Child Of Grace: Chapter 46 - Year Of The Dragon
ZeldaQueen: And, this is it. We get our first task in this chapter. Be very afraid
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Chapter 46: Year of the Dragon
ZeldaQueen: You guys remember when Harry followed Hagrid and saw the dragons? The really neat bit, where he saw them all in the darkness, roaring and breathing fire, and needing a ton of wizards to stun them, and scaring the beejesus out of him? And you all remember how we got to see him be shocked and scared because seeing the dragons up close made him realize how dangerous the challenge was?
The suethor didn’t feel like writing any of that. So instead of watching that interesting, cool scene, we skip from her being told to meet Hagrid to her telling Blaise and Riddle and Co about how dragons are the first task and how she’s going to die. Lord, don’t I wish.
Riddle and Gavin both fulfill roles as Captain Obvious, pointing out that the fact that the dragons are nesting means that they’ll be more vicious, because they want to defend their young. Thank you, I never would have figured that out on my own.
Holly, meanwhile, goes on and on about how numb and scared she is, but it’s all telling and no showing. Also, she keeps bitching about how it’s in the name of “this damn tournament”, which really sounds like she’s just annoyed that the tournament dares to have a challenge that’s actually challenging. You know, given how she keeps going “I’M GONNA DIE!!!”, I’m wondering if she’s aware of the safety guides. We never actually are told about them in this fic, after all. Anyway, no one smacks Holly and tells her to grow up and deal with it. Instead, everyone else pissess and moans about how terrible and dangerous the task is, and how it just isn’t fair, dammitt!
Everyone eventually heads up to bed, except for Holly, Blaise, Malfoy, Luna and Riddle. Oh goody. *is bored* They all sit around, then Riddle goes smug and pulls out a mirror. They ask him what that’s for, and he says that it’s for contacting Sirius.
ZeldaQueen: The only explanation we get is that Sirius gave it to him last September. All explanations, why exactly Sirius gave it to him, are hand waved with Holly being too tired to ask. What a cop-out. And yet again, is Holly incapable of doing anything on her own? Clearly, Sirius doesn’t trust her to contact him directly, since he gave the ghostly past version of a genocidal madman the mirror, instead of his own goddaughter. I hate this fic.
So they pull up Sirius on Skype the mirror and tell him the situation, and the first thing he says is that dragons will be difficult but doable. Malfoy instantly asks if attacking the dragons in the eyes are the way to go.
ZeldaQueen: (Suethor) “I CERTAINLY DIDN’T READ AHEAD! WHY WOULD YOU THINK SUCH A THING???”
Sirius, of course, says that that’s unsafe, because the suethor read ahead to how it worked for Krum, and Riddle asks if the dragon itself must be attacked. Erm, what? Wasn’t the point to get the egg? Why would the dragon matter? Holly tells him no she doesn’t, and starts pondering if she could make a strong enough shield. Yes, a fourth-year, able to make a shield that completely blocks a Mama Bear of a dragon. Dream on. Sirius, meanwhile, snaps his fingers and says that he’s come up with a solution. Holly can Summon her Firebolt!
ZeldaQueen: Erm, Suethor? With all possible respect and sensitivity, IS YOUR MARY SUE COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF FIGURING ANYTHING OUT ON HER OWN?
My lord! She’s literally had everything spoon-fed to her! That’s not any more impressive than Bella dreaming up her own plot! Not only that, but it kind of misses the point of Moody being the one to give the suggestion. Part of it was a red herring, to make Moody look like an eccentric mentor for Harry, while part of it was his ulterior motives, that he was making sure that Harry would win the tournament and get to Voldemort! Bah, my guess is that the suethor thinks that it would make her Mary Sue look foolish to accept help from a guy who clearly in hindsight is EVIL. Whatever.
Everyone starts gushing about what the idea is, and Holly just sits there with her mouth open, not saying or thinking a god dammed thing, when Luna chimes in that Holly should just summon the egg itself.
