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[merrymelody]

Dumbledore’s Army

Happily this chapter is shorter, and the next one is The Lion Versus the Serpent and Teh H/D!111, maybe to make up for the approaching ‘Hagrid’s Tale.’

In which there is a bad 80s training montage and Harry gets a whistle. And the ability to read Voldie’s mind. But not to shut up.

Also, I don’t usually rec fic here, but this

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[t0ra_chan]

Damn Filch. How dare he be unconcerned with the welfare of Harry, when everyone else is?
Of course, no-one, not even Hermione the Humanitarian, seems that concerned with Squib rights, so I can imagine that what Filch sees is a bunch of privileged little brats strutting about, thinking they own the world and that it’s the job of lower-class people and non-magic folk to clean up after them; with Harry, the famous kid who reads his personal correspondence, as their king.
Yup, Hermione gets all bend out of shape because the house elves have to clean up after them, but could care less about Filch who does the same. Without magic no less. But then she can't patronize him, so she doesn't care.

Hee. "Seizing". She's keen to assert how much more intelligent she is than Ron (why does she never criticise Harry's wand movements, anyway?), in case he or we missed any of the ninety-dozen previous references.
This is one of the things that annoy me about Hermione (apart from 1000 other things). Why is she the only one to ever raise her hand and do spells right? This also ties in with what you later said about the DA: other people can't even get second year spells right. So, Hermione being smartest witch in her year, is just code for "not an incompetent buffoon like the rest (except Harry of course)".

Between his friends and Sirius, Harry always picks his godfather, it appears.
Well, to be honest, I would be mad at Hermione here too. She started the whole thing about Harry teaching others DADA, came up with the idea, rounded up people, planed the meeting in the Hog's Head and made everyone sign a contract. And now because the wrong adult things it's a good idea (if it had been Lupin or Mr. Weasley she would never doubt it), she wants to blow it all off. And I really can't see a way to do that without making look Harry very bad.

Heh. Love that clever shift from the pseudo-motive (or, I suppose, some people’s actual motive, like perhaps the Ravenclaws): Learning Defence; to the actual motive: Fighting for Harry/Dumbledore. And so cunningly disguised as a joke!
And of course the name Dumbledore's Army doesn't give away their intentions at all. And I don't need to comment about people laughing at Ginny's stupid joke (which wasn't a joke anyway).

Interestingly negative choice of adverbs for Hermione, there.
Although I do like how Harry and his caps lock and whistle are never associated with bossiness, oh no.
What I find interesting is how Hermione immediately appoints herself second in command. She says what people have to do, except when it comes to the actual teaching. No one has to vote for her, after all, no one would ever doubt her being in charge.

* 'But if they think I'm not going to fight You-Know-Who after what happened to Cedric -'
Hmm, is it just me or can Cho never stop bringing up Cedric when she talks to Harry? Jeez, yeah, she lost her boyfriend, but I agree with whoever said that she is blowing things out of proportion. I mean, how much time could they have actually spend together. Cedric is in a different year and house than her, had his prefect duties and was Hogwarts' champion.

So Ron’s as useless and inferior at dueling as he is at everything else? Burn.
Heaven forbid Ron might ever be better at something than Hermione or Harry. Doesn't he know that his place is in their shadows and his only reason for existence is to admire, support and look up to them?

[sistermagpie]

What I find interesting is how Hermione immediately appoints herself second in command. She says what people have to do, except when it comes to the actual teaching.

That was my main impression of Hermione when I first read it, that she was dreaming of being Harry's partner when they took over the world, the power behind the figurehead throne of Harry Potter.

The other thing I forgot to mention was about Cho--it reminds me of how later Ron dismisses Marietta's motives with the fact that his father works for the Ministry too, neatly avoiding the fact that his father works for Dumbledore first. Cho, too, is making a show of being a rebel when she's just not rebelling very much. Her parents told her to not make Umbridge angry, but Marietta's actually under pressure not to be in something like this.

[merrymelody]

Filch is unlikely to ever worship her as say, Dobby does Harry for freeing him.
Plus he's liek rilly mean to her (and more importantly, Harry) so he doesn't deserve rights.

I don't need to comment about people laughing at Ginny's stupid joke (which wasn't a joke anyway).

It's like her fake cough - how funny could it possibly be? Funny enough to assert for the eight thousandth time how cool Ginny is now has always been, I guess.

What I find interesting is how Hermione immediately appoints herself second in command. She says what people have to do, except when it comes to the actual teaching. No one has to vote for her, after all, no one would ever doubt her being in charge.

Totally. Harry's the eye candy hero, Hermione gets her way on everything and makes sure they have plenty of 'formal authority' and 'team spirit'.

Hmm, is it just me or can Cho never stop bringing up Cedric when she talks to Harry? Jeez, yeah, she lost her boyfriend, but I agree with whoever said that she is blowing things out of proportion. I mean, how much time could they have actually spend together. Cedric is in a different year and house than her, had his prefect duties and was Hogwarts' champion.

Seriously. You'd think they were married.
I mean, we only ever saw them in canon together once, and then there's all this Harry "thoughts" about how she probably would have liked to date him (of course she would! What girl wouldn't!) if Cedric hadn't gotten there first, like they weren't even dating before that.
Oh well. Perhaps Cho senses that to be an adequate girlfriend for Harry, she needs to equal his self-pity.

Heaven forbid Ron might ever be better at something than Hermione or Harry. Doesn't he know that his place is in their shadows and his only reason for existence is to admire, support and look up to them?

Heh. Indeed.
Soon he'll be getting ideas about wanting things of his own, like prefect badges (instead of Harry, god forbid!) and then where will we be?
Thankfully we have that reminder at the end from Albus that Ron (and I suppose, all the prefects) don't actually possess any qualities that Harry lacks, should we have worried there. Phew!