/Adults who can Apparate are far more useful than children taking the thestral express!/
True, but that wouldn't be as exciting and the kids wouldn’t get to do anything. It would look far more boring in the OotP movie for the kids to be waiting around to hear news from the adults instead of taking an exciting ride on cool winged horses! Also, if Harry and Co. had actually done the useful thing, then they wouldn’t have blundered into Voldemort’s obvious trap, Sirius wouldn’t have died one of the most nonsensical deaths ever, Harry wouldn’t have gotten to angst about him for the rest of the book and then conveniently remember the mirror that Sirius had given him that he could have used to contact him instead of gallivanting into Voldemort’s trap, and Harry wouldn’t have gotten to smash the prophecy which would later prove to be mostly irrelevant anyway. See? It all makes sense!
/let's ignore that these are supposed to be wild creatures and not wonder why they so docilely took the children on board/
Because they recognized that Harry and Co. are good and noble, of course! That’s why Buckbeak was so mild-mannered when Harry and Hermione were dragging him around by the end of PoA, why he didn’t attack Sirius when Sirius kicked him to get going, and why he attacked Draco for the heinous crime of calling him an “ugly brute” while patting his beak.
The sad thing is, if they had just run back in and used Umbridge's fireplace to Floo to the Ministry, being too Gryffindor discombobulated to think of calling Molly or Tonks or anyone, they still could have blundered into the trap and gotten the same ending. Probably the DEs had an incredibly boring few hours standing around waiting for the kids to show up. ("So, Lucius... got any gum?")
True, but that wouldn't be as exciting and the kids wouldn’t get to do anything. It would look far more boring in the OotP movie for the kids to be waiting around to hear news from the adults instead of taking an exciting ride on cool winged horses! Also, if Harry and Co. had actually done the useful thing, then they wouldn’t have blundered into Voldemort’s obvious trap, Sirius wouldn’t have died one of the most nonsensical deaths ever, Harry wouldn’t have gotten to angst about him for the rest of the book and then conveniently remember the mirror that Sirius had given him that he could have used to contact him instead of gallivanting into Voldemort’s trap, and Harry wouldn’t have gotten to smash the prophecy which would later prove to be mostly irrelevant anyway. See? It all makes sense!
I LOL'd when I read this. Thank you for the laugh. Don't forget Harry also wouldn't have been able to blame Snape for Black's death, instead of say, himself (for not communicating with Sirius) and/or the twins (for baiting Sirius by calling him a coward. See, it doesn't matter if a cowardly Slytherin like Snape calls him a coward, but if a fellow Gryffindor does it, that's the grossest of insults.)
Ugh, don't remind me about that. I love how Harry blames Snape for sniping at Sirius over staying in the house and not doing anything, when it's not like anything Snape says even MATTERS to Sirius. I'd imagine hearing something like that from people you like and are used to having a good opinion from would have far more impact. Doesn't he turn white or visibly react in some way when one or both of the twins says he's a coward? Harry may as well blame THEM.
And what kind adult stays home where it is safe while a child they love is in danger?
Do they really think Sirius could just stay where it was safe while Harry is in danger? Everything we know about Sirius is that he is not the kind of guy to play it safe.
Ugh. That's exactly the case. Characterization sacrificed for plot again and again.
(this is why I like the Young Wizards series. Those kids have authority figures they trust and rely on and seek advice from, they always do the responsible thing and go to them for help, and yet they always manage to have adventures and get caught up in situations beyond their control for the requisite excitement and tension)
*eyeroll* I wasn't going to bring Buckbeak in, 'coz I've flogged that dead horse for ages now, but DAMN, that gets to me as well.
Um. I'm not sure if that's meant to be a joke, with the smiley face and all, but I'll just clarify that to flog a dead horse is just an expression that means one is talking about something way too much. I do know Buckbeak's not really a horse...
True, but that wouldn't be as exciting and the kids wouldn’t get to do anything. It would look far more boring in the OotP movie for the kids to be waiting around to hear news from the adults instead of taking an exciting ride on cool winged horses! Also, if Harry and Co. had actually done the useful thing, then they wouldn’t have blundered into Voldemort’s obvious trap, Sirius wouldn’t have died one of the most nonsensical deaths ever, Harry wouldn’t have gotten to angst about him for the rest of the book and then conveniently remember the mirror that Sirius had given him that he could have used to contact him instead of gallivanting into Voldemort’s trap, and Harry wouldn’t have gotten to smash the prophecy which would later prove to be mostly irrelevant anyway. See? It all makes sense!
/let's ignore that these are supposed to be wild creatures and not wonder why they so docilely took the children on board/
Because they recognized that Harry and Co. are good and noble, of course! That’s why Buckbeak was so mild-mannered when Harry and Hermione were dragging him around by the end of PoA, why he didn’t attack Sirius when Sirius kicked him to get going, and why he attacked Draco for the heinous crime of calling him an “ugly brute” while patting his beak.
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Nah, gum's a bit lower-class for the Malfoys. More likely they'd spend the time playing parlour games, like charades or twenty questions.
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You know, Draco probably learned his dramatic skills somewhere - maybe the Malfoys do have charades nights.
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I LOL'd when I read this. Thank you for the laugh. Don't forget Harry also wouldn't have been able to blame Snape for Black's death, instead of say, himself (for not communicating with Sirius) and/or the twins (for baiting Sirius by calling him a coward. See, it doesn't matter if a cowardly Slytherin like Snape calls him a coward, but if a fellow Gryffindor does it, that's the grossest of insults.)
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Do they really think Sirius could just stay where it was safe while Harry is in danger? Everything we know about Sirius is that he is not the kind of guy to play it safe.
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(this is why I like the Young Wizards series. Those kids have authority figures they trust and rely on and seek advice from, they always do the responsible thing and go to them for help, and yet they always manage to have adventures and get caught up in situations beyond their control for the requisite excitement and tension)
*eyeroll* I wasn't going to bring Buckbeak in, 'coz I've flogged that dead horse for ages now, but DAMN, that gets to me as well.
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Buckbeak's not a horse, he's a hippogriff. And he's still alive, as far as we know. ;-)
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