ZeldaQueen: HOLLY IS THE MOST USELESS CHARACTER EVER, I SWEAR TO GOD!
Oh, and Sirius tells them about how Bertha Jorkins has gone missing. Holly, of course, knows immediately that she was murdered by Voldemort, and bashes the Ministry for “doing far too little far too late”. I feel it’s worth mentioning that Holly isn’t doing anything, despite having and conveniently remembering all of these dreams.
Scene break, and it’s time for the first challenge. Holly is being led out to the event and goes on and on and on about how she’s certainly going to die. Lord, don’t I wish! She also goes on about how everyone will surely be there to watch, which is just arrogant, even though it depressingly turns out to be true.
As she enters the tent, Holly casually reminds us that Fleur and Krum were told about their tasks by Maxime and Kakoroff (no, we never saw those two seeing the dragons) and how she herself told Cedric about them (no, we never saw that either, nor do we get any indicator that Holly did it to even the playing field for him, so it’s rather inexplicable). Everyone draws their dragons, and Holly freaks out over how she got the Hungarian Horntail. This is very inexplicable, since the suethor skipped the scene where we learn about how dangerous they are. After giving the instructions, Bagman tries to pull Holly aside to offer her help, and she pretty much hides. What a bitch. Yeah, he had ulterior motives, but she shouldn’t know that at this point!
We get sped through the challenge, and the plot only slows down for some sappy bit where Krum comforts Holly. Why is someone always holding her hand and rubbing her back? Is she incapable of taking care of herself. Harry did. *pointed glance*
When Holly’s turn comes, she goes striking out and gives us waaaaay too much description of what everyone in the stands are doing. She turns a bunch of rocks into birds to distract that dragon, forms a domed shield out of dirt to protect herself, and Summons the egg. That’s it. Yes, it’s as dull as that. The suethor tries to make it sound interesting, but it’s kind of hard when she clearly missed the point of the symbolism behind Harry flying for the egg.
Everyone starts cheering for the little twerp and Bagman goes on about how she’s the fastest to catch the egg “And not even a scratch on her”.
ZeldaQueen: Is this chapter over yet? It isn’t? Damn.
Holly smirks (bet you all missed that, huh?) and everyone starts hugging and fawning over her. She’s led to a tent with the other champions and Krum starts going on how good she did. She mentions how she was going to Summon her Firebolt, for no reason other than for Krum to be in awe that SHE PLAYS QUIDDITCH, DEAR LORD, which he does.
Bagman gives them their instructions, which Holly describes as “unhelpful” (HE CAN’T TELL YOU EVERYTHING, YOU LITTLE TWERP!!!) and she basically calls him a drunkard.
Everyone heads off to the castle, and the suethor decides to skip describing Harry’s brilliant telling off of Rita Skeeter. We’re also briefly told about Cedric, Fleur, and Krum’s attempts, and while the suethor leaves Cedric and Fleur’s as usual (and implies that Cedric was stupid to only make one dog), she “corrects” Krum’s attempt and has that he puts a shield over the eggs so they weren’t crushed. This is how he and Holly were tied.
ZeldaQueen: In case any of you were wondering, Holly got a ten from Bagman, a ten from Maxime, a nine from Dumbledore, a nine from Crouch, and a five from Kakoroff. I’m surprised she doesn’t rant about the last one, but whatever.
Scene break, and we’re at the Slytherin party. Holly, of course, is too good to open the egg there, and only does that later at night, with her friends. Everyone hears the screeching and makes similar guesses to canon. There’s also bashing of the event, as Holly guesses that they’d be willing to use the Crutiatus curse on her in the name of entertainment. I certainly wouldn’t object to that.
Crabbe guesses that it’s Mermish, and that Holly will have to find them under the lake.
ZeldaQueen: It’s…not even a chapter and…I don’t even know why I bother.
