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q_spade for offering up her own chapter summary. In the meantime, here's mine for the same chapter.
*Not sure I like the chapter title much. Make your puns more funny in future!
*Curiously, it is taken to be Percy's fault that Mrs. Weasley is crying. What kind of insensitive oaf would storm from the house after his siblings saw fit to throw food at him instead of trying to be civil? Only moral cowards would make any attempt to be civil, I'm sure. Ginny, Fred and George, meanwhile, know what fun is all about - and nothing is more fun than acting like idiots :(
*Mrs. Weasley seems to have decided - consciously or not - that Harry is the Percy substitute around here. Not that she didn't treat him as a surrogate child anyway, but her response to Ron's comments about Percy ("it's not really a loss, is it?") is to go and huggle Harry. Mmm.
*The Fat Lady painting is a Christmas boozehound, as described in earlier books also. I can just imagine Phinneus Nigellus giving her teh_scorn about that kind of behaviour. Perhaps with a Blaise-alike bitchface :)
*"Won-Won!" Yes, Lavender's turned into the Pansy from Pansy-bashing Dracofic. It's all there, the utter revulsion, the attempt to make her out to be a fool, the clear indication that he prefers someone else. It just so happens to have been a Gryffindor relationship, and not a Slytherin one. Draco and Pansy, meanwhile, apparently continue as ever.
*Hermione, very much avoiding the whole issue of Ron, also thinks there must be a more reasonable explaination for the Draco/Snape exchange. The foreshadowing smells of prawns today. Harry is so very distressed by Hermione's insistence on disbelieving him that he exclaims; "We'll see who's right...you'll be eating your words, Hermione, just like the Ministry." How forthright Harry is!
*Despite not being able to Apparate in the castle (as we are told every time the skill is mentioned), Ron still wants to learn so that people will know he's capable. A bit like owning a flash car you can't drive, I suppose.
*Seamus has a cousin called Fergus. I wonder at the great font of Irish names his family must be. Not that I dislike the name, but it's just so "Just so's you don't forget he's Irish", really.
*Harry is besieged with questions about Apparition. In fact, he has to make up excuses so that he can slip away for his Dumbledore lesson, because who knows how long the questions might have gone on for otherwise? He might have never stopped!
*It turns out Cornelius Fudge was also keen to have Harry on the Ministry's side in the days before he was booted out. I do wonder if it wouldn't have been a better tactic for him, after all, to whip up terror and distress at the mere speculation that Voldemort was back. It would have done wonders for the Prophet, that's for sure. How else does the Daily Mail get such a healthy circulation if not for the constant scare-mongering headlines that suggest "asylum seekers" are out to steal our jobs, children and souls? The public appears to love a good fright.
*Dumbledore jinxed Dawlish again "with the greatest regret". Ooh yeah. Really belive you.
*He is also milking the whole situation for all that it's worth by telling Harry that it's still not the time to tell him how the hand injury happened. Just get on with it!
*Harry is in a silent RAGE that Dumbledore doesn't believe him about Draco. WOE! He'll show them all, you wait and see!
*Tom Riddle, like Draco, was made a Slytherin almost instantly. Mmm, foreshadowing. Goes well with oatcakes :)
*Despite being clearly as mad as a balloon when Dumbledore met him, none of the other staff could understand this, and just thought he was a nice young man. It's amazing how only some people are just blinded to reality, isn't it? Perhaps it's all down to Dumbledore's "extraordinary brainpower", as he puts it. Of course, he never told any of the other staff the stuff he'd heard, because he wanted to give Tom a chance. But he didn't blindly trust Tom or anything! He kept a close eye on Tom, it just so happened that Tom was very guarded with him. Well, isn't that convenient?
*Tom Riddle, upon searching in vain for any magical Riddles, found that he was related to Slytherin through the name "Marvolo". Is there actually no other family that might bear that name? It'd suck if there was. You thought you were related to Marvolo Gaunt, descendant of Salazar Slytherin - but it was some other random Marvolo! Shit, your whole philosophy down the toilet!
*The Gaunt's house - it's a bit like Miss Havisham's. Except without the wedding dress *pictures Morfin in a wedding dress*
*Morfin unwittingly gives Voldemort directions to the Riddle household, and thusly assists him in the murder of his own father and paternal grandparents. Then Voldemort makes Morfin confess to the crime - a flaw in the concept of catching underage magicians is revealed as it is shown that magic detected in a house does not come with a name attached. Someone ought to do something about that, those loopholes could fit a scooter through.
*You can tell when a memory's been tampered with - the contents of the bottle seemed "congealed" to Harry. Nice.
*Slughorn had lovely hair, back in the day. I bet when he was a little boy, all the old ladies would coo over his lovely hair :)
*He also has "little feet". You know what they say about the size of a man's feet, right? (Small feet, small shoes). And he was fat back then, too. Just so's we're all aware of the fat and its place in history.
*Harry has to notice that Riddle is the most handsome in the room. Does it get yer chest monster going, Harry? Eh? Eh? It is noted that all the other boys (no girls, apparently - perhaps they weren't ginger enough for teh_Slug at that time) cast Tom admiring looks also. Perhaps the idea of the Slytherin dorms being a hot bed of...hot beds has some basis in canon after all. If only v. tenuously :O
*The Sluggish memory has been tampered with! Oh noes, what a thing to do to hard-working mind-readers who only want to help save the world with hours of dreary backstory! Personally, I can't quite see why Dumbledore couldn't tell Harry about Horcruxes all on his own - especially since the memories don't seem to add much to the plot except by way of filler. Not that I hate them, just that they could be trimmed considerably without losing anything much. But hey, if we're going to use the Felix Felicis for something, why not for a drawn-out goose chase involving a humourously drunken Slughorn? Yeah, it's all about tightness of plot round here.
q_spade for offering up her own chapter summary. In the meantime, here's mine for the same chapter.*Not sure I like the chapter title much. Make your puns more funny in future!
*Curiously, it is taken to be Percy's fault that Mrs. Weasley is crying. What kind of insensitive oaf would storm from the house after his siblings saw fit to throw food at him instead of trying to be civil? Only moral cowards would make any attempt to be civil, I'm sure. Ginny, Fred and George, meanwhile, know what fun is all about - and nothing is more fun than acting like idiots :(
*Mrs. Weasley seems to have decided - consciously or not - that Harry is the Percy substitute around here. Not that she didn't treat him as a surrogate child anyway, but her response to Ron's comments about Percy ("it's not really a loss, is it?") is to go and huggle Harry. Mmm.
*The Fat Lady painting is a Christmas boozehound, as described in earlier books also. I can just imagine Phinneus Nigellus giving her teh_scorn about that kind of behaviour. Perhaps with a Blaise-alike bitchface :)
*"Won-Won!" Yes, Lavender's turned into the Pansy from Pansy-bashing Dracofic. It's all there, the utter revulsion, the attempt to make her out to be a fool, the clear indication that he prefers someone else. It just so happens to have been a Gryffindor relationship, and not a Slytherin one. Draco and Pansy, meanwhile, apparently continue as ever.
*Hermione, very much avoiding the whole issue of Ron, also thinks there must be a more reasonable explaination for the Draco/Snape exchange. The foreshadowing smells of prawns today. Harry is so very distressed by Hermione's insistence on disbelieving him that he exclaims; "We'll see who's right...you'll be eating your words, Hermione, just like the Ministry." How forthright Harry is!
*Despite not being able to Apparate in the castle (as we are told every time the skill is mentioned), Ron still wants to learn so that people will know he's capable. A bit like owning a flash car you can't drive, I suppose.
*Seamus has a cousin called Fergus. I wonder at the great font of Irish names his family must be. Not that I dislike the name, but it's just so "Just so's you don't forget he's Irish", really.
*Harry is besieged with questions about Apparition. In fact, he has to make up excuses so that he can slip away for his Dumbledore lesson, because who knows how long the questions might have gone on for otherwise? He might have never stopped!
