If you want me to think of Ron as unkind you might want to stop setting him in the middle of a universe full of vipers.
The other day I stumbled across a discussion of the scene where Snape takes Harry up to the castle. Everyone was agreeing that Snape is a very cruel man. Well, DUH. He's a wizard. Thomas Aquinas has been cited as saying that in order to better appreciate their own blissful state, the saved will get to watch the tortures of the damned: "the saints shall rejoice at the punishment of the impious" [my translation]. Wizard heaven!
Anyway, certainly Ron is unkind by Muggle standards. But I'd still feel safer in his company than with his friends Crucio Dude and The Mutilator.
Ginny scolds Ron for using the name "Loony" while not being Ginny herself and reports that Luna is pathetically "really excited" about the party.
Is there any other evidence that Ginny hangs out with Luna and talks to her, as opposed to occasionally defending her against teasing? I could see Ginny, as one of the biggest bullies on the playground, appointing herself Luna's bodyguard without actually ever spending time with her, and JKR thinking that's a good enough friendship for a weirdo loser like Luna.
Luna says something blatantly untrue, but as it’s not an untruth about Harry he sees no reason to correct it. Remember, people who tell untruths about other people are quirky and fun.
Oddly, unlike Luna's usual potted tabloid reports, that's not an obviously insane claim. Vampires exist. Can this be another of those left field notions that are really a sign of her Deep Insight? If you scramble SCUM UR FANGS R GOREY, you get "Rufus G.A.N. Scrymgeor". Just sayin'.
I never felt so sympathetic about Dumbledore having to deal with CAPSLOCK!Harry as I do Snape dealing with Draco Malfoy, Surly Teen Death Eater.
So much love for that scene. Again, it's not news that Snape is a bastard to people he doesn't like; but with someone he does like he's amazingly patient. He's acting like a normal adult with normal self-restraint here. Of course he's obliged to try to catch Draco with honey since Legilimency failed, and he can't use any form of coercion and risk losing Draco's trust. But still, imagine if it had been Harry giving him "Looks like you'll have to break it then". There'd be a Chosen-One shaped smear on the ground.
Also, the fact that Snape likes Draco is officially in the realm of the Really Freakin' Obvious. Yay! (What is it with the fandom resistance to a S&D friendship, anyway? It's like, if Snape really cares about the Malfoys he must be evil, because no good guy in the history of the world ever found himself opposing his friends in a war.)
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Date: 2006-06-24 02:45 pm (UTC)The other day I stumbled across a discussion of the scene where Snape takes Harry up to the castle. Everyone was agreeing that Snape is a very cruel man. Well, DUH. He's a wizard. Thomas Aquinas has been cited as saying that in order to better appreciate their own blissful state, the saved will get to watch the tortures of the damned: "the saints shall rejoice at the punishment of the impious" [my translation]. Wizard heaven!
Anyway, certainly Ron is unkind by Muggle standards. But I'd still feel safer in his company than with his friends Crucio Dude and The Mutilator.
Ginny scolds Ron for using the name "Loony" while not being Ginny herself and reports that Luna is pathetically "really excited" about the party.
Is there any other evidence that Ginny hangs out with Luna and talks to her, as opposed to occasionally defending her against teasing? I could see Ginny, as one of the biggest bullies on the playground, appointing herself Luna's bodyguard without actually ever spending time with her, and JKR thinking that's a good enough friendship for a weirdo loser like Luna.
Luna says something blatantly untrue, but as it’s not an untruth about Harry he sees no reason to correct it. Remember, people who tell untruths about other people are quirky and fun.
Oddly, unlike Luna's usual potted tabloid reports, that's not an obviously insane claim. Vampires exist. Can this be another of those left field notions that are really a sign of her Deep Insight? If you scramble SCUM UR FANGS R GOREY, you get "Rufus G.A.N. Scrymgeor". Just sayin'.
I never felt so sympathetic about Dumbledore having to deal with CAPSLOCK!Harry as I do Snape dealing with Draco Malfoy, Surly Teen Death Eater.
So much love for that scene. Again, it's not news that Snape is a bastard to people he doesn't like; but with someone he does like he's amazingly patient. He's acting like a normal adult with normal self-restraint here. Of course he's obliged to try to catch Draco with honey since Legilimency failed, and he can't use any form of coercion and risk losing Draco's trust. But still, imagine if it had been Harry giving him "Looks like you'll have to break it then". There'd be a Chosen-One shaped smear on the ground.
Also, the fact that Snape likes Draco is officially in the realm of the Really Freakin' Obvious. Yay! (What is it with the fandom resistance to a S&D friendship, anyway? It's like, if Snape really cares about the Malfoys he must be evil, because no good guy in the history of the world ever found himself opposing his friends in a war.)
-L