Hee. I like Lockhart’s portraits with their hair in rollers so much I won’t ask where they get the rollers, why their hair would need rolling, etc.
I can't help but love Lockhart. He's the biggest Gryffindor ever, but more of a Wormtail-type than a Harry-type. By which I mean one type likes glory and the other is stupid enough to try and get it the hard way.
This is also the scene where JKR introduces the idea that whatever you teach is what you do outside of teaching.
Because when I was little, and believed teachers slept at the school and had no life, I was right.
Ron invents a love of cats for Ginny to explain her caring about Mrs. Norris. As if Ginny could really care about any animal that wasn’t snot-based.
Rowling herself hates cats, and I don't think it's just because she's allergic to them. So likening Ginny with cats is a pretty strange choice, when this is an author who does place a lot of her personal views into the text.
I love that Harry’s surprised that someone’s mopped up the water that was on the floor.
He's always curious about the little things that everyone takes for granted, rather than the big things that he should be wondering about. Like...I dunno...wanting to visit his parents' graves?
Ron says only a really thick teacher would fall for Hermione’s excuse for getting the Potions book. Oh! They mean Lockhart. I thought they would just pop round to see Hagrid and ask him to get it for them.
And it would have scratchy handwriting and big blobby tears because he'd be so happy they thought him important enough to ask. Then again...he's not a teacher in this one, is he? Just a sort of servant. *Hugs Draco*
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Date: 2007-04-06 06:27 pm (UTC)I can't help but love Lockhart. He's the biggest Gryffindor ever, but more of a Wormtail-type than a Harry-type. By which I mean one type likes glory and the other is stupid enough to try and get it the hard way.
This is also the scene where JKR introduces the idea that whatever you teach is what you do outside of teaching.
Because when I was little, and believed teachers slept at the school and had no life, I was right.
Ron invents a love of cats for Ginny to explain her caring about Mrs. Norris. As if Ginny could really care about any animal that wasn’t snot-based.
Rowling herself hates cats, and I don't think it's just because she's allergic to them. So likening Ginny with cats is a pretty strange choice, when this is an author who does place a lot of her personal views into the text.
I love that Harry’s surprised that someone’s mopped up the water that was on the floor.
He's always curious about the little things that everyone takes for granted, rather than the big things that he should be wondering about. Like...I dunno...wanting to visit his parents' graves?
Ron says only a really thick teacher would fall for Hermione’s excuse for getting the Potions book. Oh! They mean Lockhart. I thought they would just pop round to see Hagrid and ask him to get it for them.
And it would have scratchy handwriting and big blobby tears because he'd be so happy they thought him important enough to ask. Then again...he's not a teacher in this one, is he? Just a sort of servant. *Hugs Draco*