How I wish for your Slytherin compartment scene to have been in the movie!!! Smooches.
And btw, how can the schools be traditionally very competitive if they don't know about each other? Oh come on - it's the same logic according to which the winner of the triwizard tournament wins eternal glory although nobody has ever heard about that competition!
It's so inspiring the way Hermione, a Muggleborn, manages to become so assimilated she can develop prejudices against inferior wizard schools that sound only vaguely familiar to Ron, even though Ron is a big fan of Viktor Krum who currently goes there. It's only fair. How can Ron be expected to know a Quidditch player needs or needed to go to school as well? Quidditch stars play Quidditch 24/ 7 just like Death Eaters eat death. The thing about inferior or superior schools is puzzling: We are told (I think in PS) that Hogwarts is the best wizarding school. According to what? I mean, it's not as if even the narrator's voice doesn't claim half the teachers to be incompetent or otherwise useless (Binns, Trelawney, Hagrid, 4 out of 6 DADA teachers...). And I may be wrong, but I seem to recall the idea the Triwizard tournament was held between all "the other" schools. Even if that was meant for Europe only - where the hell are all the other European nations sending their children?
Ron laments Draco's not going to Durmstrang, as it would be so easy to push him off a glacier and make it look like an accident. "Shame his mother likes him..." he says I just wanted to point out that Ron fantasizing about killing Draco in this way is totally different from Draco fantasizing about Hermione being killed by some monster in CoS.
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Date: 2007-04-20 07:47 pm (UTC)And btw, how can the schools be traditionally very competitive if they don't know about each other?
Oh come on - it's the same logic according to which the winner of the triwizard tournament wins eternal glory although nobody has ever heard about that competition!
It's so inspiring the way Hermione, a Muggleborn, manages to become so assimilated she can develop prejudices against inferior wizard schools that sound only vaguely familiar to Ron, even though Ron is a big fan of Viktor Krum who currently goes there.
It's only fair. How can Ron be expected to know a Quidditch player needs or needed to go to school as well? Quidditch stars play Quidditch 24/ 7 just like Death Eaters eat death.
The thing about inferior or superior schools is puzzling: We are told (I think in PS) that Hogwarts is the best wizarding school. According to what? I mean, it's not as if even the narrator's voice doesn't claim half the teachers to be incompetent or otherwise useless (Binns, Trelawney, Hagrid, 4 out of 6 DADA teachers...). And I may be wrong, but I seem to recall the idea the Triwizard tournament was held between all "the other" schools. Even if that was meant for Europe only - where the hell are all the other European nations sending their children?
Ron laments Draco's not going to Durmstrang, as it would be so easy to push him off a glacier and make it look like an accident. "Shame his mother likes him..." he says
I just wanted to point out that Ron fantasizing about killing Draco in this way is totally different from Draco fantasizing about Hermione being killed by some monster in CoS.