Chapter Nineteen
The Lion and the Serpent
Useless Fact: This is the chapter I read first when I got my copy, purely on the basis of the title.
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Useless Fact: This is the chapter I read first when I got my copy, purely on the basis of the title.
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That sounds kind of dirty...
Harry felt optimistic about Gryffindor's chances; they had, after all, never lost to Malfoy's team.
Heh, notice that it's 'Malfoy's team' and not 'Slytherin'. You know Harry only practices so hard so he can beat Draco. ;)
and Harry literally sees the people he hates as ugly and monster-like, in some kind of paranoid fantasy.
I think it is probably Harry's POV, because I seem to vaguely remember that the descriptions of Sirius changed right after we find out about his innocence. The narrative voice is tricky, though - I've always thought that for being our POV character, we don't get that much of Harry's views on events.
'Warrington's aim's so pathetic I'd be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me,' he retorted, which made Ron and Hermione laugh and wiped the smirk off Pansy Parkinsons face.
Wtf, man? Does this really happen in real life, like, ever? But clearly Harry's rapier-sharp wit has maimed Pansy's ability to smirk! Watch her become unable to do anything but cower before his paralyzingly clever quips! ... Seriously, that's just silly, just as how Terry looks at Hermione 'in wonder' is silly (since, you know, knowing something that's two years above your schooling level is just *so* unprecedented and wonderous). There is such a thing as over-validating the 'coolness' of your protagonists, and JKR seems to be particularly adept at it. :/
I read OotP in the first 24 hours with about a 5-hour nap-break back when it came out, and still haven't had the inclination to pick it up again. I guess reading yours and the other summaries in this comm will have to suffice. :> I particularly like yours since they are so long so I don't have to actually read the real chapter, hahaha.
And I still think this chapter title sounds like the title of a bad H/D FF.Net crackfic.
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Heh. Slinkhard's going to be my new lj name soon! I was won over with the briefest quote from his book.
Heh, notice that it's 'Malfoy's team' and not 'Slytherin'. You know Harry only practices so hard so he can beat Draco. ;)
Totally. I imagine if Draco stopped playing, the urge to defeat Slytherin would be gone, too.
Does this really happen in real life, like, ever?
Not to me!
Let me be the first to call Mary Sue on Harry. And Hermione. And Ginny. *goes all sixth sense and sees sues everywhere*
I read OotP in the first 24 hours with about a 5-hour nap-break back when it came out, and still haven't had the inclination to pick it up again.
Yup. I read it once, gawped a bit, read it again in horror, and then dumped all my hp books. (I'm more about the fandom than the canon, anyway. Icons and Teh pr0n suits me.)
Now I'm working off a word copy. ;)
I particularly like yours since they are so long so I don't have to actually read the real chapter, hahaha.
Heh. They're way too long, I know, and gives me no room to criticise how flabby OotP is. *shakes fist jealously at other people's concise one's.* But if I made them any shorter, I'd just be rehashing the points magpie or mirabella or someone made, and I already do enough of that!
And I still think this chapter title sounds like the title of a bad H/D FF.Net crackfic.
That's why I read it first!
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Man, I used to be such a canon girl before this book. I was one of those 'fandom is fun, but it'll never surpass my love for canon!' people. Look how well that turned out, heh. I feel so cynical in my old age. (Not that I am really in fandom, either, since I mostly just skirt around the edges these days. *is liberated* :D)
They're way too long, I know, and gives me no room to criticise how flabby OotP is.
They are good long! You let me get away with being able to 're-read' without tearing my hair out in frustration since the text is mixed with snark. (Will prob. be especially necessary for when Ginny's SuperSeeker!moment is revealed later. OMG, just thinking about it makes me twitch.)
OotP is so horribly flabby - I still remember the pain of getting through that unnecessarily long scene where the characters rid Grimmauld Place of Doxys (Doxies?) that lasted for PAGES but had NO PURPOSE WHATSOEVER. Why.
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There's a wealth of bitchworthy stuff in HP! Plus it's such a big fandom, so there's lots to read.
I can't wait to do Seeker!Ginny. And actually, Hagrid's Tale next shouldn't be too hard.
I don't really like doing chapters like this one, even though it's my favourite, since I get more involved and feel like I'm repeating myself.
I know! The whole plot is like, let's write a year in which almost nothing happens, and then put a reset button at the end of it.
So everything's exactly as it was (everyone believes Harry, Dumbledore's King of the World again, even the Slytherin bit ((which is just embarrassing, man - if you couldn't come up with any ideas, just don't write them, but the exact same resolution as the last book? Except with more violence? Huh?))
Why didn't JKR just save herself some time, write 'Sirius was pushed under a bus by Death Eaters, who went to prison. Harry angsted and meet Luna, Tonks and the Order. The End.' and save herself 500 pages of "plot" that wasn't?
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Do you actually want to read that chapter again? I fall asleep just thinking about it...
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It looks quite easy, though. Lots of exposition, less Obnoxious!Harry/Hermione, opportunity to exercise Hagrid!hate.
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