A bit late, but...

[jollityfarm.livejournal.com]

Come on! This one's got it all :)

*Harry spends the rest of the holidays thinking about Draco. I can see why the Harry/Draco shippers on my flist were so happy.

*Now, I previously thought that the reason why Voldemort wouldn't have a sixteen year old in the Death Eaters was because they wouldn't be able to Apparate to his side when called. But I suppose events in this book have shown that sixteen year olds are capable of being taught that skill. Although they wouldn't be able to leave Hogwarts under normal circumstances, so...

*The fact that Harry turns out to be right about all his suspicions involving Draco somehow depletes the drama considerably. Of course, there's some suggestion that he might be wrong...but he's not. So, what's the point, really? I would be hardly be surprised if it turned out that Professor Snape really was just as Harry had thought all along. Hey, the book seems to be saying - trust in your heart, not your mind! First impressions are never wrong if you're pure of heart!

*Oh Harry, don't encourage all this "Phlegm" stuff. Ginny'll start thinking she's funny and she'll do it all the time. I hope Harry meets Gabrielle and is bowled over by her beauty, although she's probably still too young for him. I imagine book seven will bring a small cluster of Harry/Gabrielle shippers, actually. Imagine - it's several years in the future and Harry is married to Ginny, but wondering "Is this all there is?" Suddenly, there's a flurry of interest - guess who's back? Etc etc. I hope to see a lot of Harry-cheating-on-Ginny fics following book seven. Oh sure, he wants a stable home life - but he's a romantic! An adventurer! We can't expect him to play devoted husband when around the corner might well be TEH WUN TWOO WUV of his life!! But I digress.

*I've seen some truly hideous bridesmaid dresses. Truly ghastly. And I've also heard of brides making their one fat cousin starve until she's the same size as all the other bridesmaids so they'll all match. The fact that Fleur thinks Ginny would look like shit in pink and is actively seeking to avoid this suggests that she actually doesn't want her future sister-in-law to hate her guts. Imagine if Mrs. Weasley could dress the bridesmaids - they'd probably look like one of those net bath puff things, in maroon and vomit taffeta. Mrs. Weasley might be a good cook, but she's got no sense of style.

*Ginny doesn't prevent Harry from being kissed goodbye by Fleur, but trips up Ron so he avoids it *makes note of Ginny/Ron subtext, har har*. Ron so pathetic :(

*"Does anyone really know what You-Know-Who would or wouldn't do?" Well, obviously you do, Harry. You so smrt.

*Oh Harry, you lie so much. You love the sensation of standing in a very bright spotlight. That's why you never ask anyone for help when you're off on an adventure. That's why you were after that Prefecting position. That's why you're delighted about being Quidditch captain. That's why you'd have been pissed off about having to share the prophecy with Neville, and are glad that he doesn't matter after all. If you lost all this, you'd be absolutely devastated. So stop complaining.

*Ginny doesn't hang around with "the Trio" at school? Could have fooled me.

*A thought: how long do toads live? Because Neville's had that creature for five years now, and I'm not sure they would normally live that long. I must Google for this, it may spawn plot-tadpoles.

*Wrackspurts...I think I get those :/ My brain goes a bit fuzzy at times.

*Malfoy is doing rude hand gestures in his compartment? Malfoy is wanking in his compartment? If this is "the usual", one can only wonder at Ron's watching it.

*Poor Marietta and her face :( *smacks Harry for finding it funny*

*Blaise Zabini! Arising from the waves like Aphrodite, if Aphrodite looked like that model, Tyson Beckford, only with bitchface. Anyway, a joy to see him, really (if I start the fic I've got a-brewing, he's going to be in there somewhere)

*Ginny's measured wit strikes again! Ooh, burn! I bet Blaise was really distraught by being called a poser. It's not as if he could knock her flying with one carefully-raised eyebrow or anything. Also, Ginny got in on her bat-bogey hex. Can she actually do anything else? Is there anything else? Or does she just make snot fly about everywhere? We all know Sluggy likes his gingers, of course. Can't help thinking she may be considered for possible alternative talents.

*Haha, now Harry is eyeing up Blaise. He's obviously got a thing for the bad boys :)

*Zacharias Smith is NOT AN IDIOT :( *hates on Ginny*

*Oh yes, because Harry and Neville weren't invited on the strength of their parents' fame AT ALL. Not at all.

*Harry wants to spy on Draco doing his rude hand gestures :) How many fics have involved this kind of thing? Millions, right?

*Oh Harry. Hiding under your cloak, watching Draco being stroked by Pansy. You're not jealous at all, right?

*I like the fact that Blaise called Ginny a blood-traitor. Not for the name itself, but because this might now stop people referring to the pureblood agenda as "racism". I'm sorry, but it just makes me shudder with pedantic disgust.

*Haha, Blaise is obviously not big on the whole Death Eating thing. I bet you he's one of those Slytherins that thought "Fuck Voldemort, what about me? What's in it for me, that's what I want to know?" Blaise Zabini for Dark Lord!

*Oh, Pansy wanted Draco to hold her hand! <3 They are so cute together X)

*Stamp! There you go, Harry, that's the kind of thing you'd have done last year. That's what it's like. Have fun being outraged at being treated like that.

