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Chapter 26: Addiction and Withdrawal
1. The world also seemed to have forgotten the Westminster tube station.
I think a lot of readers forgot about it, too, and then it became important again in the third fic in the series...
2. "Well, I always thought they were real cowards, hiding behind You-Know-Who's power, and masks and hooded cloaks. Sneaking around and making a building fall on a bunch of innocent people seems like just another cowardly thing to do."
It's making me wince to read this so soon after the 10th anniversary events for 9/11.
3. "We're facing dark times. You’ll come face to face with evil and you'll have to choose a side. You'll have to get past survivor guilt and fear of dying and being maimed just to get up and go through your daily routine. It won't be easy. But you've got each other," he said, walking over to Ron and putting his hand on his shoulder. "That's the most important weapon you have.
And on 9/11 itself, this was exactly how I felt about the online HP community. :virtual hugs: What am amazing outpouring of sympathy and commiserating from around the world! It is probably the single most memorable day in fandom for me, bar none, including all of the cons I've gone to. There's simply no comparison.
4. "But I've got my dorm all to myself..."
"And in this universe, the stairs to the girls' dorm don't turn into a sliding board when a boy tries to go up." :snort:
I suppose JKR had to do that... I wonder if she had concerned parents actually asking about it!
5. She went up the stairs to the girls’ dorms without looking back. Harry thought about just plain running; going out the portrait hole, down the stairs, out of the castle, changing into a golden griffin and jumping into the sky, soaring over the lake, and forest...
Poor terrified boy...
6. "I'm not going to wear you to sleep tonight. You'll be warm; I'll leave you here by the fire."
"Why?"
"Because I'm hoping to get lucky." His mother could tell him that this is what's meant by "premeditation." (The Lily in The Lost Generation, that is.)
7. "Harry--take off the basilisk."
Hermione's instincts are spot-on.
8. "How's the top of your head?"
Translation: "So, was it good for you?"
9. She finally stirred, looking where he'd been lying beside her first, then, as she became more oriented, she realized that he was sitting on her other side.
Just a small thing, but it's really disturbed me whenever I've seen "orientated" in one of the HP books or another UK book. It's one bit of Brit-picking I could never bear to put in a fic--it's just entirely wrong to me. It would be like saying "conversating" instead of "conversing".
10. Harry slipped into the shrubbery near the doors, ducking behind a tall topiary that had been cut to resemble a hippogriff. That seemed very appropriate, somehow.
Ha! I didn't remember writing this. And the Hippogriff of Luuuurve theory always struck me as rather odd. ;)
11. Harry marveled at the way she wasn't afraid to jump right in, to put her hands on him, when he was terrified. Not for himself, but in case something he did caused Neville harm. We'll take the cup together... he remembered saying...
Once you've caused harm to someone by doing something as innocuous as sharing a prize, can you ever really be cavalier about this kind of thing again, can you?
12. There are six of us, his brain said. The same as the number of pall bearers you need to carry a coffin.
More foreshadowing for the sequel, when Harry is actually one of six people carrying a coffin.
13. "Eutharsos Potion?"
"Yes, that's it. I don’t know what it's for. And the other was some kind of memory-enhancing potion. Name On Iss, or something--"
Harry had a sudden image in his mind of the page from the Potions text. "Mnemonis Potion?"
JKR didn't usually dip into Ancient Greek for her terminology (usually Latin, often just English) but I like that Greek roots are a little farther from English.
14. Being treated as another one of the adults was slightly unnerving; there was something so comforting about being permitted to continue one’s childhood, to let older, wiser people handle the crises. Then he thought of the night, and what he and Hermione had shared. He thought of Voldemort in the graveyard where the elder Tom Riddle was buried...He’d left childhood behind forever.
I think that when someone realizes that adults are treating them like an equal for the first time it can be truly alarming.
15. "I understand you found him.” Harry nodded. Moody heaved a great sigh. "I found them." Harry looked perplexed for a moment, but then he realized what Moody meant. Neville's parents. After they'd been tortured with Cruciatus by Barty Crouch, Jr. and his Death Eater friends.
Although I wasn't planning, at the time, to write a prequel (in which you actually get to see this happen), the backstory that I'd created for my version of Moody included this, in part, as a way to explain how Barty Crouch, Jr. was familiar with Moody's speech patterns and mannerisms. Having Moody be the Auror who arrested him for torture made a certain amount of sense--and his revenge on Moody, keeping him in a trunk for 10 months and impersonating him, also made a certain amount of sense after Moody was the one to apprehend him.
