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deathtocapslock"Where are the chapters?" you (probably don't) cry. Well, here's chapter eleven for you.
*It is noted once more that Hermione resents "Harry's" brilliance at Potions. Why doesn't anyone say "U Jus Jellus"? Actually, I forget if they do later or not.
*The non-verbal spells are now expected. Good to know, and a perfectly worthy excuse for another mention of U-No-Poo. Which we all needed, I'm sure.
*But never mind that, what about Hagrid? yes, the workload has meant that Hagrid has had to spend his evenings alone in his little hut, probably weeping into his tea. Hermione misses him. Ron, sensibly, does not. This kind of conflict between the two goes ever so far towards proving that they are made for each other.
*But then again, never mind about Hagrid, what about Harry? Harry! The Hero! The Chosen One!!
"Oh, come on, Harry," said Hermione, suddenly impatient. "It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting and, frankly, you've never been more fanciable."
A real quote from Hermione there. Thanks for that. You might as well have said "Do you want your Mary-Stu open or wrapped?" He's been telling the truth about stuff, and he's gone all tall! He must be the Hogwarts heart-throb. I gagged and, unlike Ron, I wasn't even eating kipper.
*Lupin isn't writing to Harry, apparently. Woe :( Of course, he can't really do writing in werewolf shape, but even so, Harry indulges in a bit of self-pity anyway.
*Harry's got a smart now Potions textbook, with all those incorrect instructions neatly printed out on pristine pages. Naturally, he's not having any of it, and swaps the covers around on this new version and the HBP version.
(an afterthought: if our HBP owned that book, it's convenient that it ended up back at Hogwarts. Some of the books I bought for university, I've still got. I guess it could have been donated to the "Big Pile Of Old Textbooks For Pikey Kids", or Professor Snape might have taken everything he owned with him when he moved into Hogwarts, but...)
*Stan Shunpike, bus conductor sort, has been arrested and wrongly imprisoned! It's a dangerous world out there - all the parents want to take their kids home, even though Hogwarts is, liek, so much safer than anywhere else in teh world!! Although, as Hermione notes, Dumbledore isn't around as much as he might be. Ominous foreshadowing a go-go!
*But back to the real meat of the story - sports! Stopping briefly to allow Lavender to smile at Ron (for which base sluttery she will later be consigned to the depths of hell) and to allow Hermione to act all pissy about this, even though she wouldn't dream of admitting why (oh, for heaven's sake!), we get down to the Quidditch pitch to see Cormac McLaggen, who we're obviously not meant to like, and his expectation of preferential treatment! The nerve! Harry only extends preferential treatment to his nearest and dearest, doncha know!
*More dull stuff that probably could have been cut as well, about first years who can't fly, girls who are too silly for the sensible business of team sports. Gryffindor team is so popular that even Hufflepuffs want to try out for it!
*Ginny is now a Chaser, after outflying all the competition and scoring seventeen goals. Is there nothing this paragon cannot do?
*Another mention of the genetic superiority of the Weasleys with the new Beaters not being nearly so good as Fred and George. Oh yes, and Ron saves enough goals to be the Keeper, earning him cheers from Hermione and scowls from McLaggen.
*Anyway, what about Hagrid? While Hermione's been helping Ron cheat his way to sucess, they've all been neglecting poor Hagrid, and so they go to see him, bowing to the Hippogriff as they go. While this book doesn't have as much Hagrid as one might have expected, he's still clinging to the more dreary portions. Yay. Some dull sentences as we negotiate Hagrid's hurt pride at being considered rubbish even by Harry and his friends.
*But then Hagrid breaks down and confesses that his poor giant spider is dying. As the three pretend to feel sorry about this, they help Hagrid's pissy mood by appearing to care. The rest of the spiders are not so happy about this, which will probably mean something in the future *ominous music*
*While walking back to the Hall, they notice McLaggen walk into the door. Harry has Hermione admit that she Confunded him, and Harry spends precisely 0.0003 seconds being morally outraged at Hermione's dishonesty before "smirking". Oh shut up, all of you.
*Ron is being ignored by Slughorn. Just be thankful, Ron.
*Anyway, back at the Tower, nobody has (according to the Prophet) found anything at the Malfoy residence. Harry theorises that Draco must have sent his Bad Stuff by owl or something. He must have found a way!
*Ron is staring over at Lavender Brown. This will not stop it from being her fault entirely once he finds out she's too girly for him.
