I love that we get that final ranking of bravery and goodness based on the sorting: Almost all the Gryffindors stay, then a lot of Hufflepuffs, then fewer Ravenclaws, and then no Slytherins, except the ones hiding.
Oh dear lord, Harry. You really are the dumbass messiah.
Silly, Zach didn't question *things* he questioned *Harry.* A sure sign of cowardice and bad character. Ginny recognized it immediately, of course, and preemptively punished him for pushing all those firsties out of the way.
Harry doesn't need to know the story of the diadem (but we can't miss out on that juicy, imaginative backstory!). Yet he will hear it anyway, and thus the sexual orientation of two ghosts somehow become more important to the story than the sexual orientation of the one gay guy in all the WW.
Love how Harry indignantly says that Albus would *never* take hostages, as if Harry was even bright enough to consider taking hostages. They wouldn't do that because it's too Slytherin/Ravenclaw. Gryffindors consider it a point of honor to always just fight man to man. Voldemort wouldn't care about hostages, but the DEs would--in fact, Harry's pretty much going to be saved by that fact. The one quality Slytherins have in all 7 books that is useful and easily exploitable is that they care about select people for some reason.
God, that Maiden, Mother, Crone image really is awful, isn't it? Like, why would Neville's grandmother be here at all? Please! (And let's just leave Tonks as mother out of it.)
Ah, the R/Hr kiss. Which for me will ever be remembered as the moment the whole House Elf philosophy storyline got completely screwed up. Ron did not change his views, Hermione did!
God, Tonks does seem like she's either running after Lupin because she's afraid of losing him (and not to death) or that she's just terrified to be without him for five minutes, doesn't it?
Seriously, I know Voldemort's arrogant and all and that usually does explain his actions, but how could he possibly think he was the first person to find a room for hiding when it's already filled with hidden stuff? Did he think the room just created all that stuff to give him the hint he could hide something there? It could have just created a bank vault with safe deposit boxes.
I love the way Crabbe has an illerate way of speaking after spending his entire life around upper class snobs. Dialect doesn't work that way, you know. Double negatives aren't actually a sign of slow-wittedness.
I would guess Goyle was supposed to have heard Harry talking about the diadem only moments ago and JKR just blessedly didn't make us listen to the 3 of them chattering about the thing the whole time. Remember, these are 3 students who can talk all night long to go over facts like "Somebody stunned Viktor Krum..."
As someone pointed out to me recently, Crabbe destroying the diadem is a bit like Gollum destroying the ring. Except, of course, without Gollum being a character and without Harry having to show any compassion or understanding of anyone.
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Date: 2009-12-08 05:18 pm (UTC)Oh dear lord, Harry. You really are the dumbass messiah.
Silly, Zach didn't question *things* he questioned *Harry.* A sure sign of cowardice and bad character. Ginny recognized it immediately, of course, and preemptively punished him for pushing all those firsties out of the way.
Harry doesn't need to know the story of the diadem (but we can't miss out on that juicy, imaginative backstory!). Yet he will hear it anyway, and thus the sexual orientation of two ghosts somehow become more important to the story than the sexual orientation of the one gay guy in all the WW.
Love how Harry indignantly says that Albus would *never* take hostages, as if Harry was even bright enough to consider taking hostages. They wouldn't do that because it's too Slytherin/Ravenclaw. Gryffindors consider it a point of honor to always just fight man to man. Voldemort wouldn't care about hostages, but the DEs would--in fact, Harry's pretty much going to be saved by that fact. The one quality Slytherins have in all 7 books that is useful and easily exploitable is that they care about select people for some reason.
God, that Maiden, Mother, Crone image really is awful, isn't it? Like, why would Neville's grandmother be here at all? Please! (And let's just leave Tonks as mother out of it.)
Ah, the R/Hr kiss. Which for me will ever be remembered as the moment the whole House Elf philosophy storyline got completely screwed up. Ron did not change his views, Hermione did!
God, Tonks does seem like she's either running after Lupin because she's afraid of losing him (and not to death) or that she's just terrified to be without him for five minutes, doesn't it?
Seriously, I know Voldemort's arrogant and all and that usually does explain his actions, but how could he possibly think he was the first person to find a room for hiding when it's already filled with hidden stuff? Did he think the room just created all that stuff to give him the hint he could hide something there? It could have just created a bank vault with safe deposit boxes.
I love the way Crabbe has an illerate way of speaking after spending his entire life around upper class snobs. Dialect doesn't work that way, you know. Double negatives aren't actually a sign of slow-wittedness.
I would guess Goyle was supposed to have heard Harry talking about the diadem only moments ago and JKR just blessedly didn't make us listen to the 3 of them chattering about the thing the whole time. Remember, these are 3 students who can talk all night long to go over facts like "Somebody stunned Viktor Krum..."
As someone pointed out to me recently, Crabbe destroying the diadem is a bit like Gollum destroying the ring. Except, of course, without Gollum being a character and without Harry having to show any compassion or understanding of anyone.
Fred's dead. Good thing there's two of him.