HBP Chapter Twenty-Five
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deathtocapslock*The fact that Harry is going out with Ginny Weasley is the talk of the school. Two stuck-up jocks choosing to date each other is far more interesting than the school’s golden boy almost killing someone in the boy’s room.
*Oh, excuse me. Far more interesting than Harry being "involved in scenes of horrific Dark Magic." As an innocent by-stander. Damn that Malfoy and his obsession with the stuff.
*Unless, of course, the gossip goes something like, "Harry Potter must be seriously closeted. First he tries to kill Malfoy after some kind of spat in the boy’s bathroom, and then he grabs himself the nearest girlfriend to cover."
*Oh my god, Harry and Ginny are such a nightmare as a couple. How many hours a day do you have to hear them do the popular couple shtick? And how much are Ron and Hermione getting paid to pretend to roll around laughing at their lame jokes?
*So Ginny doesn’t take crap from Ron and she doesn’t let anybody tell her who she can snog in public. I think we get it. Enough, please.
*And by the way Ron, I’m really sorry you’ve been given this completely fake dialogue out of a 1950s educational film to recite to your sister in the 1990s.
*And then Hermione gets in on the act, "The truth is you don’t think a girl could be clever enough to be the Half-Blood Prince!" Jesus, Hermione. Of course a girl could be clever enough. It's just that the Half-blood Prince is obviously far too interesting and important to the storyline to be a girl. Keep up, would you?
*Hermione has, of course, been researching who the Half-blood Prince is. She must be so thrilled to finally have something to investigate this year. Nothing but boring questions like "Who killed Ron or Katie?" all year. Finally she can sink her teeth into the Potions Whiz Identity Caper!
*Harry wants to know if Ron thinks he’s mad wanting the book back. Mad? No. Worried for his well-being would be more like it. I think he’s accepted years ago that Harry’s a stone-cold bastard.
*Please let Ron’s and Harry’s quick protestations of how the spell Harry used on Malfoy "wasn’t great" be a set up for something in Book VII. Sure I’m probably fooling myself, but the Montague scenes that played out and now I’m hopelessly hopeful.
*Ron happens to mention Malfoy healed all right and was back on his feet in no time. So Malfoy’s return to class and the first time he saw Harry since he was staring up at him through a film of blood wasn’t worthy of a mention?
*Harry agrees Malfoy’s fine, but his conscience gives a little squirm thinking about almost killing him. A little squirm. As opposed to the way his conscience ached at something really important in the last chapter. What was it? Oh yes, he wanted to ask out Ron’s sister.
*Well, enough of that talk of Malfoy—back to complaining about those dreadful detentions.
*Honestly, I’m tempted to give JKR the benefit of the doubt here. I do think it’s quite possible that everyone not talking about what happened to Malfoy could be on purpose, that they just can’t deal with it and won’t until something forces them to in the next book.
*Harry thinks Snape might be purposefully keeping him from Ginny. You go, Snape! He can’t stand the H/G either!
*Not to mention Snape gives the author an easy way to tell us how great it would be if Harry was spending time with Ginny without actually having to write it. You think that’s telling not showing? Do I need to type out the forced, lame banter of the beginning of the chapter again to remind us of the bullet we’re dodging with the telling not showing?
*Harry’s walking by the RoR to get to Dumbledore’s office. This seems to imply it’s not quite as strange for Tonks to be in that vicinity when she found Dumbledore wasn’t in his office earlier.
*Trelawney didn’t know students knew about the RoR? How drunk was she all last year?
*I’m sorry; I’m having a hard time following what Trelawney’s saying here. The subplot where she sinks into alcoholism just cracks me up so much! Apparently people are starting to make accusations about it!
*Trelawney hazards a guest that the whooping she heard in the room was male. Malfoy would like me to point out here that whooping is often done in the falsetto, and that his voice changed somewhere around third or fourth year and could in no way be mistaken for a female voice normally.
*Good of Trelawney to call out "Who’s there?" and get thrown out of the room. Many alcoholics would have just hidden their own bottles and snuck out of the room again without being scene. Most, probably.
