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

Comments

[marciamarcia]

Way to latch on to the Lupin family and the obviously negligent parenting style that led them to believe Wolfie McWolferson was a great name that didn't tempt fate AT ALL.

This is one of the things that's a real big in-joke in the fandom. Prior to HPB, somebody on a message board I read speculated that Lupin's parents might as well have just dressed him in a meat vest, tied squeak toys to his feet, and sent him out to play in the Forbidden Forest.

[merenwen_81]

Heh. As soon as I saw the meat jacket comment, I thought of FT. I remember seeing you there. How come you're not at the forum the people from HP thread in the old boards escaped to? The adress is http://fthp.hosted-forum.com/ .

[marciamarcia]

Ahh, but I am. I'm just called "mokey" over there. I got BANNED!!!111! from FT using this name and had to pick a new one.

[merenwen_81]

*feels silly* Yeah, I'm still called Greta, because I got banned as Sanna and never found out why. That's one thing I don't miss.

Topic, what topic?

[jim_smith]

NEXT: Long live the empire! Long live... Ha ha ha ha ha! ...Galva Ron!

I swear, Mike, you'd better not be freaking kidding me. If there is no Galva Ron in the next chapter, you are so dead. The Half Blood Prince and that Jambalaya guy aren't even gonna get to fight over who gets to kill you, because they'll be picking what's left of you outta my stool.

Just sayin'.

[mike_smith]

Galva Ron does not answer to the likes of you! Bah!

[innerslytherin]

Harry changes the subject to Lupin's personal feelings towards Snape.

Because he suspects how much Lupin lurves Snape! *giggles* (Sorry, I just can't help but try to convince you.)

Dammit, the BOOK is fifty years old, you idiot. The NOTES could still have been written anytime between then and now.

OMG I know! I spent the entire book wanting to grab Harry by the shoulders and shake him.

Um, I would have more response, but I'm at work and keep getting interrupted. Stupid patrons. Don't they know I want to read my LJ flist? LOL

[jim_smith]

Also, how can he not know who went to Hogwart's fifty years ago? Go to the library, check out a damn yearbook, eliminate anyone who is either female or pureblood, and then cross-reference with the school's records on who took Potions that year. Hell, even if your research doesn't turn up anything, you can talk to the freaking ghosts and paintings who were there.

This all assumes you only have to research a single school year--fifty would be too many--but since that is what Harry assumes he's a Legendary Super Dumbass for not even figuring that much out.

On top of that, I don't know why he's so worried about it, because unlike us Harry is not supposed to know he's in a book called Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, so he shouldn't know that this is a major plot point and as high a priority as unraveling Draco's plot. Come to think of it, it's been six months and Draco isn't any closer to executing his scheme than Harry is to finding out what it is. I'm elevating Harry to Super Dumbass Level 4.

[merenwen_81]

I guess, Harry's just curious about learning who wrote all those instructions in the book and maybe at first he was hoping it would provide him with more information about his dead parents. I agree, at this point his obsession seems a bit weird. Later on, you start to get the idea that the HBP may not have been such a nice person.

And why would Harry bother doing any research when he can have Hermione do all the work for him? Harry and Ron seldom do anything themselves.

[mike_smith]

Also, how can he not know who went to Hogwart's fifty years ago? Go to the library, check out a damn yearbook, eliminate anyone who is either female or pureblood, and then cross-reference with the school's records on who took Potions that year. Hell, even if your research doesn't turn up anything, you can talk to the freaking ghosts and paintings who were there.

Let's put it this way. Not only did he need someone to TELL him to check the publication date on the book, but he had to flip through the book to find it. Rowling notes that he "finally" located it towards the front. You know, where the publication date of any book would be. I don't think research is his strong suit.

On top of that, I don't know why he's so worried about it, because unlike us Harry is not supposed to know he's in a book called Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, so he shouldn't know that this is a major plot point and as high a priority as unraveling Draco's plot.I think this is just a case of natural curiosity. He finds the notes so insightful

[tropical_madnes]

Jesus loves werewolves too.

I am ded with laughter.

[skjam]

If we take "werewolf" as code for "homosexual" (as some people do, apart from Lupin's personal life) then Remus is the respectable, normal gay man next door, who wants nothing more than the same rights and responsibilities as any straight person.

Fenrir, conversely, is the creepy NAMBLA guy who keeps showing up at Pride Rallies and insisting on talking to the straight media even while everyone else groans in misery.

[merenwen_81]

I'm not all that fond of that "code", because as far as I know, homosexuality isn't contagious and Fenrir's paedophile tendencies just make it sound even more creepy and wrong. I could maybe buy it, if it was a code for AIDS and Fenrir was someone intentionally infecting others.

Sorry, I'm not being funny.

[skjam]

'Tis all right, it's a stretch as a metaphor anyways. (Some folks are kind of desperate for homosexuality to be in the books *somehow.*)

[sasha_davidovna]

I am late, but there's actually a rather interesting fanfic based in the premise that lycanthropy=AIDS: The Most Ridiculous First Name I've Ever Heard It's a fairly common association in some corners of the fandom.