Ron: Which means that the entire soap opera subplot was pointless.
/I can’t possibly let Snape have the book! I can’t let him know that I’ve been cheating in Potions!/
Yeah, remember when Hermione in the PS/SS movie said, “We could be killed! Or worse, expelled,” and Ron said that she needed to straighten out her priorities and we were supposed to laugh and agree with him? Harry has nearly killed Draco, and *this* is his biggest concern right now?
/In fact, he’s doing you a big favor by not simply having you expelled./
And yet when some sporkers compare Harry with bad YA protagonists, they’ll often say something along the lines of, “Harry faces consequences for his actions and X doesn’t.” Well, he sure doesn’t in this chapter! He almost killed a student. In any other circumstance, he would have been surely suspended, if not expelled. And yet all that happens to him is that he gets detention. *Detention.* And he *still* complains about it!
/Ginny: I for one think Snape is being much too strict./
And what’s more, his supposed True Love doesn’t care. His friends don’t distance themselves from him. Ron stopped talking to Harry over the Goblet of Fire, but when Harry almost kills another student and seems more upset about being punished than about whether the student has survived? Oh, that’s okay.
/Harry: Ha! Suck on that, Dean Thomas! Romilda Vane! This girl is mine and I am hers!/
Uh…did everyone forget about what just happened with Draco? You know, the fight…Draco almost dying…blood everywhere on the floor…nothing? Harry almost killed a classmate and *this* is what the chapter ends on?
If nobody, not even the narrative, is going to care about the Sectumsempra scene, then what is the point? This whole chapter just seems out of order. And, of course, it doesn't help that this chapter is coming right after the one where Dumbledore told Harry that he was better than Voldemort because he could love.
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Date: 2015-06-15 01:29 am (UTC)Ron: Which means that the entire soap opera subplot was pointless.
/I can’t possibly let Snape have the book! I can’t let him know that I’ve been cheating in Potions!/
Yeah, remember when Hermione in the PS/SS movie said, “We could be killed! Or worse, expelled,” and Ron said that she needed to straighten out her priorities and we were supposed to laugh and agree with him? Harry has nearly killed Draco, and *this* is his biggest concern right now?
/In fact, he’s doing you a big favor by not simply having you expelled./
And yet when some sporkers compare Harry with bad YA protagonists, they’ll often say something along the lines of, “Harry faces consequences for his actions and X doesn’t.” Well, he sure doesn’t in this chapter! He almost killed a student. In any other circumstance, he would have been surely suspended, if not expelled. And yet all that happens to him is that he gets detention. *Detention.* And he *still* complains about it!
/Ginny: I for one think Snape is being much too strict./
And what’s more, his supposed True Love doesn’t care. His friends don’t distance themselves from him. Ron stopped talking to Harry over the Goblet of Fire, but when Harry almost kills another student and seems more upset about being punished than about whether the student has survived? Oh, that’s okay.
/Harry: Ha! Suck on that, Dean Thomas! Romilda Vane! This girl is mine and I am hers!/
Uh…did everyone forget about what just happened with Draco? You know, the fight…Draco almost dying…blood everywhere on the floor…nothing? Harry almost killed a classmate and *this* is what the chapter ends on?
If nobody, not even the narrative, is going to care about the Sectumsempra scene, then what is the point? This whole chapter just seems out of order. And, of course, it doesn't help that this chapter is coming right after the one where Dumbledore told Harry that he was better than Voldemort because he could love.