Harry Potter Abridged! GOF Chapter 15
Jul. 25th, 2012 10:10 amAlright, this is where we meet the other two schools! Get excited, everyone! XD
Also, this chapter makes a few jokes about various countries. I think they're harmless enough not to offend anyone but I apologize in advance if anyone is offended.
Harry: You know, maybe if I send a note to Sirius saying that I just imagined my scar was hurting, he'll go back somewhere safe! Wow, that's such a foolproof plan! I can't imagine how it could fall through!
[Harry writes a letter and takes it to Hedwig]
Harry: Hey Hedwig, come deliver my mail!
Hedwig: Hmph!
Harry: Aww, come on, I'm sorry I don't appreciate you unless I need to make myself look good!
Hedwig: ORLY?
Harry: Ah... no, not really. But hey, would you rather I use Pigwidgeon instead?
Hedwig: Fine, fine. But you owe me!
[Harry sends Hedwig off with the letter.]
[Later, Harry brings this up to Ron and Hermione.]
Hermione: Harry, why in the hell would you lie to Sirius like that?
Harry: [Innocently] Because I don't want him to worry!
Hermione: You don't want him to WORRY?! Harry, he's a powerful wizard and you're just a kid—you need all the help you can get!
Ron: This is boring. Cue scene change!
[Later they go to class in which Moody promises to perform the Imperius Curse on the children.]
Hermione: But...but it's illegal! You told us so, remember?!
Moody: Dumbledore himself has said that he wants you to see what it feels like so quit your complaining!
Hermione: DUMBLEDORE gave you permission to do this?!
Moody: [Without a hint of irony or deception] Yes.
Hermione: D:
[So Moody puts the curse on the students one by one and each one succumbs.]
Moody: Alright, Harry Potter, you're next.
Harry: [Whimpers]
Moody: Imperio!
Harry: Wow...this feels so...pleasant. I can have someone else do my thinking for me. Wow... why do I get the feeling there's going to be a lot more of this in my future?
Moody: Now, then, I, Mad-Eye Moody, order you—jump on the desk!
Harry: Oh... wait... no. No I won't.
[Harry eventually half-jumps on the desk, which is a better attempt at resistance than anyone else.]
Moody: Wow! Harry Potter, you can actually resist the spell! Simply amazing!
Harry: OMG, I can resist an evil spell which nobody else can! I'm the most awesome person who ever lived, yo!
[Moody then casts the spell on Harry again until he can fight it off entirely.]
[Later...]
Ron: Moody is creepy! I'm not surprised nobody at Dad's work likes him!
[They go to Transfiguration...]
McGonagall: So just so you know I'm giving you tons of homework to prepare you for OWL's next year.
Dean Thomas: Why are you giving us homework for exams we won't take until next year?
McGonagall: Just be glad you're not Korean wizards! Oh, by the way, Hermione is smarter than you.
[...and Divination...]
Trelawney: Wow, Harry and Ron write such good predictions of imminent death. Tell me more! I want to see more star charts for the next month!
Harry and Ron: UGH!
Lavender: Smashing!
[...and history...]
Binns: Today we write essays on Goblin rebellions! Keep this in mind; it's important....
Class: Zzzz...
Binns: Yeah, I didn't think you would learn anything from this anyway.
[...and Potions...]
Snape: We'll be studying antidotes.
Harry: We'd better get this right; he's probably planning to force-feed us poison.
Snape: I heard that you brat!
[..and Charms...]
Flitwick: To prepare you to learn Summoning Charms, I'mma have you read three whole books! :D
Hermione: SWEET!
Everyone else: Nooooooo!
[...and Care of Magical Creatures.]
Hagrid: So, you're all going to have a project where you observe and make notes of my Skrewts. In addition to regular classes with them!
Draco: But you've already established that they're dangerous! Why do we have to care for them any longer?!
Hagrid: Silence or I'll turn you into a ferret!
Draco: [Cries]
Gryffindors: LOL
Harry: Did I mention how much I love it when Hagrid's mean to Draco?
Ron: Totally! He deserves it for even considering getting Hagrid sacked!
[But then something REALLY interesting happens!!]
Ron: OMG, you guys! There's been a huge announcement that classes on Friday will be let out early se we can greet our foreign guests!
Harry: Yay! Now Snape won't have time to poison us!
Ernie MacMillan: Wow, I'll bet our bestest prefect Cedric will be entering!
Harry: Oh, Cedric! That sparkly guy who beat me at Quidditch!
Ron: Sparkly?
Harry: ...Sorry, wrong series.
Ron: Well I don't like him. He's a Hufflepuff who beat us at Quidditch!
Hermione: Well...maybe he's that one Hufflepuff who's actually good at something!
Ron: You just think he's cute.
Hermione: I am NOT a Twitard, kthnx!