*And Harry, popular guy that he is, has been stolen from Slughorn by Snape, in order to have a rummage in Professor Snape's wriggling things. What? What are you all looking at?
*It is noted once more that Hermione resents "Harry's" brilliance at Potions. Why doesn't anyone say "U Jus Jellus"? Actually, I forget if they do later or not.
*The non-verbal spells are now expected. Good to know, and a perfectly worthy excuse for another mention of U-No-Poo. Which we all needed, I'm sure.
*But never mind that, what about Hagrid? yes, the workload has meant that Hagrid has had to spend his evenings alone in his little hut, probably weeping into his tea. Hermione misses him. Ron, sensibly, does not. This kind of conflict between the two goes ever so far towards proving that they are made for each other.
*But then again, never mind about Hagrid, what about Harry? Harry! The Hero! The Chosen One!!
"Oh, come on, Harry," said Hermione, suddenly impatient. "It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting and, frankly, you've never been more fanciable."
A real quote from Hermione there. Thanks for that. You might as well have said "Do you want your Mary-Stu open or wrapped?" He's been telling the truth about stuff, and he's gone all tall! He must be the Hogwarts heart-throb. I gagged and, unlike Ron, I wasn't even eating kipper.
*Lupin isn't writing to Harry, apparently. Woe :( Of course, he can't really do writing in werewolf shape, but even so, Harry indulges in a bit of self-pity anyway.
*Harry's got a smart now Potions textbook, with all those incorrect instructions neatly printed out on pristine pages. Naturally, he's not having any of it, and swaps the covers around on this new version and the HBP version.
(an afterthought: if our HBP owned that book, it's convenient that it ended up back at Hogwarts. Some of the books I bought for university, I've still got. I guess it could have been donated to the "Big Pile Of Old Textbooks For Pikey Kids", or Professor Snape might have taken everything he owned with him when he moved into Hogwarts, but...)
*Stan Shunpike, bus conductor sort, has been arrested and wrongly imprisoned! It's a dangerous world out there - all the parents want to take their kids home, even though Hogwarts is, liek, so much safer than anywhere else in teh world!! Although, as Hermione notes, Dumbledore isn't around as much as he might be. Ominous foreshadowing a go-go!
*But back to the real meat of the story - sports! Stopping briefly to allow Lavender to smile at Ron (for which base sluttery she will later be consigned to the depths of hell) and to allow Hermione to act all pissy about this, even though she wouldn't dream of admitting why (oh, for heaven's sake!), we get down to the Quidditch pitch to see Cormac McLaggen, who we're obviously not meant to like, and his expectation of preferential treatment! The nerve! Harry only extends preferential treatment to his nearest and dearest, doncha know!
*More dull stuff that probably could have been cut as well, about first years who can't fly, girls who are too silly for the sensible business of team sports. Gryffindor team is so popular that even Hufflepuffs want to try out for it!
*Ginny is now a Chaser, after outflying all the competition and scoring seventeen goals. Is there nothing this paragon cannot do?
*Another mention of the genetic superiority of the Weasleys with the new Beaters not being nearly so good as Fred and George. Oh yes, and Ron saves enough goals to be the Keeper, earning him cheers from Hermione and scowls from McLaggen.
*Anyway, what about Hagrid? While Hermione's been helping Ron cheat his way to sucess, they've all been neglecting poor Hagrid, and so they go to see him, bowing to the Hippogriff as they go. While this book doesn't have as much Hagrid as one might have expected, he's still clinging to the more dreary portions. Yay. Some dull sentences as we negotiate Hagrid's hurt pride at being considered rubbish even by Harry and his friends.
*But then Hagrid breaks down and confesses that his poor giant spider is dying. As the three pretend to feel sorry about this, they help Hagrid's pissy mood by appearing to care. The rest of the spiders are not so happy about this, which will probably mean something in the future *ominous music*
*While walking back to the Hall, they notice McLaggen walk into the door. Harry has Hermione admit that she Confunded him, and Harry spends precisely 0.0003 seconds being morally outraged at Hermione's dishonesty before "smirking". Oh shut up, all of you.
*Ron is being ignored by Slughorn. Just be thankful, Ron.
*Anyway, back at the Tower, nobody has (according to the Prophet) found anything at the Malfoy residence. Harry theorises that Draco must have sent his Bad Stuff by owl or something. He must have found a way!
*Ron is staring over at Lavender Brown. This will not stop it from being her fault entirely once he finds out she's too girly for him.
*And Harry, popular guy that he is, has been stolen from Slughorn by Snape, in order to have a rummage in Professor Snape's wriggling things. What? What are you all looking at?
