
Ergo, the PM here is probably fictional.
I kind of assumed it'd be based on Blair if anyone, just cause I seriously doubt Rowling pays much attention to minor details like, you know, accuracy; but she seems to find contemporary parallels important.
Curious thought, that the opposition might too know something about the magical world.
I would have thought the Tories would get on like a house on fire with the wizards.
Muggles all over are apparently finding out about magic all the time and they get on with it. Human nature, I guess.
It'd almost be a relief, really, rather than just thinking you'd gone crazy. That, and having a secret world sort of appeals to the paranoid part of all of us - I knew there was something I wasn't invited to! etc.
"Serious" Black? Are we sure about this? Does Fudge not have a British accent or something?
I swear, I don't want to be cruel to our American friends across the seas, but if I didn't know better, I would suspect these books were written by an American. I mean, how hard is it to write about British accents and weather when you come from, um, Britain? With that and the conservative politics of the books...
I still do not get the insistence on not mentioning Voldemort's name.
It's only purpose appears to be to show us who the really brave people are (ie. those who haven't been brought up to fear it yet still put on airs about being able to say it; and the bad-ass rebels like Sirius and Dumbledore.) And we can just look at their house badges for that!
Voldemort has committed "a thousand terrible crimes". Is this literal, or does it just sound cool? Or maybe it's another one of those "too terrible to go into" plot-cheats.
Let's hope they're not ten murders and the rest all counter-hexings and total minor rule breaking like nearly killing people or trying Unforgiveables for the good side's sake.
I predict that he dies in book seven and we get a new and totally adorable MoM who loves Harry and does everything just right. please not Arthur Weasley, for crying out loud.
Ew. I predict you're right, depressingly enough. The new one will probably call Harry 'The Chosen One' in all seriousness. *pukes*
Kingsley Shacklebot is doing twice the work of any of the other secrataries.
I'm glad Kingsley's having to slum it with Muggles, the whole Order creeps me out, but especially him and his mind-wiping in OotP.
Why not Imperio the PM?
What were they doing the Imperio for in the first place, anyway? The guy thinks he's a chicken, but that's apparently a 'comedy' side affect, yeah, not the actual intent of the spell. Although that'd probably be a good one, since no-one would respect the guy. Maybe the Opposition paid a wizard? And since when can you have poor ones and good ones? Maybe the person performing it had a pure heart like Harry? ;)
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Date: 2005-10-05 01:56 pm (UTC)It has the air of something that needed to be got out of the way, in places.
I imagine it's setting up for the next book, and some kind of resolution re: Muggles.
Magpie's latest entry made some interesting points on this...
Ergo, the PM here is probably fictional.
I kind of assumed it'd be based on Blair if anyone, just cause I seriously doubt Rowling pays much attention to minor details like, you know, accuracy; but she seems to find contemporary parallels important.
Curious thought, that the opposition might too know something about the magical world.
I would have thought the Tories would get on like a house on fire with the wizards.
Muggles all over are apparently finding out about magic all the time and they get on with it. Human nature, I guess.
It'd almost be a relief, really, rather than just thinking you'd gone crazy. That, and having a secret world sort of appeals to the paranoid part of all of us - I knew there was something I wasn't invited to! etc.
"Serious" Black? Are we sure about this? Does Fudge not have a British accent or something?
I swear, I don't want to be cruel to our American friends across the seas, but if I didn't know better, I would suspect these books were written by an American. I mean, how hard is it to write about British accents and weather when you come from, um, Britain? With that and the conservative politics of the books...
I still do not get the insistence on not mentioning Voldemort's name.
It's only purpose appears to be to show us who the really brave people are (ie. those who haven't been brought up to fear it yet still put on airs about being able to say it; and the bad-ass rebels like Sirius and Dumbledore.) And we can just look at their house badges for that!
Voldemort has committed "a thousand terrible crimes". Is this literal, or does it just sound cool? Or maybe it's another one of those "too terrible to go into" plot-cheats.
Let's hope they're not ten murders and the rest all counter-hexings and total minor rule breaking like nearly killing people or trying Unforgiveables for the good side's sake.
I predict that he dies in book seven and we get a new and totally adorable MoM who loves Harry and does everything just right. please not Arthur Weasley, for crying out loud.
Ew. I predict you're right, depressingly enough. The new one will probably call Harry 'The Chosen One' in all seriousness. *pukes*
Kingsley Shacklebot is doing twice the work of any of the other secrataries.
I'm glad Kingsley's having to slum it with Muggles, the whole Order creeps me out, but especially him and his mind-wiping in OotP.
Why not Imperio the PM?
What were they doing the Imperio for in the first place, anyway? The guy thinks he's a chicken, but that's apparently a 'comedy' side affect, yeah, not the actual intent of the spell. Although that'd probably be a good one, since no-one would respect the guy. Maybe the Opposition paid a wizard?
And since when can you have poor ones and good ones? Maybe the person performing it had a pure heart like Harry? ;)