Luna barely mentions the game play-by-play, but does persist on mentioning Zacharias and his "Loser's Lurgy".
Imagine how the narrative would treat him flying into her (and Hufflepuff all planning to see her 'punished' - gotta love that the Gryffindors are first to lecture piously on how everyone else is a bad loser, considering they're still holding a grudge over liek, rilly mean commentary; even though they won last time anyway.)
Filch, who forgets Hagrid is a professor these days. :D
Who can blame him? ;) And of course Hagrid, who's allowed to be racist since he's in a minority himself; is first to remind Filch of his place, as a Squib.
Ginny Weasley flew into him, I think probably on purpose, it looked like it. Smith was being quite rude about Gryffindor, I expect he regrets that now he's playing them – oh, look, he's lost the Quaffle, Ginny took it from him, I do like her, she's very nice..."
See, I like your interpretation of Luna's actions here, and I want to take them, since they make me like Luna here; but my faith in JKR is pretty low, and what with her tendency to have all of her characters sharing her own/a similiar belief system; I'm not certain that Luna isn't simply underlining the double-standards in the text - Ginny must be seen as nice, even though she's a jerk; and perhaps even that Luna sees Zacharias as deserving it, since he was being 'rude' (Lee Jordan was frequently rude about other teams, but I doubt JKR would ever think to mention that.)
he's far more interested in – and aware of – the ins & outs of his team than the captain is.
I rather like Cormac. Calls Harry on his double-standards ("McLaggen, will you pay attention to what you're supposed to be doing and leave everyone else alone!" bellowed Harry, wheeling around to face his Keeper. "You're not setting a great example!" McLaggen shouted back, red-faced and furious.) and fractures his skull, what's not to admire? But yeah, much as JKR must have Harry recieving every possible honour and leading every group; he's really not cut out for it. He has no interest in the rest of his team, and he makes decisions based on his personal desires rather than what's best for the group (see, not taking on Cormac because he dislikes him - by daring to know more than Harry!)
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Date: 2006-02-23 05:50 pm (UTC)Imagine how the narrative would treat him flying into her (and Hufflepuff all planning to see her 'punished' - gotta love that the Gryffindors are first to lecture piously on how everyone else is a bad loser, considering they're still holding a grudge over liek, rilly mean commentary; even though they won last time anyway.)
Filch, who forgets Hagrid is a professor these days. :D
Who can blame him? ;)
And of course Hagrid, who's allowed to be racist since he's in a minority himself; is first to remind Filch of his place, as a Squib.
Ginny Weasley flew into him, I think probably on purpose, it looked like it. Smith was being quite rude about Gryffindor, I expect he regrets that now he's playing them – oh, look, he's lost the Quaffle, Ginny took it from him, I do like her, she's very nice..."
See, I like your interpretation of Luna's actions here, and I want to take them, since they make me like Luna here; but my faith in JKR is pretty low, and what with her tendency to have all of her characters sharing her own/a similiar belief system; I'm not certain that Luna isn't simply underlining the double-standards in the text - Ginny must be seen as nice, even though she's a jerk; and perhaps even that Luna sees Zacharias as deserving it, since he was being 'rude' (Lee Jordan was frequently rude about other teams, but I doubt JKR would ever think to mention that.)
he's far more interested in – and aware of – the ins & outs of his team than the captain is.
I rather like Cormac. Calls Harry on his double-standards ("McLaggen, will you pay attention to what you're supposed to be doing and leave everyone else alone!" bellowed Harry, wheeling around to face his Keeper.
"You're not setting a great example!" McLaggen shouted back, red-faced and furious.) and fractures his skull, what's not to admire?
But yeah, much as JKR must have Harry recieving every possible honour and leading every group; he's really not cut out for it. He has no interest in the rest of his team, and he makes decisions based on his personal desires rather than what's best for the group (see, not taking on Cormac because he dislikes him - by daring to know more than Harry!)