Hermione always loses at chess, which Harry and Ron think is very good for her.
I forget, what is the thing that Harry always loses at that’s very good for him, again?
Though people have explained to me that since they are Slytherin they *must* have cheated, and so it’s automatically fair to make sure they lose.
I love people earnestly explaining the rules of Quidditch as if it’s a real game or something. Flint was totally cobbing, and that’s breaking the rules! No, there’s no fancy name for the fouls the Gryffindors commit throughout the series. Yes, that’s a coincidence. And yes, the rules of fair play about expensive versus standard brooms, insults as a distraction, copying the opposing Seeker’s spotting of the Snitch and shoving them out of the way, insulting the referees and attacking the other team all vary depending on who’s playing! It makes perfect sense to me, why do you ask?
Regardless, make sure to note this example of Malfoy bullying Neville—blink and you’ll miss it.
Come now, there was the time that he purposefully taunted Neville about his parents being hospitalised, after he was told about it by his Aunt Bellatrix that he met for the first time that day, and then cruelly used his awesome subtle acting talent to pretend he didn’t know that he was referring specifically to Neville in order to get Neville in trouble by inserting himself between Neville’s fists! (I too have had canon carefully explained to me!)
Ron’s cheering through a heavy nosebleed—which proves that Malfoy can’t fight.
Especially since Ron’s bigger and has six brothers (I dunno, I never had brothers, but I got enough practice fighting with a sister to guess that you don’t grow up the youngest of that many boys without learning to take care of yourself) and fairly physically aggressive; whereas Malfoy’s weedy and an only child and presumably has Crabbe and Goyle for all that ruffian stuff.
Neville tells Malfoy he’s worth twelve of him and Malfoy and his friends crack up, probably because it sounds like something incredibly pompous only Harry would say.
Anytime the words ‘worth’ or any kind of value comparison between people comes up, it’s a fair bet Harry’s involved. It’s also hilarious how the Great Gryffindor Wit (like so many of their awesome attributes) totally skipped over Neville. If Harry (or New!Ginny or Hermione) had said that, Malfoy would have looked stupid and silently gaped, and we’d all have had to embarrassedly pretend it was funny. (Neville is funny, actually, just in a very Afterschool Special kind of way. So Ron too, here, with his little ‘You go, girl!’ encouragement.)
I’m not buying this, "Oh my, could somebody really challenge Slytherin? They never have for seven whole years—and the referees biased!"
I love that in their heads, they’ve clearly all decided they’re going to (or deserve to) win (because of their not-so-secret weapon Harry, but don’t mention that, this is one of the latter of the alternating Quidditch chapters - Smug Overconfidence and Needless Angst to Prove Gryffindor’s Modesty and Underdog Status.), it’s just a question of whether they’ll be ‘allowed’ to.
And this whole seven years thing is completely meaningless, considering it’s Harry’s first year. (And weird that he’s more fixated about winning than the Weasley twins, who besides being psychoes would presumably be looking even more forward to a win both against Slytherin - and it’s so bizarre how every game comes down to this, even this one, which is against Hufflepuff! - and for the prestige, since they’ve been at school longer.) I mean, his most personal rivalry so far is Malfoy (Snape I don’t think represents Slytherin at this point in the series so much as he will later – now it seems more like he’s the mean teacher rather than the opposite of James’ Gryffindor or whatever.) and Malfoy’s had no pleasure from his house being the champions since he too, y’know, joined the school like four months ago. (Although at least Malfoy’s probably know about the record, as well as always considered himself a Slytherin; Harry only realised the whole concept of houses at all recently.)
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Date: 2007-01-06 12:07 am (UTC)I forget, what is the thing that Harry always loses at that’s very good for him, again?
Though people have explained to me that since they are Slytherin they *must* have cheated, and so it’s automatically fair to make sure they lose.
I love people earnestly explaining the rules of Quidditch as if it’s a real game or something. Flint was totally cobbing, and that’s breaking the rules! No, there’s no fancy name for the fouls the Gryffindors commit throughout the series. Yes, that’s a coincidence. And yes, the rules of fair play about expensive versus standard brooms, insults as a distraction, copying the opposing Seeker’s spotting of the Snitch and shoving them out of the way, insulting the referees and attacking the other team all vary depending on who’s playing! It makes perfect sense to me, why do you ask?
Regardless, make sure to note this example of Malfoy bullying Neville—blink and you’ll miss it.
Come now, there was the time that he purposefully taunted Neville about his parents being hospitalised, after he was told about it by his Aunt Bellatrix that he met for the first time that day, and then cruelly used his awesome subtle acting talent to pretend he didn’t know that he was referring specifically to Neville in order to get Neville in trouble by inserting himself between Neville’s fists! (I too have had canon carefully explained to me!)
Ron’s cheering through a heavy nosebleed—which proves that Malfoy can’t fight.
Especially since Ron’s bigger and has six brothers (I dunno, I never had brothers, but I got enough practice fighting with a sister to guess that you don’t grow up the youngest of that many boys without learning to take care of yourself) and fairly physically aggressive; whereas Malfoy’s weedy and an only child and presumably has Crabbe and Goyle for all that ruffian stuff.
Neville tells Malfoy he’s worth twelve of him and Malfoy and his friends crack up, probably because it sounds like something incredibly pompous only Harry would say.
Anytime the words ‘worth’ or any kind of value comparison between people comes up, it’s a fair bet Harry’s involved.
It’s also hilarious how the Great Gryffindor Wit (like so many of their awesome attributes) totally skipped over Neville. If Harry (or New!Ginny or Hermione) had said that, Malfoy would have looked stupid and silently gaped, and we’d all have had to embarrassedly pretend it was funny. (Neville is funny, actually, just in a very Afterschool Special kind of way. So Ron too, here, with his little ‘You go, girl!’ encouragement.)
I’m not buying this, "Oh my, could somebody really challenge Slytherin? They never have for seven whole years—and the referees biased!"
I love that in their heads, they’ve clearly all decided they’re going to (or deserve to) win (because of their not-so-secret weapon Harry, but don’t mention that, this is one of the latter of the alternating Quidditch chapters - Smug Overconfidence and Needless Angst to Prove Gryffindor’s Modesty and Underdog Status.), it’s just a question of whether they’ll be ‘allowed’ to.
And this whole seven years thing is completely meaningless, considering it’s Harry’s first year. (And weird that he’s more fixated about winning than the Weasley twins, who besides being psychoes would presumably be looking even more forward to a win both against Slytherin - and it’s so bizarre how every game comes down to this, even this one, which is against Hufflepuff! - and for the prestige, since they’ve been at school longer.) I mean, his most personal rivalry so far is Malfoy (Snape I don’t think represents Slytherin at this point in the series so much as he will later – now it seems more like he’s the mean teacher rather than the opposite of James’ Gryffindor or whatever.) and Malfoy’s had no pleasure from his house being the champions since he too, y’know, joined the school like four months ago. (Although at least Malfoy’s probably know about the record, as well as always considered himself a Slytherin; Harry only realised the whole concept of houses at all recently.)