*I love that Harry’s so obviously critical of the way Trelawney handled herself here so that she didn’t find out exactly what was going on in the room. Because his own year-long investigation has gone so much better.
*You’d think Trelawney and Harry would do a little bonding over the fact they’ve both been warning DD of the same thing all year and he’s been ignoring them. Not that this will keep everyone at the end of the book from thinking they’re all lost since DD knows all and has been keeping everyone completely safe for years and trusting him to take care of everything was the only thing standing between the world and total ruin.
*Firenze’s been laughing at Trelawney’s predictions too. Firenze being a ground-breaking character in that he is both literally and metaphorically a horse’s arse.
*I’ve got to stop here for a second and be amazed that Wizards haven’t come up with a magical cure for bed bugs.
*Harry suddenly begins to pay attention to Trelawney. Wait, let me guess, is she talking about something directly important to him? I’m a Seer too!
*Snape! Snape! Snape! I’m sorry, but Snape the Eavesdropper is one of those moments you expect but it doesn’t make it any less cool that it happened.
*I was recently reading this conversation with people who honestly do not see the importance of Harry/Snape in canon. I’ve no idea how you can question that when a piece of information about Snape being the eavesdropper causes Harry to have waves and waves of raging emotion roll over him. The same kid who almost killed Malfoy and seconds later was worried about his science grade.
*As much as I don’t like Dumbledore much, I kind of love wondering what it must be like to be him and have Harry come bursting into the room. His whole life in his office is probably punctuated by Harry and Snape making just these kinds of furious entrances. The door’s probably got cushioning charms on it.
*LOL! I also love Dumbledore’s, "Harry, you were never a good Occlumens" given the fact that Harry’s probably standing there with steam coming out of his ears that float up over his head to spell out SNAPE.
*Makes a bit more interesting to me on this read, btw. Early on we always got scenes of Draco clearly trying to keep his emotions in check with tell-tale signs like spots on his cheeks. But even then I suspect, given this now canon bit of his personality, that he may have been disconnected from the emotion itself, not knowing how it was coming out physically. Now he may be crossing that hurdle into actually be unreadable at times. Which JKR probably thinks is a sign of evil along with the rest of the fandom, but I like a lot. And it’s not fanon.
*Harry puts up a violent struggle against the CAPSLOCK OF DOOM, and fails.
*Harry wants to tell DD he’s a foolish old man for trusting Snape. My Seer powers tell me somebody else is going to tell Dumbledore that later…
*Harry’s worried DD won’t take him along if he doesn’t master his anger, despite the fact that DD earlier made a big speech about how hate made Harry strong. And Harry told us how he wasn’t afraid because of his anger at Snape.
*Dumbledore explains how Snape couldn’t have known the people Voldemort would kill were Lily and James, Gryffindors with actual worth They might have been Slytherins, and that would have been good for us!
*Harry asks DD if he hasn’t noticed people Snape hates tend to end up dead. As a reader I tend to notice how Snape keeps alive the people he hates. Some of them die despite his help. Harry keeps on ticking just to annoy him.
*"I trust Severus Snape completely" says DD. I just had to type that since I hang out in areas of HP fandom where "I trust Snape completely" means anything from "I trust Snape to be unable to find a way to kill Harry while under a Life Debt and not beyond that" to "I wouldn’t trust my life to Snape."
*Dumbledore shames Harry for suggesting he doesn’t take the lives of his students seriously. Except for Katie and Ron, whose lives had to be risked. And those people I mentioned in the last book where I said something about not caring about faceless people dying if I could bring you a little happiness.
*Actually, when Dumbledore says, "Please don’t suggest I don’t take the safety of my students seriously" in my head I hear Harry responding with that line from Violet’s father when Willy Wonka claims he takes good care of his guests: "Yeah, you took real good care of that August kid!"
*Dumbledore tells Harry he’s to obey his every command without question. So it’s business as usual, then.
