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deathtocapslock* The fact that Harry’s now going out with Ginny seems to interest a great number of people, unlike the fact that Harry almost killed a student, which nobody outside Slytherin really cares about.
* Wow, the narrative voice makes Harry’s rôle seem so passive when it refers to him as being “involved in horrific scenes of Dark magic”. It’s almost as if he were an innocent victim or hapless bystander, rather than the guy slicing somebody’s chest open.
* Ginny apparently told Romilda Vane that Ron has a tattoo of “a Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where”. Erm, OK… *disturbing images of Weasleycest fics flash through mind*
* Hermione approaches Harry with an “unpleasantly purposeful look on her face”. No, she doesn’t want to talk about the Malfoy-slicing incident or the recent spate of attempted murders, she wants to present the most recent fruits of her Half-Blood Prince obsession.
* All this Prince stuff is making Hermione look really weird. I mean, it’d be bad enough if there wasn’t anything else going on, but there are far more important and interesting mysteries to solve. It’s like Hermione’s just unbelievably insecure, and finds it impossible to cope with somebody else seeming smarter than she is. People getting murdered? Not now, I’ve got a rival to discredit!
* It’s OK what happened with Malfoy, says Ron, because he was alright in the end. Kind of like how it’s OK to try and poison somebody if they by chance happen not to drink the poison. They were fine, and the fact that they easily could have been killed is neither here nor there.
* Harry’s still got a modicum of human decency left, so his conscience squirms when he thinks of Malfoy. Because he’s pretty callous, though, it’s only a slight squirm.
* Harry finds detention “particularly irksome” because it cuts into his time with Ginny. Yeah, missing a couple of evenings with your girlfriend is totally an over-the-top punishment for almost killing somebody.
* Yay, let’s all laugh at the depressed alcoholic teacher!
* Professor Trelawney didn’t think that students knew about the Room of Requirement, despite the fact that one of the most interesting things to happen in Hogwarts last year was… the discovery of an illegal study group meeting in the Room of Requirement. Seriously, I’d hazard that the entire school knows about the Room by now.
* Of course, they should have known about it already. Judging by the amount of stuff in there, quite a few pupils have hidden things in the ROR, and I’m surprised the information hadn’t trickled into the student body as a whole long before Harry came up.
* Or maybe people do know, but none of them mentions it because it’s convenient for everybody – staff and students alike – to have a place where they can just dump any embarrassing and/or incriminating stuff, no questions asked.
* Harry gets all bitchy and superior about Trelawney’s not finding out who the mysterious voice was. Yeah, because his own investigations this year have been going so well.
* Although I am quite surprised he never asked Trelawney what she said to get in, given that he’s basically spent the best part of a year trying to work out the precise formula of words he needs to use.
* Trelawney’s been predicting disaster and calamity to Dumbledore – correctly, as it turns out. Not that this will cause anybody to reconsider their low opinion of Divination generally and Trelawney in particular. Still, I suppose that if the fact that Dumbledore’s essentially basing his entire strategy around one of her prophecies didn’t win people over, nothing will.
* Firenze seems to find Trelawney comical, although I note that he wasn’t able to predict Dumbledore’s death.
* “AND YOU LET HIM TEACH HERE AND HE TOLD VOLDEMORT TO GO AFTER MY MUM AND DAD!” Well, to be fair, it’s not like this would have been Dumbledore’s only questionable hiring decision.
* “Haven’t you noticed, Professor, how the people Snape hates tend to end up dead?” I’m not sure I’d start down that line of reasoning if I were you, Harry. People might start looking at the piles of maimed bodies that have been accumulating since you came up to Hogwarts.
* “Please do not suggest,” says Dumbledore, “that I do not take the safety of my students seriously.” Sorry, Professor, I was just thrown by the fact that you routinely permit incompetents with no common sense to teach children dangerous magic, have hired Death Eaters as staff members, and are currently doing bugger all to stop a string of attempted murders which have almost claimed two lives already.
* Oooh, Dumbledore, how clever of you to pretend to be going to the pub when actually you’re going somewhere else entirely! I’m in awe of your super spying skills.
* And we’re off to get the Horcrux! Yay!
* Wow, the narrative voice makes Harry’s rôle seem so passive when it refers to him as being “involved in horrific scenes of Dark magic”. It’s almost as if he were an innocent victim or hapless bystander, rather than the guy slicing somebody’s chest open.