Harry: [Sweatdrop]
[Everyone at Hogwarts is doing their best to look impressive for the guests.]
McGonagall: Navel, don't even bother trying to use my magic. You can't even do it right.
Neville: [Cries] My name's Neville, Professor!
[The Great Hall is decorated with ALL the houses' banners.]
George: Woe is us! We still don't know who to send in our tournament applications to!
Ron: What's up you two?
Fred: You're really annoying.
Ron: Fuck you!
Harry: So, are you working on a secret plan to enter into the tournament?
George: Why, however did you guess?
Ron: Harry, I'm just going to foreshadow by saying I suspect whatever the challenges are, they're nothing someone like you or I couldn't handle.
Fred: Aah, but could you perform well while doing it? [Gives Ron the Evil Eye, accompanied by George]
Harry: Because this is just so terribly exciting, does anyone know who the judges are?
Hermione: According to my research, the heads of the schools are on the panel. I know this because someone documented their injuries from a rampaging Cockatrice.
Harry: A Basilisk?
Hermione: No, a Cockatrice.
Harry: What's the difference?
Hermione: I dunno. Gerald Durrell favors Cockatrices?
Ron: Who?
Hermione: Okay, this conversation is confused. By the way, doesn't it strike you as odd that my books about Hogwarts never mention the HOUSE ELF problem?
Ron: Not this shit again!
George: Ron's got a point, you know. I've actually been to the kitchens to steal food and the House Elves seem happy.
Fred: Wow, you're actually making a case all on your own! I'm so proud of you! [Cries]
George: Aww... come here, you! [he and Fred share a brohug]
Hermione: Maybe they just don't know any better?
[But just then Hedwig brings Harry his letter.]
Harry: Oh, boy! Sirius sent me a response! Oh, and he's safe in the country. But from now on he wants me to send him notes with different owls.
Hermione: Fair enough, I guess. I mean, a Snowy Owl making all those trips will look suspicious.
[At long last, it comes time to meet the foreign students!!!!!!!!!!]
[Everyone in Hogwarts lines up neatly in front of the building in the cool, crisp autumn air.]
McGonagall: Alright, will all students straighten their hats! Oh, and Parvati, no hair decs, plzkthnx. I'm on a roll here!
[The Beauxbatons students are the first to arrive, in a powder-blue carriage drawn by large Winged Horses.]
[Madame Maxime, a woman as big as Hagrid, is the first to disembark.]
Dumbledore: I kiss your hand. [Kisses Madame Maxime's hand.]
Madame Maxime: Aah, c'est agreable! Students, come along now!
[The boys and girls of Beauxbatons step out of the carriage.]
Madame Maxime: So, where is the other headmaster?
Dumbledore: He'll be here in due time.
Madame Maxime: I'll need someplace for my horses.
Dumbledore: I'll escort them to Hagrid.
Madame Maxime: Oh, by the way, my horses only drink whiskey. Which I guess doesn't kill them because we French just love us our alcohol just that much!
Beauxbatons Students: Why do we feed our horses that stuff again?
[Next, the Durmstrang students arrive in a ship from below the lake!]
Lee Jordan: The Durmstrang students are Vikings? 0.o
[The students arrive on land first, followed by their headmaster Karkaroff.]
Karkaroff: it's a little-known fact that Durmstrang is in Siberia.
Harry: Oh, look—Karkaroff has a goatee and his facial expression is not Gryffindor-joyful but Slytherin-happy and shrewd. Maybe he's a bad guy?
Karkaroff: You've all met my very own Viktor Krum, yes/yes?
Krum: ...Hello...everybody....
Ron: ZOMGNOWAI!!!!!!
EXTRAS
Durmstrang student: Mr. Malfoy, if Slytherin is the water house then why does it have a snake on its shield?
Draco: It's, ah, a Banded Sea Snake!
Durmstrang student: I don't see any bands on it.
Draco: It's a Silver Sea Snake!
Durmstrang student: Are you sure that's a real snake?
Draco: Fine, it's a magical sea snake that happens to have silvery scales!
Durmstrang student: Okay....
Draco: That's my theory and I'm sticking to it!
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Date: 2012-07-25 08:57 pm (UTC)I can only imagine what the Slytherins’ class with Fake!Moody must have been like with this lesson.
/Harry: Wow...this feels so...pleasant. I can have someone else do my thinking for me. Wow... why do I get the feeling there's going to be a lot more of this in my future?/
Ha, nice one! XD
/Harry: Did I mention how much I love it when Hagrid's mean to Draco?/
As much as Draco loves it when Snape’s mean to you?
/Durmstrang student: Mr. Malfoy, if Slytherin is the water house then why does it have a snake on its shield?/
Well, there are sea snakes, also known as hydrophiinae. But they mostly live in the Indian Ocean or in the western Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic.