My comment on this chapter coming soon, honest guv.
Harry & Ron's complete and utter cluelessness in Potions, after six years of studying the subject, is pathetic.
Surely they feel depressed that they can't do anything for themselves? I think of this when I hear of such people who live off the fortunes of very rich parents or spouses - don't they feel crappy for not being able to generate their own money? Don't Harry and Ron feel crappy for not being able to do their own damn work? They might earn good marks, but it's bullshit. I don't understand some people.
Hermione has made those two very dependent on her, giving herself power in the relationship that she won't hesitate to blatantly flaunt in their faces.
I remember reading about a woman who pretty much did everything for her husband, up to and including cutting his toenails for him. It occured to me then that this was a sort of power-play with her, because she could be certain that this man would be utterly lost without her. Even as she was crouching at his feet to cut his toenails, she knew he was helpless. Likewise, Hermione's relationship with Ron and Harry seems to be all about being this mother-support thing, rather than someone they actually like for her own fine qualities.
Perhaps Lily faked her way through school as well, relying on luck, charm, and the ability to get other people to do things for her?
I would love to find out in book seven that Lily was a nasty piece of work or at the very least less than the sparkling paragon we've been presented with. This is another one of my Things What Will Not Happen, though, as Lily was clearly the most perfect of human beings, perhaps descended from the heavens to cast her divine goodness across our filthsome world. I hope those enchanting eyes of hers exploded when she died. *is bitter*
Common sense would suggest that a bezoar aids against poisoning by means of regurgitation
Fun fact: bezoars were once quite actually thought to be an antidote to poison. The French king Charles IX was apparently so convinced of the effectiveness of said stones that when an experiment had a convicted thief die of poisoning even after swallowing a bezoar, he was convinced the stone used was a fake. I imagine that the instances in which the stones appeared to work were, as you say, instances in which the body expelled the poison naturally. Or perhaps instances of a virus or something that were mistaken for a poisoning in which the patient just got better naturally.
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Date: 2006-01-31 12:21 pm (UTC)Harry & Ron's complete and utter cluelessness in Potions, after six years of studying the subject, is pathetic.
Surely they feel depressed that they can't do anything for themselves? I think of this when I hear of such people who live off the fortunes of very rich parents or spouses - don't they feel crappy for not being able to generate their own money? Don't Harry and Ron feel crappy for not being able to do their own damn work? They might earn good marks, but it's bullshit. I don't understand some people.
Hermione has made those two very dependent on her, giving herself power in the relationship that she won't hesitate to blatantly flaunt in their faces.
I remember reading about a woman who pretty much did everything for her husband, up to and including cutting his toenails for him. It occured to me then that this was a sort of power-play with her, because she could be certain that this man would be utterly lost without her. Even as she was crouching at his feet to cut his toenails, she knew he was helpless. Likewise, Hermione's relationship with Ron and Harry seems to be all about being this mother-support thing, rather than someone they actually like for her own fine qualities.
Perhaps Lily faked her way through school as well, relying on luck, charm, and the ability to get other people to do things for her?
I would love to find out in book seven that Lily was a nasty piece of work or at the very least less than the sparkling paragon we've been presented with. This is another one of my Things What Will Not Happen, though, as Lily was clearly the most perfect of human beings, perhaps descended from the heavens to cast her divine goodness across our filthsome world. I hope those enchanting eyes of hers exploded when she died. *is bitter*
Common sense would suggest that a bezoar aids against poisoning by means of regurgitation
Fun fact: bezoars were once quite actually thought to be an antidote to poison. The French king Charles IX was apparently so convinced of the effectiveness of said stones that when an experiment had a convicted thief die of poisoning even after swallowing a bezoar, he was convinced the stone used was a fake. I imagine that the instances in which the stones appeared to work were, as you say, instances in which the body expelled the poison naturally. Or perhaps instances of a virus or something that were mistaken for a poisoning in which the patient just got better naturally.