Chapter 14: X-Raided.

[mike_smith]

In reference to my poll from last week, "All Nude" was the leading choice when I actually went home and faced Jim in the video game ring. Unfortunately, the jerks at Nintendo didn't allow nudity as an option, so I was left with the next best thing: sumo wrestler undies. I also gave the Buttdawg a really stupid top hat, so I basically ended up

Comments

[ninamalfoy]

Ginny's actually Ron's younger sister, so it's doubly embarrassing for him, I guess, to see that even she is getting some action and he ain't. :-)

[mike_smith]

Wait, younger sister? I thought she was a seventh year? I have the book right in front of me, so I guess I could check, but I'm too lazy, so I'm just gonna say that I'm almost sure she was a seventh-year.

Either way, your point still stands. The only thing worse than an emasculating older sister is an emasculating younger one.

[ninamalfoy]

I thought she was a seventh year? I have the book right in front of me, so I guess I could check, but I'm too lazy, so I'm just gonna say that I'm almost sure she was a seventh-year.

See, that's really something; if even you (whose reviews of HBP I do admire and look forward to) get the impression she's older than him, go and reread the second book in the series, because there she comes off as a shy baby. In fact, if someone'd read book 2 and then book 6, he'd go 'Huh? Are there two Ginnys in that world and I never noticed?' Has been bugging me and several other HP-fen, this ohsomagical transformation from wee!Ginny into boisterousslut!Ginny. *grins*

[merenwen_81]

Not that the NewImproved!Ginny doesn't annoy me sometimes, but I don't see how it's strange that someone could grow up a little between books two and six. That's four years. Ron always said she'd never shut up when Harry wasn't around and she was already acting normal around Harry in book five. And only then she turned into this super sassy Mary Sue version of herself, so it's very gradual really.

[sneaker328]

I'm glad you liked this one. I'd been looking forward to your review of it to see what you thought of all the shippiness. I'm pretty sure this chapter is what broke the Harry/Hermione shippers.

Ginny is a year younger than Ron, by the way, and the youngest in the family. So it's actually Ron's baby sister doing the emasculating and making out with guys in public, thereby doing the double duty of making Ron feel overprotective and reminding him that she's getting play before he is.

[meteora_smt]

Actually when Ron first joined the team, it was in OOTP, and he was very nervous, first two games he was real bad because of lack of confidence, but he was amazing in the last game.

So when ron was bad, draco (particularly him) and the other slytherins made a song for him (to probably make him feel more embarrased or shy or whatever) which goes like:-

'Weasley is our king
Weasley is our king
He Always lets the quaffle in
Weasley is our king

Weasley cannot save a thing,
he cannot block a single ring,
That's why Slytherins all sing,
Weasley is our king

Weasley was born in a bin,
he always lets the quaffle in,
Weasley will make sure we win,
Weasley is our King.'

But in the last match when Ron weasley was supposedly amazing, Gryffindors retaliated and modified the song into:-

'Weasley is our king
Weasley is our king
he didn't let the quaffle in
Weasley is our king

Weasley can save anything
He never leaves a single ring
Thats why Gryffindors all sing
Weasley is our king'

So that's that.

[jim_smith]

"Jesus is our only king!"

"Not anymore! Yoink!"

[mike_smith]

So when ron was bad, draco (particularly him) and the other slytherins made a song for him (to probably make him feel more embarrased or shy or whatever)

Man, Slytherin House is a bunch of assholes, huh?

[skjam]

To quote Sluggy Freelance: "We keep all our bad guys in one place for accounting purposes."

[trishalynn]

[mike_smith]

They're right, you're icon is better. "Don't let that Scottish bastard beat you to the punch!"

On an unrelated note, what's the deal on this mini-comic you did back on Labor Day? Was there a Paypal thing I was supposed to do?

[trishalynn]

Yep. I sent you an email about it. I'll send it again.

[grapefruitzzz]

Great review for that fiddly shippy episode :D

Come to think of it, who drinks TEA for breakfast either?

Clichéd but true - many, many British people drink the jolly old tea for breakfast (including children). I prefer coffee because I've been drinking it since I was five. Also Enlgand might suck painfully at football but we just won the Ashes! In cricket! It rocks so much!