"Uncle Vernon seized one of Marge's feet and tried to pull her down again, but was almost lifted from the floor himself. Next second, Ripper had leapt forward and sunk his teeth into Uncle Vernon's leg." (Italics mine.)
Oh, don't you know, everyone deserves everything they get from the Good Guys in these books. It's a sore spot with me. The twins shove a fellow student who is empowered to remove house points from them for being goof-offs, into a broken magical cabinet that traps him for weeks because he deserved it; Harry's father tormented Snape while they were in school because he existed (so of course he deserved it), Draco Malfoy and goons are hexed into spotted slugs or potatoes with root fangs growing out of their faces because they dared to speak ill of Our Hero, and so on.
I'm waiting for it to all come back and bite them in the trousers in Harry Potter and the Really Big Finish or whatever book 7 will be called.
Is there anyone who thought Snape got what he deserved in Snape's worst memory (where he gets publicly humialiated, because Sirius is bored)? Harry certainly didn't think that. I do agree with you on Weasley twins. I can't even like them anymore, because they keep changing people into slugs and such just for the hell of it and make me feel sorry for Percy. I also think Hermione went a bit too far with the Marietta thing in OotP, because the curse she used wasn't reversable.
Ms. Granger is effective...lovehonorlifeAugust 11 2006, 19:30:37 UTC
I thought the hex on Marietta was more about keeping her quiet about Dumbledore's Army, and she said something about undoing it once Delores Umbridge wasn't trying to bust the whole D.A.'s collective hinders.
Re: Ms. Granger is effective...seductivedarkAugust 11 2006, 19:40:22 UTC
But, it didn't keep her quiet, it marred her face *after* she ratted them out to Umbridge. What on earth good is that? Why couldn't Hermione put some hex on everyone that gave them instant and temporary laryngitis if they tried to speak about the club? Umbridge wouldn't know, the club wouldn't have been broken up, Dumbledore wouldn't have had to make such a spectacular exit from Hogwarts, Marietta wouldn't have been Obliviated of the memory, and Neville and Luna might not have been the only DA members to keep their coins and show up both at the end of OotP and again in HBP.
(yeah, I know, Dumbledore had to leave Hogwarts for the plot, but within the books...)
The hex on Marietta was pustules on her face spelling out the word 'Sneak'. She wasn't silenced. The pustules, or the garish scars from them, were still on her face on the train to Hogwarts in HBP. If Hermione thought she was going to remove the hex, she didn't.
What Sneaker said. The dog bit Vernon in the leg and Marge is alive though not exactly well, especially after the Ministry of Magic catches her. I don't think they care all that much if the muggles' brains get fried when they are obliviated.
I'm sure the dark, unkempt hair is supposed to be some sentimental connection between him and his dead parents, but the truth is that all dumbasses look that way, mainly because they're too dumb to operate a comb.
I mean, for the love of... WHY DOESN'T ANYONE TALK ABOUT THIS? Everyone from the Pope on down rags on these books for promoting witchcraft, "ruining" characters, undermining Christianity, etc. etc. etc.
People do try to talk about it sometimes in fandom, but unfortunately it gets lost between the "Practical jokes=gang rape!" extreme and the "He deserved, she deserved, Harry's an orphan and he's a great kid! Who hasn't sliced someone up when they were 16? Why doesn't everyone just read the author wants us to read?" extreme. The middle ground of, "I get that [good character] was mad, but wasn't that a little overboard?
You have to wonder just how great this world is going to be once Voldemort is destroyed. One less psychopath.
People do try to talk about it sometimes in fandom, but unfortunately it gets lost between the [removed example] extreme...
Oh, yes. Definitely! Just posted myself, about how I think a lot of this is teenaged self-delusion, indulging the Everybody's Out To Get Me angst, and I really hope, and have felt since the beginning, that this is the proverbial Other Shoe.
What I want to know is why it isn't talked about all the time, though. To me, if a guy asked a fan "What's this Harry Potter thing all about", the Aunt Marge incident should be incorporated into the answer. "Oh, he's a boy wizard who attends a magical school, and he's completely devoid of remorse." Anything else should take a back seat, I think. Unless he's done something even worse in the parts I haven't read yet.
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I'm waiting for it to all come back and bite them in the trousers in Harry Potter and the Really Big Finish or whatever book 7 will be called.
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(yeah, I know, Dumbledore had to leave Hogwarts for the plot, but within the books...)
The hex on Marietta was pustules on her face spelling out the word 'Sneak'. She wasn't silenced. The pustules, or the garish scars from them, were still on her face on the train to Hogwarts in HBP. If Hermione thought she was going to remove the hex, she didn't.
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Man, your face must be a gigantic dumbass, then.
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People do try to talk about it sometimes in fandom, but unfortunately it gets lost between the "Practical jokes=gang rape!" extreme and the "He deserved, she deserved, Harry's an orphan and he's a great kid! Who hasn't sliced someone up when they were 16? Why doesn't everyone just read the author wants us to read?" extreme. The middle ground of, "I get that [good character] was mad, but wasn't that a little overboard?
You have to wonder just how great this world is going to be once Voldemort is destroyed. One less psychopath.
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People do try to talk about it sometimes in fandom, but unfortunately it gets lost between the [removed example] extreme...
Oh, yes. Definitely! Just posted myself, about how I think a lot of this is teenaged self-delusion, indulging the Everybody's Out To Get Me angst, and I really hope, and have felt since the beginning, that this is the proverbial Other Shoe.
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