Oh, Kathy, that was a lovely fic. Thank you!
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
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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.
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.
billytea - Jul 26, 2007 2:17:03 pm PDT #1861 of 3301
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Someone on LJ just joked about what my Patronus would be.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure what mine would be. [link] Fear me! FEAR ME!!
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?
Maybe she did one on herself shortly afterwards.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 26, 2007 2:20:37 pm PDT #1862 of 3301
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
My patronus would be a snake just to send mixed signals.
Trudy Booth - Jul 26, 2007 2:23:05 pm PDT #1863 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
ARE there adorable snakes?
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2007 2:25:07 pm PDT #1864 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Maybe she did one on herself shortly afterwards.
Haaaaaa!
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2007 2:55:21 pm PDT #1865 of 3301
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm pretty sure what mine would be. [link] Fear me! FEAR ME!!
Huh. I was thinking naked mole rat. Where's the love?
billytea - Jul 26, 2007 4:31:23 pm PDT #1866 of 3301
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
ARE there adorable snakes?
Are there ones that aren't?
Huh. I was thinking naked mole rat. Where's the love?
Naked mole rats are made of awesome. But when I was six and a group of psychologists stuck myself and two of my brothers in a room and told us each to draw our family, I drew the life cycle of the echidna. (My older brother drew our grandmother playing rugby, my younger brother a bunch of unrelated people being eaten by a shark.) Echidnas and me, that's where the history is.
Trudy Booth - Jul 26, 2007 4:58:27 pm PDT #1867 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
Besides, if your patronus was a naked mole rat people would be all... "what is that? a maggot?" "no, its got fangs" "so, like a vampire maggot?" "I think it's a naked mole rat" "So is it a mole or is it a rat?"
Which just doesn't inspire the necessary awe.