Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


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Betsy HP - Jun 30, 2004 10:52:10 am PDT #3722 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

But he's just in high school. Maybe it's too early for evil.

Internet Discussion #303: Mean Girls In High School.


Vortex - Jun 30, 2004 10:54:09 am PDT #3723 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Yes, but it's well been established that girls have a MUCH greater capacity for evil than men. We're just more subtle about it.


§ ita § - Jun 30, 2004 10:56:53 am PDT #3724 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Internet Discussion #303: Mean Girls In High School.

Aha! I parry with discussion #471 -- When Does Naughty Become Bad, and Bad Evil?


Betsy HP - Jun 30, 2004 11:04:35 am PDT #3725 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Ooh. That sounds like a fun discussion.

I mean, "naughty" is pretty much a compliment nowadays.


Steph L. - Jun 30, 2004 11:15:34 am PDT #3726 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

When Does Naughty Become Bad

Killing animals.

and Bad Evil?

Killing people.

It's a black-and-white world, but it's easy to navigate.


§ ita § - Jun 30, 2004 11:17:32 am PDT #3727 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

See -- most high school isn't that evil after all.


Steph L. - Jun 30, 2004 11:19:50 am PDT #3728 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Draco would have sent Buckbeak to his feathery death, though.


Holli - Jun 30, 2004 11:19:51 am PDT #3729 of 10002
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

High-schoolers aren't that evil.

Middle-school girls, on the other hand, have a capacity for evil greater than everything right on up to the edge of Godwin's Law.


§ ita § - Jun 30, 2004 11:21:39 am PDT #3730 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Draco would have sent Buckbeak to his feathery death, though.

Maybe he'll be Evil next book.


Jessica - Jun 30, 2004 11:25:12 am PDT #3731 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

He wished Hermione would die in CoS. Does that count?