Looking back, it’s pretty hilarious that Lord Voldemort’s request boils down to wanting to really really teach 7th grade.
It was probably someone here that said it, but I remember someone suggesting that he'd cursed the position not out of rage at being turned down, but so that these kids presumably being trained to fight against the forces of dark would have a vastly disrupted education and so wouldn't have the decent regular knowledge of the subject they might have done. Presumably, Voldemort's reason for wanting to teach would be to get them young, in the manner of Fenrir Greyback (minus the biting). We do rather expect more from our evil supervillains, though. Perhaps Dumbledore turned him down so as to inspire him to get a cloak to twirl and to practice his maniacal laughter. Otherwise it might have been better to have him where you could see him. Perhaps that's why Dumbledore chose Snape as a teacher - he wasn't falling for that "shouldn't hire someone if they're evil" trap again. If he's in the school, working for you, you can tell him what to do and (master manipulator) twist him round to your way of thinking - or give it a go, at least. But then, what a different story!
cue fics where one of them starts creating tapestries himself or reveals one of the trolls is an ancestor!
I'm quite fond of the idea of arts 'n' crafts Crabbe and Goyle, actually. They're not just great lunks - they have a sensitive side too! Plus, needlecrafts aren't just for women! Mind you, that'd probably be used in some kind of humourous "lulz at teh femmy boyz" sequence. I daresay the idea of Crabbe and Goyle being turned into little girls was probably meant to be hillarious in a "big hairy men in drag = comedy gold" way. Didn't really hit it for me.
Hermione hotly says that Harry getting hit didn’t look funny at all.
It's only funny when it's Ron, it seems. Or Zacharias Smith, of course.
As if Luna doesn’t know Ron appreciates anyone saying anything against Zach Smith, the Evil Heart of Hogwarts.
Ron will always enjoy Luna, in a sort of "thank crap it's not me" way. Mind you, he is mildly less condescending to her than some others (although Hermione is condescending to everyone, this is the very heart of her character). Perhaps they come to a subconscious understanding due to both being considered pathetic by the people they hang around with.
Dumbledore casually mentions how he’s made another one of his Dumbledore-ish-mistakes in not realizing how having two Divination teachers he’s personally protecting at the school would work out.
Well, no shit! One of the things that pisses me off about these books is that the "pathetic" ones seem to have no comprehension that they're considered pathetic, treated like shit and generally taken for a ride. This is one of my hopes about Professor Snape, that he's the guy that saw what a chump the popular crowd took him for and told them all where they could jump. But Professor Trelawney! Maybe it's because she's been there for such a long time, and she's got nowhere else. I wondered before why I could easily picture her being in an abusive relationship, but her experience at Hogwarts is similar to emotional abuse, I think.
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Date: 2006-07-28 07:40 pm (UTC)It was probably someone here that said it, but I remember someone suggesting that he'd cursed the position not out of rage at being turned down, but so that these kids presumably being trained to fight against the forces of dark would have a vastly disrupted education and so wouldn't have the decent regular knowledge of the subject they might have done. Presumably, Voldemort's reason for wanting to teach would be to get them young, in the manner of Fenrir Greyback (minus the biting). We do rather expect more from our evil supervillains, though. Perhaps Dumbledore turned him down so as to inspire him to get a cloak to twirl and to practice his maniacal laughter. Otherwise it might have been better to have him where you could see him. Perhaps that's why Dumbledore chose Snape as a teacher - he wasn't falling for that "shouldn't hire someone if they're evil" trap again. If he's in the school, working for you, you can tell him what to do and (master manipulator) twist him round to your way of thinking - or give it a go, at least. But then, what a different story!
cue fics where one of them starts creating tapestries himself or reveals one of the trolls is an ancestor!
I'm quite fond of the idea of arts 'n' crafts Crabbe and Goyle, actually. They're not just great lunks - they have a sensitive side too! Plus, needlecrafts aren't just for women! Mind you, that'd probably be used in some kind of humourous "lulz at teh femmy boyz" sequence. I daresay the idea of Crabbe and Goyle being turned into little girls was probably meant to be hillarious in a "big hairy men in drag = comedy gold" way. Didn't really hit it for me.
Hermione hotly says that Harry getting hit didn’t look funny at all.
It's only funny when it's Ron, it seems. Or Zacharias Smith, of course.
As if Luna doesn’t know Ron appreciates anyone saying anything against Zach Smith, the Evil Heart of Hogwarts.
Ron will always enjoy Luna, in a sort of "thank crap it's not me" way. Mind you, he is mildly less condescending to her than some others (although Hermione is condescending to everyone, this is the very heart of her character). Perhaps they come to a subconscious understanding due to both being considered pathetic by the people they hang around with.
Dumbledore casually mentions how he’s made another one of his Dumbledore-ish-mistakes in not realizing how having two Divination teachers he’s personally protecting at the school would work out.
Well, no shit! One of the things that pisses me off about these books is that the "pathetic" ones seem to have no comprehension that they're considered pathetic, treated like shit and generally taken for a ride. This is one of my hopes about Professor Snape, that he's the guy that saw what a chump the popular crowd took him for and told them all where they could jump. But Professor Trelawney! Maybe it's because she's been there for such a long time, and she's got nowhere else. I wondered before why I could easily picture her being in an abusive relationship, but her experience at Hogwarts is similar to emotional abuse, I think.