Hagrid escapes—this time. We’ve got that red stage of Alchemy coming up in the next book. First Black, then Albus—your days are numbered Rubeus.
I have no idea what you're talking about, but I like the sound of it.
It’s amazing how Hagrid can take a situation guaranteed to get my sympathy, a dog in a burning house, and still annoy me.
Didn't the guys coming to arrest him in OotP accidentally curse Fang? OMG baddies taunt orphans and hurt puppies (well, fully grown dogs, but still!) - subtle! I'm waiting for someone to steal a cookie from a starving child, personally.
And one from Hermione complaining about Harry being a big Potions fake sixth year that she said without knowing she was bitching to a reporter.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF OUR OWN - Second Daily Prophet reporter in three years went missing, presumed kidnapped or mutilated...
Jason’s Rule of Explosive Endings Before we go, how about we set Hagrid’s house on fire?
What was the Death Eater even going for, here (if I start a fire, I might get a credit in the movie!)? I don't know if he's trying to set Harry/Hagrid on fire (surely an Avada would be quicker?) or aiming for the house, but really, what is the point? Hagrid cracks me up with his 'ZOMG, my dog, you evil mofo!' bit. Um, yeah, this is going to be the thing that makes this random guy irredeemably bad - reckless endangerment of one of Hagrid's pets, not the fact the dude joined a murderous terrorist group intent on serving a would-be baby killer.
Amycus is "locked in combat" with Ginny, by which we mean he’s hexing her and she’s dodging which is a different thing.
What a shame she has nothing good up her sleeve. (What, no PWNing the DEs with the marvellous Bat Bogey Hex? Size is no indication of strength, you know!) Of course then Harry couldn’t rescue her.
I swear one of the reasons is that Harry’s still frozen until this chapter.
Did we know before this that some spells only release when their caster dies? (It just reminds me of this wicked drabble I read, where the Potters asked Peter to be their secret-keeper and then killed him so the secret couldn’t be spread.)
Harry’s then distracted by Ginny’s hair flying like flames in front of him—oh for god sakes! Enough!
I think my favourite Ginny moment is next chapter, where after a sweaty battle for her life, she still smells of Love Potion flowers. Ginny's coolness - it's stronger than biology!
Buckbeak surprises me by making him dislike him more than I did in PoA or OotP.
I think he annoyed me more in POA, just because we had to constantly hear how cute and endangered he was. By now I feel everyone has come to accept in their hearts that Hagrid has a rare field of competency – training his pets to attack Teh Meanie House!1! Buckbeak is the series avenging angel, attacking the unworthy; rather than the snowjob we got about his poor injured pride.
Harry yells at Snape to fight back, probably assuming his not killing Harry here as he clearly could is further sign of his evil. He’s trying to annoy Harry to death!
He’s disgusting Harry and his machismo with his revolting Slytherin cowardice. Why on earth is Harry yelling at Snape to fight back, anyway? What, six books and twenty-eight chapters in, and he’s suddenly incapable of hexing someone who’s not immediately a threat to his life?
the Gryffindor rubies spilling out like blood from a wound
The pain of not winning this year’s cup (and who’s going to fix it now that Dumbledore’s gone? WHO? Oh, right, McGonagall.) is going to be like an icy knife.
Harry hexes Amycus before he can finish his compliment to Ginny
It’s hardly fair. This is probably Amycus’s first exposure to the Wonder that is Ginny. How could you expect him to be on his game? He’s lucky to still be capable of vowel sounds! Why is Amycus trying to Crucio her, anyway? So he could see her panting, gasping, flat on her back, hair streaming back from her forehead as she writhes and jiggles? Or because the DEs are so sadistic it’s overwhelmed common sense and practicality? Or because we can’t have more than one major death per book?
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Date: 2006-09-22 08:47 pm (UTC)I have no idea what you're talking about, but I like the sound of it.
It’s amazing how Hagrid can take a situation guaranteed to get my sympathy, a dog in a burning house, and still annoy me.
Didn't the guys coming to arrest him in OotP accidentally curse Fang? OMG baddies taunt orphans and hurt puppies (well, fully grown dogs, but still!) - subtle! I'm waiting for someone to steal a cookie from a starving child, personally.
And one from Hermione complaining about Harry being a big Potions fake sixth year that she said without knowing she was bitching to a reporter.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF OUR OWN - Second Daily Prophet reporter in three years went missing, presumed kidnapped or mutilated...
Jason’s Rule of Explosive Endings Before we go, how about we set Hagrid’s house on fire?
What was the Death Eater even going for, here (if I start a fire, I might get a credit in the movie!)? I don't know if he's trying to set Harry/Hagrid on fire (surely an Avada would be quicker?) or aiming for the house, but really, what is the point?
Hagrid cracks me up with his 'ZOMG, my dog, you evil mofo!' bit. Um, yeah, this is going to be the thing that makes this random guy irredeemably bad - reckless endangerment of one of Hagrid's pets, not the fact the dude joined a murderous terrorist group intent on serving a would-be baby killer.
Amycus is "locked in combat" with Ginny, by which we mean he’s hexing her and she’s dodging which is a different thing.
What a shame she has nothing good up her sleeve. (What, no PWNing the DEs with the marvellous Bat Bogey Hex? Size is no indication of strength, you know!) Of course then Harry couldn’t rescue her.
I swear one of the reasons is that Harry’s still frozen until this chapter.
Did we know before this that some spells only release when their caster dies? (It just reminds me of this wicked drabble I read, where the Potters asked Peter to be their secret-keeper and then killed him so the secret couldn’t be spread.)
Harry’s then distracted by Ginny’s hair flying like flames in front of him—oh for god sakes! Enough!
I think my favourite Ginny moment is next chapter, where after a sweaty battle for her life, she still smells of
Love Potionflowers. Ginny's coolness - it's stronger than biology!Buckbeak surprises me by making him dislike him more than I did in PoA or OotP.
I think he annoyed me more in POA, just because we had to constantly hear how cute and endangered he was.
By now I feel everyone has come to accept in their hearts that
Hagrid has a rare field of competency – training his pets to attack Teh Meanie House!1!Buckbeak is the series avenging angel, attacking the unworthy; rather than the snowjob we got about his poor injured pride.Harry yells at Snape to fight back, probably assuming his not killing Harry here as he clearly could is further sign of his evil. He’s trying to annoy Harry to death!
He’s disgusting Harry and his machismo with his revolting Slytherin cowardice.
Why on earth is Harry yelling at Snape to fight back, anyway? What, six books and twenty-eight chapters in, and he’s suddenly incapable of hexing someone who’s not immediately a threat to his life?
the Gryffindor rubies spilling out like blood from a wound
The pain of not winning this year’s cup (and who’s going to fix it now that Dumbledore’s gone? WHO? Oh, right, McGonagall.) is going to be like an icy knife.
Harry hexes Amycus before he can finish his compliment to Ginny
It’s hardly fair. This is probably Amycus’s first exposure to the Wonder that is Ginny. How could you expect him to be on his game? He’s lucky to still be capable of vowel sounds!
Why is Amycus trying to Crucio her, anyway? So he could see her panting, gasping, flat on her back, hair streaming back from her forehead as she writhes and jiggles? Or because the DEs are so sadistic it’s overwhelmed common sense and practicality? Or because we can’t have more than one major death per book?