*Because Dumbledore needs two entire chapters devoted to his mourning.
I'm in mourning. In mourning because this is the last chapter of sporking. Please, please tell us that you'll do the final book!
*ETA: I love the way any time at all spent with Ginny is always told and not shown. Harry spent time with Ginny and it was awesome the way spending time with your awesome girlfriend that you're totally fated to love forever and you find incredibly attractive would be!
Count your blessings. Every interaction we do see between them is lame (Hippogriff tattoo, anyone?). This way we get to have more of those awesome Harry/Dumbledore scenes!
*ETA: Well, at least that won't go away in DH. Ginny's jealousy is attractive because it's so totally unwarranted. Her beauty is much more wholesome than anyone else's.
I get the feeling that JKR just plain doesn't like romantic love. Harry's ideal girl is scary jealous, while capable of playing at being totally interested in other boys for years in order to attract him. (Geez, if you think of Ginny as another Lily, Lily's "friendship" with Snape takes on a whole new, nasty meaning, doesn't it?)
Then we have Tonks, who is clingy and emotionally manipulative. Hermione, whose idea of foreplay is to emasculate the love of her life. Merope, who, as we recall, used date-rape drugs on her object of desire. And Fleur, who only takes a job in order to spent time with a random cute guy, and then stops working as soon as he pops the question.
The only mutually supportive romantic relationships in these books are the ones we never see. Like Neville and Hannah Abbott, Luna and Newt Scamander, Percy and Penelope, and Draco and Astoria.
*Hermione’s been spending time in the library researching RAB. Oh yeah, cause Hermione’s always the one trying to solve every little mystery. Somehow forgot about that this year what with Malfoy’s secret plans and the unsolved murder attempts she couldn’t care less about.
Which reminds me that there's a very easy way to find out who R.A.B. is. Remember that book at Hogwarts that writes down the name of every single magical person born in England? Why not read through that list for the last, say, forty to seventy years? That probably wouldn't take more than a couple hours.
*Snape’s birth was important enough to make it into the paper?
I have to say that The Daily Prophet does sound like a village circular here. In addition to birth, marriage, and death announcements for the entire wizarding world, it lets you know about that Diggory Gardener grew a marrow this year that looks amazingly like Queen Victoria!
*Harry can’t believe he was "taken in" by the HBP’s book. Oh yeah, the book really took you in, Harry. You should have recognized it was evil from the increasing nastiness of the spells. It’s right that you feel no guilt about using the nastiness of them yourself. The stuff didn’t actually appeal to you at all. You were just seduced by the persuasiveness of Snape’s handwriting when he wrote down the names.
It's a metaphor for the entire series. Like Harry, we were taken in by books that were clever and inventive. Then, they are got darker and darker, until we were laughing at facial disfigurement and rape-by-centaur, and joining in with contempt for women who starve to death. Not to mention enjoying the torment of non-magical folk by wizards.
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In Mourning -- Part One
Date: 2009-02-20 08:26 pm (UTC)I'm in mourning. In mourning because this is the last chapter of sporking. Please, please tell us that you'll do the final book!
*ETA: I love the way any time at all spent with Ginny is always told and not shown. Harry spent time with Ginny and it was awesome the way spending time with your awesome girlfriend that you're totally fated to love forever and you find incredibly attractive would be!
Count your blessings. Every interaction we do see between them is lame (Hippogriff tattoo, anyone?). This way we get to have more of those awesome Harry/Dumbledore scenes!
*ETA: Well, at least that won't go away in DH. Ginny's jealousy is attractive because it's so totally unwarranted. Her beauty is much more wholesome than anyone else's.
I get the feeling that JKR just plain doesn't like romantic love. Harry's ideal girl is scary jealous, while capable of playing at being totally interested in other boys for years in order to attract him. (Geez, if you think of Ginny as another Lily, Lily's "friendship" with Snape takes on a whole new, nasty meaning, doesn't it?)
Then we have Tonks, who is clingy and emotionally manipulative. Hermione, whose idea of foreplay is to emasculate the love of her life. Merope, who, as we recall, used date-rape drugs on her object of desire. And Fleur, who only takes a job in order to spent time with a random cute guy, and then stops working as soon as he pops the question.
The only mutually supportive romantic relationships in these books are the ones we never see. Like Neville and Hannah Abbott, Luna and Newt Scamander, Percy and Penelope, and Draco and Astoria.
*Hermione’s been spending time in the library researching RAB. Oh yeah, cause Hermione’s always the one trying to solve every little mystery. Somehow forgot about that this year what with Malfoy’s secret plans and the unsolved murder attempts she couldn’t care less about.
Which reminds me that there's a very easy way to find out who R.A.B. is. Remember that book at Hogwarts that writes down the name of every single magical person born in England? Why not read through that list for the last, say, forty to seventy years? That probably wouldn't take more than a couple hours.
*Snape’s birth was important enough to make it into the paper?
I have to say that The Daily Prophet does sound like a village circular here. In addition to birth, marriage, and death announcements for the entire wizarding world, it lets you know about that Diggory Gardener grew a marrow this year that looks amazingly like Queen Victoria!
*Harry can’t believe he was "taken in" by the HBP’s book. Oh yeah, the book really took you in, Harry. You should have recognized it was evil from the increasing nastiness of the spells. It’s right that you feel no guilt about using the nastiness of them yourself. The stuff didn’t actually appeal to you at all. You were just seduced by the persuasiveness of Snape’s handwriting when he wrote down the names.
It's a metaphor for the entire series. Like Harry, we were taken in by books that were clever and inventive. Then, they are got darker and darker, until we were laughing at facial disfigurement and rape-by-centaur, and joining in with contempt for women who starve to death. Not to mention enjoying the torment of non-magical folk by wizards.