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PS Chapter Fourteen
*AKA, another dumb idea of Hagrid’s that’s supposed to be endearing. This is the chapter where Hagrid goes from lovable dolt to criminally stupid and never looks back.
*Quirrell’s getting pale and thin. He must be a werewolf. That’s the only condition in the Wizarding World that can make you either.
*Snape was sweeping around in his usual bad temper, which surely meant the Stone was still safe. What a great sum-up of Snape’s role in the series, eh?
*Harry and Ron are kind of adorable trying to encourage VoldemortHead!Quirrell. Though it’s things like this that make you wonder about all the claims that Harry’s got great instincts about people and therefore must be right about Snape.
*A rare moment of Hermione seeming actually insecure—she’s revising because you need to pass your exams to get into second year.
*Harry’s looking up Dittany in his Herbs and Fungi book. It’s like every chapter has dozens of little shout-outs to later, more important scenes in canon.
*Okay, more likely there are only so many things the woman’s going to invent or look up so they’re going to get used again, but still it’s neat that Dittany has some meaning. It makes you feel like you’ve moved up several grades in school along with Harry.
*Hagrid’s lurking around the library in a big coat. Oh, I saw a thing on the news about people like him. Keep him away from the computers and make sure he keeps his pants on.
*Hagrid tells Ron not to go shouting about secrets. Much like Sirius, he’s better at giving advice than following it. Unlike Sirius, he’s not much good at giving advice either.
*True to form, he seems to be carrying his illegal egg around with him.
*Ron claims Hagrid’s breaking the law breeding a dragon, though he’s got lots of Internet Lawyers who’ll explain the law is more of a guideline and when you’re super good with animals and love them a lot like Hagrid, it’s not doing anything wrong.
*Hermione butters Hagrid up and he folds like a paper canoe. It’s probably a good thing Harry didn’t meet Hagrid when he was a lot younger. If he’d spent more than five minutes looking up to him, it might be a sad day when he realized he really is the idiot that Malfoy kid said he was.
*Gryffindors are such good friends, btw. Those nasty Slytherins say when people are inadequate, but our heroes always find a way to manipulate them while pretending to be their friends. Which of course is why Slytherins are supposed to be the cunning house. They’re only cunning in the bad way.
*Oh good, Hagrid will be slaughtering chickens to feed the dragon. He gets cuddlier by the minute.
*So now they have something else to worry about—what might happen to Hagrid if someone finds out he’s keeping a dragon. Good thing dragons are harmless and couldn’t possibly be unhappy in captivity. Then they’d have more things to worry about than Hagrid’s sorry ass.
*You can see why Hermione should have started revising a month ago. It takes her three weeks to do enough tables and color-coding before she can begin the studying.
*Now I’m picturing her faced with question on the test and only being able to write that the answer, whatever it is, is orange.
*Hee! Malfoy’s stopped dead to listen to them. I’ll bet the Marauders were just as bad at advertising their secrets. Snape didn’t have a chance.
*Norbert looks like a crumpled black umbrella when hatched. Which is pretty adorable. But the last time any pet of Hagrid’s will be so.
*Hagrid refers to himself as Norbert’s mummy. Is anybody else uncomfortably thinking about the horsefucker wank?
*Malfoy has seen the dragon. Which pretty much makes him the worst person in the scene. Not the guy breeding illegal animals.
*Hagrid’s neglecting his job for the dragon. Something tells me whether Hagrid does his job or not matters next to nothing.
*Harry says Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment. Rather than sounding ominous, it kind of points out that Malfoy’s not gone to anyone or threatened anyone about the dragon. Bastard!
*Ron gets a serious dragon bite, and Hagrid tells him off for frightening the thing. Six books later people will still not have gotten the fact that Hagrid’s a moron.
*They agree to Charlie’s idea—anything to get rid of Norbert and Malfoy. Oh yeah, Malfoy’s just breathing down their neck here. I hate the way he’s…well he’s not actually done anything but he’s got this look on his face that makes them all nervous.
*Meanwhile, Ron turns out to be poisoned, which is turning into a nasty habit for Ron. He needs to be more careful. And apologize to Hagrid.
