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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Makes me wonder if, to get into Slytherin, you had to turn around and punch a classmate.

Hee! Sadly, they also had a password.

Ya know, I was really kind of hoping that Draco and Harry would have ended up as allies/friends, etc. I thought she might have been foreshadowing that when in the song the Sorting Hat sings at the beginning of OotP, they mention Slytherin and Griffyndor being the best of friends.

Course, Lily and Severus kind of fill that role nicely, also.

I would be in Hufflepuff.

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That was another thing I loved, the password as question for Ravenclaw.

I loved this, too.

I kept waiting for their to be some good Slytherins. And I am trying to parse why Hermione is in Gryffindor and Luna in Ravenclaw. I would say, even though Luna is "looney", she is just as brave as Hermione.

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Makes me wonder if, to get into Slytherin, you had to turn around and punch a classmate.

Or shank 'em.

Slytherin: "Hey, lemme in, I gotta go to the bathroom. Stupid painting are you--GAAAHHH!!!"

Slytherin Classmate Behind First Slytherin: (as door opens) "Hidden shiv in the wand. Works every time."

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And I am trying to parse why Hermione is in Gryffindor and Luna in Ravenclaw. I would say, even though Luna is "looney", she is just as brave as Hermione.

Yeah, Hermione seems to be much more of a Ravenclaw.

Although I liked the riddle idea, it doesn't seem to be very secure. I guess, though, the idea is that if you're clever enough to figure it out, you deserve entry to the tower, whether or not you're actually a Ravenclaw.

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Yeah, Hermione seems to be much more of a Ravenclaw.

And surely Cedric was both brave and smart.

Not really sure about the essentialism of the sorting hat.

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Not really sure about the essentialism of the sorting hat.

It seems like Ravenclaw and Gryffindor are sort of interchangable, while Hufflepuff and Slytherin are one-dimensional. Also, was Peter Pettigrew a Gryffindor, too?

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