Soon, I will have to do my own chapter. I am behind now! Yay! Perhaps I'll have to do two. I can't remember. Oh well.
the books have consistently brought up that Nick and the Baron are friends
I hope the last book will give us more backstory to the Hogwarts House ghosts, esp. the Baron. Seems like he might be kind of awesome. Although he might be a huge disappointment, like Sluggy was to me. God, we'll probably find out that he was in love with Lily too. As a ghost. But yeah, I do think there actually will be a little backstory, because Rowling did mention something about finding out why some people become ghosts in the last book.
Causing painful skin ailments and mind-wipes are still okay.
I guess that's okay because it's not actually killing anyone? I hear a million canon-fans go "Duh!" at that pronouncement, but killing is rather straightforward, compared to messing in someone's memory or scarring them for life. I guess the "Gryffindor" way of thinking goes thusly: killing someone is the worst thing you can do, therefore anything that isn't killing someone or threatening to do so isn't so bad, so nobody has any business getting upset about them. I don't know, I guess I need someone to be patronising to me about it :P
One would think he had seen it happen.
Perhaps he has, although that'd be far too interesting for a character that's supposed to be comic relief - and to suck up to Harry, of course.
Slughorn explains that splitting the soul is bad, mmmkay. Because it’s against nature.
I don't think Sluggy really thought this argument through. Probably too stunned by the pulchritude of the youthful Tom Riddle to think clearly.
Wizards are so non-violent as a rule.
Killing someone is a great sin - unless, of course, it was in a prophecy. Or if you must get you revenge for something or other. Or if they pissed you off. Or if the guy you take orders from told you this person has to die. But other than that, terribly bad news!
A time that would have been shorter if he hadn’t insisted on sending Harry after it.
Well, they've got to spread out the book so that it lasts a full school year. At least it wasn't padded out with extra musings on the sweet curve of Ginny's soulful blah blah puke. Dithering and pointless as the flashbacks may be, at least they're not the teenage romance dross.
Bless his little brain, he hasn’t worked his way up to seven yet even after that memory.
I assume here that Rowling is either considering her much younger audience - the primary school age - or she thinks her average reader is as thick as a brick sandwich. Perhaps I'm biased here. Perhaps it's because, beastly robot that I am, I don't remember what it was to be young. Feel free to say *offers sacrifice*
I’m a bit surprised that Voldemort’s the first one to ever split his soul into more than two pieces
Perhaps he isn't - perhaps he's just the first one that these people know about. There may be some genfic in the backstory of a person, several centuries ago, with bits of soul all over the place.
I hope Nagini isn’t a Horcrux. I find the idea lame.
Which means she probably is one, since Rowling does not shy away from lame in any way. In fact, she embraces lame like a dear friend and so Nagini's death will probably be a huge drama complete with explosions and Voldemort screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" in slow motion. You cannot defeat the lame, alas.
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Date: 2006-08-19 10:04 pm (UTC)the books have consistently brought up that Nick and the Baron are friends
I hope the last book will give us more backstory to the Hogwarts House ghosts, esp. the Baron. Seems like he might be kind of awesome. Although he might be a huge disappointment, like Sluggy was to me. God, we'll probably find out that he was in love with Lily too. As a ghost. But yeah, I do think there actually will be a little backstory, because Rowling did mention something about finding out why some people become ghosts in the last book.
Causing painful skin ailments and mind-wipes are still okay.
I guess that's okay because it's not actually killing anyone? I hear a million canon-fans go "Duh!" at that pronouncement, but killing is rather straightforward, compared to messing in someone's memory or scarring them for life. I guess the "Gryffindor" way of thinking goes thusly: killing someone is the worst thing you can do, therefore anything that isn't killing someone or threatening to do so isn't so bad, so nobody has any business getting upset about them. I don't know, I guess I need someone to be patronising to me about it :P
One would think he had seen it happen.
Perhaps he has, although that'd be far too interesting for a character that's supposed to be comic relief - and to suck up to Harry, of course.
Slughorn explains that splitting the soul is bad, mmmkay. Because it’s against nature.
I don't think Sluggy really thought this argument through. Probably too stunned by the pulchritude of the youthful Tom Riddle to think clearly.
Wizards are so non-violent as a rule.
Killing someone is a great sin - unless, of course, it was in a prophecy. Or if you must get you revenge for something or other. Or if they pissed you off. Or if the guy you take orders from told you this person has to die. But other than that, terribly bad news!
A time that would have been shorter if he hadn’t insisted on sending Harry after it.
Well, they've got to spread out the book so that it lasts a full school year. At least it wasn't padded out with extra musings on the sweet curve of Ginny's soulful blah blah puke. Dithering and pointless as the flashbacks may be, at least they're not the teenage romance dross.
Bless his little brain, he hasn’t worked his way up to seven yet even after that memory.
I assume here that Rowling is either considering her much younger audience - the primary school age - or she thinks her average reader is as thick as a brick sandwich. Perhaps I'm biased here. Perhaps it's because, beastly robot that I am, I don't remember what it was to be young. Feel free to say *offers sacrifice*
I’m a bit surprised that Voldemort’s the first one to ever split his soul into more than two pieces
Perhaps he isn't - perhaps he's just the first one that these people know about. There may be some genfic in the backstory of a person, several centuries ago, with bits of soul all over the place.
I hope Nagini isn’t a Horcrux. I find the idea lame.
Which means she probably is one, since Rowling does not shy away from lame in any way. In fact, she embraces lame like a dear friend and so Nagini's death will probably be a huge drama complete with explosions and Voldemort screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" in slow motion. You cannot defeat the lame, alas.