* I wonder if Dumbledore swore Draco to secrecy about the thing in the forest the way he did with Snape, or if he just assumed--ha ha--that nobody would believe him anyway.
My guess is he did nothing. Swearing Snape to secrecy was a special case of damage control, being as Dumbledore's own ass was on the line. His bright idea to educate a werewolf at Hogwarts blew up in his face. I used to think he let the Marauders off lightly out of favoritism, but of course they had him over a barrel.
* ”Assuming they can understand you, of course,” is another one of Draco’s few actually funny lines.
According to statistics that I just now pulled out of my rear end, Draco averages one genuinely funny line per book, which puts him squarely among the top five wittiest HP characters. The twins have a way with words, but their humor is often puerile. Snape and Harry are hit and miss. Ginny's mainly just spiteful. Fans keep ranting that Canon Draco isn't all that funny, and no more he is compared to characters in other fandoms. But among HP characters he's lord of the zinger.
*Thanks to Hermione for explaining to me that Umbridge’s behavior to Hagrid was racist because he’s a half-breed, since her behavior to him was no different than her behavior to anyone else.
Umbridge had no problem with Flitwick, who's part goblin and a good teacher. She picks on Trelawney, who as far as we know is fully human and a bad teacher. Could there be some sort of logic underlying her beef with Hagrid? Nah.
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Date: 2008-03-16 11:37 pm (UTC)My guess is he did nothing. Swearing Snape to secrecy was a special case of damage control, being as Dumbledore's own ass was on the line. His bright idea to educate a werewolf at Hogwarts blew up in his face. I used to think he let the Marauders off lightly out of favoritism, but of course they had him over a barrel.
* ”Assuming they can understand you, of course,” is another one of Draco’s few actually funny lines.
According to statistics that I just now pulled out of my rear end, Draco averages one genuinely funny line per book, which puts him squarely among the top five wittiest HP characters. The twins have a way with words, but their humor is often puerile. Snape and Harry are hit and miss. Ginny's mainly just spiteful. Fans keep ranting that Canon Draco isn't all that funny, and no more he is compared to characters in other fandoms. But among HP characters he's lord of the zinger.
*Thanks to Hermione for explaining to me that Umbridge’s behavior to Hagrid was racist because he’s a half-breed, since her behavior to him was no different than her behavior to anyone else.
Umbridge had no problem with Flitwick, who's part goblin and a good teacher. She picks on Trelawney, who as far as we know is fully human and a bad teacher. Could there be some sort of logic underlying her beef with Hagrid? Nah.
-L