so that these kids presumably being trained to fight against the forces of dark would have a vastly disrupted education
It's so random that he cursed it for exactly a year, rather than say, cursing every student who takes it so the subject has to stop altogether, or just making it so every teacher who applies, dies. (Mind you, a lot of them have come to sticky ends. *crosses fingers for Hagrid the DADA teacher in Book Seven*) Random in a contrived for plot purposes kind of way.
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.
Yeah, it's kind of a lot of effort (why little girls?) in the service of a pretty weak joke (Har! Crabbe and Goyle have to be GIRLS! Ew! This is like some sort of medieval punishment on par with the Iron Maiden! Imagine having a vagina, even for an hour! They're supposed to be macho, but now we can associate them with effeminacy, along with Snape and Draco!) especially since Draco's plotline is supposed to be serious.
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Date: 2006-07-29 10:23 am (UTC)It's so random that he cursed it for exactly a year, rather than say, cursing every student who takes it so the subject has to stop altogether, or just making it so every teacher who applies, dies. (Mind you, a lot of them have come to sticky ends. *crosses fingers for Hagrid the DADA teacher in Book Seven*) Random in a contrived for plot purposes kind of way.
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.
Yeah, it's kind of a lot of effort (why little girls?) in the service of a pretty weak joke (Har! Crabbe and Goyle have to be GIRLS! Ew! This is like some sort of medieval punishment on par with the Iron Maiden! Imagine having a vagina, even for an hour! They're supposed to be macho, but now we can associate them with effeminacy, along with Snape and Draco!) especially since Draco's plotline is supposed to be serious.