Don't Harry and Ron feel crappy for not being able to do their own damn work?
And how on earth did Harry manage Exceeds Expectations in his OWL without Hermione? Either the Potions OWL is a total walk in the park, in which case Slughorn should rethink his policy of accepting E students, or Harry breezed through on the strength of his Famous Harry Potter bonus points. Wonder what Ron got.
OT, but I love Harry's and Ron's cunning plan to make Slughorn spill his guts. Just march up and ask him, "What about those Horcruxes, eh?" Of course he's going to say, "Why yes, I told the Dark Lord how to make them. It's my deepest, darkest shame and if it ever got out I'd be lynched. Now let me tell you all about it, my sweet little Potions Prince." Didn't Harry's experience with Snape give him a clue as to how people are likely to react when you pry into their worst memories?
I would love to find out in book seven that Lily was a nasty piece of work
OMG yes. Way back when seeing the first movie, I naively assumed Harry's parents were nice, normal, ordinary people. Instead we got Mr. and Mrs. Teflon Sue. Look, for instance, how the fandom tends to define "bully" as something 15-yo Draco is, but with 15-yo James it's something he did, a brief aberration before his true greatness was revealed.
To be fair, JKR herself hasn't claimed that James ever became a nice guy. But Lily – hoo boy. It's not even that she's remembered with awe as the great and powerful witch who defeated Voldemort, it's that whatever she did is somehow more awesome than when someone else does the exact same thing. Her love for Harry was more special than the love of any other mother who died defending her baby. Her above-average Potions performance was superior to anyone else's above-average Potions performance. Her green eyes were more special than any green eyes in the history of the world. In a classic detective novel she'd be on the shortlist of suspects, because anyone who inspires so much doubtfully deserved admiration is probably a bad guy. :)
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Date: 2006-02-01 07:36 am (UTC)And how on earth did Harry manage Exceeds Expectations in his OWL without Hermione? Either the Potions OWL is a total walk in the park, in which case Slughorn should rethink his policy of accepting E students, or Harry breezed through on the strength of his Famous Harry Potter bonus points. Wonder what Ron got.
OT, but I love Harry's and Ron's cunning plan to make Slughorn spill his guts. Just march up and ask him, "What about those Horcruxes, eh?" Of course he's going to say, "Why yes, I told the Dark Lord how to make them. It's my deepest, darkest shame and if it ever got out I'd be lynched. Now let me tell you all about it, my sweet little Potions Prince." Didn't Harry's experience with Snape give him a clue as to how people are likely to react when you pry into their worst memories?
I would love to find out in book seven that Lily was a nasty piece of work
OMG yes. Way back when seeing the first movie, I naively assumed Harry's parents were nice, normal, ordinary people. Instead we got Mr. and Mrs. Teflon Sue. Look, for instance, how the fandom tends to define "bully" as something 15-yo Draco is, but with 15-yo James it's something he did, a brief aberration before his true greatness was revealed.
To be fair, JKR herself hasn't claimed that James ever became a nice guy. But Lily – hoo boy. It's not even that she's remembered with awe as the great and powerful witch who defeated Voldemort, it's that whatever she did is somehow more awesome than when someone else does the exact same thing. Her love for Harry was more special than the love of any other mother who died defending her baby. Her above-average Potions performance was superior to anyone else's above-average Potions performance. Her green eyes were more special than any green eyes in the history of the world. In a classic detective novel she'd be on the shortlist of suspects, because anyone who inspires so much doubtfully deserved admiration is probably a bad guy. :)
-L