*Hermione has the courtesy to look terrified at what Harry is telling her to do even as she’s supposed to think Harry’s crazy and nothing important could come from Malfoy.
*Harry gives the FF to Ron and Hermione and tells them to share it with Ginny. Does Ginny really need a bottle of golden liquid luck? Doesn’t she pee the stuff?
*Harry will be fine, he’s with Dumbledore. That’s it, Harry. You don’t want to grow past the childish trust in Grandpa. That’s how you go evil.
*Hermione and Ron really know the drill don’t they? They’re piling on the stunned, the awestruck, and the horror for Harry before he goes off into the sunset, literally.
*Dumbledore says how he often goes into town for a drink…or he appears to. Dumbledore, you badass sneaky super spy you!
*Harry reveals he hasn’t got an Apparating license, because he feels it’s best to be honest. Because Harry always feels it’s best to be honest when it really doesn’t matter. That way you rack up honesty points and your important lies don’t count. Having grown up Catholic, I know how this works.
*In this case it’s an especially good time to be honest because this entire journey started with Harry being born less than 17 years ago, making him ineligible for a license.
*I’m still a little confused about Harry’s big honesty moment until Harry reveals that "I don’t have a license" is code for "I am bad at Apparating and don’t know that I’m up to this journey." Luckily Dumbledore seems to understand. Well, that proves he’s really a Gryffindor. Of course he understands that in Gryffindor culture you would never admit you can’t do anything physical like Apparating in this kind of situation. So what you do is suggest you’re worried about doing something illegal. Obviously nobody would really care about doing something illegal, so the other person is clued in that you’re really speaking in code for inadequacy.
The Cricket Rule / Day-for-Night
Working hard on that atmosphere as Dumbledore and Harry leave. The night’s got to be as pleasant as possible for us to destroy!
Designated Hero
The kid whose conscience is more bothered by asking out a girl related to his best friend than almost killing someone.
IITS
If you’ve snuck into a room to hide something so that you won’t be seen, and find someone else in the room, why would you call out to them?
Idiot Picture
How many people have been warning Dumbledore there’s something he’s missing that’s going on this year? "He’s probably got a pile of "Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside The United States" briefs stuffed in his desk too.
Informed Attributes
That Dumbledore takes care of everybody!
Ken and Andrew’s Rule of Plot Holes
Wait, so Snape only heard the first part of the Prophecy? Then how did Trelawney see him get thrown out?
McGuffin
Used to good use here with Harry and Dumbledore leaving just as Malfoy gets the Cabinet working.
Misdirected Answering
Well, sure Snape told Voldemort there was a baby out there he ought to kill—but the important thing was he didn’t know it was you!
"Watermelon, watermelon, cantaloupe, cantaloupe"
"And stay out!" Oh, hello Dumbledore. I just wanted to remind the readers that I exist tending my bar full of murmuring patrons as the saucy bar maid I am before I get mentioned in the chapter after next. Have a nice night!
Final score: 10
Slytherin liquid count: Drunk Trelawney, Liquid Luck, Dumbledore pretending to go out for a drink whenever he’s being cunning.
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Date: 2006-09-01 04:52 pm (UTC)Maybe Ginny carries around some laughing gas. She squirts Ron and Hermione when they aren't sufficiently amused at her non-jokes.
*And by the way Ron, I’m really sorry you’ve been given this completely fake dialogue out of a 1950s educational film to recite to your sister in the 1990s.
Ron should know that he is a backwards Neanderthal who deserves to be corrected by his sister in the Gryffindor Common Room. Not that Harry gives a crap to stick up for him. He has got himself a new Weezy now. Get used to the curb, Ron, if you haven't already.
*Not to mention Snape gives the author an easy way to tell us how great it would be if Harry was spending time with Ginny without actually having to write it. You think that’s telling not showing? Do I need to type out the forced, lame banter of the beginning of the chapter again to remind us of the bullet we’re dodging with the telling not showing?
