Trial of the Twenty-One.

[mike_smith]

[Jim Smith] Hey, I read Chapter 21 last night.

[Mike Smith] Sweet. You ready to rock, then?

[Jim Smith] Yeah, I guess. Do I need the book in front of me?

[Mike Smith] Probably not, as long as I've got my copy here. My copy's better anyway, because I drew a picture of a bear on page 468.

[Jim Smith] Yeah, I really wanted to draw all over

Comments

[jim_smith]

I think this review is the best one yet.

[rubyd]

Mmm, fry up some Diet Gollum.

" Although, if any of you know *how* she died or why she haunts *the bathroom* in particular, that might be interesting"

Re: Book 2. Myrtle was a student killed by teeny-Voldemort's pet Basilisk, which was blamed on Hagrid's Giant Spider (and he got suspended, etc). Basically, she was crying in the bathrooms at the time, and got an eyefull when she checked out a noise - I think the girl's bathroom had some secret entrance that led to some giant underground cavern where it lived.
Since then she appears here and there in different bathrooms.

[jim_smith]

They suspended the spider?

[rubyd]

No, no, I meant they suspended Hagrid. Broke his wand and kicked him out.

[jim_smith]

Oh, I keep forgetting Hagrid is a wizard in his own right. I tend to think of him as Hogwart's Groundskeeper Willie.

[tekalynn]

[Mike Smith] This is why I think she's an idiot for promoting elfin rights. If anything, they should be hunting these things for sport. Kreacher may sound annoying, but I bet he tastes delicious.

Brace yourselves, canon from book 5. Kreacher comes from a long line of house elves who've been serving the Black Family since the first wizarding Cro-magnon stunned a mammoth. All of Kreacher's ancestors' heads are mounted on wall displays at the Black's mansion at Grimmauld Place. This is their official retirement policy.

So why the hell one of the characters couldn't have simply whacked Kreacher's head off and stuck it on the mantel piece next to Aunt Agatha's, I'll never understand. Kreacher was *pouting* because no one would off him. And it's not as though he and Sirius ever did anything but snark at each other for hours on end.

[merenwen_81]

See, chopping his head off after he was part of the conpiracy to murder Sirius is exactly what I would have done. Maybe they thought sending him to Hogwarts was the more humane way, but Kreacher wanted to be beheaded and he's dangerous. I'm half waiting that we'll find yóut he used Harry's "Get out of it" as an excuse to run for Narcissa.

Dobby was the house elf for the Malfoy family which is why he still feels the need to punish himself for saying mean things about Draco. Harry tricked Lucius Malfoy into freeing Dobby in book two and Dumbledore hired him to work in the Hogwats kitchen. House elves are basically slaves and they're not allowed to have real clothes, but they are conditioned into thinkin being a free elf is disgraceful. There's another freed house elf called Twinky. She drinks. Alot. Let me tell you, the only thing worse than a house elf is a drunken house elf.

[c2t2]

"No one's written him since Sirius Black went to that big kennel in the sky."

Best line ever.

"I'll wake up when you're talking about naked Vegeta..."

*sporfle* Is this a frequent conversation topic for you?

And....

The jury's still out on whether Draco and his necrophilia are important later on.. and Ive read the book.

[jim_smith]

*sporfle* Is this a frequent conversation topic for you?

Actually, I normally nod off when he's yammering about Harry Potter and DBZ, but I was being polite.

[c2t2]

Oy, dont diss DBZ, naked Vegetas and all! *uses icon so it can glare at you*
Not a good comparison. *shudders*

[smoot]

Well, this is MY favorite review of this yet.