Slughorn reminds me of no-one more than Dumbledore here, what with his mammoth ego, fake chastising, setting himself up as one of the kids ('we'll all be in trouble!'), and flattering his favourite for breaking the rules, as well as his desire to seen as predicting people's paths even though he did nothing to stop them.
The Ministry didn’t have to use Veritaseum or Legilimancy on Morfin. Unfortunately they didn’t have to use them with Sirius Black either…
Be fair. How could they use those things when they were only invented in GoF?
What a condescending fuck.
I love the battle of egoes here (Luna is so outclassed!) - 'I'm so smart I understand even more than the great Harry Potter' vs Harry's 'Well, I'm not going to "permit" this"! Talking to the Chosen One here, show some respect!' with bonding over how little Scrimgeour's opinion matters to either of them. (I love how naturally Ddore's argument with the Minister isn't over anything petty like differing policies on giants or centaurs or werewolves or imprisoning innocent people, but of course Harry's own personal welfare. And I'm surprised we don't get a bitchfit from Harry on this, anyway. ZOMG, Dumbledore was totally protecting you like a child! Like you're not already a man who can make his own decisions!) Dumbledore wins though, for the shameless and obvious 'We're BFFs!' reminder. The bit about how often friends fight because each believes their thoughts are most important is pretty funny, though, since Albus and Harry make it a point to surround themselves with people who'll automatically defer to them on everything and give their opinions priorities at all times.
Lavender...is starring in How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
My favourite part about this scene is Hermione stalking off with Neville. You can just imagine him forlornly waiting for one of the Trio to pick him up when they fight with each other, and cheerfully accepting the inevitable dropping once they make up again. (You should see the GoF movie just for this hilarious bit where Harry, having fought with Ron, is hanging out with Neville and shushes him when he begins to talk. Know your place, almost-ran! ;)
I don’t even want to think about how Dumbledore "extracted" that memory.
Note the blatant mention about the 'few that could be tricked into speaking'. I also love how Morfin conveniently died after this, so Albus gets to look the concerned saviour who would have campaigned to save an innocent man, but never actually has to make an effort for an icky person who might not show the proper gratitude and remould themselves in his image.
the Wizarding World wasn’t supposed to have that sort of inequality, right?
Maybe it's just supposed to be more evidence of how prejudiced the Slytherins are (ZOMG, they didn't have girls on their Quidditch team, either!) They keep to specific gender roles and groups like Draco and Pansy, whereas the Gryffindor dorms are a hotbed of feminism when they're not making five year plans to snag their soulmate. (Not to mention the boys - when they're not judging every girl on either her appearance or her romantic history; they're devoted New Men! Girls can play games with us, and they can even be deemed nearly as good as we are at them!)
Confession: I don’t find the baboon brandishing a stick all that funny. Not so funny I’d want to put it on an icon, at least.
I'll top that and say that I didn't laugh at Roonil Wazlib. ...Yeah, I said it. (I think being in fandom kills a lot of the jokes. Like you'd read the book and sort of smile, and then you go online and there's 147389 people saying 'ZOMG WON-WON, SOOOOO FUNNY!' and 'U KNOW POO = GENIUS!' and you're like '...Really?')
Hermione seems to have taken over from Fudge.
Someone theorised that maybe Ron and Hermione are dubious because Harry was so sure of himself in OotP and then ended up risking all their lives (and taking out Sirius) for nothing. But that sounds too in keeping with continuity, so I'm just gonna assume that without a common enemy to unite against, we need Harry's friends to doubt him so he can properly fulfill his role as martyr.
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Date: 2006-07-10 02:07 pm (UTC)Slughorn reminds me of no-one more than Dumbledore here, what with his mammoth ego, fake chastising, setting himself up as one of the kids ('we'll all be in trouble!'), and flattering his favourite for breaking the rules, as well as his desire to seen as predicting people's paths even though he did nothing to stop them.
The Ministry didn’t have to use Veritaseum or Legilimancy on Morfin. Unfortunately they didn’t have to use them with Sirius Black either…
Be fair. How could they use those things when they were only invented in GoF?
What a condescending fuck.
I love the battle of egoes here (Luna is so outclassed!) - 'I'm so smart I understand even more than the great Harry Potter' vs Harry's 'Well, I'm not going to "permit" this"! Talking to the Chosen One here, show some respect!' with bonding over how little Scrimgeour's opinion matters to either of them.
(I love how naturally Ddore's argument with the Minister isn't over anything petty like differing policies on giants or centaurs or werewolves or imprisoning innocent people, but of course Harry's own personal welfare.
And I'm surprised we don't get a bitchfit from Harry on this, anyway. ZOMG, Dumbledore was totally protecting you like a child! Like you're not already a man who can make his own decisions!)
Dumbledore wins though, for the shameless and obvious 'We're BFFs!' reminder. The bit about how often friends fight because each believes their thoughts are most important is pretty funny, though, since Albus and Harry make it a point to surround themselves with people who'll automatically defer to them on everything and give their opinions priorities at all times.
Lavender...is starring in How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
My favourite part about this scene is Hermione stalking off with Neville. You can just imagine him forlornly waiting for one of the Trio to pick him up when they fight with each other, and cheerfully accepting the inevitable dropping once they make up again.
(You should see the GoF movie just for this hilarious bit where Harry, having fought with Ron, is hanging out with Neville and shushes him when he begins to talk. Know your place, almost-ran! ;)
I don’t even want to think about how Dumbledore "extracted" that memory.
Note the blatant mention about the 'few that could be tricked into speaking'.
I also love how Morfin conveniently died after this, so Albus gets to look the concerned saviour who would have campaigned to save an innocent man, but never actually has to make an effort for an icky person who might not show the proper gratitude and remould themselves in his image.
the Wizarding World wasn’t supposed to have that sort of inequality, right?
Maybe it's just supposed to be more evidence of how prejudiced the Slytherins are (ZOMG, they didn't have girls on their Quidditch team, either!)
They keep to specific gender roles and groups like Draco and Pansy, whereas the Gryffindor dorms are a hotbed of feminism when they're not making five year plans to snag their soulmate. (Not to mention the boys - when they're not judging every girl on either her appearance or her romantic history; they're devoted New Men! Girls can play games with us, and they can even be deemed nearly as good as we are at them!)
Confession: I don’t find the baboon brandishing a stick all that funny. Not so funny I’d want to put it on an icon, at least.
I'll top that and say that I didn't laugh at Roonil Wazlib.
...Yeah, I said it.
(I think being in fandom kills a lot of the jokes. Like you'd read the book and sort of smile, and then you go online and there's 147389 people saying 'ZOMG WON-WON, SOOOOO FUNNY!' and 'U KNOW POO = GENIUS!' and you're like '...Really?')
Hermione seems to have taken over from Fudge.
Someone theorised that maybe Ron and Hermione are dubious because Harry was so sure of himself in OotP and then ended up risking all their lives (and taking out Sirius) for nothing. But that sounds too in keeping with continuity, so I'm just gonna assume that without a common enemy to unite against, we need Harry's friends to doubt him so he can properly fulfill his role as martyr.