So yeah, apparently Crabbe’s mother speaks Mermish and occasionally goes to the lake to do business with the merpeople there, despite the fact that, in canon, they were rather suspicious of wizards and witches and seemed to avoid contact with them. Suethor, just because Dumbledore got to do something doesn’t mean everyone can.
Crabbe also mentions that the screeching is what Mermish sounds like above water. Luna promptly guesses that she needs to hold the egg under water.
ZeldaQueen: Again, can Holly figure nothing out for herself? I swear, you could remove her from the story altogether, and it would make minimal difference! Also, yet again the suethor is skipping the point of Crouch Jr. masquerading as Moody, which was that he manipulated things behind the scenes! Holly doesn’t get that bit of character development with Diggory, we don't get the twist at the end that it was all Crouch's doing, none of that! There's no build-up, no suspense, nothing!
The suethor devotes exactly three sentences to Holly taking the egg underwater and getting the message, with no mention of Myrtle, no fun bathtub, no figuring it out on her own, and no tip-off from Diggory. She spends eight or so sentences angsting over what they could possibly take from her that she considers so valuable, because of course she's a monk who places no value in material possessions. *is in a bad mood* There's a passing sentence that Holly spends November to December trying to figure out what will be stolen but nothing about, you know, figuring out how to stay underwater for an hour to get it back. You know Holly, considering that the task is to retrieve a possession from under the lake, you know that something of yours is going to go missing! It's kind of stupid to worry about what it is and not how to get it back. I might also mention that Harry caught on to that almost immediately.
We get a laundry list of her courses, which is pretty much a rehash of every other laundry list we get. Oh, but apparently "McGonagall was a bit friendlier than she had been in earlier years, not that she was outright amiable or anything. She was still strict but easier to please. Perhaps she had finally forgiven Holly for being a Slytherin and not Gryffindor like her parents and Sirius". *ahem*
MCGONAGALL DID NOT PLAY FAVORITES VIA WHOSE HOUSE SOMEONE WAS SORTED INTO!!!
That is all.
We're also treated to a lengthy discussion about how everyone just luuurves Holly now, or at least isn't spitting in her face, and of course this is all told in the most arrogant way possible. She keeps getting fan mail as well, and I honestly have no idea why. This is a school thing. Harry got that fan mail after talking about Voldemort! This seriously pisses me off.
And this is just disgusting
"During this time, Holly wasn't the only one with tribulations though, and she honestly felt horrible for Neville and Ron, the former who had even taken refuge with the Slytherins several times. According to the Weasley twins, Hermione had started an organisation dedicated to freeing house-elves from slavery, and while this sounded fine on paper, it had numerous hang-ups in practice. Not the least of which was the fact that house-elves derived quite a bit of their magic from their owners. Some were even known to die when the bonds they held were broken and they were set free. Known to not only go into shock from the sudden loss of magic but to actually mourn themselves to death. Hermione's manner of recruitment also left something to be desired, shoving her money tin under the noses of random people and shoving leaflets into their hands. Holly did want treatment of house-elves to be improved as a whole, but there had to be a better way than a simple student group, particularly one that only served to alienate potential members"
ZeldaQueen: Listy time!
First, I still have no idea what the suethor's beef with Hermione is. Hermione has done nothing to warrant this much scorn.
Second of all, no suethor, House Elves do not get magic from their owners. They are magical beings. They generate their own magic. They are only limited in using it by what orders their masters give them. That is one of the things Hermione protests - if a witch or wizard orders a House Elf to not use their magic for something, even if it forces the House Elf to be stuck in a bad situation like the Quidditch World Cup, the Elf would do so. To do otherwise, even in the name of self-preservation, would mean that they would have to punish themselves.
Third of all, oh aren't you so wise, Holly dearest? You care so much about House Elf rights, you say? Didn't you say earlier about how you identified with them? Well then, WHY THE FUCK AREN'T YOU DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT? At least Hermione is taking a stand and trying to change things for the better! You're just turning up your nose and criticizing her and not doing a damned thing! And I love your assumption that a "simple student group" couldn't do much. Anyway, aren't you the one with Lucius Malfoy and the wealthy and influencial Zabinis wrapped around your fingers? Why don't you stop criticizing honest attempts to help others and get them to do things the "better way", you little hypocrite?