Perfect summation. I have nothing to add. :D
*Harry gives the FF to Ron and Hermione and tells them to share it with Ginny. Does Ginny really need a bottle of golden liquid luck? Doesn’t she pee the stuff?
She bathes in it, apparently.
*Good of Trelawney to call out "Who’s there?" and get thrown out of the room. Many alcoholics would have just hidden their own bottles and snuck out of the room again without being scene. Most, probably.
Because nothing screams Comedy like a skid-row Alcoholic. A true Alchy would have just opened the door and chucked the bottle in.
*Firenze’s been laughing at Trelawney’s predictions too. Firenze being a ground-breaking character in that he is both literally and metaphorically a horse’s arse.
Oh come now, SisterM. Would you really want to miss all those "Donkey Show" vibes that JKR is sending via Patil and Lav-Lav?
*Dumbledore says how he often goes into town for a drink…or he appears to. Dumbledore, you badass sneaky super spy you!
Its where he is picking up Trewlawney's stash.
That Dumbledore takes care of everybody!
Yeah! He even told Harry how to defeat Riddle's Horcruxes. Or...maybe not. But he cares, I tell ya.
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:34 pm (UTC)LOL. Harry's giving Ginny the lead-in for her Ron joke here, isn't he, asking about Ron's 'tattoo'? (Hilariously, he ignores R/Hr's giggles and Ginny's jokes when she aims one at him, only smiling when she compliments him.)
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:44 pm (UTC)Ginny only amuses on Sunlit Days. But that doesn't included normal conversations. Oink, oink.
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:46 pm (UTC)I also like how Ginny's sitting obediently against his knees here. In her place!
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Date: 2006-09-01 05:49 pm (UTC)Re: relationships + Snape's mother+Lj question
Date: 2006-09-01 05:27 pm (UTC)Over the next few weeks? Really? So, in the middle of war 'a great number of people' spend weeks gossiping about this relationship out of countless others at Hogwarts. Do they discuss every kiss or what? I understand that Harry is 'the Chosen one' & 'the boy who lived', but it still seems unrealistic. JKR makes a mistake assuming that everybody in her world cares as much about Harry's love life as she does, while it isn't right even for her fans.
Also Draco is so ignored that I initially assumed ''horrific scenes of Dark magic'' be a reference to Harry's meetings with V & speaking Parseltongue 4 years ago, somehow completely forgetting the bathroom scene.
* Ginny gets to be both superior to all other girls, rightly judgmental of their stupidity for not having 'better things to gossip about' while there had been 3 Dementor attacks in a week & extremely happy to boast about her new macho boyfriend at the same time. I agree, Ginny. People really should start paying some attention to the unknown assassin at school, who has already almost killed 2 people, & be a bit more worried about the war.
* Wow. Romilda Vane really comes out as stupid, pathetic character without a drop of self-respect. Unable to attract the boy of her dreams herself, she descends to asking his girlfriend how his naked body looks like [implying they had sex? Or simply partly undressed?]. Ginny of cause is happy to answer such questions with great imaginary detail [I would simply quietly walk away disgusted, if somebody asked me how my lover's & brother's naked bodies looked like] with the added bonus of emasculating her brother by the way.
Btw, why did Harry ask in the first place what Ginny told about Ron? Is RV interested in Ron too or did Ginny decide to volunteer some imaginary insulting information for fun?
* Note that Ron has to be constantly put down here: his little sister tells made-up stories about his girly Pygmy Puff tattoo on his …to a girl, who will certainly believe in it & spread the gossip to everybody willing to listen, Hermione 'rolled around laughing' after hearing the story [unlike Ginny, who defends her man's honor], Harry grins [as a sign of their strong friendship?] and his weak attempt to save his face by asserting authority results in additional insult from Ginny.
The only question is: does JKR do that on purpose or is it instinctively by now?
* Of cause Snape's mother 'wasn't pretty' and 'looked simultaneously cross and sullen'. I guess that should teach us about her having not 'pretty' character either and being the one to blame for quarrels in their house, contrary to fandom's belief in abusive-wife-beating- husband version.
