Christine Sixteen.

[mike_smith]

OK, I gotta get my butt in gear. October 21st, people. That's the day Amazon is supposed to have delivered my copy of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi for the Playstation 2. Every year they make one of these games, and every year I play the hell out of 'em for about four months to the exclusion of about everything else. This time around you can

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[tekalynn]

Having seen the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special recently,

You saw it as an adult of fully sound mind and you LIVED? *bows low*

I'll just assume that "Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love" is very similar to Bea Arthur's stirring lyrics to the Cantina Theme from Episode IV.

Oh, thank you, thank you so much. You have now just given me the earworm from hell and an image to make me spork out my eyes. Bleah.

You're a genius.

BTW, this Christmas haul wasn't too bad for Harry, as such things go. His beloved family (Dursleys) usually send him tasty treats like used Kleenex.

[jim_smith]

You saw it as an adult of fully sound mind and you LIVED? *bows low*

Yeah, I was there for that, and I can honestly say I think I'd rather review eight Harry Potter books than watch that again. Damn.

[mike_smith]

BTW, this Christmas haul wasn't too bad for Harry, as such things go. His beloved family (Dursleys) usually send him tasty treats like used Kleenex.

Honestly, I could imagine a lower echelon of Christmas presents than "Sweater with winged-Quidditch ball design", but yeah, if garbage counts as Christmas presents, I guess we have a new champion.

I'm just gonna try not to think very hard about how they were used.

[rubyd]

Jesus loves werewolves too.

Can I have a bumper sticker of that?

I'd pay you in nonsensical gibberish to read book 4 and do summaries of that too, but I'd probably go hoarse.

[skjam]

Over at Something Positive, they have "Werewolves for Jesus" t-shirts.

[merenwen_81]

in Lupin's view, if Snape had really wanted to screw with him, he could have tampered with the monthly potions, and he didn't.
I think that's what he's telling himself so that he can live with having to see the bastard in the Order meetings. It's been twenty years since these people were in school, but Snape keeps on trying to get revenge on people who used to hang out with James and Sirius in Hogwarts. Wormtail - the nasty, eavesdropping little vermin from chapter two - is also on his shitlist even though he eventually turned on James and is now mortal enemies with Remus.

You're not supposed to do any magic outside of the school before you're 17, but the ministry can only see that someone is doing magic, not who is doing it, in the house so in magical families it's really just up to the parents to stop the kids from doing stuff they're not supposed to do. I guess, Ron and Harry can't peel the sprouts by magic, because Molly won't let them.

[seductivedark]

Very funny review. Thanks!

[trishalynn]

What, so you have to be seventeen to get magic peeling powers? And yet you can make Unbreakable Vows at the tender age of five.

Kids who are at Hogwarts aren't allowed to use magic outside of it until they graduate. Sorry the explanation isn't funny, but this one was kinda covered earlier in the book. I'll be arsed if I remember which part, though.

[aberranteyes]

this one was kinda covered earlier in the book. I'll be arsed if I remember which part, though.

It's actually later in the book, the very next chapter in fact.

[mike_smith]

Yeah, you're right. It's partially covered in several chapters.

In Chapter 3, Dumbledore explains that Harry is considered an adult at 17. In Chapter 6 (I think), it's made clear that students at Hogwarts can't use magic outside the school. And in Chapter 17 (review pending), Dumbldedore reminds Harry that the only thing stopping kids from doing magic is their parents.

So yeah, I had all the pieces, I just hadn't put them together when the question arose, mainly because I still haven't assimilated "seventeen" as "of legal age" yet.

Then again, this still beggars the question of why Fred and George know HOW to do an Unbreakable Vow at such a young age in the first place. Granted, they wouldn't be allowed to do so, and granted it's up to their folks to enforce that, but why teach them a thing like that to begin with? At least if they set the drapes on fire or turn their cat into a dog it's a quick fix.

[powerofvoid]

Perhaps they didn't know, and that's why they didn't succeed.