*Malfoy’s come to see Ron and laughingly threatened to tell Madam Pomfrey what really bit him. Ron’s sure it’s revenge over the Quidditch match. Dear lord. Draco, you’re going to have to make yourself a sandwich board that says, I WANT TO SEE THE DRAGON TOO, PLEASE. IF YOU LET ME COME ALONG I WON’T TELL. SEE I HAVEN’T, HAVE I? Or else these three are never going to get it.
*And Ron apparently gave Malfoy a book because Malfoy pretended to want to borrow one, and it had Charlie’s letter in it. Ron needs to spend less time with Hagrid. The stupid is beginning to rub off on him.
*Speaking of Hagrid, yeah, this is totally a guy you’d want working with animals and kids together.
*Along with Ron’s poisoning, we’ve got Malfoy’s being pulled by the ear—it’s HBP’s greatest hits!
*Would it be a stupid question to ask why Hagrid is making the three children smuggle out his dragon? Shouldn’t he be doing it? He’s allowed to walk around the school at night, and it’s his damn dragon.
*So a lot of people seem to think that Malfoy was planning to get the Trio in trouble here, but isn’t he obviously just trying to join them and see what’s up? McGonagall clearly caught him, he didn’t go to her to tattle. If he was going to tattle he’d have gone to Filch or Snape.
*Hermione does a jig over Malfoy getting detention. He hasn’t actually done anything to Hermione at this point. It’s more than he exists.
*Charlie’s friends were a cheery lot. Suddenly I’m picturing a whole group of handsome, muscled, fabulous guys in tight shirts singing while they hook up the harness. Harry’s just a little too young to appreciate them as he will soon.
*And then they get detention. Filch pwns!!
Designated Hero
You know what would be easier than smuggling the dragon out at night? Letting it stay with Hagrid until one day he doesn’t come to work and they go inside and find his charred bones by the fire. That would take care of both of them.
Idiot Picture
Oops! I gave Malfoy the note with all our secret plans on it! But at least we’ve got our Invisibility Cloak…until we forget it at the top of the Tower.
Informed Attributes
This is Malfoy’s most villainous chapter. In which he does…surprisingly little and gets punished for it.
Final score: 3
Signs of things to come: Hagrid gets a dangerous pet and it’s supposed to be cute he blames kids who get bitten by them. Ron’s get the least patience with Hagrid. Dittany! Ron poisoned. Ear pulling. Malfoy getting detention from McGonagall. Hagrid slacking off on his job when something else catches his interest. The kids having extra stress trying to save Hagrid’s job and Hagrid not appreciating it. General Hagrid idiocy. It’s the Grawp before the Grawp.
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What's more surprising for me is that Ron actually gave him the book. Unless Draco took it from his bag without asking...but it didn't sound like he had.
Wow, the kids really can share sometimes.
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*sighs* Must I explain this to you again? Malfoy's always the worst person in the scene because he's Malfoy. He has BAD blood! He's an evil Slytherin. His hair is blond.
These same people fail to understand that some negligence can be criminal and some criminal negligence---if the action results in the death of another---can be murder. I think it's rather obvious that people who self-identify themselves as Gryffindor seem to have a problem with these concepts.
So...Ron's been poisoned by a Dragon twice then (foreshadowing?). I'm still waiting to see Draco exhibit some of the more flattering attributes of his namesake. I know, I know....don't hold my breath.
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My bad. I do keep forgetting he's blond.
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Look, this kid is obviously going to grow up to be Dubya, looking into Vladimir Putin's eyes and telling us what a stand-up guy he is. Is it okay if I root for him to die now?
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You weren't already?
And I could totally buy Harry naming a group 'The Axis of Evil' (especially factoring in past Rowling subtleties like 'The Inquisitorial Squad'.)
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I miss this Ron, who was useful and knowledgeable about Dragons and other Dark Magic Stuff. Not that his family touches Dark Magic. Oh No. Never mind that its the provenance of purebloods. Anyway, where did useful Ron go? Or maybe he just gave in and let Hermione be the know it all. He knew he was the best friend then. But now he is just hanging in that spot by a fingernail. Hmmmm
*Malfoy’s come to see Ron and laughingly threatened to tell Madam Pomfrey what really bit him. Ron’s sure it’s revenge over the Quidditch match. Dear lord. Draco, you’re going to have to make yourself a sandwich board that says, I WANT TO SEE THE DRAGON TOO, PLEASE. IF YOU LET ME COME ALONG I WON’T TELL. SEE I HAVEN’T, HAVE I? Or else these three are never going to get it.
