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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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sumi - Aug 02, 2007 9:21:04 am PDT #2202 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!

I think Neville is the expert witness on Herbology that they pull in to resolve some sort of exotic poisoning case.


Kathy A - Aug 02, 2007 9:25:52 am PDT #2203 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

An HP fansite forum that I read occasionally (Sugar Quill) has been having fun turning all those hilarious "Chuck Norris will f--k you up!" type quotes into ones for Neville--"Draco's hairline wasn't receding, it was running away from Neville!", etc.

That Teddy Lupin fanfic I linked to yesterday just updated, and has Professor Longbottom leading the first-years in to the Sorting, a responsibility/honor given to him by his fellow teachers since he has the connection to the Sorting Hat.


lisah - Aug 02, 2007 9:25:59 am PDT #2204 of 3301
Punishingly Intricate

I think Neville is the expert witness on Herbology that they pull in to resolve some sort of exotic poisoning case.

Somebody needs to write a HP characters as Homicide characters fic, stat!


-t - Aug 02, 2007 9:28:48 am PDT #2205 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hermione m ight be more of a Russert than a Kay. I can see her being the first female Captain-equivalent that gets bumped down to Detective for insubordination.


Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2007 9:30:40 am PDT #2206 of 3301
brillig

"We know you were there, Malfoy. No one can induce that state of admiring terror in the house elves like you can."

"Of course I was there, Potter, I own the place. By the way, will we be seeing you and the lovely Ginevra at our annual Christmas Charity Ball, or shall I toss your invitation straight into the trash to save time?"


lisah - Aug 02, 2007 9:35:55 am PDT #2207 of 3301
Punishingly Intricate

Hermione m ight be more of a Russert than a Kay.

OH! I totally forgot about her. Perfect. Clearly I need to rewatch my Homicide.


Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2007 9:37:57 am PDT #2208 of 3301
brillig

I've never seen Homicide, I'm just working off of every hard-boiled detective show I've ever seen.

Who decided that detectives were like eggs, to be hard-boiled?


sumi - Aug 02, 2007 12:37:36 pm PDT #2209 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!

Monster Book of Monsters - action shot


Vonnie K - Aug 02, 2007 1:14:11 pm PDT #2210 of 3301
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Hermione might be more of a Russert than a Kay.

Well, except Russert wasn't awesome enough to be Hermione, unlike Kay, who was the awesomest awesome that ever awesomed. (Err, perhaps I should think about retiring that particular word from my lexicon.)

Ron = Meldrick. Not the brightest detective on the squad, but loyal and decent and lovable, and all heart.

On an actual DH-related note, I found this fab essay on Snape whilst trawling FFlist on LJ for the book commentaries.

I know sections of HP fandom are pissed against JKR for the perceived slights to their favourite characters (some Snape-fans and Lupin-fans in particular), but compared to the ship-wank post HBP, the fandom seems relatively sane and wank-free in the wake of the last book. Or maybe I'm too cloistered and away from the main HP fandom.


-t - Aug 02, 2007 1:19:42 pm PDT #2211 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ron = Meldrick. Not the brightest detective on the squad, but loyal and decent and lovable, and all heart.

I was thinking that! But I couldn't explain it any better than "he'd tell that joke about the bear".

Hermione and Kay are similarly awesome, it's true. And, of course, the hair. Ginny can be Russert. I can kind of make that work in my head.

Dumbledore = G?