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Date: 2005-11-05 10:41 pm (UTC)Of course not! Ron might stare, but good girls should NOT show that they're interested in a guy. (And we all still know that they really ARE interested, despite showing otherwise, because "we're women, we know, hihihi".)
"Oh, come on, Harry," said Hermione, suddenly impatient. "It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting and, frankly, you've never been more fanciable."
A real quote from Hermione there. Thanks for that. You might as well have said "Do you want your Mary-Stu open or wrapped?" He's been telling the truth about stuff, and he's gone all tall! He must be the Hogwarts heart-throb.
Well, if Hermione says it, it must be true. Harry-hunk-of-Hogwarts. Of course, JKR couldn't let him be plain.
an afterthought: if our HBP owned that book, it's convenient that it ended up back at Hogwarts. Some of the books I bought for university, I've still got. I guess it could have been donated to the "Big Pile Of Old Textbooks For Pikey Kids", or Professor Snape might have taken everything he owned with him when he moved into Hogwarts, but..
What's weird is that it's Snape. Does Snape seem to be the kind of person who would gladly share his old text-books with the poor children in next generation? Especially textbooks in which he has his own invented spells written down? Not to me, he doesn't.
Ginny is now a Chaser, after outflying all the competition and scoring seventeen goals.
Of course she is! But she's NOT a Mary Sue. She's just perfect in that glorious not-Mary Sue-way.
Is there nothing this paragon cannot do?
Growing a personality? A life of her own that's not centred around the Boy who lived? Take her own initiatives? Act realistically every once in a while?
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Date: 2005-11-05 11:05 pm (UTC)Probably while trying to remember what Lupin even looks like, for all the attention he usually gives him when they're in the same room.
Stan Shunpike, bus conductor sort, has been arrested and wrongly imprisoned! It's a dangerous world out there - all the parents want to take their kids home, even though Hogwarts is, liek, so much safer than anywhere else in teh world!! Although, as Hermione notes, Dumbledore isn't around as much as he might be. Ominous foreshadowing a go-go!
Just imagine if they did all take their kids out, it would be a school entirely full of Muggleborns, since none of them tell their parents little things like the fact that they're being taught in a war zone.
Ginny is now a Chaser, after outflying all the competition and scoring seventeen goals. Is there nothing this paragon cannot do?
Be bad at something? That counts as a flaw!!
While walking back to the Hall, they notice McLaggen walk into the door. Harry has Hermione admit that she Confunded him, and Harry spends precisely 0.0003 seconds being morally outraged at Hermione's dishonesty before "smirking". Oh shut up, all of you.
Seriously. And then they spent the rest of the day complaining about how Slytherin plays favorites or something.
Ron is staring over at Lavender Brown. This will not stop it from being her fault entirely once he finds out she's too girly for him.
I hope these two get married after R/Hr ends in a messy divorce.
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Date: 2005-11-05 11:05 pm (UTC)No, that's for Ron and Neville.
I am thinking that Snape keeps his old stuff around in the Castle- for is own use or remebrance, not for sharing with children.
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Date: 2005-11-06 01:21 am (UTC)Color me shocked. After all their history of complete mutual indifference, too! Seriously, the pre-HBP fandom idea that Lupin would morph into a mentor/father figure to Harry, without any pressure from Dumbledore at that, came pretty high on the WTF-o-meter.
we negotiate Hagrid's hurt pride at being considered rubbish even by Harry and his friends
I'm usually pretty good at tolerating Hagrid, since he's not around much and Harry's finally started to face facts about him. But jeez, what a passive-aggressive wanker. Coldshouldering the trio in the corridors, slamming the door in their faces – honestly, this man belongs in daycare with the other preschoolers. It's not like they randomly dropped COMC just because Hagrid sucks. They were paring down their schedules and COMC had to go because none of them is going to be a hippogriff wrangler or whatever.
Stan Shunpike, bus conductor sort, has been arrested and wrongly imprisoned!
Note how Hermione informs us that Stan was arrested merely to make the Ministry look more proactive. That's probably part of it, yes, but if he was really claiming to be in on secret DE plans then sorry Ron, it's not that hard to see why they might have taken him seriously. A decent investigating officer would have gotten Stan's number within the day and sent him home after a night in jail, but that's another issue.
-L
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Date: 2005-11-06 09:38 pm (UTC)It's not? It should have been!
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Date: 2005-11-08 06:29 pm (UTC)