POA - Chapter 13

[kaskait.livejournal.com]

Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw

*Guess what kids! Its Quidditch Time! So get ready to embarrass yourselves!

*Ron and Hermione are not talking. Like that isn't a regular occurrence.

*Hermione is still sticking to that story that Crookshanks was being a normal cat. Therefore it isn't his fault that he ate Scabbers. Of course, Hermione isn't to blame here because she neglected to keep an eye on her cat.

*Besides there isn't even any evidence that Scabbers was eaten. So there Ron. Take that and like it. And by the way, this is true love, Dammit! Propose right now. Lets get the Weasely weddings started.

*No one would look askance at two 13 year olds marrying either. The Weaselys are known for their strangeness. Kind of like the Gaunts, in a way, oddly enough.

*Harry decides to pipe up instead of his usual bump on log approach. He tells Hermione that it does look like Crookshanks committed raticide. Hermione freaks out, tells him to keep favoring Ron and go away.

*Fred tries to cheer up Ron by stating Scabbers had it coming anyway.

*Oh wait, hold the phones, this is the most important scene eva!

"FRED!" said Ginny indignantly.

*Yes she was most indignant. Considering that none of the readers would know she was present unless she opened her mouth. Harry was too amazed by future sunlit days to even bother to note that she was there and to reveal her royal sueness.

*Exit GinnySue stage left...or maybe not. Harry doesn't describe her any futher. She is just a voice in the room.

*Ron states that Scabbers was a great rat and he even bit Goyle. That memory makes him feel better.

*Come to think of it, Draco and pals don't have pets. If they do, they certainly are not allowed to attack other students. Keeping their pets on a leash and under control must be a sign of their inner evil.

*Everyone must act like Hagrid or Hermione. Let your animal roam free and be itself. If it attacks someone it was just letting nature take its own course. Besides it must have been the fault of the one who was attacked anyway.

*Quidditch practice. Yawn. A couple of paragraphs dedicated to everyone's awe of the Firebolt. Oh Harry, how nice and long it is. How perfectly balanced!

*Even Madam Hooch asks to touch Harry's long, smooth, perfectly balanced broom.

*Harry uses his long, smooth, perfectly balanced broom and the best practice was had by all. Just watching Harry ride it was enough to send everyone into ecstasy.

*P.S. Cho Chang is the Ravenclaw seeker. This was the real reason why we had to suffer through the broom stroking scene.

*Harry tells Wood to go, he is going to stay out late. Ron wants to ride Harry's long, perfectly balanced broom.

*The practice was so exciting Madam Hooch fell asleep. So she doesn't get to witness Ron riding Harry's broom.

*Ron is ecstatic. Go Ron Go. Ride that broom good.

*After all that broom riding, they catch Crookshanks spying on them.

*Holy Smokes, it is the next day and we are treated to even MORE broom envy. The Slytherins can't believe the sight of Harry's long, smooth, perfectly balanced broom!

*Draco is suffering from serious broom envy.

*Cedric Diggory appears for no reason whatever. Only to worship Harry's big, new and improved broom.

*Penelope forgets herself and asks to hold Harry's perfectly balanced broom.

*Percy playfully chases her away and tells Harry that they have a bet going on between them. Something tells me there is going to be an interesting play scene going on in an abandoned classroom tonight. That evil, evil Percy.

*"Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice.

*Ooooh, I think Draco wants to try out Harry's big broom.

*Harry ruins the mood by making his usual lame joke comeback. Harry stop making the funny it isn't your special talent. Your talent is to ride big,long, perfectly balanced brooms.

*They play Quidditch which I don't want to describe. I will probably embarrass myself. Besides I want to let the author keep the embarrassment to herself.

*Cho Chang keeps chasing Harry instead of the Snitch. Silly Cho, only Ron can ride Harry's long broom.

*Some Dementors come along and Harry zaps them with a Patronus while grabbing the snitch.

*Everyone eyeballs Harry's broom again even Lupin. Draco and gang get into trouble for impersonating a Dementor.

*The Gryffindor's have a huge party with loads of alcoholic beverages.

*Harry tries to speak to Hermione. She is the only one who doesn't appreciate Harry's big broom.

*Hermione admits to Harry that she just can't stop embarrassing herself with Quidditch.

*Ron ruins the make up scene by reminding everyone about the Raticide case. Hermione runs sobbing from the room. Shows you right Hermione. Only Ron can have access to Harry's broom.

*Professor McGonagall keeps interrupting the party. Hmmm, just where is Professor McGonagall's bedroom that she hears this party?

*I wonder where Snape sleeps?

*Eventually the party breaks up and everyone goes to bed. Probably dreaming about Harry's broom. You know GinnySue is fantasizing about riding it. She is probably stealing it right now to practice for those sunlit days.

