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

[go-back-chief.livejournal.com]

I was very annoyed with Harry's patronising attitude to both of them in that scene, and Neville and Luna's "you should sit with them, we're not cool enough for you. Oh, you want to sit here? THANK YOU HARRY, we LIVE on the scraps of compliments you give us!" just made it so much worse. I would seriously love it if Neville grew some pride and told Harry and Ginny to stick their patronising up somewhere, I suppose that's what fanfics are for? With Luna, I don't really see that as being IC, but being ever so grateful at Harry calling her "friend" (but not acting like it), is not IC, either. I think Luna appears like the kind of person who doesn't care particulary much about what people think of her one way or another. I can see her wanting friends, but come on, she's smart enough to recognise the real thing, not mistake an occasional kind word from Harry or Ginny as genuine friendship. I think she would watch their patronising-Luna-is-our-new-SPEW-project somewhat amusedly, not being insulted by it, but also not be fooled by it, if that makes sense. (Of course, I might be projecting a bit too much of myself into her, there. ;-))

[q-spade.livejournal.com]

I can see her wanting friends, but come on, she's smart enough to recognise the real thing, not mistake an occasional kind word from Harry or Ginny as genuine friendship. I think she would watch their patronising-Luna-is-our-new-SPEW-project somewhat amusedly, not being insulted by it, but also not be fooled by it, if that makes sense. (Of course, I might be projecting a bit too much of myself into her, there. ;-))

I actually picked up on this too. It seemed to me as if Luna was being somewhat sarcastic with the "it was like having friends" bit – sort of letting him know his show of magnanimity wasn't that impressive. Her "embarrassing honesty" certainly succeeded in making Harry feel like shit.

[merrymelody.livejournal.com]

Not shitty enough to be her friend of course. (Although I suppose Rowling may have intended the pity date as adequate paying back.)
Of course, I'd rather Luna was used sparingly myself, for the sake of those of you who are her fans; since doubtlessly including her more would lead to it being revealed that she really is cool - look, she hexes people! - or similiar, and I'd rather not know, personally.