Harry’s eye falls on a book about death omens that has a picture of a black dog on the cover...
Ah. Remember the days when Harry was actually curious about books? Maybe the Potions book was the last straw to turn him off reading forever.
Arthur has of course heard all about what happened to Aunt Marge.
I'm sure that the story made the rounds at the Ministry, complete with indulgent chuckling at the little dickens. They probably put moving pictures of Marge in her blowed-up state on whatever it is the wizards have that's better than the internet.
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.
Hermione sure talks about Harry being expelled a lot. How come there aren't conspiracy theories about how she was secretlly trying to get him kicked out of Hogwarts?
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
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Trevor is probably really Neville's second cousin. Neville's hiding him until that incident with Griselda Marchanks and the very unfortunate Transfiguration accidents during his O.W.L.s blows over. And yes, he shrank his invisibility cloak.
What's weird to me is how Percy went from being an amusingly pompous older brother to being the scourge of the wizarding world.
I would love to see a version where, sometime during GoF, Percy snaps and decides he must take over the wizarding world for its own good. Fred and George will be first into the reeducation camp. (This is entirely compatible with Percy playing Redheaded Pimpernel in OotP, too - for his own ends. He'll just let Dumbledore think he's secretly on his side until the time is right.)
But what about Crookshanks? He's just very smart, right?
So smart the goblins let him access Sirius' gold. Maybe he is a reverse-Animagus. Or is that an Anthropus? Or whatever - an animal that can impersonate a human?
(Anyone wrote HP/Discworld crossovers with Crookshanks and Greebo? Too bad they're both male.)
---"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Professor Charity Burbage and I will be teaching you about the fascinating subject of muggles in the coming year
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If only she *had* been introduced in PoA! I was always impressed by the way JKR seemed so in control of her story when she introduced Cedric long before he became important. And Cho. Even Sirius and his motorbike got an early soundbite. Either she stopped bothering -I really do think it was something like that. I think Rowling had the first few books neatly mapped out in her mind either before she even got PS sold or certainly before she became a mega-blockbuster commercial success. But then the 'bloat factor' crept in, the books got bigger and bigger ... and the paucity of the second half of her overall story arc became more and more clear. In HBP there was only really one thing of importance that happened - the death of Dumbeldore. So 90% of the novel is just boring or juvenile filler material. And then in the last book we have the Trio's stay at the Kreacher Bed & Breakfast, followed by the infinite camping trip, while Rowling tried to download the infodump necessary for the readers to understand the onslaught of deus ex
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Maybe Hermione doesn't get the expellation theories because Snape so openly seems to want him expelled? Clever Hermione. Remember, she totally starts all the trouble in Umbridge's class that Harry gets blamed for.
I imagine Muggle studies being like those awful texts about race from not so long ago, where Hermione would be learning all sorts of nonsense that proves that Muggles are unintelligent, closer to animals and more suited to being ordered around by Wizards.
Good call on the car. I love how Sirius makes the WW makes sense in the first part of this book. (Unfortunately for all the fuss about him nobody seems to really have a plan for catching him...)
Ah. Remember the days when Harry was actually curious about books? Maybe the Potions book was the last straw to turn him off reading forever.
Arthur has of course heard all about what happened to Aunt Marge.
I'm sure that the story made the rounds at the Ministry, complete with indulgent chuckling at the little dickens. They probably put moving pictures of Marge in her blowed-up state on whatever it is the wizards have that's better than the internet.
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.
Hermione sure talks about Harry being expelled a lot. How come there aren't conspiracy theories about how she was secretlly trying to get him kicked out of Hogwarts?
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 ( ... )
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What's weird to me is how Percy went from being an amusingly pompous older brother to being the scourge of the wizarding world.
I would love to see a version where, sometime during GoF, Percy snaps and decides he must take over the wizarding world for its own good. Fred and George will be first into the reeducation camp. (This is entirely compatible with Percy playing Redheaded Pimpernel in OotP, too - for his own ends. He'll just let Dumbledore think he's secretly on his side until the time is right.)
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So smart the goblins let him access Sirius' gold. Maybe he is a reverse-Animagus. Or is that an Anthropus? Or whatever - an animal that can impersonate a human?
(Anyone wrote HP/Discworld crossovers with Crookshanks and Greebo? Too bad they're both male.)
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I imagine Muggle studies being like those awful texts about race from not so long ago, where Hermione would be learning all sorts of nonsense that proves that Muggles are unintelligent, closer to animals and more suited to being ordered around by Wizards.
Good call on the car. I love how Sirius makes the WW makes sense in the first part of this book. (Unfortunately for all the fuss about him nobody seems to really have a plan for catching him...)
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Allow me to introduce myself. I am Professor Charity Burbage...
Oh! This is perfect! (It's funny because it's true!)
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