I feel bad for Malfoy. He always wanted to be his Dad's right hand guy, to be the chip off the old block. But he failed in his mission to butter up Potter. So he spent the year trying to get included in some way whether it was by acquaintance or blackmail. He even failed at all of that.
Signs of things to come: Hagrid gets a dangerous pet and it’s supposed to be cute he blames kids who get bitten by them.
He is Hagrid, Dark Lord of the Plot Point! If you need to twist plot back on track, go to Dark Lord Hagrid. He does it all, exposition, silly subplots and just downright illogical appearances.
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I remember some early commentary about the series that said Ron and Harry needed each other because each one possessed qualities the other lacked. Harry was rich and famous and an only child, which Ron longed for, being poor and inconsequential. Ron had a family and knowledge about the wizarding world that Harry didn't.
But it seems that Hermione took over the role of wizarding world guide. One time I noticed it was in GoF when Hermione knew the significance of the Dark Mark, while Ron didn't.
Ron gives us the old-fashioned, prejudiced wizarding perspective while Hermione presents the newer, more enlightened attitude. Ron knows about werewolves--he knows that they are scary and bad. Hermione knows about werewolves, she knows they are victims of prejudice.
Ron knows that Unbreakable Vows are dangerous. Hermione knows that the Ministry is a seething bed of political intrigue and ambition. Why would Ron know anything about the Ministry? It's not like his Dad and brother work there or anything.
*sigh* I miss competent Ron, too.
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She recently made a comment on her site about Ron being more popular than Harry (although I don't know where). I'll bet my car after that, Ron will be one of the two she decided to kill at the last minute because she can't have that. IMO, It's pretty clear to me that it's okay to like Ron, just not as Harry and Hermione and probably Ginny and a bunch of other characters, and she's not above using her books and the movies to manipulate that opinion if she feels she has to.
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HAHAHA, seriously, could they be any more thick? Methinks Draco would love a dragon for a pet, remember he doesn't say anything in GoF when Hermione tells him off that "dragon's blood can by awfully useful but you wouldn't want a dragon for a pet, would you?" Also, I can't really see any other reason for why he chose CoMC.
And Ron apparently gave Malfoy a book because Malfoy pretended to want to borrow one, and it had Charlie’s letter in it. Ron needs to spend less time with Hagrid. The stupid is beginning to rub off on him.
Heh, but I have to admit, this is one of my favourite Ron-moments! :D It's just so sweet, like he's thinking "oh, yeah, he's my mortal enemy, but I can't tell on him, because I won't be a snitch. Instead I'm going to play along in his stupid little game, even though that means pretending to actually be his friend in front of Mme Pomfrey."
Would it be a stupid question to ask why Hagrid is making the three children smuggle out his dragon? Shouldn’t he be doing it? He’s allowed to walk around the school at night, and it’s his damn dragon.
The worst thing about all this is how he is the one who gets to take them out for their punishment in the next chapter. No, I take it back, the worst thing is that he shows absolutely no sense of guilt or remorse of having put the kids in that situation in the first place when he takes them out in the Dark Forest.
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They chose COMC? I always presumed that no one would willingly choose to be around Hagrid unless they were being forced on pain of failure, like it's a requirement at that level.
Draco's significant silence at the dragon question is awesome, though, I'm gonna be reading cheesy fics about him having one as a pet for the next week.
even though that means pretending to actually be his friend in front of Mme Pomfrey.
LOL, poor Mme. Pomfrey was probably thinking ‘Aw, the kids are bonding between the houses!’
No, I take it back, the worst thing is that he shows absolutely no sense of guilt or remorse of having put the kids in that situation in the first place
Especially since there's such a fuss made about how miserable they are over this punishment, which is technically partially for stuff they didn't do - not just the sneaking out, but McGonagall's under the impression they've purposely set up Malfoy and Neville.
The 150 points are taken, they're ostracised by the whole house, Neville's crying himself to sleep (of course, I get the feeling that's not a hard thing to cause), no-one will speak to the Trio, the Slytherins are being OMG teh meaniez11!
