Hermione’s pink cheeks and shining eyes is due to her really worrying about being a Muggleborn. To me it seems like she’s just excited over the prospect of making the Potion.
Especially since when Ron points out the Muggleborns are going unprotected from the Wrath of Malfoy (ironic that Buckbeak gets the benefit of the Trio’s expert legal analysis but they’ve already tried, convicted and doubtlessly picked out punishments from their awesome new book for Malfoy already) while they spend months on this potion (which will do nothing to stop future attacks and can only rule out one person as a culprit rather than suggest other ones) Hermione glares until he agrees that making it is the best idea, even though Muggleborns’ safety is what she claims to be doing it for. I also love the awesome examples of Hermione-logic here (not to mention the crashingly obvious manipulation tactics with the chickening out jibe ala Back to the Future) with her ‘OMG, threatening Muggleborns is way worse in moral terms than brewing a difficult potion!’ Is it worse than drugging someone’s food and stealing their bodies? Is the person who’s the point of all of this theft and kidnapping actually guilty? Those aren’t the issues! (It’s so hilarious now the OotP movie is coming out to see the directors and writers blathering about how it’s liberalism at Hogwarts vs. Umbridge’s conservatism, like Hermione wouldn’t be thrilled to enforce her own little Patriot Act. ‘It’s up to you, but I think 9/11 is worse than reading somebody’s letters!’) Not to mention the obligatory forced ‘I don’t want to break rules’ (bit contrived that Harry would be objecting to this, too, so much so that Ron points it out.)
How much faster is Malfoy supposed to be?
The thing I like is that in the movie, they couldn’t really show how fast the brooms were in comparison to Gryffindor’s (probably because the laws of physics never apply to Quidditch. Can you imagine the brief – ‘You need to show these brooms going very fast in an obnoxious way, and these going very fast in a talented way, and the rules of fouling, scoring and the entire game – why would investigating a fixed Bludger mean the team who it’s fixed on forfeit? Why did Gryffindor forfeit in PS? – depends on what colour the team is wearing. You should film this 20 times or so, but try to keep it interesting and suspenseful as to whether Harry wins, Ginny wins, Ron wins, or Harry falls unconscious.’) so they just have the Slytherins doing a flying V, ala Mighty Ducks. Awesome.
Yup, totally down to Malfoy doing something wrong.
Funny how Malfoy’s taunting Harry is what loses him the game here (in JKR terms) unlike when Harry taunts Harper in HBP and wins.
It’s not like the Snitch is in his blind spot and Harry himself only saw it because he turned around to glare at Malfoy instead of look for the Snitch himself.
If he hadn’t have been laughing, his third eye would have spotted the object behind his head. Stupid Malfoy! Morality always trumps science. I also like how Harry diving at Malfoy so he moves out of the way (so if Malfoy hadn’t be the despicable coward we know he is, would Harry have just squished him in his ardour for the snitch? Surely his natural sense of fair play would prevent this?) would is a legal move (the same way as diving at a commentator is perfectly acceptable and the epitome of sportsmanship) unlike the SRS BUSINESS that was Flint blocking Harry in PS. (Monster!!1)
I’m literally embarrassed for the Gary-Stu-ness of it.
I know! It’s like she was worried because she’d already used Harry having the amazing luck of catching the Snitch in his mouth, and Harry beating all records in PS, so here she had to really, really show how awesome he is, but it’s just like that old Blackadder joke (On the Jewish new year? For ninepence? A bare fortnight after the dreaded horse plague of old London town?) It’s not enough that Harry has to win on an inferior broom, or while it’s raining, or while he’s being pelted with cursed bludgers, or with a broken arm. It has to be all four, at once.
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Date: 2007-04-14 10:42 am (UTC)Especially since when Ron points out the Muggleborns are going unprotected from the Wrath of Malfoy (ironic that Buckbeak gets the benefit of the Trio’s expert legal analysis but they’ve already tried, convicted and doubtlessly picked out punishments from their awesome new book for Malfoy already) while they spend months on this potion (which will do nothing to stop future attacks and can only rule out one person as a culprit rather than suggest other ones) Hermione glares until he agrees that making it is the best idea, even though Muggleborns’ safety is what she claims to be doing it for.
I also love the awesome examples of Hermione-logic here (not to mention the crashingly obvious manipulation tactics with the chickening out jibe ala Back to the Future) with her ‘OMG, threatening Muggleborns is way worse in moral terms than brewing a difficult potion!’ Is it worse than drugging someone’s food and stealing their bodies? Is the person who’s the point of all of this theft and kidnapping actually guilty? Those aren’t the issues! (It’s so hilarious now the OotP movie is coming out to see the directors and writers blathering about how it’s liberalism at Hogwarts vs. Umbridge’s conservatism, like Hermione wouldn’t be thrilled to enforce her own little Patriot Act. ‘It’s up to you, but I think 9/11 is worse than reading somebody’s letters!’)
Not to mention the obligatory forced ‘I don’t want to break rules’ (bit contrived that Harry would be objecting to this, too, so much so that Ron points it out.)
How much faster is Malfoy supposed to be?
The thing I like is that in the movie, they couldn’t really show how fast the brooms were in comparison to Gryffindor’s (probably because the laws of physics never apply to Quidditch. Can you imagine the brief – ‘You need to show these brooms going very fast in an obnoxious way, and these going very fast in a talented way, and the rules of fouling, scoring and the entire game – why would investigating a fixed Bludger mean the team who it’s fixed on forfeit? Why did Gryffindor forfeit in PS? – depends on what colour the team is wearing. You should film this 20 times or so, but try to keep it interesting and suspenseful as to whether Harry wins, Ginny wins, Ron wins, or Harry falls unconscious.’) so they just have the Slytherins doing a flying V, ala Mighty Ducks. Awesome.
Yup, totally down to Malfoy doing something wrong.
Funny how Malfoy’s taunting Harry is what loses him the game here (in JKR terms) unlike when Harry taunts Harper in HBP and wins.
It’s not like the Snitch is in his blind spot and Harry himself only saw it because he turned around to glare at Malfoy instead of look for the Snitch himself.
If he hadn’t have been laughing, his third eye would have spotted the object behind his head. Stupid Malfoy! Morality always trumps science.
I also like how Harry diving at Malfoy so he moves out of the way (so if Malfoy hadn’t be the despicable coward we know he is, would Harry have just squished him in his ardour for the snitch? Surely his natural sense of fair play would prevent this?) would is a legal move (the same way as diving at a commentator is perfectly acceptable and the epitome of sportsmanship) unlike the SRS BUSINESS that was Flint blocking Harry in PS. (Monster!!1)
I’m literally embarrassed for the Gary-Stu-ness of it.
I know! It’s like she was worried because she’d already used Harry having the amazing luck of catching the Snitch in his mouth, and Harry beating all records in PS, so here she had to really, really show how awesome he is, but it’s just like that old Blackadder joke (On the Jewish new year? For ninepence? A bare fortnight after the dreaded horse plague of old London town?) It’s not enough that Harry has to win on an inferior broom, or while it’s raining, or while he’s being pelted with cursed bludgers, or with a broken arm. It has to be all four, at once.