Deathly Hallows uberwank: Chapter 6, The Ghoul in Pyjamas
No, of course I'm not revising. Uberwank time!
After a few tears, some laughter, some more of those classic jokes about death, and a heartwarming conclusion, it's time for ( serious business... )
After a few tears, some laughter, some more of those classic jokes about death, and a heartwarming conclusion, it's time for ( serious business... )
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Is it just another dimension to add to Harry's already complicated mother/lover complex?
YYYYY hahaha
you know, i used to be ok with harry/ginny (never been a big fan, but i had nothing against them as a pairing, or anything) but it got so boring and bland with a side of creepy that now i don't even like them together. at least not in canon. it can be ok in fanfic. just, still kind of boring.
Ron has also taken precautions to keep himself safe on the quest, albeit in a rather random and roundabout way.
more like ridiculous and stupid. i guess we were supposed to find it funny, but it just made me go WTF.
we learn that Moody's body was never recovered, so there was no funeral. Where is this written, that no body = no funeral? Don't people have memorial services and stuff all the time?guess they didn't have time for a funeral. or just didn't care. god, i don't know. i could say that everything was too chaotic for a funeral, but i just don't get the feeling it was ( ... )
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That's exactly how I feel. I was almost totally indifferent to any Harry pairings until I started actively disliking this one.
I agree that both the ghoul and Ginny's irrational jealousy are meant to be funny. I also agree that they're not funny. JKR's jokes are really weak a lot of the time, and the feeling I get off them is that she's trying too hard to be funny instead of just, you know, being funny.
not that it worked if that's the case, because i've lost count of all the "wedding attack" scenes i've already read in fanficThere are quite a few moments in this book like that - when they realise who RAB is, is another one. I guess that's what happens when you have a fandom this size and a two-year wait between instalments (and the creator isn't the world's greatest writer either) - by the time the book comes out, the fans ( ... )
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I actually really like this sort of chapter, when you have all sorts of normal, daily stuff with the veneer of magic. And at least they've stopped calling Fleur 'Phlegm', which I thought was one of the lowest points of HPB. :( And roughly as onomatopoeic as calling Gabrielle 'Gonorrhoea'.
Don't you think the word 'Spattergroit' deserves a quiet round of applause? It's really rather brilliant, IMO, and a wonderful name for a racehorse, though goodness knows what sort of racehorse. According to the Lexicon, it's been mentioned earlier, so probably I'm out of line here.
Anyway, awesome again! Thank you very much. :) Awaiting the next installment with great impatience, though it's probably very wrong not to be encouraging you to revise instead.
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Agreed, and LOL! "Phlegm" was totally lame and not funny and utterly tenuous.
Now I want to think of more disease-based nicknames for other HP characters. Hermione can be "Herpes". Snape could be "Streptococcal pharyngitis".
Spattergroit is indeed a great word! I don't know why I didn't mention it, because I do think that. And indeed a good racehorse name. (I always wanted to get a racehorse called "Horse".)
And thank you! I enjoy your comments very much. ♥
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I know I'm kind of self promoting and kind of spamming this post with comments but I had to point out this section as being the one section that I got wholly and totally accurate when I wrote the whole Brisket Loaf thing. Regard:
'I mean, I was going to break up with you wasn't I?'
'Yeah, you were. But then I did that thing, remember?'
'What, the,' Harry looked down at himself meaningfully 'thing?'
'Yes. That thing.'
'Urrgh!' said Ron. 'Cut it out you two.'
'Just cos Hermione's never done that thing on you,' Harry laughed.
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