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Chapter Ten: Kreacher's Tale

Jan 17, 2008 00:01

In which Harry has existential angst over a manipulative git, the Trio isn't up to full processing speed on a couple of fronts, and the sporker's inner Regulus brings the sarcasm to the party.
( this time, in Potter's Sprog and the Lack of Common Sense... )

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fujinsama January 17 2008, 05:15:14 UTC

Kind of odd to see one of my head voices played so differently, but no where near as jarring as "WTF? Did it for the ELF? LAME, JRK! LAAAAAAAAME!" when I first read the chapter.

My Regulus would like to know if elves have the ability to apparate out of there on command... why he didn't tell him to get them both out? It makes more sense than being drowned by zombies. Drowned by zombies has to go down as his least favourite way to die.

guardians_song January 17 2008, 05:23:32 UTC

"My Regulus would like to know if elves have the ability to apparate out of there on command... why he didn't tell him to get them both out? It makes more sense than being drowned by zombies. Drowned by zombies has to go down as his least favourite way to die."

...You and me both. I didn't even HAVE a Regulus, and it confused ME on the first read-through. Then the next. Then the... OK, I think you know what I mean. XD Seriously! If Dobby can do it, why not Kreacher?!?!?!

fujinsama January 17 2008, 05:38:13 UTC

No freaking kidding! Get the locket out of there and either try to get out of the country long enough to work the thing out or at least get caught on the way for a more dignified death. I'm sure greenlight is rather painless and less humiliating.

minkhollow January 17 2008, 05:27:51 UTC

He wouldn't stop snarking. It was more funny than WTF-worthy, at least. XD
And yeah, 'drowned by zombies' is kind of not a good way to die.

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smurasaki January 17 2008, 05:21:02 UTC

So how, precisely, did a letter from Lily, from the Godric's Hollow era, end up in Grimmauld Place?
Maybe Sirius...uh...perhaps...uh... Yeah, I've got nothing.

Oh, the stupidity in this chapter.

minkhollow January 17 2008, 05:45:10 UTC

I tried. But he hardly had long enough after James and Lily died to start carrying it around out of sentimentality before he got arrested. And even if he did, I highly doubt it would've stayed in his possession (see also: confiscated wand).

guardians_song January 17 2008, 05:25:34 UTC

So how, precisely, did a letter from Lily, from the Godric's Hollow era, end up in Grimmauld Place?

*dead silence*

Uhhhhhhhhh... maybe Sirius brought it along when he was... um... staying in Grimmauld Place in OOTP.... but that doesn't make any... because he wasn't in his room...

*eyes roll back in head*

[This poster has joined the Choir Invisible. It is an EX-GUARDIAN'S SONG]

Now she ded from Wizarding lack of logic. D|

minkhollow January 17 2008, 05:45:46 UTC

Continuity. JKR's doing it wrong.

shyfoxling January 17 2008, 23:46:33 UTC

Pretty much.

rattyrayvn January 17 2008, 05:38:35 UTC

Those Muggle pin-ups were a bit of a random thing to have. Wouldn't wizarding ones at least be animated?

*stops before she considers magical porn in too much detail*

minkhollow January 17 2008, 05:43:31 UTC

Perhaps it's one of those things where the Muggle photos leave more to the imagination?

fujinsama January 17 2008, 05:44:50 UTC

Forget wizarding pin ups. Erotic paintings are where it's out. Motion and sound!

rattyrayvn January 18 2008, 01:44:07 UTC

You just made me imagine smut involving Sir Cadogan.

...well, at least it'd be funny.

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anitaray January 17 2008, 15:21:31 UTC

I hate it when fangirls make Regulus (as he is in DH, of course, not *your* lovely boy) out to be some kind of genius hero. He wasn't. He was every bit the dumb git Sirius said he was. Honestly, he goes to all this trouble stealing the locket after figuring out what it is... and apparantly has enough left in him to write Voldeicakes a tender note of f*ck you even after he has drunk the poison potion...

But he didn't even bother to find out how the horcrux could be destroyed? He just *gives* the locket to Kreacher and drops dead - that was his brilliant plan? Doesn't he *know* Kreacher's in love with him and will cherish his parting gift till the day he's turned into a trophy head on the wall? Dammit, JKR, you just had to go and make Regulus retarded, didn't you.

minkhollow January 18 2008, 01:45:55 UTC

At best, I tend to write Regulus as an anti-hero. He doesn't want any of the fuss that would come along with saving the world (or any contribution toward said), but nobody else seems to be stepping up to the plate and using logic to solve their problems.
But yeah - canon!Regulus sadly failed to live up to all the potential the fans saw in him. As seems to be the case with pretty much any aspect of the plot people were looking forward to.