HBP: Chapter Thirty

[amanuensis1]

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[alita_b_angel]

My Take on the book is HERE and HERE2

The highlights for me were the inane fanon produced things, like Voldemort having ZOMBIES, the lovely imagery amanuensis1 provided of DEMENTORS BREEDING, nearly dying on page 169 when I imagined Alan Rickman's voice lovingly caressing the words 'dark arts', and of course the final climax

[marginaliana]

I had this entire theory that it was McLaggen who tried to off Katie and Ron since he IS a Quidditch freak, and it would've made sense and been good to see corruption from the inside.

Oooh, interesting. I would have liked to have seen that as well. That subplot seemed to go nowhere as well, just like all her other subplots that just randomly got thrown together at the end.

Sigh.

[alita_b_angel]

Yeah true, and new characters generally annoy me if they do something special but ultimately do nothing. Still, it's better than seeing Draco fail so miserably and pathetically at hurting people.

[jeannie81]

I hope JKR is typing her little heart out, and correcting mistakes for the second edition, like the one on page 42.

Yay, I noticed that too! I thought maybe fug was some English thing I didn't know, so I made a note to look it up later :D. I'm so glad I'm not the only one to notice that!

[friskylemon]

fug (fŭg)
n.
A heavy, stale atmosphere, especially the musty air of an overcrowded or poorly ventilated room:

[alita_b_angel]

Ah, but the sentence reads, "The misty fug his breath had left on the window", considering fug is a generalised term for a stale atmosphere, it can't apply to one spot on a window, and it should still be 'fog'.

[friskylemon]

fug

n : (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere

i foundt that at www.dictionary.com

perhaps JK meant his breath combined with the stench around him?

[beathen]

I think it's possible either way but when I think about breathing onto a window I think "fog". "Fug" seems to denote a larger space (see def. - atmosphere) but then again his room was a mess and he'd been shut up in his room for at least 3 days.