(Lupin's the only decent DADA teacher he gets, and the poor guy only gets a year in the job)
Untrue, the fake Mad Eye Moody (Barty Crouch, Jr.) teaches Harry quite a bit so that he can successfully compete in the Triwizard tourney.
Dawn: Is that supposed to scare me? Spike: Little tremble wouldn't hurt.
'The Killer In Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - May 09, 2011 7:53:37 pm PDT #14642 of 28297
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Consuela - May 09, 2011 8:02:40 pm PDT #14643 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I stand corrected!
I do recall that in the movie, the actual Barty Crouch Jr. is played by David Tennant.
DavidS - May 09, 2011 8:14:10 pm PDT #14644 of 28297
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I do recall that in the movie, the actual Barty Crouch Jr. is played by David Tennant.
Yeah, whatever happened to that guy? He's like the cute Brit who played Tom Riddle in Chamber of Secrets.
§ ita § - May 09, 2011 8:20:29 pm PDT #14645 of 28297
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's like the cute Brit who played Tom Riddle in Chamber of Secrets.
Yeah, just like that kid.
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DavidS - May 09, 2011 8:22:11 pm PDT #14646 of 28297
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(She abuses adverbs, though.)
Stephen King, who was a big fan, was on her case about this constantly in his EW reviews. I think she dialed it down in the last book because of those critiques. Or possibly her editors took to lopping off words ending in -ly, especially after "said".
Consuela - May 09, 2011 8:24:12 pm PDT #14647 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Or possibly her editors took to lopping off words ending in -ly, especially after "said".
HAH.
Nobody edited the last few books. Why should they? They were guaranteed to sell, even if there were misspellings on every page.
Okay, there was probably a single copy-editing pass (for typos and obvious errors), but I bet no more than that.
DavidS - May 09, 2011 8:24:24 pm PDT #14648 of 28297
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yeah, just like that kid.
That guy was a grownup!
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I wrote words I didn't mean to be taken as true for rhetorical effect?
I'm just saying there seems to be unending pipeline of handsome, charismatic, talented British actors with fancy sharp cheekbones.
DavidS - May 09, 2011 8:28:52 pm PDT #14649 of 28297
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Okay, there was probably a single copy-editing pass (for typos and obvious errors), but I bet no more than that.
She's commented that she could've used more editing on Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix. She does stop abusing the "she said amusedly" type construction by the last book.
DavidS - May 09, 2011 8:33:44 pm PDT #14650 of 28297
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
From Wikipedia, a few King quotes on the series.
Stephen King called the series "a feat of which only a superior imagination is capable", and declared "Rowling's punning, one-eyebrow-cocked sense of humour" to be "remarkable". However, he wrote that despite the story being "a good one", he is "a little tired of discovering Harry at home with his horrible aunt and uncle", the formulaic beginning of all seven books. King has also joked that "Rowling's never met an adverb she did not like!" He does however predict that Harry Potter "will indeed stand time's test and wind up on a shelf where only the best are kept; I think Harry will take his place with Alice, Huck, Frodo, and Dorothy and this is one series not just for the decade, but for the ages".
Polter-Cow - May 09, 2011 8:34:18 pm PDT #14651 of 28297
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just started listening to the first book, and I was kind of shocked and confused by the beginning. I had completely forgotten that it starts out following Vernon Dursley, like, forever. I seriously thought the first scene of the book was Dumbledore dropping Harry off at the Dursleys', but that's just because that's the first scene of the movie.
It started out kind of slow, but, man, the "Letters from Nowhere" chapter is SO AWESOME. It's kind of fun to go back to the beginning and experience the magic, as it were.