Hagrid saying 'Dude, it was me' wouldn't be guaranteed to change anything, although with Dumbledore and McGonagall's liking for retroactively switching punishments to rewards, I wouldn't rule out; but he just sits there like a log and lets them all suffer for something that's mostly his fault without so much as an ineffectual 'Eh, guys, I feel really shitty, but there's no need for us all to suffer!'
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I think Hagrid may be a sociopath who does not understand that his Cute Pet Harry and co. have like, emotions any more complex than his dog's.
Which makes me even sadder that yes indeed, everyone chose CoMC, which we did see from Grubbly-Plank's one class might have been a very cool and interesting thing, particularly for someone who does seem to be a) canonically very interested in a dragon and b) whose snowy owl gets several special mentions. MaybeDracolovesit.
Of course, second time around when everyone knew what they were getting, nobody chose it. And that will make me forgive JKR a lot of the H/G, it really will.
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It occurs to me that if you just assume every single person in the series is a sociopath until they actually do something to make you think otherwise, it suddenly becomes a much more coherent, albeit disturbing, read.
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Isn’t this the first in a long line of ‘The Trio assume Malfoy’s pissy with them because of the very last thing that happened (usually a painful beating adminstered to Malfoy at a Quidditch match)’ rather than just the simple ‘Malfoy hates them and they hate him so it’s really unsurprising when either spends their time dreaming up awesome plans to get the other.’ You really don’t need to keep giving us motives, Jo, we get that none of these kids need any reason to be jerks.
The ‘I shouldn’t have hit him’ line is frankly amazing and innovative for this series, though. Seriously, Ron just needs to be resorted into Slytherin at this point. (He’s already got a head start on that house’s habit of getting Hagrid in trouble by selfishly inserting their limbs between his pet’s jaws/claws.) Only the moronicness of him handing over the book keeps him in Gryffindor.
McGonagall clearly caught him, he didn’t go to her to tattle.
This is the point I guess, where a Gryffindor would have fell on their sword (for another Gryffindor, obviously, let’s not get crazy here.) pointlessly and told a lie that made everyone look worse rather than confess. Bad Draco!
McGonagall’s so personally offended here, though. OMG, wandering around at night? In a boarding school? I NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING. Not to mention the knee-jerk ‘How can you lie about Harry Potter who I automatically trust and adore? (Heh, the next chapter appears even worse as far as that goes, with all her ‘My Gryffindors have behaved so out-of-character in breaking rules, and also lying to Neville, which isn’t funny. Unlike when they fib to Draco Malfoy.’) ‘I shall see Snape about you on top of taking points’ (which Slytherin appear to just earn back in time for the end of school, rather than emo’ly sending Draco to Coventary and railing about how the only thing that can possibly make this grave miscarriage of justice – someone getting punished! For something they did! Not on Gryffindor’s watch, baby. – fair is fixing the cup.) giving a detention and dragging you around by the ear!’ (There’s never enough punishment for Malfoy, but McG reminds me of Fake!Moody at this point, where he’s all ‘Now I feel better, it’s off to Snape for another whupping!’)
Dear lord. Draco, you’re going to have to make yourself a sandwich board that says, I WANT TO SEE THE DRAGON TOO, PLEASE. IF YOU LET ME COME ALONG I WON’T TELL. SEE I HAVEN’T, HAVE I? Or else these three are never going to get it.
I know, right?! This chapter goes on for like, a fortnight; he sees the dragon, he has IN HIS HAND a paper essentially saying ‘We have a dragon!’, he doesn’t go straight to Snape (or Dumbledore – cute how Harry’s worried about this. Like Dumbledore’d listen.) but instead wanders about after dark looking for them and their dragon… What on earth did they think he was waiting for?
Malfoy’s stopped dead to listen. I’ll bet the Marauders were just as bad at advertising their secrets.
LOL. I’m reminded of Lupin’s ‘James! Don’t yell that I’m a werewolf like I just did!’
What’s hilarious is in the movie, they skip this part, so he’s just stalking them for no reason. Like every so often, you check the windows in the Gryffindor common room, and they’re steamed up from Malfoy sitting patiently looking through them. It’s just what he does.
Although it's also sort of impressive Harry can recognise Malfoy’s back at such a distance.
Ron claims Hagrid’s breaking the law
The best line of the entire series is Ron’s ‘Everyone knows that dragon breeding was outlawed by the Warlocks Convention of 1709!’