16. "When I found them behind a pub in Knockturn Alley, he was bawling away, trying to get his mother to pick him up. Poor Gemma! She just stared up at the sky, like Frank. I remember going to their wedding...I was at school with Frank's mother, Verity. She was Verity Gillespie then. Verity was heartbroken over what happened to Frank and Gemma."
We didn't know Mrs. Longbottom's name before OotP, and it seemed that every other BBC production I'd seen had an actress named Gemma, which isn't a name you hear much in the US, so I picked that for her. "Frank and Alice" always makes me think of Phoebe's brother and sister-in-law on Friends. And I love the name "Verity Gillespie" for some unknown reason.
17. "And then this idiot shows up, Longlegs, Locklegs, Longheart...”
"Lockhart? Gilderoy Lockhart?"
I also decided to show this in the prequel, but first we get to see Lockhart the Obliviator in the sequel...
18. "He's not such a bad bloke. Even if he is after Ginny."
Malfoy only says this, of course, because he doesn't think Neville has a shot with Ginny. Unlike Harry. ;)
19. Harry realized that Snape may or may not have known about Lockhart's overenthusiastic memory charm work. If he knew, that might explain why Snape didn't like Lockhart. Then Harry realized that no one really needed an extra reason to dislike Gilderoy Lockhart.
I enjoy Lockhart, and so do I lot of other readers I know, but no one I know actually LIKES Lockhart.
20. He held it out to Harry as though it were covered in dung. "I believe this is your property, Potter." Harry took it hastily, shoving it into his rucksack, feeling a heat moving up his face starting from his neck. "And," Snape continued, "Twenty points from Gryffindor for bringing--inappropriate material to class."
I enjoyed doing this far too much, probably. ;)
21. "Would you like to explain to me," he said to Harry, "why in the bloody hell you have a photo like that in your bloody potions text?" He turned to Hermione. "And why you gave it to him in the first place?"
No, I really don't think they WOULD like to explain that.
Dun dun DUUUUUN!
1. The world also seemed to have forgotten the Westminster tube station.
I think a lot of readers forgot about it, too, and then it became important again in the third fic in the series...
2. "Well, I always thought they were real cowards, hiding behind You-Know-Who's power, and masks and hooded cloaks. Sneaking around and making a building fall on a bunch of innocent people seems like just another cowardly thing to do."
It's making me wince to read this so soon after the 10th anniversary events for 9/11.
3. "We're facing dark times. You’ll come face to face with evil and you'll have to choose a side. You'll have to get past survivor guilt and fear of dying and being maimed just to get up and go through your daily routine. It won't be easy. But you've got each other," he said, walking over to Ron and putting his hand on his shoulder. "That's the most important weapon you have.
And on 9/11 itself, this was exactly how I felt about the online HP community. :virtual hugs: What am amazing outpouring of sympathy and commiserating from around the world! It is probably the single most memorable day in fandom for me, bar none, including all of the cons I've gone to. There's simply no comparison.
4. "But I've got my dorm all to myself..."
"And in this universe, the stairs to the girls' dorm don't turn into a sliding board when a boy tries to go up." :snort:
I suppose JKR had to do that... I wonder if she had concerned parents actually asking about it!
5. She went up the stairs to the girls’ dorms without looking back. Harry thought about just plain running; going out the portrait hole, down the stairs, out of the castle, changing into a golden griffin and jumping into the sky, soaring over the lake, and forest...
Poor terrified boy...
6. "I'm not going to wear you to sleep tonight. You'll be warm; I'll leave you here by the fire."
"Why?"
"Because I'm hoping to get lucky." His mother could tell him that this is what's meant by "premeditation." (The Lily in The Lost Generation, that is.)
7. "Harry--take off the basilisk."
Hermione's instincts are spot-on.
8. "How's the top of your head?"
Translation: "So, was it good for you?"
9. She finally stirred, looking where he'd been lying beside her first, then, as she became more oriented, she realized that he was sitting on her other side.
Just a small thing, but it's really disturbed me whenever I've seen "orientated" in one of the HP books or another UK book. It's one bit of Brit-picking I could never bear to put in a fic--it's just entirely wrong to me. It would be like saying "conversating" instead of "conversing".
