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I dunno, I thought everybody laughed when Ron said he was famous because they knew Harry was famous. How could you grow up Weasley and not? I just don't think the kids had expanded "famous" to "everybody on the Express staring at you." As kids won't.
I also thought she was setting up Dean and Luna.
I was really appalled most of the book, thinking that Snape really was bad...but Silvery Goo of Exposition made him into one of my favorite characters ever.
Voldemort's soulshard as an abandoned baby left under a seat in King's Cross was gutwrenching. That was just a nightmarish image, all the worse for knowing it was the best-case scenario.
I am glad that Neville took out the penultimate Horcrux, making the prophecy pertain to him as well as Harry.
Now I just wish I could look forward to my son going to Hogwarts.
I am as one with Raq. I also loved finding out that Perunia tried to get into Hogwarts and was not accepted. Explains a lot.
Now I just wish I could look forward to my son going to Hogwarts.
You want him in Ravenclaw. Admit it.
Now I just wish I could look forward to my son going to Hogwarts.
I wish the same for Emeline.
You want him in Ravenclaw. Admit it.
Hell, I wanna be in Ravenclaw. I'd be an awesome Research Mage.
"Look, I found if you combine an Inferno Curse with an Embiggenation Hex and throw in a bit of bat saliva you can wipe out a whole city! Without the radiation!"
"Joe. Step away from the wand. Now."
That was another thing I loved, the password as question for Ravenclaw.
Voldemort's soulshard as an abandoned baby left under a seat in King's Cross was gutwrenching. That was just a nightmarish image, all the worse for knowing it was the best-case scenario.
It creeped me major that they just left it there...squalling.
Hell, I want to finish my PhD at Hogwarts. Since most schools are offering 'professional degree' courses to keep the galleons rolling in, why couldn't they?
Perunia
During much of my reading of the series, my dyslexia addled brain read Petunia as "Purina". Must have been the on-going 'horsey-faced' description of her.
And that's my arguement. If you have to cut whole chapters out of a book, so that the movie can come in at a reasonable length, you can't then go adding brand new stuff.
Film and text are very different media. Sometimes, to tell the same tale you have to tell a different story.
That was another thing I loved, the password as question for Ravenclaw.
YES!
Makes me wonder if, to get into Slytherin, you had to turn around and punch a classmate.
I am glad that Neville took out the penultimate Horcrux, making the prophecy pertain to him as well as Harry.
When I realized he was totally going to do it (I suspected when Harry told Neville to do it as a backup, but I wasn't
sure
until the opportunity appeared to present itself, with Nagini out of the protective shield and Neville defying Voldemort openly), I honestly whooped out, "Yes yes yes yes yes yes!!" How often do books make you do that?
(I was glad I wasn't in public, so I could do that with no abandon.)
I keep thinking about Neville getting the sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat, wriggling out of the Body-Binding Spell, and slicing off Nagini's head, all in one fluid motion.
SO BADASS.
Hell, I wanna be in Ravenclaw.
Me too. I think that's where I'd fit best.