(Ron really is the weak link of the Trio here with all this pussy law-spouting and talk of danger. I’m glad he redeems himself in POA.)
I’ll be kind about that clunker and assume that Ron has a particular interest in dragons since he’s feeding it, is into seeing it hatch and knows the breed. In which case, he had an opinion, but on further evidence changed it and learnt a lesson for the future. REVOLUTIONARY!
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I also want to see that Draco and Ron scene.
DRACO: Hellllllo, my good friend... Weasley, who is my... good friend.
RON: ... Hi.
DRACO: Came to see how you were doing, old chap!
RON: ... Fine.
DRACO: Oooh, what a fascinating tome! I've been meaning to read it! May I?
RON: ... Maybe this is a morphine-induced hallucination. Yes you may! Malfoy! Who in this hallucination is suddenly my friend!
Maybe they had a nice chat.
I agree with you about all the foreshadowing. I really hope that JKR did mean Draco to have mostly innocent intentions about the dragon. Oh my God, the Draco Story is so the one I want to read. I would give her another gold train if I had one.
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LOL!! Somebody needs to write that fic. Now. AND the Draco-Ron scene. Because, dude, that's awesome.
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Aren't they, though? I want to hug them both. They're both cute and funny and non-sociopathic at this stage of the game!
About Hagrid: you know, you'd think all those people who are worried about Family Values and Moral Content in children's lit would be up in arms over JKR essentially encouraging children to participate in and hide the destructive behavior of adults from other adults, including their own parents. Hagrid, as has been pointed out, is creepily like that unstable (whether because of substance abuse or otherwise) adult who gets children to cover up for and protect him.
Draco, you’re going to have to make yourself a sandwich board that says, I WANT TO SEE THE DRAGON TOO, PLEASE. IF YOU LET ME COME ALONG I WON’T TELL. SEE I HAVEN’T, HAVE I?
Hee! And aww. Cute little Draco. But you see, SisterM, believing that Draco wants to see the dragon involves the assumption that he's a normal kid out for a good time, not an evil little hellspawn who thinks of nothing but destroying righteousness and goodness everywhere.
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That’s just the respect he shows living creatures, as Firenze so sweetly explained. And like humans, some creatures are worthless and deserve to die ASAP and some need to be coddled and hugged until they’re unbearable and dangerous!
Plus, Ginny/Hagrid OTP! You can tell it’s supposed to be canon because they have a hobby in common, and there was that line in COS about how she was lurking by his hut.
Doesn’t the dragon even hurt Fang, since the dog’s tail is injured? (Fang’s a big coward, anyway, I suppose, so maybe he can be easily displaced as Hagrid’s favourite.) Although Norbert’s an improvement of Buckbeak: Dispenser of Gryffindor Justice, or Grawp, since Norbert is attacking his prisoner and Grawp’s just been forced into loving them.
Hermione butters Hagrid up and he folds like a paper canoe.
No kidding, at least Slughorn had to be drunk first. (Of course, Hagrid spills his secrets drunk later in this same book, too. But at least he’s giant-sized, not a fattie.)
it had Charlie’s letter in it.
And judging by the letter, Charlie’s yet another Weasley who’s attitude is ‘Something’s illegal? Better do it as soon as possible – and cover it up, too.’
Good thing dragons…couldn’t possibly be unhappy in captivity.
If OotP has taught us nothing else, it’s that imprisoning creatures wins the captor their love.
I seem to remember the movie building on this further, too, so Hermione was all ‘Isn’t it good that he’ll be with his own kind?’ and Hagrid’s even more blatantly projecting his own issues about Mommy leaving onto this poor animal and saying ‘But what if he’s lonely without me? What if the other dragons tease him?’ like that hilarious bit in GoF where he’s under the impression that Harry is an outsider like him and winning the Triwizard Cup will somehow mean Hagrid fits in at Hogwarts (not aware that his selfishness and disregard for human life shows he fits in better than any pureblood pedigree ever could.)
Hermione does a jig over Malfoy getting detention. He hasn’t actually done anything to Hermione at this point. It’s more than he exists.
Ironically, that explanation is pretty kind to JKR – it involves inter-generational parallels and everything!
I assumed she’d once more lapsed into the ‘My characters all have the same views' groove.