* Lj question: how do you post here using rich editor version? When I use 'add comment' here I can't do that.
Re: relationships + Snape's mother+Lj question
Date: 2006-09-01 11:27 pm (UTC)Good point! I doubt everyone would really conveniently forget about that snake incident just because it was so four books ago. They'd be saying, "Look, he's a Parselmouth, we don't know what happened to Professor Lockhart, even his best friend thought he was a fame-hound for a long time in fourth year, we only have his word that Voldemort killed Cedric, he was shouting at his friends all last year, he keeps mysteriously escaping Voldemort, and now he almost killed a kid and all he does is gripe about his detentions. He's a psycho dark wizard!"
Re: relationships + Snape's mother+Lj question
Date: 2006-09-03 08:21 pm (UTC)"SCORE! Everyone's crazy jealous because I finally snaffled Harry Potter! Not that I care, at all. You'd think people would have better things to gossip about."
Of cause Snape's mother 'wasn't pretty' and 'looked simultaneously
cross and sullen'.
*nod* It's right there in the caption. "Eileen Prince, Ugly Loser". In case we were wondering where Snape gets it from. Of course, only a total reject with serious self-esteem issues would lower herself to marry a Muggle. She probably didn't even dare tell him she was a witch.
-L
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Date: 2006-09-01 08:09 pm (UTC)Be fair. The line is from a guy who also says he'd entrust his life to Hagrid.
Harry asks DD if he hasn’t noticed people Snape hates tend to end up dead.
As opposed to people Harry hates, who just end up flayed or disfigured.
Apparently people are starting to make accusations about it!
Who? Because presumably Dumbledore already knows and has smiled with tired amusement over it. I can't think of anyone else who'd care - it's not like professionalism or student endangerment are high on the other teachers' priority lists.
Malfoy would like me to point out here that whooping is often done in the falsetto, and that his voice...could in no way be mistaken for a female voice normally.
Slytherins are always girly! That's how you know they're evil.
LOL! I also love Dumbledore’s, "Harry, you were never a good Occlumens"
This chapter's pretty groundbreaking itself - twice people tell Harry that he's not talented at skills (even useless ones like Divination or ones that his failure just demonstrates his superiority, like Occlumency), without even the obligatory 'boiling rage'. Harry's learning to prioritise! Of course it's always two steps back for every one forward, since the capslock makes an appearance again.
Dumbledore shames Harry for suggesting he doesn’t take the lives of his students seriously. Except for Katie and Ron, whose lives had to be risked. And those people I mentioned where I said something about not caring about faceless people dying if I could bring you a little happiness.
And Montague. And everyone who went to school with Lupin the werewolf. Or got taught under Hagrid, Moody, Lockhart or Quirrell.
Harry reveals he hasn’t got an Apparating license, because he feels it’s best to be honest.
Well, this situation is really important. Unlike when Snape asked him about the book where he learnt the spell that nearly killed someone. Because then issues that were as equally important as a human life, like Harry’s reputation in Potions!
Does Ginny really need a bottle of golden liquid luck? Doesn’t she pee the stuff?
And Harry still has to save her from a Death Eater later. Presumably just for The Romance1!! since everyone is already protected.
Harry wants to tell DD he’s a foolish old man for trusting Snape. My Seer powers tell me somebody else is going to tell Dumbledore that later…
LOL, Dumbledore has BOTH sides fooled that he’s a nice, sweet old man who just loves too much. Nice work!
Firenze’s been laughing at Trelawney’s predictions too. Firenze being a ground-breaking character in that he is both literally and metaphorically a horse’s arse.
Ironically, Firenze is like a typical wizard here – no, I don’t have a better prediction. In fact, I find all your mortal worries a waste of time, except the ones that concern important people like Harry, Dumbledore and Hagrid. But I’m still connected enough to sneer at rivals like Trelawney, even though she’s totally right. He kinda reminds me of Arthur bitching out Lucius for his evil donations – put your own money where your mouth is, then.
