Harry, of course, can’t do that because there’s no reserve Seeker. There’s no other person who could possibly perform this most straightforward task until Ginny Weasley II comes to town.
The problem of course, is that everyone in Gryffindor House is too shy and retiring to offer themselves as a replacement. (Continuing the never-ending list of stuff in HP that makes no sense, the whole reserve thing is up there. Don’t they play at the end of PS without a Seeker? You can’t just get a sub? Or perhaps they had a not-Harry player and so ritually sacrificed he or she after the game to punish them for lacking his Stu like powers. But then Malfoy reschedules a game in POA because of his arm, and gets a sub to play in HBP. Is JKR somehow suggesting an allowance was made for Draco that couldn’t have been for Harry? Or that Slytherin has plenty of decent Quidditch players lying around – since even nonentity Harper gives Harry a run for his money – and Gryffindor a shortage? TELL ME IT ISN’T SO, MAGPIE, TELL ME NOW.)
It is, of course, a completely fine thing for Harry to be doing at 16 with toenail growing curses and such.
Yeah, but Harry hexed a mean Squib, and Malfoy hexed a loser Pureblood. That makes it much better. Or worse. Quick, canon lovers, explain this one away!
Flamel...’s really old
I’ve always wondered if there’s any reason why he has to be 666 years old.
Harry and Ron continue discussing the Stone
It’s hilarious how into the idea of a Stone Harry is, considering it’s specifically brought up in HBP as something he automatically rejected. I mean, right here, his first reaction is ‘No wonder Snape wants it, who wouldn’t want the ability to live forever and tons of gold?’ (it’s also hilarious how he and Ron are discussing the things they’ll buy if they ever got on, like they’re not both aware Harry could buy half of that stuff now.)
I’m really embarrassed for Hermione now.
She hugged the frivolous Parvati Patil, she was so crazed!
Harry’s really done something to be proud of now. Caught a gold ball out of the air in the most forgettable school Quidditch match in history.
No-one will say he’s just a famous name now! It’s so limiting being only a celebrity renowned for having the power to defeat evil when you can have that and enjoy the attention from your other inherited gifts.
If I were reading the American version I would here point out that they had every reason to be confused by what Hermione said, because there’s no such thing as a Sorcerer’s Stone.
How does this not hurt American’s kids feelings? ‘You guys would think it was a stone that debated metaphysics, so we changed it! Do you feel better, now? There are less syllables!’ I like Hermione’s cute dramatic whisper, though.
Ron and Hermione have taken Malfoy’s idea about the leg-locker curse and want to use it on Snape if he looks like he might be thinking about hurting Harry. Thanks, Malfoy!
Kind of hilarious they end up aping him right down to casting it on Neville (oh no, wait, that was a Full Body Bind, wasn’t it, not just a Leg Locker?)
Snape takes a point from Gryffindor for smacking a bludger at the referee. Remember it’s Snape the one that’s outrageously biased.
And the other teams that lack sportsmanship. I can’t imagine even the ever fair and reasonable McGonagall not doling out at least a detention for that, but to be honest, in an equivalent Muggle game, he’d be off the pitch for that, no? This is really random, too, since they’ve just started playing and Snape can’t have started off giving them crap since The Almighty Dumbledore is watching (LOL, it’d be hilarious if he just chimed in here and started deciding what’s a penalty and what isn’t. ‘100 points to Gryffindor for having pleasing uniforms. And 50 to George Weasley – it takes a great deal of courage to stand up to another team. But even more to stand up to one’s teachers.’) Like George just walked onto the field, and SMACK.
Malfoy is already bored with having to sit in the stands and not be the center of attention.
I chuckled affectionately at that. What’s wrong with me?
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Date: 2007-01-06 12:08 am (UTC)The problem of course, is that everyone in Gryffindor House is too shy and retiring to offer themselves as a replacement. (Continuing the never-ending list of stuff in HP that makes no sense, the whole reserve thing is up there. Don’t they play at the end of PS without a Seeker? You can’t just get a sub? Or perhaps they had a not-Harry player and so ritually sacrificed he or she after the game to punish them for lacking his Stu like powers. But then Malfoy reschedules a game in POA because of his arm, and gets a sub to play in HBP. Is JKR somehow suggesting an allowance was made for Draco that couldn’t have been for Harry? Or that Slytherin has plenty of decent Quidditch players lying around – since even nonentity Harper gives Harry a run for his money – and Gryffindor a shortage? TELL ME IT ISN’T SO, MAGPIE, TELL ME NOW.)
It is, of course, a completely fine thing for Harry to be doing at 16 with toenail growing curses and such.
Yeah, but Harry hexed a mean Squib, and Malfoy hexed a loser Pureblood. That makes it much better. Or worse. Quick, canon lovers, explain this one away!
Flamel...’s really old
I’ve always wondered if there’s any reason why he has to be 666 years old.
Harry and Ron continue discussing the Stone
It’s hilarious how into the idea of a Stone Harry is, considering it’s specifically brought up in HBP as something he automatically rejected. I mean, right here, his first reaction is ‘No wonder Snape wants it, who wouldn’t want the ability to live forever and tons of gold?’ (it’s also hilarious how he and Ron are discussing the things they’ll buy if they ever got on, like they’re not both aware Harry could buy half of that stuff now.)
I’m really embarrassed for Hermione now.
She hugged the frivolous Parvati Patil, she was so crazed!
Harry’s really done something to be proud of now. Caught a gold ball out of the air in the most forgettable school Quidditch match in history.
No-one will say he’s just a famous name now! It’s so limiting being only a celebrity renowned for having the power to defeat evil when you can have that and enjoy the attention from your other inherited gifts.
If I were reading the American version I would here point out that they had every reason to be confused by what Hermione said, because there’s no such thing as a Sorcerer’s Stone.
How does this not hurt American’s kids feelings? ‘You guys would think it was a stone that debated metaphysics, so we changed it! Do you feel better, now? There are less syllables!’
I like Hermione’s cute dramatic whisper, though.
Ron and Hermione have taken Malfoy’s idea about the leg-locker curse and want to use it on Snape if he looks like he might be thinking about hurting Harry. Thanks, Malfoy!
Kind of hilarious they end up aping him right down to casting it on Neville (oh no, wait, that was a Full Body Bind, wasn’t it, not just a Leg Locker?)
Snape takes a point from Gryffindor for smacking a bludger at the referee. Remember it’s Snape the one that’s outrageously biased.
And the other teams that lack sportsmanship.
I can’t imagine even the ever fair and reasonable McGonagall not doling out at least a detention for that, but to be honest, in an equivalent Muggle game, he’d be off the pitch for that, no?
This is really random, too, since they’ve just started playing and Snape can’t have started off giving them crap since The Almighty Dumbledore is watching (LOL, it’d be hilarious if he just chimed in here and started deciding what’s a penalty and what isn’t. ‘100 points to Gryffindor for having pleasing uniforms. And 50 to George Weasley – it takes a great deal of courage to stand up to another team. But even more to stand up to one’s teachers.’) Like George just walked onto the field, and SMACK.
Malfoy is already bored with having to sit in the stands and not be the center of attention.
I chuckled affectionately at that. What’s wrong with me?