Or maybe along with cutting out the embarrassing Muggle relations, becoming passionate about the house system in order to belong, and doing the boy's homework to make them like her, Hermione’s also decided to adopt their grudges.
(For some unknown reason I'm stuck on the movie comparisons tonight, but in there, Harry says 'Malfoy's seen the dragon' to which an uncharacteristically non-judgemental Hermione says 'Is that bad?', then Draco does purposely tell McGonagall unprompted - prompting from me yet another virtual kick in the head to Steve Kloves - which explains the later dislike slightly.)
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Not so! Being in love with a werewolf will also do that! AND fade your hair colour too.
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And here I thought I just needed to dye my hair more often.
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Quirrell’s getting pale and thin. He must be a werewolf. That’s the only condition in the Wizarding World that can make you either.
OMG, so Snape's pallor (think: "plant kept in the dark too long" from OOtP)
and thinness are due to being violently in love in with Lupin? Yes! I knew our ship was canon all along! Snape/Lupin OTP!
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Actually, not so rare because in HBP she nearly pissed herself waiting for her OWL results. I think this is just a general trend of her fearing failure so much that she breaks rules for her friends to keep friendships and she completely breaks down when something is not perfect. Good god, if I received all Os and only one E I’d first check to make sure it was addressed to me and then have an all night drinking party.
Okay, more likely there are only so many things the woman’s going to invent or look up so they’re going to get used again, but still it’s neat that Dittany has some meaning. It makes you feel like you’ve moved up several grades in school along with Harry.
Ah, when things were structured and not brought out as a deus ex machina. (Hmm, already I have Harry trying to find out some information that Dumbledore could just as easily have gotten himself. Now I need Harry to get that information as well as make it where Ginny 2 can logically fend off a death eater attack and I can use the clever metaphor of Ginny’s hair dancing like flames. Felix Felicis!)
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This really makes the whole Draco Malfoy is Teh Ebil part of the books fall down. I mean, first off you have Hagrid get the illegal dragon which would be exposed sooner or later. Draco sees the dragon, does nothing.
Ron gets injured, lies to cover up the dangerous beast on school grounds. Draco knows what is going on, does nothing.
Draco gets printed evidence of Trio's efforts to smuggle said dangerous beast out at night, does nothing.
So basically, Hagrid was the one who got the damn dragon in the first place, it was his negligence and the Trio's cover up that got Ron poisoned (!), Ron's stupidity in giving Draco a book containing the evidence plus information about their intentions. And it was the Trio's monumental idiocy in forgetting the Invisibilty Cloak on top of the Tower that led to them getting caught.
And Draco Malfoy did nothing! All he was doing was running around on his own, trying to get himself a piece of the action. And the worst part is, if our wunderkids could have given him a slice of the fun, he might have been fighting for the other side six books later. I wonder if Harry ever thinks "Maybe my being thick and unfriendly might have contributed to him getting that Dark Mark on his wrist? Nah....it was just his Fascination with the Dark Arts."
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Hagrid refers to himself as Norbert’s mummy. Is anybody else uncomfortably thinking about the horsefucker wank?
Huh? What's this about horsefucker wank? *is clueless*
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I am never going to be able to read that "Norbert's mummy" line in an innocent way again.
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He was a loveable dolt once?
*They agree to Charlie’s idea—anything to get rid of Norbert and Malfoy. Oh yeah, Malfoy’s just breathing down their neck here. I hate the way he’s…well he’s not actually done anything but he’s got this look on his face that makes them all nervous.
Malfoy's just inherantly guilty, whether he does anything or not. Bad blood, and all that.
*Malfoy’s come to see Ron and laughingly threatened to tell Madam Pomfrey what really bit him. Ron’s sure it’s revenge over the Quidditch match. Dear lord. Draco, you’re going to have to make yourself a sandwich board that says, I WANT TO SEE THE DRAGON TOO, PLEASE. IF YOU LET ME COME ALONG I WON’T TELL. SEE I HAVEN’T, HAVE I? Or else these three are never going to get it.
I want to see AU fic where he does just that.
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Yes, when he smashed the Dursleys' door down, insulted them, attacked Dudley and stole their boat. Then went drinking with the Philosopher's Stone in his pocket. I think that was "lovable dolt".
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