Half-Blood Prince: Chapter Fourteen: Felix Felicis

[handhfan]

I don’t know where Chapter 13 is, but here’s Chapter 14….

Chapter Fourteen: Felix Felicis

Since the Half-Blood Prince’s potions book, Hermione has been extremely annoyed. She continues to snap back at Harry and Ron, especially when something regarding the Half-Blood Prince is brought up.

The Slug Club is having another party, a Christmas one, and

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[house_elf_44]

Luna Lovegood was commentating...

It was Zacharias Smith this time. He was saying Ron and Ginny were only on the team because they're friends with the Captain.

[handhfan]

Whoops. Sorry about that. It is fixed now.

[cadesama]

::shrugs:: Might as well get talking.

Why do Ron and Hermione always have to be difficult before the logical being nice part? I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to mention that Club members can bring guests instead of saying it's "just for the Slug Club"? I'd appreciate it more when they made up if their arguments weren't so stupid and such transparent obstructions to them getting together. "Hmm, need another four hundred pages of Ron-Hermione tension. Ohhh, maybe I'll have them work through their personality conflicts and underlying issues! No wait, that'd be work. Guess I'll have them argue about which color the sky is, instead, and then cuddle after Ron realizes that azure is actually a shade of blue. I'm sure that's just as satisfying." /bitterness

[cheeringcharm]

Ohhh, maybe I'll have them work through their personality conflicts and underlying issues! No wait, that'd be work. Guess I'll have them argue about which color the sky is, instead, and then cuddle after Ron realizes that azure is actually a shade of blue.

I'm so with you on this. The way she goes about getting them together doesn't bode well for their future relationship. Neither have matured or changed at the end of this book. The big progression is they both realize they like each other. Well, I've got news for them and everyone else that thinks opposites attract and balance each other out: the things that irritate the crap out of you before you get together won't suddenly go away. In fact, it gets worse because you realize, "They aren't going to change. What the hell have I gotten myself into?"

She deliberately lulls him into a false sense of security by telling him to go to Lavender, and then she attacks him.

Which is why it seems so out of character to me. It's reprehensible and I've never thought of her in that way.

[cadesama]

In fact, it gets worse because you realize, "They aren't going to change. What the hell have I gotten myself into?"

Exactly. I think there's some argument to be made for how touchy and irritable Ron and Hermione are because they are unsure of how the other feels for so long, but that's not the root of their arguments and it never has been. They've been hurting each other since they met because they both refuse to listen (and well, actually say what they mean), and there's no reason that factor will ever go away.

Which is why it seems so out of character to me. It's reprehensible and I've never thought of her in that way.The terrible thing is, I can't think of any purpose to that scene other than to make of us think of Hermione that way. Ron and Lavender were getting along fine snogging in the common room. Why did they decide to move it to an empty classroom, where they have a greater probability of getting caught by a teacher? Maybe they were chased from the common room by disgusted students (although such a reaction should

[cheeringcharm]

The terrible thing is, I can't think of any purpose to that scene other than to make of us think of Hermione that way.

I've been wondering what the point was too. My guess is that she had this really neat idea to, you know, have birds fly at someone and she, like you know, wanted to use it. Is this her idea of revenge? Is this her idea of acceptable behavior?

Part of me hopes that we will come to realize in Book 7 what the point of her turning Hermione into an unrecognizable shrew was. The other part of me wants no mention of romance or relationships at all. I don't think I can take two books worth of JKR's idea of healthy relationships.

[house_elf_44]

This chapter includes things that create the twists and misunderstandings in Emma, specifically partial or interrupted conversations and sentences, and things that can be interpreted more than one way

[chasezgranger]

Wow this was a great explaination of how JKR has left things up in terms to the romances in the book. :)

I had thought it was incredibly odd of Harry to feel dizzy and disoriented after his interaction with Ginny.

Fun with Alchemy, for H/Hr shippers:

[house_elf_44]

If you believe Jo is using alchemic imagery, which is becoming harder to doubt with the comments she's been making, there is yet another reason to have hope for H/Hr ending up together

Re: Fun with Alchemy, for H/Hr shippers:

[rainfletcher]

Aquarius, eh? For reasons I can't entirely put my finger on, I find myself thinking of Luna as a Scorpio - mysterious, drawn to the occult, emotional beneath a placid surface (fixed water). But I'm sure there are just as many Scorpisms that don't fit her. Ah, fun with astrology.

(And Leo-Scorpio is a heck of a lot more compatible than Leo-Leo, at least from my own limited readings.)

Re: Fun with Alchemy, for H/Hr shippers:

[house_elf_44]

**Just briefly coming out of lurke-dom**

I always thought Luna was a Piscis! She's got the big eyes and dreamy expression of the fish people in the Zodiac, and the intuition too. Whatever... :D

[rainfletcher]

Words cannot describe my initial horror after having read this chapter. Or my subsequent horror after having thought about it. Or indeed my lingering horror while reflecting back on it now. This was truly the moment I expected Rod Serling to appear and inform us that we had entered the Twilight Zone

[cheeringcharm]

I agree. I think this is the chapter where the book stopped feeling like an HP book and regressed to the level of fan fiction. However, I'm insulting a very large amount of good fan fiction with that statement. This isn't even passable fan fiction.

The fight between Ginny and Ron was very authentic as fights between siblings go. That doesn't change the fact that Ginny was hateful and spiteful basically because 1) she thought Ron played horribly in practice and 2) Ron didn't want to see her snogging her boyfriend. I don't blame Ron, I wouldn't want to see my brother snogging anyone either. Taken with her reaction to Fleur (which isn't that the same as Ron's reaction to Dean? hypocrite much, Ginny?) then Ginny looks less than sympathetic.