>So far we have two characters who drink on occasions and one who is a somewhat functional alcoholic. Take a guess which of them is evil and which can do no wrong to our protag wait who is the functional alcoholic? hagrid? also its even better when we get to meet the permanent drunk who works as a teacher and lives in a tower - because that is totally fine and trustworthy.. but it doesn‘t matter none of the teachers are been taking serious anyway
yay for next chapter - you are being fast well done, and really helpful in teaching me to what look out for in my own writing
Hagrid. I call him "somewhat functional" because his addiction influences his job performance slightly (so we can't call him high functional), but he didn't fall so far that he cannot interact with society in a normal way. I imagine that at some point Sibill ended up on AA's posters as a warning. But that is the discussion for another chapter :P
On a side note, I pointed out in this chapter how Jo used Checov's Gun in this chapter for a good reason. Majority of fandom likes to point out things like twins using Vanishing Cabinet in OotP and then Draco again using it in HBP as CG. That is not how Checov's Gun works. In this chapter, we see Sirius in news as some kind of criminal not connected to the main plot or wizarding world. Then in the next chapter, we learn it's not quite the truth. The gun does go off in the next act. It's not quite what Checov meant, but it's as close as we gonna get in these books :P
ok, then i understood you right; the whole closing the school down due to the lack of responsible adults present - discussion must be held another chapter; or really many other chapters, but i let you do the counting ; ) it‘s more entertaining that way for me
at least this time she planted it and used it and not just forget about it; like many other things, or when she put stuff in later that makes no clue in hindsight - i cant wait for you to rip into this book and the following some more :D and also thank you for that helpful explanation :D
Harry's attitude frequently annoyed me, and I love how you're right there doing the head scratching along with me. There's this bizarre mindset that as long as it's a 'good guy' doing the thing, it's somehow okay to, I dunno, turn someone into a human balloon, say. (Not okay. Not deserved. Not a reasonable response by any means.)
That said, the spot of manipulation with Vernon was nice inasmuch as it showed why the Sorting hat could see him fitting into Slytherin.
Jo isn't against Marge because she breeds dogs instead of settling down; it's because Marge hasn't nagged Colonel Fubster into marrying her. And she doesn't wax her upper lip because I guess she is happy not fitting mainstream beauty standards, the horror!
That was a nice bit of manipulation on Harry's part, and seems like a realistic skill for a kid in his position to have developed. If anything, you'd expect him to be sneakier and craftier after ten years with the Dursleys.
Before DH, I thought (or at least hoped) the hypocrisy about blood and inheritance was a long game Jo was playing: at some point, surely, we would get smacked in the face with how the good characters being the friendly, everyday kind of bigots was a serious problem. Harry would find out that nice people could still say and do awful things sometimes, and any kindness didn't magically make this have no consequences. Hagrid talking about bad blood did cause as much harm as when Marge did it, even if Harry didn't realize. We'd find out the Death Eaters had such an
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When I was reading the series for the first time this manipulation gave me hope that Harry was going to go through some serious character development. In hindsight sounds kind of silly, but oh well
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So many things were really well set up and then just... fizzled out. It was such a disappointment. If JKR had actually pulled off what the first few books promised, it would have been amazing.
>Marge hasn’t nagged Colonel Fubster into marrying her.<
It’s too late for Marge to marry Fubster and do her duty as a woman by cranking out babies. The presence of the mustache indicates she’s post-menopausal, and thus past her ‘use-by’ date. Lily would be thirty-three at this point, which makes Petunia thirty-five or so. Petunia would never do something as unconventional as marrying a younger man (or as properly wizardly as marrying her high school classmate), so let’s assume Vernon is forty. If Marge is five years older, she would be a bit early for menopause, but not impossibly so. Maybe she’s a breast cancer survivor; chemo in your forties can sometimes bring on early menopause.
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wait who is the functional alcoholic? hagrid?
also its even better when we get to meet the permanent drunk who works as a teacher and lives in a tower - because that is totally fine and trustworthy.. but it doesn‘t matter none of the teachers are been taking serious anyway
yay for next chapter - you are being fast
well done, and really helpful in teaching me to what look out for in my own writing
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I imagine that at some point Sibill ended up on AA's posters as a warning. But that is the discussion for another chapter :P
On a side note, I pointed out in this chapter how Jo used Checov's Gun in this chapter for a good reason. Majority of fandom likes to point out things like twins using Vanishing Cabinet in OotP and then Draco again using it in HBP as CG. That is not how Checov's Gun works.
In this chapter, we see Sirius in news as some kind of criminal not connected to the main plot or wizarding world. Then in the next chapter, we learn it's not quite the truth. The gun does go off in the next act. It's not quite what Checov meant, but it's as close as we gonna get in these books :P
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the whole closing the school down due to the lack of responsible adults present - discussion must be held another chapter; or really many other chapters, but i let you do the counting ; ) it‘s more entertaining that way for me
at least this time she planted it and used it and not just forget about it; like many other things, or when she put stuff in later that makes no clue in hindsight - i cant wait for you to rip into this book and the following some more :D
and also thank you for that helpful explanation :D
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Harry's attitude frequently annoyed me, and I love how you're right there doing the head scratching along with me. There's this bizarre mindset that as long as it's a 'good guy' doing the thing, it's somehow okay to, I dunno, turn someone into a human balloon, say. (Not okay. Not deserved. Not a reasonable response by any means.)
That said, the spot of manipulation with Vernon was nice inasmuch as it showed why the Sorting hat could see him fitting into Slytherin.
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That was a nice bit of manipulation on Harry's part, and seems like a realistic skill for a kid in his position to have developed. If anything, you'd expect him to be sneakier and craftier after ten years with the Dursleys.
Before DH, I thought (or at least hoped) the hypocrisy about blood and inheritance was a long game Jo was playing: at some point, surely, we would get smacked in the face with how the good characters being the friendly, everyday kind of bigots was a serious problem. Harry would find out that nice people could still say and do awful things sometimes, and any kindness didn't magically make this have no consequences. Hagrid talking about bad blood did cause as much harm as when Marge did it, even if Harry didn't realize. We'd find out the Death Eaters had such an ( ... )
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It’s too late for Marge to marry Fubster and do her duty as a woman by cranking out babies. The presence of the mustache indicates she’s post-menopausal, and thus past her ‘use-by’ date. Lily would be thirty-three at this point, which makes Petunia thirty-five or so. Petunia would never do something as unconventional as marrying a younger man (or as properly wizardly as marrying her high school classmate), so let’s assume Vernon is forty. If Marge is five years older, she would be a bit early for menopause, but not impossibly so. Maybe she’s a breast cancer survivor; chemo in your forties can sometimes bring on early menopause.
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