*It turns out Cornelius Fudge was also keen to have Harry on the Ministry's side in the days before he was booted out. I do wonder if it wouldn't have been a better tactic for him, after all, to whip up terror and distress at the mere speculation that Voldemort was back. It would have done wonders for the Prophet, that's for sure. How else does the Daily Mail get such a healthy circulation if not for the constant scare-mongering headlines that suggest "asylum seekers" are out to steal our jobs, children and souls? The public appears to love a good fright.
*Dumbledore jinxed Dawlish again "with the greatest regret". Ooh yeah. Really belive you.
*He is also milking the whole situation for all that it's worth by telling Harry that it's still not the time to tell him how the hand injury happened. Just get on with it!
*Harry is in a silent RAGE that Dumbledore doesn't believe him about Draco. WOE! He'll show them all, you wait and see!
*Tom Riddle, like Draco, was made a Slytherin almost instantly. Mmm, foreshadowing. Goes well with oatcakes :)
*Despite being clearly as mad as a balloon when Dumbledore met him, none of the other staff could understand this, and just thought he was a nice young man. It's amazing how only some people are just blinded to reality, isn't it? Perhaps it's all down to Dumbledore's "extraordinary brainpower", as he puts it. Of course, he never told any of the other staff the stuff he'd heard, because he wanted to give Tom a chance. But he didn't blindly trust Tom or anything! He kept a close eye on Tom, it just so happened that Tom was very guarded with him. Well, isn't that convenient?
*Tom Riddle, upon searching in vain for any magical Riddles, found that he was related to Slytherin through the name "Marvolo". Is there actually no other family that might bear that name? It'd suck if there was. You thought you were related to Marvolo Gaunt, descendant of Salazar Slytherin - but it was some other random Marvolo! Shit, your whole philosophy down the toilet!
*The Gaunt's house - it's a bit like Miss Havisham's. Except without the wedding dress *pictures Morfin in a wedding dress*
*Morfin unwittingly gives Voldemort directions to the Riddle household, and thusly assists him in the murder of his own father and paternal grandparents. Then Voldemort makes Morfin confess to the crime - a flaw in the concept of catching underage magicians is revealed as it is shown that magic detected in a house does not come with a name attached. Someone ought to do something about that, those loopholes could fit a scooter through.
*You can tell when a memory's been tampered with - the contents of the bottle seemed "congealed" to Harry. Nice.
*Slughorn had lovely hair, back in the day. I bet when he was a little boy, all the old ladies would coo over his lovely hair :)
*He also has "little feet". You know what they say about the size of a man's feet, right? (Small feet, small shoes). And he was fat back then, too. Just so's we're all aware of the fat and its place in history.
*Harry has to notice that Riddle is the most handsome in the room. Does it get yer chest monster going, Harry? Eh? Eh? It is noted that all the other boys (no girls, apparently - perhaps they weren't ginger enough for teh_Slug at that time) cast Tom admiring looks also. Perhaps the idea of the Slytherin dorms being a hot bed of...hot beds has some basis in canon after all. If only v. tenuously :O
*The Sluggish memory has been tampered with! Oh noes, what a thing to do to hard-working mind-readers who only want to help save the world with hours of dreary backstory! Personally, I can't quite see why Dumbledore couldn't tell Harry about Horcruxes all on his own - especially since the memories don't seem to add much to the plot except by way of filler. Not that I hate them, just that they could be trimmed considerably without losing anything much. But hey, if we're going to use the Felix Felicis for something, why not for a drawn-out goose chase involving a humourously drunken Slughorn? Yeah, it's all about tightness of plot round here.
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Date: 2006-01-15 06:47 am (UTC)*lightbulb* It...it's all so clear now! Polyjuiced!PansyxRon? Someone *must* have written this fic by now.
He kept a close eye on Tom, it just so happened that Tom was very guarded with him. Well, isn't that convenient?
Yes, it's very convenient how nobody but Dumbledore ever seemed to notice anything amiss. Come on, Jo, you're not helping your case here. If Dumbledore is, improbably, the only one to know that something's wrong with this guy (since he was a kid!), doesn't it sort of make it MORE apparent that he's a dumbass for not doing anything about it all along?