*Ron wakes everyone up with loud screams. He saw Sirius Black with a knife!

*Calm down, Ron. He just wanted to stroke that broom. Afterall he purchased it.

*Of course, it is all Neville's fault that Sirius got into Gryffindor tower at all. He probably left out those secret passwords because he was amazed by Harry's amazing broom.

Comments

[drama-duchess.livejournal.com]

*"Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice.

*Ooooh, I think Draco wants to try out Harry's big broom.

Just think of the amount of inter-house animosity that would have been dissipated if Harry had only found it in his heart to share way back in book three. Harry has been quite selfish to keep his long, smooth, perfectly balanced broom to himself. All along, he's been greedily holding the answer to conciliation in his grip!

For shame.

[kaskait.livejournal.com]

Yes!

Everything could have been solved that year with a massive broom stroking festival. :D

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

Kind of like the Gaunts, in a way, oddly enough.

I snickered at first. Then thought how creepily related they were. At least Fleur and Hermione are bringing new blood into the family? Not sure about Penelope but... was it mentioned some where? I have this feeling she is a pureblood.

Ah, phallic imagery, of course Harry has the best and he knows how to use it best. No wonder Cho Chang was chasing him. And Ginny. And Romilda. Draco's been upstaged, his Nimbus? Old school.

[merrymelody.livejournal.com]

Penelope's a Muggleborn, since she gets frozen by the monster in CoS.

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

Right *headdesk* Thanks :)

[kaskait.livejournal.com]

Harry has the biggest broom around and that is why he gets the gals. LOL

Poor Ron gets a slow starter, as if that is any big surprise.

[ellecain.livejournal.com]

Draco is suffering from serious broom envy.

LOL. Ah, these books never fail on the Freudian interpretations!

[kaskait.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it.

Has anyone wrote a big essay about Harry missing his Weazey the most? Every guy in that contest chose a girl but Harry ends up with Weazey. Hmmmmm.

[mmmarcusz.livejournal.com]

Not *every* guy, *both* guys. And Harry doesn't have a girlfriend; they do. It would be so awesome if he got to the bottom of the lake and it was MALFOY.

On the surface...
"No! No! It's not true!"
"Search your feelings, you know it to be true!"
*anguish*
*smooches*
Succubus!Ginny grows fangs and wings, swoops at Draco...

Precisely right

[urbanman1984.livejournal.com]

That would have made a far better story than what we were actually subjected to.

[t0ra-chan.livejournal.com]

Harry's broomstick brings all the boys (and girls) to the yard,
And they're like
It's better than yours

Ahem, sorry, I just couldn't resist.

*No one would look askance at two 13 year olds marrying either. The Weaselys are known for their strangeness. Kind of like the Gaunts, in a way, oddly enough.

Or the Blacks, who are actually kinda related to the Weasleys. According to the strange family tree JKR wrote up once (I think for an auction or some such), several members of that family married at 13.

*Hermione is still sticking to that story that Crookshanks was being a normal cat. Therefore it isn't his fault that he ate Scabbers. Of course, Hermione isn't to blame here because she neglected to keep an eye on her cat.

I hated how we're supposed to feel all sorry for Hermione in this chapter and the ones to follow, when it's Ron who lost his pet and his so called friend cannot even say that she is sorry for his loss. Heck, he even says that all he wants from her is to at least act like she was sorry. This is why PoA was the book where I stopped liking Hermione for good, not that I had much love for her to begin with.

Gah, it's just like HBP and the canary attack, where Ron is the injured party, but is still the bad guy because he hurt Hermione's feelings and she sheds a few tears.

[kaskait.livejournal.com]

I'm iffy on Hermione many times. But this episode was just out there.

The only way her stoic attitude could work is if she knew what Crookshanks was up to and that Scabbers wasn't a regular rat. Then her attitude would be understandable because she wouldn't want to ruin the stakeout.

But she doesn't know that Scabbers is Peter. So this whole situation makes her look like a horrible snit. You're right, we are supposed to sympathize with her more than Ron.

This is the last book in which Ron wasn't a complete loss. After this it was all downhill.

[saylee.livejournal.com]

Or the Blacks, who are actually kinda related to the Weasleys. According to the strange family tree JKR wrote up once (I think for an auction or some such), several members of that family married at 13.

Earlier, even. Wasn't Bellatrix's father supposed to have been 13 when she was born?

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

While dates aren't JKR's forte (as she has admitted), that does make you wonder if it was deliberate or just a mistake. As in, yet another way old pureblood families are backward. Still 13, not very safe age to have children. Still in Hogwarts as well. Hmm.