Sincerely enjoyed reading your comments since GoF,but only now found courage to try and comment myself.:) >>"I love that Ron’s pretty much forgotten to be pissy to Hermione while she’s been planning all day how she was gonna snub him." Imho,he already vaguely wants to break up with Lavender and tries to make up with Hermione by pretending their fall-out didn't happen. >>"Meanwhile, even Ron’s sexual encounters make him look stupid." Harry didn't look very smart with Cho either.I think JKR can't/doesn't want to write even remotely normal relationship , specially not if major characters are involved in it ,if it won't end in marriage. >>"Okay so…why is Hermione offering ridiculous alternatives for who Draco’s "Master" is? His father? Huh?" This made me think about D/L hurt/comfort and I feel sick consequently .I am sure that wasn't the idea. >>"Dumbledore gets all teary ... He’s overcome with his good luck. That idiot Scrimgeor got Harry to pledge away his independence in ways pounds of sherbet lemons weren’t able to do!" &"Luckily, I am very enthusiastic about Ginny meeting Dean, because it means she’s not here anymore. Yay!" LOL!!!My favourites for this chapter! >>"Is it bad of me that I’m totally rooting for little psycho Tom at school with Dumbledore?" Certainly not,Tom is my favourite character.I would love to know more about their interactions at school. >>"Tall, pale, dark-haired, handsome. It’s the teenaged Voldemort." Rowling seems unable to write about Tom without using the word "handsome".Interesting why... >>"I don’t even want to think about how Dumbledore "extracted" that memory. Twinkle twinkle." In GoF Voldemort says:"She (Bertha Jorkins)told me many things ...but the means I used to break the Memory Charm upon her were powerful...her mind and body were both damaged beyond repair." Of course,may be Voldemort just didn't care how he broke the charm ,but sure even Dumbledore wouldn't be able to penetrate Voldemort's charm without inflicting some damage on Morfin. Specially, if he really has no idea what charm exactly Tom used. >>"Slughorn’s tampered with his memory, so it looks ridiculously fake." Even if he would succeed in this "tampering" , the crudest lack of logic would make clear this memory was fake. It would sound like that: "What with your uncanny ability to know things you shouldn't,and your careful flattery of the people who matter-thank you for the pineapple ,btw,you're quite right,it is my favourite-you'll go wrong,boy,mark my words." The last part sounds believable in the context,doesn't it? Particularly immediately after thanking Tom for the pineapple and winking at him just before saying this sentence.Red Hen called Slughorn "a good Slytherin",unfortunately I am not as sure of it now,as used to be after reading her essay. If he would really be one,he would have tried to change previous parts of this memory too. May be I am nitpicking though... >> Btw,don't you love that Harry "could not see what was so significant about it (the memory)" other than the fog and doesn't ask what Horcruxes are and why 16 year old Riddle ,who was already exceptionally powerful,had to ask about them and not,like, look for this information in a book or already know it. >>"He [the Minister] is not very happy with me,either.We must try not to sink beneath our anguish,Harry,but battle on." This line somehow made me appreciate Dumbledore's sense of humour first and ,unfortunately, last time in 6 books in a way that :"Nitwit!Blubber!Oddment!Tweak!" never did. >>"As though he had read Harry's mind, Dumbledore..." --follows comment in which Dumbledore says this happens "even between the best of friends." Remember in OotF :"as though they had just entered the house of a dying person" and in GoF Winky "disappeared...as she fought the force that was restraining her"? Me too. Btw,very similar comment appears again somewhere in the book.
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Date: 2006-07-07 09:24 pm (UTC)>>"I love that Ron’s pretty much forgotten to be pissy to Hermione while she’s been planning all day how she was gonna snub him."
Imho,he already vaguely wants to break up with Lavender and tries to make up with Hermione by pretending their fall-out didn't happen.
>>"Meanwhile, even Ron’s sexual encounters make him look stupid."
Harry didn't look very smart with Cho either.I think JKR can't/doesn't want to write even remotely normal relationship , specially not if major characters are involved in it ,if it won't end in marriage.
>>"Okay so…why is Hermione offering ridiculous alternatives for who Draco’s "Master" is? His father? Huh?"
This made me think about D/L hurt/comfort and I feel sick consequently .I am sure that wasn't the idea.
>>"Dumbledore gets all teary ... He’s overcome with his good luck. That idiot Scrimgeor got Harry to pledge away his independence in ways pounds of sherbet lemons weren’t able to do!"
&"Luckily, I am very enthusiastic about Ginny meeting Dean, because it means she’s not here anymore. Yay!"
LOL!!!My favourites for this chapter!
>>"Is it bad of me that I’m totally rooting for little psycho Tom at school with Dumbledore?"
Certainly not,Tom is my favourite character.I would love to know more about their interactions at school.
>>"Tall, pale, dark-haired, handsome. It’s the teenaged Voldemort."
Rowling seems unable to write about Tom without using the word "handsome".Interesting why...
>>"I don’t even want to think about how Dumbledore "extracted" that memory. Twinkle twinkle."
In GoF Voldemort says:"She (Bertha Jorkins)told me many things ...but the means I used to break the Memory Charm upon her were powerful...her mind and body were both damaged beyond repair." Of course,may be Voldemort just didn't care how he broke the charm ,but sure even Dumbledore wouldn't be able to penetrate Voldemort's charm without inflicting some damage on Morfin. Specially, if he really has no idea what charm exactly Tom used.
>>"Slughorn’s tampered with his memory, so it looks ridiculously fake."
Even if he would succeed in this "tampering" , the crudest lack of logic would make clear this memory was fake. It would sound like that: "What with your uncanny ability to know things you shouldn't,and your careful flattery of the people who matter-thank you for the pineapple ,btw,you're quite right,it is my favourite-you'll go wrong,boy,mark my words." The last part sounds believable in the context,doesn't it? Particularly immediately after thanking Tom for the pineapple and winking at him just before saying this sentence.Red Hen called Slughorn "a good Slytherin",unfortunately I am not as sure of it now,as used to be after reading her essay. If he would really be one,he would have tried to change previous parts of this memory too. May be I am nitpicking though...
>> Btw,don't you love that Harry "could not see what was so significant about it (the memory)" other than the fog and doesn't ask what Horcruxes are and why 16 year old Riddle ,who was already exceptionally powerful,had to ask about them and not,like, look for this information in a book or already know it.
>>"He [the Minister] is not very happy with me,either.We must try not to sink beneath our anguish,Harry,but battle on."
This line somehow made me appreciate Dumbledore's sense of humour first and ,unfortunately, last time in 6 books in a way that :"Nitwit!Blubber!Oddment!Tweak!" never did.
>>"As though he had read Harry's mind, Dumbledore..." --follows comment in which Dumbledore says this happens "even between the best of friends."
Remember in OotF :"as though they had just entered the house of a dying person" and in GoF Winky "disappeared...as she fought the force that was restraining her"? Me too.
Btw,very similar comment appears again somewhere in the book.