Yet again, we are suggesting that the "official" instructions are actually wrong. Since this book has, apparently, been in circulation for many decades, surely someone would have noticed that better instructions might be made avaliable? I'm sorry, but this really bothers me.
I think the problem here, as always, is that JKR really doesn't know that much about how magic works in her world. What she wants is for the HBP's instructions to be tips, like Harry has a great tutor or something. Unfortunately, because of the way it's written, Harry is simply following different instructions. She just hasn't come up with the right analogy or something for what she wants. Harry's meant to be like a cook coming up with a better souffle or something, because he's adding a pinch of this or that.
Also, Harry has offered to lend his bestest friends the instructions, but Ron can't read the elusive HBP's handwriting (and Harry can't write down the instructions and pass notes? Is this not the traditionally accepted method of communicating in class when you're not allowed to?)
Hopefully this is symbolic of the fact that Harry and Snape "understand each other," otherwise it's just lame.
But really, it all amounts to very little.
Not if you're heavily invested in Lily being the one to write the instructions. /rolls eyes
What, come to think of it, is the deal with wizard clothes?
Yeah, you can see why the movies just have to throw up their hands and drop it. Kind of too bad, though. A lot of fanfic writers have loads of fun with clothing (even if it's sometimes painful to read). I like that Draco's Prada outfit from GoF might be his Muggle disguise, but it loses something when you remember everybody wears Muggle clothes all the time.
Mind you, in CoS, the diary-memory reckons that Harry and he are the only Parseltongue speakers at Hogwarts since Slytherin himself. Obviously, he was wrong?
Guess he wanted him and Harry to be speshul? Gotta hand it to those Gaunts, though. It seems like if they'd only gone to school they could have been the Heirs of Slytherin too.
Sadly, it will probably not come to pass.
Yeah. I'd also like to find out he left the school because Gryffindor just annoyed the hell out of him. Or that really Godric stuffed him in a Vanishing Cabinet and pretended he just left, and he'll pop out at the end to make everything okay again.
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Date: 2005-10-25 04:05 pm (UTC)I think the problem here, as always, is that JKR really doesn't know that much about how magic works in her world. What she wants is for the HBP's instructions to be tips, like Harry has a great tutor or something. Unfortunately, because of the way it's written, Harry is simply following different instructions. She just hasn't come up with the right analogy or something for what she wants. Harry's meant to be like a cook coming up with a better souffle or something, because he's adding a pinch of this or that.
Also, Harry has offered to lend his bestest friends the instructions, but Ron can't read the elusive HBP's handwriting (and Harry can't write down the instructions and pass notes? Is this not the traditionally accepted method of communicating in class when you're not allowed to?)
Hopefully this is symbolic of the fact that Harry and Snape "understand each other," otherwise it's just lame.
But really, it all amounts to very little.
Not if you're heavily invested in Lily being the one to write the instructions. /rolls eyes
What, come to think of it, is the deal with wizard clothes?
Yeah, you can see why the movies just have to throw up their hands and drop it. Kind of too bad, though. A lot of fanfic writers have loads of fun with clothing (even if it's sometimes painful to read). I like that Draco's Prada outfit from GoF might be his Muggle disguise, but it loses something when you remember everybody wears Muggle clothes all the time.
Mind you, in CoS, the diary-memory reckons that Harry and he are the only Parseltongue speakers at Hogwarts since Slytherin himself. Obviously, he was wrong?
Guess he wanted him and Harry to be speshul? Gotta hand it to those Gaunts, though. It seems like if they'd only gone to school they could have been the Heirs of Slytherin too.
Sadly, it will probably not come to pass.
Yeah. I'd also like to find out he left the school because Gryffindor just annoyed the hell out of him. Or that really Godric stuffed him in a Vanishing Cabinet and pretended he just left, and he'll pop out at the end to make everything okay again.