God.
In other news, Malfoy is freaked out because Moody keeps following him around. That, hun, would be because your father was a no-good Death Eater and you follow his ideals. Actually, I have no idea why Crouch Jr. would keep following Malfoy around. The main reason was to keep him from injuring Harry, and Malfoy and Holly are the bestest of friends here. I can only assume, then, that Crouch Jr. is doing it for the shits and giggles.
The suethor also goes on about Gavin's lonely little brother and Pansy's ill grandmother. I guess it's an attempt to get sympathy for them, but it falls totally flat. This is the first time we've heard about these people, it doesn't pertain to the plot at all, and none of it's ever brought up again.
We then jump to Holly musing about the Yule Ball and how she has to go to it. She's a complete entitlement whore and insists that she's going home for the holidays, dance be damned. Of course, since she's the Sue, the school makes arrangements to have her carted in for the night of the dance specifically, and then sent back home. We end the chapter with Holly angsting over how she needs a date, and I read that bit, and I feel really disgusted
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AN: I went to see the new movie. It wasn't great but was okay. But then, I wasn't a big fan of book six anyway.
ZeldaQueen: I'll bet. Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that that was the book that made it clear that the Malfoys weren't a bunch of misunderstood woobies, could it? Draco joining the Death Eaters and all? Not to mention making it canon that Riddle was an unholy terror at the orphanage?
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ZeldaQueen: On a similar note, I saw Deathly Hallows: Part One recently. The pacing was wonky, but it wasn't terrible. I loved when Ron destroyed the locket, though. I like to pretend that the evil Harry and Hermione that came out were the Possession Sue versions that keep cropping up in fanfiction, and that Ron slaying them was his valiant attempt to save canon.
Also, happy birthday to autumntwilight!
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Chapter 46: Year of the Dragon
ZeldaQueen: You guys remember when Harry followed Hagrid and saw the dragons? The really neat bit, where he saw them all in the darkness, roaring and breathing fire, and needing a ton of wizards to stun them, and scaring the beejesus out of him? And you all remember how we got to see him be shocked and scared because seeing the dragons up close made him realize how dangerous the challenge was?
The suethor didn’t feel like writing any of that. So instead of watching that interesting, cool scene, we skip from her being told to meet Hagrid to her telling Blaise and Riddle and Co about how dragons are the first task and how she’s going to die. Lord, don’t I wish.
Riddle and Gavin both fulfill roles as Captain Obvious, pointing out that the fact that the dragons are nesting means that they’ll be more vicious, because they want to defend their young. Thank you, I never would have figured that out on my own.
Holly, meanwhile, goes on and on about how numb and scared she is, but it’s all telling and no showing. Also, she keeps bitching about how it’s in the name of “this damn tournament”, which really sounds like she’s just annoyed that the tournament dares to have a challenge that’s actually challenging. You know, given how she keeps going “I’M GONNA DIE!!!”, I’m wondering if she’s aware of the safety guides. We never actually are told about them in this fic, after all. Anyway, no one smacks Holly and tells her to grow up and deal with it. Instead, everyone else pissess and moans about how terrible and dangerous the task is, and how it just isn’t fair, dammitt!
Everyone eventually heads up to bed, except for Holly, Blaise, Malfoy, Luna and Riddle. Oh goody. *is bored* They all sit around, then Riddle goes smug and pulls out a mirror. They ask him what that’s for, and he says that it’s for contacting Sirius.
ZeldaQueen: The only explanation we get is that Sirius gave it to him last September. All explanations, why exactly Sirius gave it to him, are hand waved with Holly being too tired to ask. What a cop-out. And yet again, is Holly incapable of doing anything on her own? Clearly, Sirius doesn’t trust her to contact him directly, since he gave the ghostly past version of a genocidal madman the mirror, instead of his own goddaughter. I hate this fic.
