Ok but so back to the beginning of this section when they're practicing Stunning spells, and Ron's all black and blue from falling a-stunned and this is one of those moments when I'm like,
because can you not stun someone while they're already lying down? I assume the principles are the same.
Continuing with Things I Have Confuseds About, is Dumbledore off-limits to students except those he gives his password to? Because that seems sort of restrictive. I mean, he doesn't have a doorbell at the gargoyle so you can buzz up and be like, I'm having scar-mares again, sir. I feel like there should be a way for students to access him besides just shouting words at the gargoyle and hoping for the best.
OH MY GOD ALL MY NOTES ARE CRITICAL. But seriously, 'He preferred to fight rather than coming quietly.' Make your verbs agree, JK (or JK's editor. I know she's famous by now but you need to be a sister and tell a gal when she's got her skirt tucked into her panties. Linguistically speaking).
Oh no wait, here we go. Remember last section when Harry called RSkeet a cow and Dumbles was all *whistles innocently*? And then now this time Harry falls asleep in Divination and D-dore is like, 'Quite understandable.' ALBUS! I am loving your face all the time. I take umbrage whenever JK uses the adjective 'twinkling' for anything that's NOT him. (Except for when Un-Moody is discovered and '[t]here was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he was giving off burning heat.')
Like a BAMF.
Oh and hey, oh man. I sort of thought Neville's parents were dead because I'd forgotten that they are insane on account of all the torture and that is way, way worse.
I am so depressed now. Let's cheer ourselves up with how Mrs Weasley and Bill surprised Harry before the third task. Awwwwwww, you guys. And then the Fat Lady's friend winks at Bill! SO SCANDALOUS. Bill, you rogue.
Alright, TriWizard maze time. Everybody's mazing, Fleur screams, Harry is like, That sucks but also that's one person down, and it is REFRESHING to see him acting like a human being and not a perfect angel baby, Krum is Stupified and then SPEAKING of babies, when Voldemort shows up looking like some half-baked creepy baby? Babymort! I can't take you seriously.
I definitely did.
So after the exciting! maze! and Cedric's astonishing! death! and Voldemort's creepy! return! the Death Eaters show up and it is non-stop monologuizing from here on in.
Bellatrix would never bore us in this manner.
but another part is like
Let's get back to cutting off hands and stuff.
Crouch off to the Dementors for 'accidental' kissy times, Sirius and Severus have to make besties, Harry is safe-ish, the end. Oh and ok, when Dumbles is like, 'Severus...you know what I must ask you to do.' And Snape is all 'slightly paler than usual, and his cold, black eyes glittered strangely.' IS DUMBLE-D ASKING WHAT I THINK HE IS ASKING? Because for me, that moment where Snape does That Thing That Dumbledore Asks Him To Do has the most feels. Let's talk about that later, because now the Great Character Massacre has begun, and we are all going to need some baby alligator lovin'.
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Wait...it's 6:30 in the morning...what's the Dumbledore/Snape thing? You mean him having to become a double agent or whatever? I don't know things. Those alligators are cute, though. Yayyy alligators.
Doesn't THAT QUESTION happen later after the "Oh look a ring OH NOES MY HAND IS ALL MANKY" trip? Y'know, when he totally knows that the end result of the thing is going to happen anyway?
I'm afraid that's the only constructive thought in my head today - the other thoughts are more like THIS POST IS MY FAVOURITEST and DUMBLES IS DA MAAAAN and also I wonder if I could have that Mrs Doyle GIF playing on a big screen on the desk when my most boring customers come in so I can carry on with some ackshual work behind it and still keep up my end of the conversation?
Babymort quickly followed by that gif just SLAYED me. Seriously giggled hard for a good 2 minutes straight.
Dumbledore wins all the time, but that quote about him being all tough and menacing is BOSS.
Is the Snape/Dumbledore thing the double agent thing or are you thinking ahead to the book 6 thing?
I think the Snape/Dumbly thing was referring to the double-agent thing... I don't think they have that other conversation until like the beginning of book 6 when Dumbly knows how bad things are lookin'...
And YES ALL THE MONOLOGUING. Which frankly is necessary to explain a lot of crap because this plot was all over the place, but it also presses my bad-guy-monologuing-hatred button really hard.
"I know she's famous by now but you need to be a sister and tell a gal when she's got her skirt tucked into her panties. Linguistically speaking)." Okay, I just love this. Because I am also a grammar nerd (an occasionally failing one, but one nonetheless) and editors should know better.
I am, of course, so WITH YOU on the whole Snape/Dumbles thing. I mostly feel for Snape, because he must feel that he is walking to his own death. And despite what I learn about DUmbles later, I feel sorry for him here, too, because he knows he MUST ask Snape to do this.
Bellatrix definitely wouldn't bore us in that manner, and that's why she's the superior villain. I'm not quite as anti-monologuing as you and Sarah are, though, because I remember racing through all of those pages in shock and dismay and awe--because how the heck did Barty Jr pull it off?
" the Great Character Massacre has begun" - This is why I've never made it past the beginning of the 5th book in my rereads. THE SADZ
I did wonder about no one being able to see Dumbles unless they have the password, at which point they can barge in whenever. You should be able to press the gargoyles nose and have it be an intercom or something.
I did not even THINK of stunning someone when they're lying down, but that is SURELY a thing that you can do! Stupid people (and, you know, me)
So, you know how the painting lady winks at Bill? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? What can one do with a lady in a painting?!
There is so much bad guy talking, but I kind of didn't notice that much because I was like 'HARRY IS SAD I AM SAD THIS IS SO SAD' constantly. Which was nice, obviously.
I was going to copy paste a thing and then say HAHAHA I LOVE THIS YOU FUNNY but then I realized I'd just copy paste the whole post. Which, you know, you've already read it.
I'm with Laura in that I didn't at all think of stunning horizontal people. We are the most dumb.
Tortured to craziness is WAY WORSE than straight up dying. Aaarg, OotP, I want to read you but I do not at all. We are going to run out of alligators.
Everytime I saw JK in your post I read it as the abbreviation for "joking" and then LOLed.
I'm tired, okay?
Also I never thought about the stunning thing. That's a whole lot of pain for nothing. Poor Ron.
>>I know she's famous by now but you need to be a sister and tell a gal when she's got her skirt tucked into her panties. Linguistically speaking.
Yes! Just wait until book 7. I wanted (out of love for JK) to put a big red slash through entire pages and send them back to the printer.
Can you IMAGINE what Snape looks like when he's slightly paler than usual? That is...really super pale.
Also, I'm with the fat lady's friend. I would WINK THE HELL out of Bill. He makes me want to become a Weasley even though I'm already a Granger.
Oh my god! Stun him while he's lying down! I'm so mad that I never thought of that!!!
Oh my god! Stun him while he's lying down! I'm so mad that I never thought of that!!!
"I know she's famous by now but you need to be a sister and tell a gal when she's got her skirt tucked into her panties. Linguistically speaking."
Okay, I admit, I laughed so hard I choked.
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