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Date: 2006-09-01 08:16 pm (UTC)It’s like Lily and James all over again! How wonderful! I can’t believe I actually read a comment this week wherein the commentor reminded us all that, despite the fact that the Marauders liked to gang up on people 4-against-1 and then mock them for being poor (or, you know, lead them to their potential DEATH), they were actually good, decent people. Unlike that horrible Snape.
*And by the way Ron, I’m really sorry you’ve been given this completely fake dialogue out of a 1950s educational film to recite to your sister in the 1990s.
Every time I think I have enough reason to hate canon Ginny, yet another one pops up. *hugs canon Ron*
*Ron happens to mention Malfoy healed all right and was back on his feet in no time. So Malfoy’s return to class and the first time he saw Harry since he was staring up at him through a film of blood wasn’t worthy of a mention?
Nah, it’s Draco, remember? No way he could stack up against Ginny’s wonderful joke about Harry’s tattoo.
*Honestly, I’m tempted to give JKR the benefit of the doubt here. I do think it’s quite possible that everyone not talking about what happened to Malfoy could be on purpose, that they just can’t deal with it and won’t until something forces them to in the next book.
Yeah, me too. Just because otherwise, I’d have to hope Voldemort was saving up something really special for Our Valiant Hero.
*Harry gives the FF to Ron and Hermione and tells them to share it with Ginny. Does Ginny really need a bottle of golden liquid luck? Doesn’t she pee the stuff?
Actually, what I really love about this scene is that Harry doesn't even attempt to seek Ginny out and say goodbye to her. There's this one sort of fleeting thought and then...oh well!
*Makes a bit more interesting to me on this read, btw. Early on we always got scenes of Draco clearly trying to keep his emotions in check with tell-tale signs like spots on his cheeks. But even then I suspect, given this now canon bit of his personality, that he may have been disconnected from the emotion itself, not knowing how it was coming out physically. Now he may be crossing that hurdle into actually be unreadable at times. Which JKR probably thinks is a sign of evil along with the rest of the fandom, but I like a lot. And it’s not fanon.
Awww, that gives me warm fuzzies, too. I mean, with people like Harry and his gang of Gryffindor agitators around, why on earth would it be a good thing to wear your emotions right out their on your sleeve?
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Date: 2006-09-01 08:44 pm (UTC)They weren't bad jokes, as such. If one of my friends made one like that, I think I'd grant it a polite "heh heh." Sort of a "points for effort" kind of thing. =]
Falling on your back laughing hysterically at them, though? Uhm... I forget, what drug is it that makes people think everything's incredibly funny? Because I think someone might have sneaked some of it into the pumpkin juice... =]
*Firenze’s been laughing at Trelawney’s predictions too. Firenze being a ground-breaking character in that he is both literally and metaphorically a horse’s arse.
Trelawney does seem to have mad cartomancy skills, though. At least when she needs them to work as a foreshadowing device.
Fun fact: the Tower card in Tarot (which is depicted as lightning-struck in at least one version of the deck) means "the inevitable failure of anything intended to be perfect." Sadly, Dumbledore's death was probably all part of his master-plan, in which case he was perfect right up until the end. Bah.
*"I trust Severus Snape completely" says DD. I just had to type that since I hang out in areas of HP fandom where "I trust Snape completely" means anything from "I trust Snape to be unable to find a way to kill Harry while under a Life Debt and not beyond that" to "I wouldn’t trust my life to Snape."
Could also be a "you can trust a cat to act like a cat" thing. DD, being his usual all-knowing self, might just trust Snape to behave exactly as he knows he will. =]
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Date: 2006-09-02 12:16 pm (UTC)“Oh, who cares that the most popular boy in school almost killed another human being?!? The important thing is, he’s dating the most popular girl in school!” Honestly, who are these people? Don’t they have any human emotions? Is this a school for borderline psychopaths or something? Maybe that’s what Dumbledore meant when he told the orphanage matron that Tom has the qualities they are looking for?