10. Harry slipped into the shrubbery near the doors, ducking behind a tall topiary that had been cut to resemble a hippogriff. That seemed very appropriate, somehow.
Ha! I didn't remember writing this. And the Hippogriff of Luuuurve theory always struck me as rather odd. ;)
11. Harry marveled at the way she wasn't afraid to jump right in, to put her hands on him, when he was terrified. Not for himself, but in case something he did caused Neville harm. We'll take the cup together... he remembered saying...
Once you've caused harm to someone by doing something as innocuous as sharing a prize, can you ever really be cavalier about this kind of thing again, can you?
12. There are six of us, his brain said. The same as the number of pall bearers you need to carry a coffin.
More foreshadowing for the sequel, when Harry is actually one of six people carrying a coffin.
13. "Eutharsos Potion?"
"Yes, that's it. I don’t know what it's for. And the other was some kind of memory-enhancing potion. Name On Iss, or something--"
Harry had a sudden image in his mind of the page from the Potions text. "Mnemonis Potion?"
JKR didn't usually dip into Ancient Greek for her terminology (usually Latin, often just English) but I like that Greek roots are a little farther from English.
14. Being treated as another one of the adults was slightly unnerving; there was something so comforting about being permitted to continue one’s childhood, to let older, wiser people handle the crises. Then he thought of the night, and what he and Hermione had shared. He thought of Voldemort in the graveyard where the elder Tom Riddle was buried...He’d left childhood behind forever.
I think that when someone realizes that adults are treating them like an equal for the first time it can be truly alarming.
15. "I understand you found him.” Harry nodded. Moody heaved a great sigh. "I found them." Harry looked perplexed for a moment, but then he realized what Moody meant. Neville's parents. After they'd been tortured with Cruciatus by Barty Crouch, Jr. and his Death Eater friends.
Although I wasn't planning, at the time, to write a prequel (in which you actually get to see this happen), the backstory that I'd created for my version of Moody included this, in part, as a way to explain how Barty Crouch, Jr. was familiar with Moody's speech patterns and mannerisms. Having Moody be the Auror who arrested him for torture made a certain amount of sense--and his revenge on Moody, keeping him in a trunk for 10 months and impersonating him, also made a certain amount of sense after Moody was the one to apprehend him.
16. "When I found them behind a pub in Knockturn Alley, he was bawling away, trying to get his mother to pick him up. Poor Gemma! She just stared up at the sky, like Frank. I remember going to their wedding...I was at school with Frank's mother, Verity. She was Verity Gillespie then. Verity was heartbroken over what happened to Frank and Gemma."
We didn't know Mrs. Longbottom's name before OotP, and it seemed that every other BBC production I'd seen had an actress named Gemma, which isn't a name you hear much in the US, so I picked that for her. "Frank and Alice" always makes me think of Phoebe's brother and sister-in-law on Friends. And I love the name "Verity Gillespie" for some unknown reason.
17. "And then this idiot shows up, Longlegs, Locklegs, Longheart...”
"Lockhart? Gilderoy Lockhart?"
I also decided to show this in the prequel, but first we get to see Lockhart the Obliviator in the sequel...
18. "He's not such a bad bloke. Even if he is after Ginny."
Malfoy only says this, of course, because he doesn't think Neville has a shot with Ginny. Unlike Harry. ;)
19. Harry realized that Snape may or may not have known about Lockhart's overenthusiastic memory charm work. If he knew, that might explain why Snape didn't like Lockhart. Then Harry realized that no one really needed an extra reason to dislike Gilderoy Lockhart.
I enjoy Lockhart, and so do I lot of other readers I know, but no one I know actually LIKES Lockhart.
20. He held it out to Harry as though it were covered in dung. "I believe this is your property, Potter." Harry took it hastily, shoving it into his rucksack, feeling a heat moving up his face starting from his neck. "And," Snape continued, "Twenty points from Gryffindor for bringing--inappropriate material to class."
I enjoyed doing this far too much, probably. ;)
21. "Would you like to explain to me," he said to Harry, "why in the bloody hell you have a photo like that in your bloody potions text?" He turned to Hermione. "And why you gave it to him in the first place?"
No, I really don't think they WOULD like to explain that.
Dun dun DUUUUUN!