So they pull up Sirius on Skype the mirror and tell him the situation, and the first thing he says is that dragons will be difficult but doable. Malfoy instantly asks if attacking the dragons in the eyes are the way to go.
ZeldaQueen: (Suethor) “I CERTAINLY DIDN’T READ AHEAD! WHY WOULD YOU THINK SUCH A THING???”
Sirius, of course, says that that’s unsafe, because the suethor read ahead to how it worked for Krum, and Riddle asks if the dragon itself must be attacked. Erm, what? Wasn’t the point to get the egg? Why would the dragon matter? Holly tells him no she doesn’t, and starts pondering if she could make a strong enough shield. Yes, a fourth-year, able to make a shield that completely blocks a Mama Bear of a dragon. Dream on. Sirius, meanwhile, snaps his fingers and says that he’s come up with a solution. Holly can Summon her Firebolt!
ZeldaQueen: Erm, Suethor? With all possible respect and sensitivity, IS YOUR MARY SUE COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF FIGURING ANYTHING OUT ON HER OWN?
My lord! She’s literally had everything spoon-fed to her! That’s not any more impressive than Bella dreaming up her own plot! Not only that, but it kind of misses the point of Moody being the one to give the suggestion. Part of it was a red herring, to make Moody look like an eccentric mentor for Harry, while part of it was his ulterior motives, that he was making sure that Harry would win the tournament and get to Voldemort! Bah, my guess is that the suethor thinks that it would make her Mary Sue look foolish to accept help from a guy who clearly in hindsight is EVIL. Whatever.
Everyone starts gushing about what the idea is, and Holly just sits there with her mouth open, not saying or thinking a god dammed thing, when Luna chimes in that Holly should just summon the egg itself.
ZeldaQueen: HOLLY IS THE MOST USELESS CHARACTER EVER, I SWEAR TO GOD!
Oh, and Sirius tells them about how Bertha Jorkins has gone missing. Holly, of course, knows immediately that she was murdered by Voldemort, and bashes the Ministry for “doing far too little far too late”. I feel it’s worth mentioning that Holly isn’t doing anything, despite having and conveniently remembering all of these dreams.
Scene break, and it’s time for the first challenge. Holly is being led out to the event and goes on and on and on about how she’s certainly going to die. Lord, don’t I wish! She also goes on about how everyone will surely be there to watch, which is just arrogant, even though it depressingly turns out to be true.
As she enters the tent, Holly casually reminds us that Fleur and Krum were told about their tasks by Maxime and Kakoroff (no, we never saw those two seeing the dragons) and how she herself told Cedric about them (no, we never saw that either, nor do we get any indicator that Holly did it to even the playing field for him, so it’s rather inexplicable). Everyone draws their dragons, and Holly freaks out over how she got the Hungarian Horntail. This is very inexplicable, since the suethor skipped the scene where we learn about how dangerous they are. After giving the instructions, Bagman tries to pull Holly aside to offer her help, and she pretty much hides. What a bitch. Yeah, he had ulterior motives, but she shouldn’t know that at this point!
We get sped through the challenge, and the plot only slows down for some sappy bit where Krum comforts Holly. Why is someone always holding her hand and rubbing her back? Is she incapable of taking care of herself. Harry did. *pointed glance*
When Holly’s turn comes, she goes striking out and gives us waaaaay too much description of what everyone in the stands are doing. She turns a bunch of rocks into birds to distract that dragon, forms a domed shield out of dirt to protect herself, and Summons the egg. That’s it. Yes, it’s as dull as that. The suethor tries to make it sound interesting, but it’s kind of hard when she clearly missed the point of the symbolism behind Harry flying for the egg.
Everyone starts cheering for the little twerp and Bagman goes on about how she’s the fastest to catch the egg “And not even a scratch on her”.
