::snerk:: A "dramatization" of the final chapter, script-style.
VOLDERMORT: Yeah, because if there's one thing driving this scene it's the Mamet like realism of the colloquy.
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
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***SPOILER ALERT***
Steph L. - Jul 25, 2007 7:49:59 am PDT #1666 of 3301
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Jessica - Jul 25, 2007 7:57:15 am PDT #1667 of 3301
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bwahaha!
V: Are we going to rehash the entire plot here?
H: Look, I just got back from The Afterlife Of Lengthy Obtuse Exposition, cut me some slack.
V: I'm getting nauseous from all this circling.
Polter-Cow - Jul 25, 2007 8:09:43 am PDT #1668 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
MRS. W: Not my daughter, you bitch!
RON: Yippie kay yay, motherfucker!
HERMIONE: Were gonna need a bigger boat.
MRS. W: What the-?
RON: Sorry, we thought quoting other movies was some sort of magic. Just lazy writing? Carry on.
Heh.
VOLDERMORT: You mean he was weak! To weak to dare, too weak to take what might have been his, what will be mine! To weak to be stronger than weakness which takes nothing which is mine in weak strength!
Heeee. That was all very amusing.
tommyrot - Jul 25, 2007 8:12:33 am PDT #1669 of 3301
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Heeee. That was all very amusing.
Yeah. Plus that Voldermort is much more likable than Rowling's.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2007 8:13:50 am PDT #1670 of 3301
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So other people found the wand succession dizzying too...I thought I just hadn't been paying enough attention.
tommyrot - Jul 25, 2007 8:16:22 am PDT #1671 of 3301
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So other people found the wand succession dizzying too...I thought I just hadn't been paying enough attention.
Yeah, me too.
Maybe it all just comes down to "The wand chooses the owner." And maybe Voldi just wasn't very nice to his wand.
Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2007 8:20:03 am PDT #1672 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Or maybe a little TOO nice to his wand.
Those long disembodied nights, fleeing from magically concealed cave to magically concealed cave... you do the math.
Polter-Cow - Jul 25, 2007 8:20:39 am PDT #1673 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Plus that Voldermort is much more likable than Rowling's.
Hee. I don't think she intended Voldie to be likable. Speaking of, however, I did like that Voldemort, in the end, turned out to be a character and not just Evil McEvilstein. I really liked him in this book, how he was not only admitting his mistakes but, you know, making them. We saw some more of his thought processes and motivations. And in the end, hubris brought him down, like he was a tragic hero all this time. He wasn't, say, one of the Greatest Villains of All Time, per se, dimension-wise, but he was more interesting than, say, Sauron.
So other people found the wand succession dizzying too...I thought I just hadn't been paying enough attention.
Oh no. As Hec noted, that was the predominant conversation in my LJ post's comments for a couple hours.
Maybe it all just comes down to "The wand chooses the owner." And maybe Voldi just wasn't very nice to his wand.
Clearly, he doesn't polish it enough.
Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2007 8:25:38 am PDT #1674 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
One of the things I like about Dumbledor's hidden past is that he so easily could have become Voldermort. If he'd gotten obsessed with the hallows (which continued to be a temptation to him even into his wise old age) he could have been an even bigger bad.
Kathy A - Jul 25, 2007 8:33:27 am PDT #1675 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I do like that Rowling continued on with the idea of choices definng the person in discussing Dumbledore late-teen dabbling into racial purity. Every time someone would say, "Well, he was just a kid...", Harry would come back with "He was our age, and you don't see us saying things like that." Yes, it makes Harry look even more saint-like (Dumbledore's repeating of what a good man Harry's turned into was getting a bit old in the King's Cross chapter), but at least he had his own obsession with the Hallows to go through.