* Ginny apparently told Romilda Vane that Ron has a tattoo of “a Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where”. Erm, OK… *disturbing images of Weasleycest fics flash through mind*
* Hermione approaches Harry with an “unpleasantly purposeful look on her face”. No, she doesn’t want to talk about the Malfoy-slicing incident or the recent spate of attempted murders, she wants to present the most recent fruits of her Half-Blood Prince obsession.
* All this Prince stuff is making Hermione look really weird. I mean, it’d be bad enough if there wasn’t anything else going on, but there are far more important and interesting mysteries to solve. It’s like Hermione’s just unbelievably insecure, and finds it impossible to cope with somebody else seeming smarter than she is. People getting murdered? Not now, I’ve got a rival to discredit!
* It’s OK what happened with Malfoy, says Ron, because he was alright in the end. Kind of like how it’s OK to try and poison somebody if they by chance happen not to drink the poison. They were fine, and the fact that they easily could have been killed is neither here nor there.
* Harry’s still got a modicum of human decency left, so his conscience squirms when he thinks of Malfoy. Because he’s pretty callous, though, it’s only a slight squirm.
* Harry finds detention “particularly irksome” because it cuts into his time with Ginny. Yeah, missing a couple of evenings with your girlfriend is totally an over-the-top punishment for almost killing somebody.
* Yay, let’s all laugh at the depressed alcoholic teacher!
* Professor Trelawney didn’t think that students knew about the Room of Requirement, despite the fact that one of the most interesting things to happen in Hogwarts last year was… the discovery of an illegal study group meeting in the Room of Requirement. Seriously, I’d hazard that the entire school knows about the Room by now.
* Of course, they should have known about it already. Judging by the amount of stuff in there, quite a few pupils have hidden things in the ROR, and I’m surprised the information hadn’t trickled into the student body as a whole long before Harry came up.
* Or maybe people do know, but none of them mentions it because it’s convenient for everybody – staff and students alike – to have a place where they can just dump any embarrassing and/or incriminating stuff, no questions asked.
* Harry gets all bitchy and superior about Trelawney’s not finding out who the mysterious voice was. Yeah, because his own investigations this year have been going so well.
* Although I am quite surprised he never asked Trelawney what she said to get in, given that he’s basically spent the best part of a year trying to work out the precise formula of words he needs to use.
* Trelawney’s been predicting disaster and calamity to Dumbledore – correctly, as it turns out. Not that this will cause anybody to reconsider their low opinion of Divination generally and Trelawney in particular. Still, I suppose that if the fact that Dumbledore’s essentially basing his entire strategy around one of her prophecies didn’t win people over, nothing will.
* Firenze seems to find Trelawney comical, although I note that he wasn’t able to predict Dumbledore’s death.
* “AND YOU LET HIM TEACH HERE AND HE TOLD VOLDEMORT TO GO AFTER MY MUM AND DAD!” Well, to be fair, it’s not like this would have been Dumbledore’s only questionable hiring decision.
* “Haven’t you noticed, Professor, how the people Snape hates tend to end up dead?” I’m not sure I’d start down that line of reasoning if I were you, Harry. People might start looking at the piles of maimed bodies that have been accumulating since you came up to Hogwarts.
* “Please do not suggest,” says Dumbledore, “that I do not take the safety of my students seriously.” Sorry, Professor, I was just thrown by the fact that you routinely permit incompetents with no common sense to teach children dangerous magic, have hired Death Eaters as staff members, and are currently doing bugger all to stop a string of attempted murders which have almost claimed two lives already.
* Oooh, Dumbledore, how clever of you to pretend to be going to the pub when actually you’re going somewhere else entirely! I’m in awe of your super spying skills.
* And we’re off to get the Horcrux! Yay!
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Date: 2014-02-08 10:32 pm (UTC)Even in an intellectual environment she might have been just as isolated as in Gryffindor, if not more. From the little we saw of Ravenclaw I got the impression it could be quite bitchy and cliquey ... or am I just projecting there? Without the ability to be useful to a couple of slackers, and seeming so uptight and awkward, she might have found it even harder to make friends. Luna? She'd need to learn her serenity if she didn't fit in.
Your point stands. She got into Gryffindor because she wanted to be the best, so if she failed that would hurt.
OTOH, she might have managed it. There were only a handful of Ravenclaws to compete with, after all. If she could develop creative problem-solving, and as driven as she was, who knows?
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Date: 2014-02-09 01:47 am (UTC)