HBP Chapter Eleven: "Hermione's Helping Hand"

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* Sorry for the enormous delay: RL has been completely insane over the last couple of months. If I ever write a set of sporkings again, I’ll make sure to write them all up before I start posting them.

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Deathly Hallows, Chapter 2: In Memoriam, or Dishing the Dirt on Dumbledore, Part 1

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Through his own stupidity and sloppiness, Harry badly cuts his finger on broken glass in the school trunk he hasn’t bothered to thoroughly clean out for six years. I guess I should hope he’s had his tetanus shot, but all I can think is that if he has lockjaw, he won’t be able to whine and pout. (Although usually associated with rusty metal, tetanus is caused by a common bacterium that is found many places. I once read an article written by a woman who got it by stepping on a broken nutshell in her yard.) ( Read more... )

Deathly Hallows, Chapter 3: The Dursleys Departing

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The American editions of this book are graced with a strange picture: Dudley and Harry are smiling at each other and shaking hands. That’s not what got my attention, however. It was the depiction of Dudley as looking like a young Incredible Hulk with normal skin tones. Either that, or he’s contracted some weird disease that made his torso swell up like a balloon.

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