This is a lot of peoples' favourite chapter. It's one of the better ones, I think, owing to a lack of both teenage angst and crappy "bumbling" characterisation we usually get from the adults. Plus - teh Snapey Snape!
Mine is Sectumsempra, being a sap, but any chapter minus Harry, which explains how very mediocre he is, and has Snape snarking and Narcissa, automatically joins the Top Ten.
That's city life for you, Foxy, old chum.
I don't know why, but this made me cackle for about five minutes.
I think Bellatrix could have been so much more cruel to the poor beast.
Even Hagrid would probably end up skinning it for it's fur or eating it or something. But then, I guess that's all part of the goodies double standard. Imprisoning animals away from their environments, eating them, wearing them = good. Insulting them = bad. Stepping on their tails and frightening cats = Surprisingly, good. Painlessly killing them because you mistake them for something else = Teh Evil! Oh, and batting Puffskeins = hilarious, killing rabbits = mark of a psychopath.
"The Dark Lord is...I believe...mistaken." Obviously Bellatrix does not wholly worship Lord Voldemort.
I tells ya, Ginny = Bellatrix and vice versa. They can look sassy and believe that their Menfolk may once, possibly, sort of made a mistake, but in general, they're shrieky, attractive and sort of Stepford-esque. People have been shipping them since OotP, I say 'Good catch'!
Wormtail has actually started to look rodenty. People complained about it in the PoA movie and here it is in the books.
What with that and the whole punch/slap mistake, I hope this will end the constant 'OMG u fangirls r liek so confused with the movies'. Doubt it, but hello, JKR? Pot and kettle, etc. Besides, Timothy Spall is the man.
Blood-red wine. Mmm, symbolic. Later, there will be blood-red blood.
LOL!
Numbers are cool, especially great big ones.
Teh drama!
If this is lying that Severus is doing here, it's the subtle and effective sort.
No! Not in a HP book! All goodies should immediately take credit for their heroic intentions, and all terribly cowardly lying that they're forced to do should be 'wink, wink, nudge, nudge' style child-level deceptions, like Arthur's. Damn you, Snape!
Bellatrix seems to be the sort of person to believe what she first hears.
Everyone in the WW is a Gryffindor under the skin. Even our beloved Slytherins. *weeps* Either JKR's writing an incredibly subtle indictment of warrior culture and how a community can function when everyone shares the same, rather dubious values; or else...all her characters are archetypes who are fairly similiar to each other due to her lack of skill, and their culture is basically ours until she remembers and adds a talking bus or whatever. Bets, please?
Severus takes partial credit for the disposal of Sirius Black when the events of OotP suggest he had nothing to do with it.
Much like Harry and his 'I totally put away all the DEs single-handedly, who da man?' Woe, I don't want any more parallels between those two!
The information that helped lead to Sirius' death was conveyed to the Malfoys by Kreacher.
You'd think Narcissa would remember that. Maybe we have a flint!
Very Slytherin, looking for the cushy option. I'm surprised Bellatrix ever got sorted into Slytherin in the first place with an attitude like that.
Yes, it's a fairly Gryffindorish/Hufflepuff-esque style action. I suppose her Inner Eeeevil overcome all that, though. Or else blood is important.
"He shares everything with me!" I am sure we've got our dirty minds working already ;)
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Date: 2005-08-31 11:35 am (UTC)Mine is Sectumsempra, being a sap, but any chapter minus Harry, which explains how very mediocre he is, and has Snape snarking and Narcissa, automatically joins the Top Ten.
That's city life for you, Foxy, old chum.
I don't know why, but this made me cackle for about five minutes.
I think Bellatrix could have been so much more cruel to the poor beast.
Even Hagrid would probably end up skinning it for it's fur or eating it or something.
But then, I guess that's all part of the goodies double standard.
Imprisoning animals away from their environments, eating them, wearing them = good.
Insulting them = bad.
Stepping on their tails and frightening cats = Surprisingly, good.
Painlessly killing them because you mistake them for something else = Teh Evil!
Oh, and batting Puffskeins = hilarious, killing rabbits = mark of a psychopath.
"The Dark Lord is...I believe...mistaken." Obviously Bellatrix does not wholly worship Lord Voldemort.
I tells ya, Ginny = Bellatrix and vice versa.
They can look sassy and believe that their Menfolk may once, possibly, sort of made a mistake, but in general, they're shrieky, attractive and sort of Stepford-esque. People have been shipping them since OotP, I say 'Good catch'!
Wormtail has actually started to look rodenty. People complained about it in the PoA movie and here it is in the books.
What with that and the whole punch/slap mistake, I hope this will end the constant 'OMG u fangirls r liek so confused with the movies'. Doubt it, but hello, JKR? Pot and kettle, etc.
Besides, Timothy Spall is the man.
Blood-red wine. Mmm, symbolic. Later, there will be blood-red blood.
LOL!
Numbers are cool, especially great big ones.
Teh drama!
If this is lying that Severus is doing here, it's the subtle and effective sort.
No! Not in a HP book! All goodies should immediately take credit for their heroic intentions, and all terribly cowardly lying that they're forced to do should be 'wink, wink, nudge, nudge' style child-level deceptions, like Arthur's.
Damn you, Snape!
Bellatrix seems to be the sort of person to believe what she first hears.
Everyone in the WW is a Gryffindor under the skin. Even our beloved Slytherins. *weeps*
Either JKR's writing an incredibly subtle indictment of warrior culture and how a community can function when everyone shares the same, rather dubious values; or else...all her characters are archetypes who are fairly similiar to each other due to her lack of skill, and their culture is basically ours until she remembers and adds a talking bus or whatever. Bets, please?
Severus takes partial credit for the disposal of Sirius Black when the events of OotP suggest he had nothing to do with it.
Much like Harry and his 'I totally put away all the DEs single-handedly, who da man?' Woe, I don't want any more parallels between those two!
The information that helped lead to Sirius' death was conveyed to the Malfoys by Kreacher.
You'd think Narcissa would remember that. Maybe we have a flint!
Very Slytherin, looking for the cushy option. I'm surprised Bellatrix ever got sorted into Slytherin in the first place with an attitude like that.
Yes, it's a fairly Gryffindorish/Hufflepuff-esque style action. I suppose her Inner Eeeevil overcome all that, though. Or else blood is important.
"He shares everything with me!" I am sure we've got our dirty minds working already ;)
I'm afraid I'm now slashing Peter/Snape, also.