Comments

[shadefell.livejournal.com]

What, exactly, is the "bat-bogey hex"? Because despite it being the only thing she knows how to do, it's not described consistantly at all. Is it bats taht attack? Is it bats that fling burgers? Does the face break out in bat-winged boils? I have no idea what it does, other than have a retarded name.

[playscape.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know this as well. It's mentioned so many times, and WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS. Ginny's so good, she's going to wind up defeating Voldemort with her Bat Bogey Hex!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Well, bogey=booger, so possibly it makes hardened bits of mucous fly out of the victims nose and grow wings, or else perhaps bats made out of hardened mucous from someone's nose with wings appear and attack the person. Perhaps they come out of her own nose and she always has enough in there for it, and it clears her sinuses as well as attacks the person, which is why Slughorn thinks it's so great.

Perhaps it's never described because if we actually saw it we'd see that it not only has a retarded name, but it's a retarded curse that you'd usually associate with some creepy girl with dirty underwear nobody would want to go near.

[merrymelody.livejournal.com]

Ginny really is a relation of the Twins. So far her hilarious jokes have been: phlegm, bogeys, and fake-vomiting at Fleur. I'm surprised we didn't have her inventing U KNOW POO herself.

[go-back-chief.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure she'll invent snot in different colour in the next book. Or maybe something with puke.

[go-back-chief.livejournal.com]

It probably comes out and grows from the victims nose, so that it can be doubly humiliating. Whatever were you thinking having it from Ginny's nose, anyway? Ginny doesn't have any snot! She farts roses!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Sparkleysnot!

[gillieweed.livejournal.com]

When my daughter was a toddler, when she got in a temper, she'd blow mucus out of her nose like that. Big yukky streams. She thought it was a marvellous way to "get even" with me for things like putting her in her room for a nap. Trouble was, all she really accomplished was covering herself in snot. But she was three. She grew out of it.

[guza.livejournal.com]

I just always assumed that it made big, winged balls of snot shoot out of her wand and fly repeatdely into the face of whoever it is that asked her a question offended her gravely. What a charming girl.

I feel very attention-whorey posting this again, but it explains the way I always imagined it quite well.





Obviously, Malfoy just isn't cool enough to take it like a man. And, of course, you can substitute him with Zacharias. Everyone knows that all tall skinny blond boys are evil, pale in comparison to the wonder that is Ginevra Weasley and deserve everything they get thrown at them, the evil cowards.

[merrymelody.livejournal.com]

Also, it was evil last year of people not to ask questions about what they read in the papers but merely accept it on face-value; and now it's totally annoying and jerky of them to be curious too. (And in the same book as Zacharias is getting hexed for asking about the DoM, Romilda is getting criticised for being shallow enough to care about H/G - how dare she not respect their privacy when they make out in front of hundreds of people?! - when she could be curious about Dementors and the State of the World. To which she'd then get hexed, perhaps. Basically everyone but Harry and Ginny sucks, mkay?)

[go-back-chief.livejournal.com]

Oh all these non-important standbyers can be decent people -if they stay away from Harry's private life when he wishes it (even if he pushes it into everyone's face -oh but he can't help that! It was just his uncontrollable luuurrrrve for Ginny that made him kiss her in front of her ex and the entire house!) and are supportive of him without questioning when he needs it. In other words, they should leave him alone, because he does things best, or with the help of his inner circle anyway, but they should stand up for him whenever someone wants to soil his reputation, because they ought to know he's a good person dammit! Even if he always ignores them, or is rude to them (which they damn well deserve if he is, how dare they not read Harry's mind?), they should know that.

[merrymelody.livejournal.com]

stay away from Harry's private life when he wishes it (even if he pushes it into everyone's face -oh but he can't help that! It was just his uncontrollable luuurrrrve for Ginny that made him kiss her in front of her ex and the entire house!)

Harry/Ginny = Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes. Complete with protestations about privacy combined with famewhoring for attention; and squeals from those outraged that people aren't moved/believing in their OMG TRUE LUV!11! Oh, and the girl's a Stepford bot and the guy's gay. *awaits lawsuit*

supportive of him without questioning when he needs it.

He can't be supportive of them, of course. He has enough to worry about, and their problems are so minor next to his.

[go-back-chief.livejournal.com]

OMG, icon-makers! I want an icon of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes kissing, with Katie's hair being red, and Tom Cruise having glasses and a lighting-bolt scar! Or even just an icon with the two of them together, made Harry and Ginny!

[q-spade.livejournal.com]

Well a "bogey" can either be dried mucus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucus) (unlike phlegm, which is a type of moist mucus), or it can mean something distinctly dark, shadowy and creepy, like the Bogeyman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman).

Since adults actually seem impressed with this hex of Ginny's, I'd go for the latter meaning, and suggest that the bat-bogey hex is an simulacrum of one of the victim's most irrational fears combined with a batlike demeanor or form. A bit like a mini-boggart, perhaps?

[romeoambiences.livejournal.com]

Ginny is definitely mean-spirited enough for this to be the case...er...I meant cool and justified to use such an awesome hex on the evil blondes, Draco and Zach.

[merrymelody.livejournal.com]

That would almost be like Dark Magic, though, and we all know the Gryffindor's attitude towards that! ;) Of course, maybe if she was using it as a counter-hex?...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure Ron said in OotP that Malfoy had been attacked by great flapping balls of snot or something...I need to find the quote.