Btw, are hags yet another creature that aren’t fit for polite society from birth?
They are said to eat children, according to the introductory chapter of FB.
Harry also gets free sundaes every half an hour. Wow. Does he look a little more like Dudley by the end of the week or what?
Is he still wearing Dudley's trousers or does he have his own once he's away from the Dursleys?
LOL! There’s something wonderful about Harry reminding himself that it’s not like he’s ever lost a Quidditch match on his Nimbus 2000. He might as well have reminded himself that he never seems to lose at anything, really. To be fair, he hasn’t yet entered the TWT.
Or encountered Cedric. (That he remembers.)
Harry also sees Neville, but doesn’t stop to chat. Shock.
Neville is just a forgetful boy who mislaid his booklist. Foreshadowing of the password list business. Also, Harry sees Gran, so when he sees the Granified-Boggart!Snape he would be able to make a comparison. And he doesn't want Augusta to hear of his impersonation stunt. (Though I think Augusta would have been flattered.)
He was probably disappointed he didn’t get a chance to cover that up for Harry himself.
LOL
Hermione says Harry’s blowing up his aunt isn’t funny. After all, she’s amazed he wasn’t expelled. Nice foreshadowing of Hermione’s take on the Sectumsempra issue.
Well, she wasn't expelled for stealing Polyjuice ingredients and illegal brewing. Nor will she be expelled for scarring Marietta.
Hermione is taking Muggle studies because she thinks it will be fascinating to see them from the wizard pov. If by “fascinating” you mean infuriating and condescending, I guess.
I wonder how much this wizarding perspective had to do with her adopting the view that she had to stay as far apart from her parents as possible, and then take control of their own lives.
He thinks because Egypt didn’t agree with him, but of course really it’s because he’s scared of Sirius!
He will forget Scabbers had been droopy since Egypt when he later blames his state entirely on Crookshanks.
The witch asks what powers Scabbers has.
I like the irony of that one. What powers? For starters he is a wizard. Who has the supposedly rare power of Animagus (but how many unregistered Animagi are there? We can't know).
Black’s not going to be caught by a 13-year-old wizard, Arthur says
More irony: No, he won't be caught by a 13-year-old wizard, he will be freed by one (OK, two).
So the car for Arthur is “doing him a favor” because he doesn’t have a car anymore. That would be because his car was illegal and his kid lost it. If there’s one thing that says poor, it’s fleets of government cars taking your kids to school, yeah?
Still, it’s nice of the Ministry to do something to make up for Arthur losing his totally illegal car that specifically went against his own area of law enforcement. I doubt anybody in the Muggle world would be that thoughtful.
Compare to Vernon getting a company car, probably in reward for performance at work. (Definitely not for deliberately messing up something he was in charge of.)
And something that caused me a personal brain-stumble out of cultural difference: Bighead being a derogatory word. In 1980s Israeli slang 'rosh gadol' - literally 'big head' means someone who thinks ahead, sees the big picture, acts responsibly.
Yeah, that is a good distinction there. Percy's probably considered worse because he remains pompous with everyone, including his family, telling him he sucks.
Percy was praised by Molly, and probably also his various teachers. But his siblings know opinions of teachers do not count and the twins worked on getting their mother on their side after leaving school.
I always felt Molly loved the twins best. But Percy was the child she had the tightest control of, so she used him to try and control the others. And then despised him for it, just as everyone else did. (I read the Weasleys as so messed up it's not even funny. Or maybe it is a little. *g*)
They are said to eat children, according to the introductory chapter of FB.
Harry also gets free sundaes every half an hour. Wow. Does he look a little more like Dudley by the end of the week or what?
Is he still wearing Dudley's trousers or does he have his own once he's away from the Dursleys?
LOL! There’s something wonderful about Harry reminding himself that it’s not like he’s ever lost a Quidditch match on his Nimbus 2000. He might as well have reminded himself that he never seems to lose at anything, really. To be fair, he hasn’t yet entered the TWT.
Or encountered Cedric. (That he remembers.)
Harry also sees Neville, but doesn’t stop to chat. Shock.
Neville is just a forgetful boy who mislaid his booklist. Foreshadowing of the password list business. Also, Harry sees Gran, so when he sees the Granified-Boggart!Snape he would be able to make a comparison. And he doesn't want Augusta to hear of his impersonation stunt. (Though I think Augusta would have been flattered.)
He was probably disappointed he didn’t get a chance to cover that up for Harry himself.
LOL
Hermione says Harry’s blowing up his aunt isn’t funny. After all, she’s amazed he wasn’t expelled. Nice foreshadowing of Hermione’s take on the Sectumsempra issue.
Well, she wasn't expelled for stealing Polyjuice ingredients and illegal brewing. Nor will she be expelled for scarring Marietta.
Hermione is taking Muggle studies because she thinks it will be fascinating to see them from the wizard pov. If by “fascinating” you mean infuriating and condescending, I guess.
I wonder how much this wizarding perspective had to do with her adopting the view that she had to stay as far apart from her parents as possible, and then take control of their own lives.
He thinks because Egypt didn’t agree with him, but of course really it’s because he’s scared of Sirius!
He will forget Scabbers had been droopy since Egypt when he later blames his state entirely on Crookshanks.
The witch asks what powers Scabbers has.
I like the irony of that one. What powers? For starters he is a wizard. Who has the supposedly rare power of Animagus (but how many unregistered Animagi are there? We can't know).
Black’s not going to be caught by a 13-year-old wizard, Arthur says
More irony: No, he won't be caught by a 13-year-old wizard, he will be freed by one (OK, two).
So the car for Arthur is “doing him a favor” because he doesn’t have a car anymore. That would be because his car was illegal and his kid lost it. If there’s one thing that says poor, it’s fleets of government cars taking your kids to school, yeah?
Still, it’s nice of the Ministry to do something to make up for Arthur losing his totally illegal car that specifically went against his own area of law enforcement. I doubt anybody in the Muggle world would be that thoughtful.
Compare to Vernon getting a company car, probably in reward for performance at work. (Definitely not for deliberately messing up something he was in charge of.)
And something that caused me a personal brain-stumble out of cultural difference: Bighead being a derogatory word. In 1980s Israeli slang 'rosh gadol' - literally 'big head' means someone who thinks ahead, sees the big picture, acts responsibly.
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