* Someone’s demoted Hagrid back to some sort of servant gamekeeper. JKR got too excited due to writing the battle, lost track and unwittingly let us know what she really thinks about him.
* his grabbing Malfoy by the scruff of the neck--the scruff of the neck! ... Snape seizing him up like a kitten and rushing him to safety. This seizing him up like a kitten thing sounds so cute!!!
* McGonagall shouts "take that!" during fights. McGonagall is so old school, yo! This 'old schoolness' has made me root for her. Go McGonagall!!!
* Did one of them kick him in the stomach? (Hey, Snape might not see him again! He might have.) I thought Snape&Draco stepped on him, while he was lying on the floor.
* Harry wonders if the Order has secured the Cabinet, but they actually might not know about the Cabinet. In the next chapter McGonagall says: "I still don't know how the DEs can possibly have entered...", which made me wonder whether she knows about the RoR at all & not just about DEs entering the school. After all, D despite Harry's and Snape's(?) warnings D didn't tell his underlings to pay special attention to the RoR. McGonagall tells that his only instruction was to patrol the corridors. Interesting, why? Did he underestimate Draco? For plot purposes?
* Snape interrupts his final DADA lesson to Harry (God I wish we’d seen more of those, preferably instead of shipping scenes) I had never been a shipper, but this book made me hate this concept. Otoh, if those lessons would consist of 'There's no need to call me "sir", Professor' you are lucky for still being able to imagine something more interesting and enjoy the IC-since-we-weren't-given-smth-lame-in-canon fanfic.
* Harry now hates Snape as much as Voldemort himself. Seems like that would require a surge of affection for Snape, doesn’t it? Voldemort’s not the one he fantasizes about torturing. LOL, my favorite for this chapter. It's just so true. V should really become a teacher for one year to make Harry able to gather enough hate to kill him. Btw, I always imagine V as a wonderful teacher (if he would want it, of course). May be he would be more successful as a teacher than as an evil overlord. Besides, books about evil (or not) or just interesting teachers are much more original & fewer in numbers than the old evil overlord cliche.
* Harry looks down at the greatest wizard he not only has met but will ever meet. Jeez, that’s the most depressing thing in the chapter. Dumbledore really was not that great. LOL again... and I think JKR has made a mistake here. Obviously Harry will become at least as great as D, when he grows up.
* I'm waiting for someone to steal a cookie from a starving child, personally. LOL, slinkhard! We have already got it, as I suspect, V stole things from other orphans and during the war they didn't have food!galore (specially at the orphanage), so... Unlike Harry, who starving himself, gave his food to Hedwig in CoS, if I am not mistaken.
* 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. It would be a truly wonderfully intelligent & secure way of hiding forever, though!
* Buckbeak is the series avenging angel, attacking the unworthy; rather than the snowjob we got about his poor injured pride. My opinion is that the beast was so frightened by the noise of the battle that it attacked the first close to it person. Harry's luck just made sure that that unlucky person was Snape & not, say, Harry himself.
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Date: 2006-09-22 10:29 pm (UTC)JKR got too excited due to writing the battle, lost track and unwittingly let us know what she really thinks about him.
* his grabbing Malfoy by the scruff of the neck--the scruff of the neck! ... Snape seizing him up like a kitten and rushing him to safety.
This seizing him up like a kitten thing sounds so cute!!!
* McGonagall shouts "take that!" during fights. McGonagall is so old school, yo!
This 'old schoolness' has made me root for her. Go McGonagall!!!
* Did one of them kick him in the stomach? (Hey, Snape might not see him again! He might have.)
I thought Snape&Draco stepped on him, while he was lying on the floor.
* Harry wonders if the Order has secured the Cabinet, but they actually might not know about the Cabinet.
In the next chapter McGonagall says: "I still don't know how the DEs can possibly have entered...", which made me wonder whether she knows about the RoR at all & not just about DEs entering the school. After all, D despite Harry's and Snape's(?) warnings D didn't tell his underlings to pay special attention to the RoR. McGonagall tells that his only instruction was to patrol the corridors. Interesting, why? Did he underestimate Draco? For plot purposes?
* Snape interrupts his final DADA lesson to Harry (God I wish we’d seen more of those, preferably instead of shipping scenes)
I had never been a shipper, but this book made me hate this concept. Otoh, if those lessons would consist of 'There's no need to call me "sir", Professor' you are lucky for still being able to imagine something more interesting and enjoy the IC-since-we-weren't-given-smth-lame-in-canon fanfic.
* Harry now hates Snape as much as Voldemort himself. Seems like that would require a surge of affection for Snape, doesn’t it? Voldemort’s not the one he fantasizes about torturing.
LOL, my favorite for this chapter. It's just so true. V should really become a teacher for one year to make Harry able to gather enough hate to kill him.
Btw, I always imagine V as a wonderful teacher (if he would want it, of course). May be he would be more successful as a teacher than as an evil overlord. Besides, books about evil (or not) or just interesting teachers are much more original & fewer in numbers than the old evil overlord cliche.
* Harry looks down at the greatest wizard he not only has met but will ever meet. Jeez, that’s the most depressing thing in the chapter. Dumbledore really was not that great.
LOL again... and I think JKR has made a mistake here. Obviously Harry will become at least as great as D, when he grows up.
* I'm waiting for someone to steal a cookie from a starving child, personally.
LOL, slinkhard! We have already got it, as I suspect, V stole things from other orphans and during the war they didn't have food!galore (specially at the orphanage), so... Unlike Harry, who starving himself, gave his food to Hedwig in CoS, if I am not mistaken.
* 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.
It would be a truly wonderfully intelligent & secure way of hiding forever, though!
* Buckbeak is the series avenging angel, attacking the unworthy; rather than the snowjob we got about his poor injured pride.
My opinion is that the beast was so frightened by the noise of the battle that it attacked the first close to it person. Harry's luck just made sure that that unlucky person was Snape & not, say, Harry himself.