ZeldaQueen: Is this chapter over yet? It isn’t? Damn.
Holly smirks (bet you all missed that, huh?) and everyone starts hugging and fawning over her. She’s led to a tent with the other champions and Krum starts going on how good she did. She mentions how she was going to Summon her Firebolt, for no reason other than for Krum to be in awe that SHE PLAYS QUIDDITCH, DEAR LORD, which he does.
Bagman gives them their instructions, which Holly describes as “unhelpful” (HE CAN’T TELL YOU EVERYTHING, YOU LITTLE TWERP!!!) and she basically calls him a drunkard.
Everyone heads off to the castle, and the suethor decides to skip describing Harry’s brilliant telling off of Rita Skeeter. We’re also briefly told about Cedric, Fleur, and Krum’s attempts, and while the suethor leaves Cedric and Fleur’s as usual (and implies that Cedric was stupid to only make one dog), she “corrects” Krum’s attempt and has that he puts a shield over the eggs so they weren’t crushed. This is how he and Holly were tied.
ZeldaQueen: In case any of you were wondering, Holly got a ten from Bagman, a ten from Maxime, a nine from Dumbledore, a nine from Crouch, and a five from Kakoroff. I’m surprised she doesn’t rant about the last one, but whatever.
Scene break, and we’re at the Slytherin party. Holly, of course, is too good to open the egg there, and only does that later at night, with her friends. Everyone hears the screeching and makes similar guesses to canon. There’s also bashing of the event, as Holly guesses that they’d be willing to use the Crutiatus curse on her in the name of entertainment. I certainly wouldn’t object to that.
Crabbe guesses that it’s Mermish, and that Holly will have to find them under the lake.
ZeldaQueen: It’s…not even a chapter and…I don’t even know why I bother.
So yeah, apparently Crabbe’s mother speaks Mermish and occasionally goes to the lake to do business with the merpeople there, despite the fact that, in canon, they were rather suspicious of wizards and witches and seemed to avoid contact with them. Suethor, just because Dumbledore got to do something doesn’t mean everyone can.
Crabbe also mentions that the screeching is what Mermish sounds like above water. Luna promptly guesses that she needs to hold the egg under water.
ZeldaQueen: Again, can Holly figure nothing out for herself? I swear, you could remove her from the story altogether, and it would make minimal difference! Also, yet again the suethor is skipping the point of Crouch Jr. masquerading as Moody, which was that he manipulated things behind the scenes! Holly doesn’t get that bit of character development with Diggory, we don't get the twist at the end that it was all Crouch's doing, none of that! There's no build-up, no suspense, nothing!
The suethor devotes exactly three sentences to Holly taking the egg underwater and getting the message, with no mention of Myrtle, no fun bathtub, no figuring it out on her own, and no tip-off from Diggory. She spends eight or so sentences angsting over what they could possibly take from her that she considers so valuable, because of course she's a monk who places no value in material possessions. *is in a bad mood* There's a passing sentence that Holly spends November to December trying to figure out what will be stolen but nothing about, you know, figuring out how to stay underwater for an hour to get it back. You know Holly, considering that the task is to retrieve a possession from under the lake, you know that something of yours is going to go missing! It's kind of stupid to worry about what it is and not how to get it back. I might also mention that Harry caught on to that almost immediately.
We get a laundry list of her courses, which is pretty much a rehash of every other laundry list we get. Oh, but apparently "McGonagall was a bit friendlier than she had been in earlier years, not that she was outright amiable or anything. She was still strict but easier to please. Perhaps she had finally forgiven Holly for being a Slytherin and not Gryffindor like her parents and Sirius". *ahem*
MCGONAGALL DID NOT PLAY FAVORITES VIA WHOSE HOUSE SOMEONE WAS SORTED INTO!!!
That is all.
