Anyways, the Marauders' Map is something that was given to Harry in book three. The Weasley twins had stolen it from Mr. Filch's office in their first year and somehow figured out how to use it. If you know the password, it shows you a map of Hogwarts and its grounds and where everyone is on it and it isn't fooled by invisibility cloaks, polyjuice potion or such. If you don't know the password, the mapmakers will insult you. "Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business." The mapmakers - Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs - are actually the teenaged versions of Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black and James Potter, repectively. So you see why Harry thought they wouldn't be above using silly nicknames like Half-blood Prince.
No, Harry and Sluggy didn't drink. Ron gulped it down before them. Hey, it's his birthday.
Yeah, a lot of this is filler for the faithful. Everyone wants to know how Apparition works. JKR shows us how it works. Viola and the whole stringed section. (Yeah, I know I spelled it wrong)
Loving your reviews. You should give yourself a robot body and a moniker, like MegaMike or something.
Poor Ron. Last book, flying brains grabbed him with their film-like tentacles and mind raped him. This book, he gets poisoned and has a stone from a goat's stomach shoved down his throat... and Hermione won't get busy with him
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Snape wasn't actually hung upside down from a tree. They used levicorpus on him and scourgified his mouth for calling Lily Evans a mud-blood. That scene makes just about everyone look like total assholes. James and Sirius attack Severus for no apparent reason, Snape is a racist and tries to use an illegal hex on James, Wormtail acts as Sirius and James' little cheerleader and the prefects (Lupin and Lily) hardly make any effort to stop any of this. Lily does call James on being, well just about everything Snape always accuses him of being, but then makes fun of Snape's underwear.
...scourgified his mouth for calling Lily Evans a mud-blood.
And you don't see him calling anybody else a 'Mudblood' after that. Sometimes the old remedies work. ;)
James and Sirius attack because Sirius is bored. That's the right age for that, it seems. About the same time, my eldest and his friends stole a bunch of stuffed toys from a florist. And were caught. And mortally embarrassed because of all the cute widdle red and white valentine's toys they were making off with at sixteen years of age. As well as placed on probation and all the wonderful intro to the justice system that goes along with it.
Peter was creepy. Practically fangurling James and Sirius. I'm surprised he didn't orgasm, wet himself, then faint.
And yet, there was something so realistic about that scene. That's exactly the way 16-year-old assholes would act if they had magic powers.
In real life, they beat Snape up after school and he eventually came back with a friend and small arsenal and killed 16 students and a teacher before pulling the gun on himself.
#1: that BK "where is your god now?" is one of the scariest things I've ever seen.
#2: one of the things I like about Harry Potter is that he really is just a very ordinary boy (read: frequently a dumbass) with an extraordinary destiny (to take down the most powerful dark wizard in umpteen hundred years aka the Booger Red title). I like that there are people around him better, smarter, faster, saner, more talented, more sarcastic, etc, but that he can't just rely on them to get him out of any jam. Frequently, he just has to do it himself. In that way, I suppose he's a bit like Buffy the Vampire slayer (my apologies for the Joss Whedon reference), but with lamer dialogue and less dangerous hormones.
#3: Next time can you have Galva Ron rip out the tree that evil candy-stealing owl sits in?
one of the things I like about Harry Potter is that he really is just a very ordinary boy (read: frequently a dumbass) with an extraordinary destiny
What disturbs me is that Rowling doesn't seem to realize she's casting him as a dumbass. It's not like Ron, where his screw-ups are presented as screw-ups; when Harry doesn't know the publication date would be in the front of a book, she writes it like this is a legitimately difficult task that would stymie anyone. She's trying to write him as a fairly competnt guy who is only (but frequently) overwhelmed by considerable challenges, but she fails and presents a guy who would drown staring up at a thunderstorm.
I think she has a vague idea, but I do agree that Harry comes of as more of a dumbass than Rowling means to.
In books 1-2, Harry was just clueless while getting used to the wizarding world, books 3-5 taught you that Harry does first and thinks later. I think the dumbass tendencies that were only hinted at early on are finally coming to fruition. Especially because of one conversation at the end of this book.
Book 7: *fake spoilers* Voldemort kills Harry by thunderstorm. Ministry of Magic posthumously makes him their mascot. Voldemort kills Ministry of Magic by thunderstorm. Voldemort becomes emperor of England. Takes vacation to the Bahamas.
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Anyways, the Marauders' Map is something that was given to Harry in book three. The Weasley twins had stolen it from Mr. Filch's office in their first year and somehow figured out how to use it. If you know the password, it shows you a map of Hogwarts and its grounds and where everyone is on it and it isn't fooled by invisibility cloaks, polyjuice potion or such. If you don't know the password, the mapmakers will insult you. "Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business." The mapmakers - Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs - are actually the teenaged versions of Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black and James Potter, repectively. So you see why Harry thought they wouldn't be above using silly nicknames like Half-blood Prince.
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Yeah, a lot of this is filler for the faithful. Everyone wants to know how Apparition works. JKR shows us how it works. Viola and the whole stringed section. (Yeah, I know I spelled it wrong)
Loving your reviews. You should give yourself a robot body and a moniker, like MegaMike or something.
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And you don't see him calling anybody else a 'Mudblood' after that. Sometimes the old remedies work. ;)
James and Sirius attack because Sirius is bored. That's the right age for that, it seems. About the same time, my eldest and his friends stole a bunch of stuffed toys from a florist. And were caught. And mortally embarrassed because of all the cute widdle red and white valentine's toys they were making off with at sixteen years of age. As well as placed on probation and all the wonderful intro to the justice system that goes along with it.
Peter was creepy. Practically fangurling James and Sirius. I'm surprised he didn't orgasm, wet himself, then faint.
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In real life, they beat Snape up after school and he eventually came back with a friend and small arsenal and killed 16 students and a teacher before pulling the gun on himself.
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#2: one of the things I like about Harry Potter is that he really is just a very ordinary boy (read: frequently a dumbass) with an extraordinary destiny (to take down the most powerful dark wizard in umpteen hundred years aka the Booger Red title). I like that there are people around him better, smarter, faster, saner, more talented, more sarcastic, etc, but that he can't just rely on them to get him out of any jam. Frequently, he just has to do it himself. In that way, I suppose he's a bit like Buffy the Vampire slayer (my apologies for the Joss Whedon reference), but with lamer dialogue and less dangerous hormones.
#3: Next time can you have Galva Ron rip out the tree that evil candy-stealing owl sits in?
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What disturbs me is that Rowling doesn't seem to realize she's casting him as a dumbass. It's not like Ron, where his screw-ups are presented as screw-ups; when Harry doesn't know the publication date would be in the front of a book, she writes it like this is a legitimately difficult task that would stymie anyone. She's trying to write him as a fairly competnt guy who is only (but frequently) overwhelmed by considerable challenges, but she fails and presents a guy who would drown staring up at a thunderstorm.
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In books 1-2, Harry was just clueless while getting used to the wizarding world, books 3-5 taught you that Harry does first and thinks later. I think the dumbass tendencies that were only hinted at early on are finally coming to fruition. Especially because of one conversation at the end of this book.
Book 7: *fake spoilers* Voldemort kills Harry by thunderstorm. Ministry of Magic posthumously makes him their mascot. Voldemort kills Ministry of Magic by thunderstorm. Voldemort becomes emperor of England. Takes vacation to the Bahamas.
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