Chapter Thirty-Four
The Department of MysteriesStill behind, and sadly going to become more so: I'm away for the next two weeks/months. (I'll still be here commenting, though.) Still, I'll be back pre-OotP, and owing about twelve chapters, so perhaps I can manage a kind of countdown every day, if that's okay with Mira
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How on earth does Luna stay on? Sticking charm?
So I presume security are absent because then Harry et al would have to turn in their wands and JKR couldn’t come up with a reason why they might be absent, other than whatever it is, it’s ominous? Good plotting, there! Not.
It's really bad, this bit. No security at all in a place that's been built up as the place where the most important things in the WW are kept? This place makes Hogwarts look like Fort Knox!
Gratitude! From Harry! Sure it’s to an animal, but still! *marks down*
Oh, but this is just a sign of Harry's great compassion that gives him so much pain. He's always kind to animals. Except when he's in a pissy mood...
Hee! Harry does have rather a utilitarian approach to friendship at times. Ack! That link! Not for the link itself but because it contains the birth of the most annoying lj-er Harry-fan ever! That chick who rants on and on about her fanfic-version of Harry and pulls stuff out of her arse whenever somebody ( ... )
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Oh, surely not?! (There should be some kind of competition...) Seriously, I fear that person (oddly enough, she emailed me today, after about a year... *looks into blocking users*)
If I had the vast experience of a high school psych class, I'd say she was a classic delusional, but sadly I just don't know as much about mental disorders as she obviously does (so ironic that's her chosen field...)
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/furiosity/116144.html?thread=1684656#t1684656
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Not that this essay isn't possibly completely accurate. But never does the moral framework of HP appear more fatuous, self-congratulatory and cruel than when somebody lays it out so you can fully appreciate it.
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Somebody needs to write a fic where this happens, stat. A fic wherein Harry trots off, breaking all the rules and not a few of his classmates, believing that he's going to fight evil and save the world--and discovers that he's been well and truly hoaxed, and has to come back to Hogwarts with his tail between his legs and disembowel toads for Professor Snape.
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It would have been hilarious. But then Rowling would have spent several hundred pages setting up a flop of a climax, and I wouldn't have just lost track of what was going on; I would have thrown the book out the window.
It's a bit of a no-win situation, though - they don't know how to get out, they're there illegally, he's gotten his friends into a horrible mess... yet it looks more like he's upset at being wrong. Danger doesn't matter; rashness doesn't matter; Harry being wrong does. Because as long as Harry's right when he sprints off sans head on a hunch, there's not much of a problem. Even Harry realizes that he can't get away with that anymore - but then Dumbledore piles all the blame on himself, Harry transfers all his anger to him and Snape, and the message goes up in flames. Again ( ... )
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