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mike_smith

I Don't Know

Sep 24, 2006 13:40

Had someone else get fired from my job last week. This time it was a new hire who, according to the scuttlebutt, refused to take the drug test. I don't know if it's true or not, although I have to admit, I can't imagine a lot of other ways to get yourself fired less than a month into a new job. Refusal to take a drug test has happened before in ( Read more... )

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jim_smith September 24 2006, 18:17:14 UTC

Another thought that strikes me: If Draco were actually a COOL bad guy, what he could have done would be to tell Hermione, "Hey, I'll tell my dad to drop the whole thing. Buckbeak goes free, Hagrid's off the hook, everyone's happy. All you have to do... is make out with me. In front of Harry and Ron. For ten minutes. With tongue."

This is already a billion times more interesting than what the book is actually about, although that may be because I'm picturing Carrie Fisher in the slave outfit playing Hermione.

anonymous September 24 2006, 18:23:44 UTC

The problem with the games is that Slytherin is supposed to be this great team that's been winning six or seven years in arow and that Gryffindor couldn't beat until Harry came along. Since then Harry's been winning the games against Slytherin and Gryffindor should have won the Cup. Rowling makes the mistake in trying to make Harry look better by making the other team suck. They win all the other games so it's always Gryffindor against Slytherin at the end and suddenly they suck at the game. Or Slytherin sucks but the other teams suck more and that makes stupid sense. Rowling just can't write the game or anything else to do with Slytherin and Harry without wanting Harry to win and making the other Slytherins come off like idiots and still make him seem like some underdog that's gone up against something big and bad. It's just bad writing on her part. I'd rather see Harry lose or win to a better team than the one we're given.

tekalynn September 24 2006, 18:58:23 UTC

In the movie version of PoA, Hermione's slap was turned into a punch, something which irked a number of trufans, especially when JKR retconned the slap into a punch in book 6.

Lucius is that rarity in the Potterverse, an Involved Parent. Naturally that makes him Evil.

IIRC that in the Russian pastiche series based kindasorta on _Harry Potter_, the Quidditch-analogue game *is* played with dragons as the goalkeepers. Also, the heroine flies around on a magic cello. Don't ask me, I don't write these things.

mike_smith September 24 2006, 19:17:46 UTC

Lucius is that rarity in the Potterverse, an Involved Parent. Naturally that makes him Evil.

I'm pretty sure he's evil because he's a Death Eater or whatever. And he's not an involved parent, he's an overinvolved parent. Asking the board of governors to investigate the matter is one thing, but everything past that has been this quixotic crusade to have some dumb animal put down just to compensate for his assuredly tiny dick ( ... )

remix17 September 25 2006, 17:17:45 UTC

Indeed. Rather than feel guilty over Malfoy, he feels bad that Buckbeak is going to die.

...priorities, man, priorities! At least Ron told it like it was.

grapefruitzzz September 24 2006, 19:44:09 UTC

Post-movie retcon? Gah, I spent a whole academic essay in 2004 looking for signs of that and didn't find any. Typical of her to justify my work when it's too late. There was a great quote from David Thewlis where he said he tried to be extra-nice to her when he met her so she'd write a good part for him in Book 6 - and he gets the hot chick!

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seductivedark September 24 2006, 19:28:37 UTC

Actually, let's put that question to the ladies reading this right now: Would you make out with a dude to save the life of a condemned hippogriff? Don't just say yes because you got the hots for Tom Felton. Let's say it was Jabba the Hutt doing this. No slave outfit or anything like that. Just ten minutes of sugar for Jabba, or he'll chop off Buckbeak's head. Bo Shuda! Ha ha ha ha! Ho ho ho ho!

Hm. I don't have the hots for Tom Felton. He's less than two years older than my thirdborn, which means he's younger than my first- and secondborn, and that's just creepy. Now, Lucius or Snape, and you've got a deal. Shave Dumbledore, or substitute Obi-Wan, maybe. Duku (sp?), oy, yes! Even with Saruman's beard. Han, definitely. Luke, maybe. Fudge, maybe. Hagrid? No. Chewie? No. Jabba? No. Sorry, Buckbeak, it's up to Our Hero.

I guess he (Draco) doesn't see any upside to fighting a girl.Girls are sneaky. I had two of each, and I grew up being a girl. Girls are sneaky. I don't know how any of them end up in any house besides ( ... )

seductivedark September 24 2006, 19:31:24 UTC

The. Not 'teh'. Oy, too much wanking about school meals on another board!

grapefruitzzz September 24 2006, 19:40:06 UTC

Jabba does have nice eyes, though.