*Unless, of course, the gossip goes something like, "Harry Potter must be seriously closeted. First he tries to kill Malfoy after some kind of spat in the boy’s bathroom, and then he grabs himself the nearest girlfriend to cover."
Ooh, I love this interpretation! I think I’ll pretend this is exactly what JKR intended, it somehow makes this chapter more bearable.
*Harry thinks Snape might be purposefully keeping him from Ginny. You go, Snape! He can’t stand the H/G either!
This makes me like Snape even more!
*Oh my god, Harry and Ginny are such a nightmare as a couple. How many hours a day do you have to hear them do the popular couple shtick? And how much are Ron and Hermione getting paid to pretend to roll around laughing at their lame jokes?
Ginny Sue sure is hilarious. I mean, how often does Hermione laugh at anything? Except for smirking when something unpleasant happens to someone she doesn’t like, that is. But here she is, rolling on the floor screaming with mirth. Who could be that funny but Ginny Sue? Maybe she even said Phlegm again, because she’s just that hilarious!
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Date: 2006-09-02 01:22 pm (UTC)Except for Ron, who at least says Harry did the wrong thing instead of complimenting him on having that excellent trick up his sleeve. Pick the better Weasley, Harry! At this point I'd take Fred and George over Ginny.
I was recently reading this conversation with people who honestly do not see the importance of Harry/Snape in canon. I’ve no idea how you can question that when a piece of information about Snape being the eavesdropper causes Harry to have waves and waves of raging emotion roll over him. The same kid who almost killed Malfoy and seconds later was worried about his science grade.
Harry and Snape have a very important relationship which should be obvious to anyone who has ever read a book before, but I cannot call it Harry/Snape. (I don't think Snape is a good teacher, but I refuse to believe he's that bad.)
And I might point out that you know, it's probably really difficult to be mad at Malfoy for making Harry almost kill him. Not impossible, no, but tricky, so Harry has to pretend Malfoy doesn't exist for a while in order to get a proper running start on despising him for all those Dark Arts Malfoy hasn't shown any interest - I mean, is obsessed with. Whereas with Snape at least lets him fume righteously just as God intended. Gryffindor Excelsior!
Oh Dumbledore. Dumbledore. What the hell, Dumbledore? When do you bite it, again? Anytime now, Dumbledore, though that does mean leaving the world torn apart by the Chosen One you created and the Dark Lord you let happen.
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Date: 2006-09-03 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-03 08:25 pm (UTC)Only Harry gets a free pass from everyone on every bit of Dark magic he does. It's a fringe benefit of all that power of love, no doubt. I've seen several posts arguing that Malfoy should have gone to Azkaban for trying to cast the Cruciatus. So he'd be in the cell next to Harry's, then? (Hello? Bellatrix, last year, inside the MoM itself?)
Oh my god, Harry and Ginny are such a nightmare as a couple.
But they're so perfect for each other! They share that wonderful sense of humor, and the awareness of what a drag it is to be incredibly popular and famous, which ordinary mortals could never grasp.
I also love Dumbledore’s, "Harry, you were never a good Occlumens" given the fact that Harry’s probably standing there with steam coming out of his ears that float up over his head to spell out SNAPE.
LOL. Harry's hatred for Snape is just about his strongest emotion. Unfortunately, now that he's finally discovered something that would actually justify that boiling rage, JKR's already used up most of her hyperbole. He was fantasizing about torturing Snape back when all he knew about him was the mean teacher bit, not the ex-DE or eavesdropper bit.
Well, sure Snape told Voldemort there was a baby out there he ought to kill—but the important thing was he didn’t know it was you!
Hee. By Harry's own moral code Snape ought to be forgiven because as soon as he found out the baby in danger was Harry, he worked his ass off to save him. (Technically, next to Voldemort himself and Pettigrew, the person most to blame for the Potters' death is Sirius Black, Master of Misdirection.)
However, I really hope the theory that DD authorized Snape to spill the beans to Voldemort is true, just so we'd get to see how people would fanwank that into an example of shining goodness.
-L