Oct 02, 2010 23:04
Chp 4: The Gift
The chapter starts out with Sarah giggling over how cute Ron's freckles are. Ron leans in to kiss her and she says she's wanted this since she was eleven. Ick. I really don't think eleven year olds fantasize about kissing. Ron twirls Sarah's long brown hair in his fingers and that tips her off. It turns out that she's gotten into Hermione's head. Sarah's first Sue power has appeared- mind reading. It's not very original. There's some filler details about how it's been a week since she's started Hogwarts. She's friends with Harry, Ron, and Hermione and has advanced Potions with Malfoy and Harry.
Sarah goes to the common room with a book and Harry joins her. Harry mentions that Sarah doesn't look well and thinks that she has bags under her eyes. Sarah asks him why he would say that and Harry says he didn't. Harry realizes Sarah can read minds and starts yelling at her. Ordinarily I would say that's because mind reading is not a canon power, but this is post OOTP, so I suppose Sarah's powers could stretch to her being able to perform legilimency. But it's not mentioned by name, so I'll chalk it up to her being overly special. Sarah yells back at Harry that she can't read minds and storms off. As she goes towards the Great Hall someone drags her into the shadows. Sarah does the logical thing and fights back.
It turns out her attacker is Malfoy. He's quite upset that Sarah beat him up. Generally speaking, most girls don't react favorably to being grabbed and dragged into the shadows. At least this girl doesn't. Sarah and Malfoy talk and I wonder how their relationship works. I know it's been a week since classes started, but have they talked at all? Sarah asks Malfoy why he dragged her into the shadows and Malfoy says it's because he didn't want rumors to start. First of all, the school would probably be used to seeing Malfoy with some Sue. Second of all, since when does Malfoy care about rumors spreading? Wouldn't he be rubbing the fact that he has the beautiful Sarah Matthew's into everyones' faces? Sarah leaves, swaying her hips because she knows it'll make Malfoy drool. Sarah sits next to Hermione at breakfast and says that she needs to talk to her. Harry gets upset and storms off because he thinks that Sarah is going to tell Hermione about him. From what I read, it wasn't anything horrible. It's not like Sarah knows some deep secret about Harry.
Chp 5: The Tease
I think this chapter has pieces missing. Best I can figure out is that Malfoy's mad at Sarah for not coming straight here(wherever that is) when she was finished eating. He sounds like her father. Jeez, now I'm having flashbacks to fics when the boys punish their girlfriends. I really don't want to think about that. Time skip to Hermione and Sarah talking about something. The rest of the chapter is cut off.
Chp. 6 : Threesome
I suppose Hermione went to the library to research. Parts of this chapter are missing as well. Best I can make out is that Sarah was with Malfoy and she read his mind. Now she's in the common room crying.Harry comes in. I wonder why she's having this reaction now. Is it because Malfoy knows she can read minds? Harry hugs Sarah. Harry really isn't good with crying girls. I doubt he would do this for a girl he's only known for a week. And yet again there's more mention about the fact that Harry doesn't like Malfoy. Hermione comes in and has a nice in character moment when she says that she read a book about mind-reading before. People who can read minds usually have telekinesis as well. Since when? Hermione suggest s that they tell Dumbledore so he can find Sarah a tutor. Sarah shows off her voyeur side when she says that she wants to watch peoples' dreams. Considering that she's been in one of Harry's dreams(which was a threesome) that strikes me as a little perverted. Harry finds out about this and storms off. I don't understand something. Sarah said she couldn't read minds, but she's been able to get into someone's dreams. Why would she not do something about it until today? Are her powers manifesting? Hermione begs Sarah to tell her about Harry's threesome dream, and I'm little shocked at that. Judging from that, I bet Hermione would be wild in bed.
Chp 7: Double Trouble
Harry is still embarrassed that Hermione and Sarah know about his little dreams. Hermione and Sarah are still not talking to Ron. I don't know why. They didn't have a fight. I'll chalk it up to Weasley bashing. The fic suddenly jumps to Harry's point of view. Hermione and Sarah are all dressed up in sexy clothing and start kissing him. Harry thinks it's going to be the best night of his life, but Hermione and Sarah just leave. I just can't get over how Hermione's acting. I guess underneath that bossy bookworm persona lies a dominatrix. Who knew?
Chp 8: Sleeping Beauty
I never want to hear the phrase Sleeping Beauty in any work. It's so cliche and sappy. Sarah goes to Potions class. Harry is still mad about the prank that Sarah and Hermione pulled. Malfoy's been avoiding Sarah so she takes a leaf out of his book and pulls him into a corner. I don't know why these people can't go up to someone and talk to them like a normal person. Sarah asks why he's been avoiding her. He's mad that Sarah ran off after she read his mind. Turns out he was thinking about how Sarah was so pretty and how she's making him soft. Ick. I hate sappy Malfoy. He just stands there like an idiot and Sarah runs off to Potions
This is where it starts getting a little squicky and mushy. Snape comes in and glares at Sarah. He's figured out she's a Sue! Yes! Come on, Snape, annihilate her! No such luck. Snape tells the class they'll be making a sleeping potion. Only the kiss of their true love can awaken the sleeper. Two things. First of all, that is incredibly sappy and cliche. I hate the true love/soulmate angle. It's just an excuse for authors not to develop their romance. Not to mention that it just makes the characters look like even bigger Sues. Oh, and there's only one couple who can experience true love every hundred years. I find that incredibly insulting.
Second, is Snape joking? He's going to allow students to make a potion that could send someone into a coma and test it on each other? I know Snape's a jerk, but he wouldn't do this. He could get fired. Thankfully Snape's found an antidote, so he won't be arrested for sending the entire class into comas. Sarah's partnered up with Harry. He's still upset over the prank. I don't know much about guys, but I'd think they'd be upset when two sexy girls start kissing him, pull down his pants, and then leave. Malfoy comes in late and surprisingly Snape sneers at him to come to his desk. He then slapped Malfoy and told him to get back in character.
It turns out that the potion is the same one the witches used in Macbeth. Are you kidding? That wasn't a sleeping potion in the play. Second, is the author so unoriginal that she can't think up a Potion. Then again, wouldn't the Draught of Living Death work just as well? Harry doesn't know about the speech, so Sarah recites the Double, double, toil and trouble bit in Macbeth. Is this supposed to impress me? All I have to do is search google for it. I am so sick of authors throwing around references to common stories and expecting me to think they're literary.
Snape makes Sarah drink the potion. Every male will have to kiss her. I think it's only fitting that I mention the term sex'er up rape (credit to Das Mervin and Mrs. Hyde). He could get fired for that. Doesn't that count as sexual harassment? This is disgusting. Sarah naturally refuses, and Snape tells her that he'll fail her if she doesn't. At that point Sarah should have marched straight to Dumbledore's office. Snape should not be doing this. But Sarah drinks the potion. She dreams about kissing Malfoy and then she wakes up. Malfoy stood guard over Sarah and didn't let anyone kiss her. It's been at least a week or so and he's already guarding her. So Sarah was saved by being raped by her classmates, thank goodness.
Skip to dinner. Dumbledore announces that there's going to be a costume ball. For the love of Pete, there was only one ball in Hogwarts History, and that was to tie in with the Triwizard Tournament. Hogwarts does not host costume balls, damn it! Ron and Hermione are going together as characters from the Matrix. Why would Ron and Hermione go together? Ron has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth. Second, how does Ron know what the Matrix is? I know Hermione and Harry might have seen some Muggle movies, but I can't imagine when they would talk about them. Harry's going as Dumbledore as a joke. I never knew Harry had a sense of humor.