Yeah, that's the thing. Like, I don't think a cow really represents my actual personality at all.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
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Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2007 1:20:09 pm PDT #1851 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Gris - Jul 26, 2007 1:22:31 pm PDT #1852 of 3301
Hey. New board.
Oooh! Fun game!
Mine would be... um. You know what I'd most want it to be because I just read Alice in Wonderland? A Cheshire Cat. Stuck in the grin phase.
Dementors: WTF it's a giant smile! Run!
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2007 1:24:44 pm PDT #1853 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Then again, it's not like a frickin' doe really defined Snape in any way.
tommyrot - Jul 26, 2007 1:25:13 pm PDT #1854 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.
Would a Patronus be less effective if it were some slow animal? Like a giant turtle or sloth?
sumi - Jul 26, 2007 1:25:29 pm PDT #1855 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!
It represented his love for Lily -- I bet it was her patronus too (or something.)
Kathy A - Jul 26, 2007 1:34:02 pm PDT #1856 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think that Harry says in his final showdown with Voldemort that Lily's Patronus was a doe.
In more post-DH fic recs, I like this post-battle fic (not too long, but very well-written).
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2007 1:36:04 pm PDT #1857 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Would a Patronus be less effective if it were some slow animal? Like a giant turtle or sloth?
I was thinking the same thing, tommyrot. I don't see a slow, plodding cow being very effective at scaring dementors.
JZ - Jul 26, 2007 1:51:57 pm PDT #1858 of 3301
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, Kathy, that was a lovely fic. Thank you!
lisah - Jul 26, 2007 1:57:34 pm PDT #1859 of 3301
Punishingly Intricate
Did somebody else mention the problem with Hermione putting a memory spell on her folks and then later saying she hadn't done a memory spell before? Anyone fanwank that yet?
Hermione taking care of her Muggle parents was one of approximately 80 million cry points for me in the book.
Others big ones included, "A Free Elf," Hedwig's death (WHY didn't he let her out of her cage??!!), Percy's return to the fold, the name of Fleur & Bill's child, ... everything else practically.
I am a giant sap!
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2007 2:10:03 pm PDT #1860 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Did somebody else mention the problem with Hermione putting a memory spell on her folks and then later saying she hadn't done a memory spell before? Anyone fanwank that yet?
My fanwank is that erasing someone's memory is different from altering it. The latter seems more like a very powerful Confundus than an Obliviate.