We're also treated to a lengthy discussion about how everyone just luuurves Holly now, or at least isn't spitting in her face, and of course this is all told in the most arrogant way possible. She keeps getting fan mail as well, and I honestly have no idea why. This is a school thing. Harry got that fan mail after talking about Voldemort! This seriously pisses me off.
And this is just disgusting
"During this time, Holly wasn't the only one with tribulations though, and she honestly felt horrible for Neville and Ron, the former who had even taken refuge with the Slytherins several times. According to the Weasley twins, Hermione had started an organisation dedicated to freeing house-elves from slavery, and while this sounded fine on paper, it had numerous hang-ups in practice. Not the least of which was the fact that house-elves derived quite a bit of their magic from their owners. Some were even known to die when the bonds they held were broken and they were set free. Known to not only go into shock from the sudden loss of magic but to actually mourn themselves to death. Hermione's manner of recruitment also left something to be desired, shoving her money tin under the noses of random people and shoving leaflets into their hands. Holly did want treatment of house-elves to be improved as a whole, but there had to be a better way than a simple student group, particularly one that only served to alienate potential members"
ZeldaQueen: Listy time!
First, I still have no idea what the suethor's beef with Hermione is. Hermione has done nothing to warrant this much scorn.
Second of all, no suethor, House Elves do not get magic from their owners. They are magical beings. They generate their own magic. They are only limited in using it by what orders their masters give them. That is one of the things Hermione protests - if a witch or wizard orders a House Elf to not use their magic for something, even if it forces the House Elf to be stuck in a bad situation like the Quidditch World Cup, the Elf would do so. To do otherwise, even in the name of self-preservation, would mean that they would have to punish themselves.
Third of all, oh aren't you so wise, Holly dearest? You care so much about House Elf rights, you say? Didn't you say earlier about how you identified with them? Well then, WHY THE FUCK AREN'T YOU DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT? At least Hermione is taking a stand and trying to change things for the better! You're just turning up your nose and criticizing her and not doing a damned thing! And I love your assumption that a "simple student group" couldn't do much. Anyway, aren't you the one with Lucius Malfoy and the wealthy and influencial Zabinis wrapped around your fingers? Why don't you stop criticizing honest attempts to help others and get them to do things the "better way", you little hypocrite?
God.
In other news, Malfoy is freaked out because Moody keeps following him around. That, hun, would be because your father was a no-good Death Eater and you follow his ideals. Actually, I have no idea why Crouch Jr. would keep following Malfoy around. The main reason was to keep him from injuring Harry, and Malfoy and Holly are the bestest of friends here. I can only assume, then, that Crouch Jr. is doing it for the shits and giggles.
The suethor also goes on about Gavin's lonely little brother and Pansy's ill grandmother. I guess it's an attempt to get sympathy for them, but it falls totally flat. This is the first time we've heard about these people, it doesn't pertain to the plot at all, and none of it's ever brought up again.
We then jump to Holly musing about the Yule Ball and how she has to go to it. She's a complete entitlement whore and insists that she's going home for the holidays, dance be damned. Of course, since she's the Sue, the school makes arrangements to have her carted in for the night of the dance specifically, and then sent back home. We end the chapter with Holly angsting over how she needs a date, and I read that bit, and I feel really disgusted
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AN: I went to see the new movie. It wasn't great but was okay. But then, I wasn't a big fan of book six anyway.
ZeldaQueen: I'll bet. Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that that was the book that made it clear that the Malfoys weren't a bunch of misunderstood woobies, could it? Draco joining the Death Eaters and all? Not to mention making it canon that Riddle was an unholy terror at the orphanage?
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ZeldaQueen: On a similar note, I saw Deathly Hallows: Part One recently. The pacing was wonky, but it wasn't terrible. I loved when Ron destroyed the locket, though. I like to pretend that the evil Harry and Hermione that came out were the Possession Sue versions that keep cropping up in fanfiction, and that Ron slaying them was his valiant attempt to save canon.
Also, happy birthday to autumntwilight!
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