nasty lake zombies driven away by good clean fire!
Take that, Slytherin, eh?
I’m surprised he’s not Crucio-ing, to be honest.
Gotta save something for the next couple of chapters! (In fact, I think he tries it twice. Wow, that pure heart must really be broken.)
It’s Voldemort’s mistake because Dumbledore would never make such a mistake. Or…would he? Mwahahaha!
It is a neat parallel, Voldemort also having underestimated Draco, but of course, Dumbledore is wiser than that, having learnt to exploit rather than underestimate youths.
At least there’s the small comfort that he didn’t have a good-bye scene with Ginny.
Romantically, isn't this his second priority after a longer, better goodbye to Ron and Hermione? Ginny's important and an equal, really!
Harry can’t pretend now that he isn’t scared.
Dear me, Harry really isn't very brave at all in this chapter. (I love the part where he's all keen to avoid pain - not in a 'Did you hear that?!' pussy Malfoy-esque way, though - and the defence lawyer authorial voice reminds us this is because he's 'experienced enough'. *emo tear* But don't forget twitching after being bounced against stone walls, slashed by razor-sharp talons, flayed, hexed into jelly twice and beaten up is an unforgiveable sign of cowardice.)
I seem to remember being told he wasn’t allowed to take lessons with Dudley when he had to face the Second Task, but he seems pretty handy at it now.
Checking it, yeah, he's not good (because he's never had much practice! He's actually really fast and athletic, and he can run and play Quidditch! It's not a flaw, hear me!) and having never had lessons, could only manage a couple of lengths. (Me, I always thought people who don't know how to swim struggle just being in the water, let alone getting across a bath the size of a pool, but whatever.) But really, my automatic assumption every time we hear about something Harry isn't good at (looking forward to him Apparating two people back to Hogwarts!) is that it's only a matter of time before he becomes a master.
Kill me! Kill me! Kill me! Foreshadowing of the Tower more? You decide.
It kind of makes me LOL how there's all this lecturing about how awful people who are afraid of death and physical pain are (and apparently Voldemort's afraid of the dark, too, according to this chapter? Jeez, what's the point of a final battle when you can just castrate your hero's nemesis right now?) when of course, Gryffindors are just the opposite - the first sign of trouble, and it's 'I WANT TO DIE' (like Harry in OotP). I think there was discussion on the chapters mentioning Lily about how her living with a dead son and husband could arguably be braver than sacrificing herself and refusing to live in a world without them, and it really seems to apply, with Snape of course as the counterpoint: the guy who gets no respect for doing the grunt work everyday, and will likely earn it by the standards of this series, by of course, heroically dying.
Dumbledore’s all disdainful about Tom’s password protection on his cave. "Oh, blood magic. So crude."
And the wonderfully ironic 'Your blood is worth more than mine, Harry.' Not that blood's important, of course.
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Date: 2006-09-08 07:51 pm (UTC)Take that, Slytherin, eh?
I’m surprised he’s not Crucio-ing, to be honest.
Gotta save something for the next couple of chapters! (In fact, I think he tries it twice. Wow, that pure heart must really be broken.)
It’s Voldemort’s mistake because Dumbledore would never make such a mistake. Or…would he? Mwahahaha!
It is a neat parallel, Voldemort also having underestimated Draco, but of course, Dumbledore is wiser than that, having learnt to exploit rather than underestimate youths.
At least there’s the small comfort that he didn’t have a good-bye scene with Ginny.
Romantically, isn't this his second priority after a longer, better goodbye to Ron and Hermione? Ginny's important and an equal, really!
Harry can’t pretend now that he isn’t scared.
Dear me, Harry really isn't very brave at all in this chapter. (I love the part where he's all keen to avoid pain - not in a 'Did you hear that?!' pussy Malfoy-esque way, though - and the
defence lawyerauthorial voice reminds us this is because he's 'experienced enough'. *emo tear*But don't forget twitching after being bounced against stone walls, slashed by razor-sharp talons, flayed, hexed into jelly twice and beaten up is an unforgiveable sign of cowardice.)
I seem to remember being told he wasn’t allowed to take lessons with Dudley when he had to face the Second Task, but he seems pretty handy at it now.
Checking it, yeah, he's not good (because he's never had much practice! He's actually really fast and athletic, and he can run and play Quidditch! It's not a flaw, hear me!) and having never had lessons, could only manage a couple of lengths. (Me, I always thought people who don't know how to swim struggle just being in the water, let alone getting across a bath the size of a pool, but whatever.) But really, my automatic assumption every time we hear about something Harry isn't good at (looking forward to him Apparating two people back to Hogwarts!) is that it's only a matter of time before he becomes a master.
Kill me! Kill me! Kill me! Foreshadowing of the Tower more? You decide.
It kind of makes me LOL how there's all this lecturing about how awful people who are afraid of death and physical pain are (and apparently Voldemort's afraid of the dark, too, according to this chapter? Jeez, what's the point of a final battle when you can just castrate your hero's nemesis right now?) when of course, Gryffindors are just the opposite - the first sign of trouble, and it's 'I WANT TO DIE' (like Harry in OotP).
I think there was discussion on the chapters mentioning Lily about how her living with a dead son and husband could arguably be braver than sacrificing herself and refusing to live in a world without them, and it really seems to apply, with Snape of course as the counterpoint: the guy who gets no respect for doing the grunt work everyday, and will likely earn it by the standards of this series, by of course, heroically dying.
Dumbledore’s all disdainful about Tom’s password protection on his cave. "Oh, blood magic. So crude."
And the wonderfully ironic 'Your blood is worth more than mine, Harry.' Not that blood's important, of course.