Oh, Dumbledore. The only way I can deal with this at all to just say that he's like Snape: a truly horrible person nevertheless on the side of justice and light. Snape was a Death Eater, sure, but Dumbledore ruthlessly inflicts small torments on children in his care, totally indifferent as to whether this turns them on the path to evil, so that his chosen ones feel more special! Slughorn's Club is nothin' to it.
I do enjoy the way Snape and Draco, when the chips are down, are like QUIDDITCH IS JUST A GAME. I mean - it shows how evil they are. Harry had a thought like that once when he was thinking about Draco too much (evil Slytherins, they poison your mind) but then he eviscerated Draco to get him out of his mind and fixated on Ginny and Quidditch and he was like, so happy! And right prevailed.
Oh Ginny. Leaping up and squealing like a fool. I kind of love you, before you learned deceit and horribleness. If only you'd played Harry and two other poor guys earlier, you could've had years!
It's interesting that stupidity isn't punished at all until book 6 (Hagrid failing a teacher, o sweet sweet failure!) whereas evil/mild malice/slightly unpleasant expressions directed at our hero/pleasant expressions our hero finds objectionable - all those fall before the scythe of justice, book 1!
Oh, I remember shutting this book and thinking - that's nice. The good guys win! Cool. Big finish somewhat lacking. I wonder where Shawn (kid I was babysitting for) keeps the second book.
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Date: 2007-02-03 02:44 am (UTC)I do enjoy the way Snape and Draco, when the chips are down, are like QUIDDITCH IS JUST A GAME. I mean - it shows how evil they are. Harry had a thought like that once when he was thinking about Draco too much (evil Slytherins, they poison your mind) but then he eviscerated Draco to get him out of his mind and fixated on Ginny and Quidditch and he was like, so happy! And right prevailed.
Oh Ginny. Leaping up and squealing like a fool. I kind of love you, before you learned deceit and horribleness. If only you'd played Harry and two other poor guys earlier, you could've had years!
It's interesting that stupidity isn't punished at all until book 6 (Hagrid failing a teacher, o sweet sweet failure!) whereas evil/mild malice/slightly unpleasant expressions directed at our hero/pleasant expressions our hero finds objectionable - all those fall before the scythe of justice, book 1!
Oh, I remember shutting this book and thinking - that's nice. The good guys win! Cool. Big finish somewhat lacking. I wonder where Shawn (kid I was babysitting for) keeps the second book.
... I was younger, then.