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mike_smith

Just a Test

Aug 19, 2006 21:59

Wow, three weeks in and I'm up to Chapter Five already. I guess reading that other crappy book last year has quadrupled my strength! Wah-hah-hah. Ha! Not only that, but I feel an increase in my speed... and ah-geelittee. Sorry, inside joke there ( Read more... )

prisonerofazkaban

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merenwen_81 August 20 2006, 07:50:53 UTC

If it makes you feel any better, we don't get to hear what McGonagall said to Hermione, because it's supposed to be a surprise later on.

Maybe the bullies at your primary school were wittier than the ones where I went to school, but compared to mine calling someone "Potty" or "Weaselking" is almost clever. I don't know why Harry and the others talk back so seldom (besides the obvious), but I did enjoy Hermione's "Twitchy little ferret, aren't we Malfoy" in book four, though it's only funny in the context.

mike_smith August 20 2006, 15:20:45 UTC

Maybe the bullies at your primary school were wittier than the ones where I went to school, but compared to mine calling someone "Potty" or "Weaselking" is almost clever.That's what I mean. In my school, the typical way to harass someone would usually involve something totally nonsensical. "DohKAY!" shouted in a very dumb-sounding voice was a frequent response to someone you didn't respect, often followed by a sarcastic "You're cool!" said in the same tone. I use it myself sometimes to this day. The point is that there's not really any comeback to that. Occasionally you'd get something more articulate, like someone trying to creep you out by saying they're gay for you, or that they had sex with your mother. Over time, I found it easier to just ignore this kind of stuff, because it didn't really have any meaning ( ... )

merenwen_81 August 21 2006, 13:25:43 UTC

You're completely right about Harry and Ron reacting exactly the wrong way. I can't imagine any teenager here in Finland using "I'm gay for you" to creep someone out, because they're so insecure about their sexuality themselves. I used to be called a Roadrunner (Toot!Toot!) because of my slightly nasal voice or just Bitch or something. If I wasn't able to keep looking like I couldn't bother to react, I'd say something like "I see you've learned a new word. How cute" or something about the other person's only braincell needing silicone to fill it. That would work on guys, but not on girls, because girls can make all their friends ignore you all the time and that's not a fun place to be when you didn't have many friends to begin with.

cindale August 20 2006, 12:40:22 UTC

Pansy + Mike Smith = OTP!
(She'd be like 26 in 2006, so you're okay.)

mike_smith August 20 2006, 15:04:45 UTC

Hooray! No prison for Mike!

Also, I can't get that blasted Pansy song out of my head, so at least it'd do me some good.

Shadow of the Bat lovehonorlife August 20 2006, 16:29:52 UTC

I don't know that Batman would even go to Hogwarts, let alone join a house. Doesn't he hate all things magical, since his logical mind has no real way to explain them? He'd leave that crap to Dr. Fate or Zatanna. And that's how Batman rolls in the DC Universe. JKRowlingVerse is a whole other level of nonsensical sorcery crap. Hey... I just realized...

The real threat to the world in the Harry Potter books is Mr. Spock. He'd deem every last damned thing illogical until all would cease to exist. Vote for Spock to appear in Book Seven, Harry Potter and the Vulcan First-Officer.

Re: Shadow of the Bat mike_smith August 20 2006, 16:38:43 UTC

That's my point. Han Solo doesn't even know where Hogwarts is, but people still go "Aw, he's so Slytherin." But he's not. He's Han Solo.

Re: Shadow of the Bat lovehonorlife August 20 2006, 21:34:06 UTC

Screw his house. Han still would shoot Dumbledore first.

jim_smith August 20 2006, 16:51:29 UTC

Something else occurred to me...

At Lumos, registrants had the option to choose a house, as part of the whoe "We're pretending this con is sort of like being at Hogwarts for three days" thing. Of course, you had the option to leave that blank on the form, which I did, since I don't give a crap. But when I showed up to get my name tag and convention schedule, the lady at the table asked me which house I was in.

I take it this form was online, and not on paper, right?

If so, it would have been so so so easy to code the form to make that field mandatory. Like, use a dropdown or rig up some JavaScript that tells you to go back and pick a house, fartknocker. Seriously, I could do it in my sleep.

I may be expecting too much from a fandom that wishes it could go to the school that's last in science...

mike_smith August 20 2006, 18:07:32 UTC

Right. It was one of those dropdown deals on the website and the default option was "No Preference" or something equally ambivalent. This was why it was important that when I bought Steph's registration, we had to do it about two weeks ahead of time, so that the website could record the change, and I could log in and change her profile to my name. This way, the lady at the desk in Vegas simply had to wait for me to show up with an ID and verify my information. Also, I wouldn't be walking around for three days with an "Innerslytherin" nametag. For all I know, she's a secret agent, and I'd hate to get mixed up into one of those Flinstones movie plotlines.

On the other hand, I don't think a lot of the particulars of my online profile were made availalbe to her, since she asked if I'd require a vegetarian or kosher meal for the dinner, as well as asking for my house affiliation. So either she was double checking, or most of the information I put on the online form was never really used.

cmzero August 20 2006, 17:43:45 UTC

I don't see why it's such a stretch for me to say that Molly loves Harry more than her entire family combined.

I've often suspected that myself, but I think it's mostly because Harry keeps saving assorted Weasley ass (book 2: Ginny; book 5: Arthur; pretty much every book: Ron, although Harry's often the reason Ron's ass was in peril to begin with). If the Weasleys could save their OWN asses, Molly would love them more, but as it is they all have to rely on a kid with a scar who himself relies largely on being damn lucky.

tropical_madnes August 20 2006, 21:41:20 UTC

I have also had the same suspicions due to said repeated ass-savings.