GoF Chapter Thirty-Two

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*Against all odds, Voldemort’s stupid plan seems to have worked.

*Peter walking up with Voldemort in his arms is pretty awesome. It’s almost a shame it gets spoiled by Harry’s scar pain. Kill the spare: also awesome.

*I notice Voldemort does not say, "Kill the ruggedly handsome spare with lovely grey eyes," because he’s not a great big boy-fancier like Harry is.

*Harry stared at Cedric for a second that contained an eternity, or perhaps several sunlit days.

*Baby Voldemort: also pretty damned awesome. And the cauldron’s a nicely Celtic touch.

*I don’t know about you, but I think all this "bone of the father unwittingly given" stuff is just made up as they go along for dramatic effect. Voldemort’s the only one who seems to do dramatic magic. With everybody else it’s all perilously close to pig Latin.

*I guess Wormtail has at least had some practice losing body parts. Honestly, this guy is one of the weirdest in the Potterverse. I find myself trying to imagine poor IfYou’veAReadyMind!Draco in this kind of situation. (Did you know you have red eyes??!!)

*OMG, I need to get out of fandom. I read, "He felt the tip of the dagger penetrate the crook" as something altogether different. Especially the crook part.

*Has anyone explained to us why Peter went and found this baby man again? What’s in it for him, exactly? Why would he not rather just find a nice restaurant and live in the back alley off scraps?

*Robe me. I take it back, Voldemort is a big ole queen.

*Lord Voldemort had risen again. I admit that in itself didn’t seem like much of a big deal to me in reading it.

*Read over that part where Peter gets his hand cut off again. Could the set up be any better than the resolution to this storyline? People often plum forget Peter's even in DH much less that he gets killed in it.



This chapter was six and a half pages long and included bondage, blood-letting, nudity, devil babies, murder and self-amputation.

Final score: Zero

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

*Has anyone explained to us why Peter went and found this baby man again? What’s in it for him, exactly? Why would he not rather just find a nice restaurant and live in the back alley off scraps?

Ratatouille crossover AU, stat!

Well...he knew Sirius would hunt him down and he wanted the best protection on offer, so he ran to the guy who treats his followers like used tissues and who got himself killed by a baby. I'm thinking it made more sense in JKR's head.

-L

[indongcho.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm starting to think that JKR doesn't listen to her characters at all. Mine would be screaming at me like mad for writing something like that.

And we know she doesn't edit. Even if you won't let editors at it, at least edit it yourself, Rowling!

[mmmarcusz.livejournal.com]

Well...he knew Sirius would hunt him down and he wanted the best protection on offer, so he ran to the guy who treats his followers like used tissues and who got himself killed by a baby. I'm thinking it made more sense in JKR's head.

How would Sirius hunt him down? He spends the entire book "keeping an eye on Harry" by sitting in a cave two miles away. He seems to forgot completely about Pettigrew. Even if he tried, he'd fail horribly because Sirius has no useful skills of any kind.