Comments | ladythana: Well I was subpoenaed, but I pled the sixth. That threw them for a loop.

ladythana

Well I was subpoenaed, but I pled the sixth. That threw them for a loop.

Feb 03, 2007 13:28

Ugh. I feel so tired and gross. I just want to sleep. Or lie on the couch and do nothing. Finish reading OotP. Watch more Doctor Who. I died of squee when I got to the Captain Jack episodes. So much love. I'm almost done the first season now. Lovelove ( Read more... )

harry potter, sushi, family

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Re: Evil Gryffindors retinac February 4 2007, 00:52:36 UTC

I'm a few books behind and my memory of the ones I've already read has faded somewhat, so I'm kind of going by what wikipedia says about the different houses.

Rather than characters that directly contradict the values of their houses, it'd make more sense to have a few that exhibit the traits of their houses to the point of folly. Courage and boldness are supposed to be Gryffindor things, so an evil Gryffindor would likely be one that needlessly puts the lives of bystanders at risk in a rush to prove their worth. Being brave enough to pick a fight with a monster is different from actually being able to defeat it or even minimize the damage it might cause once provoked.

An evil Ravenclaw would probably be a manipulative evil genius type, or something like that. The Hufflepuff focus on friendship and loyalty would probably make them the most likely house to produce evil sidekicks, since if a friend went inexplicably evil then they'd likely stick together and follow suit.

Re: Evil Gryffindors kakodaimon February 4 2007, 13:59:32 UTC

Also, I'm not sure the author has necessarily really thought this out. As in, the defining trait of Slytherin is ambition -- no wait, racial purity -- no wait, slavery -- no wait...

I predict the seventh book will be a psychopolitical drama wherin Draco turns in a paper entitled "Why Voldemort was a civil rights hero"; McGonnegal takes him under his wing and makes him write papers on how his dad's incarceration affected him and brainwashed him to be a neo-Nazi Deatheater. The real title will be revealed as "Hogwartian History X."

(not really.)

Re: Evil Gryffindors retinac February 4 2007, 22:19:27 UTC

McGonnegal's a him now? I suppose with Transformation teachers it would probably vary a lot.

Y'know, it's kind of funny that the kids at Hogwarts don't seem to have any Muggle History courses or something like that. In some ways it's more like a specialized trade school than anything, since all they learn about is stuff related to wizarding. There'd probably be a sizeable number of students that graduated without having any idea what happened during WWII, or possibly even that it occurred.

Re: Evil Gryffindors ladythana February 4 2007, 22:30:22 UTC

Now that's an interesting thought. They do have a Muggle Studies course, but it mostly seems to be about Muggle inventions like batteries and plugs. There's never much detail about it, but now I wonder if they ever discussed Muggle history. Surely they couldn't miss something as major as a Muggle World War, but who knows? So much of the magical world is interbred with the Muggle world that I don't think it could go unnoticed, except perhaps for those who deign to ignore everything about them (ie the 'pureblood holier-then-thou' families).

And it's McGonagall, not McGonnegal. Now you have me wondering if there's a gender switching Transfiguration spell...

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willard_theduck February 5 2007, 02:09:59 UTC

I forsee a mega-battle of Good v. Evil, possibly in/near Hogwarts, either night-time battle-field style (Harry shows off his Quidditch moves, saves someone, flies around, spots something fishy/evil and gets lured off into secluded dark area for duel with Voldemort/other evil lurker...) or panicked guerrilla-style (the Trio + Groupies/ One Betrayer run through a Hogwarts infiltrated by evil-doers, where death(-Eater) is around every darkened corner; people go missing/ end up in various magicked quarters of the school...). Giants should definitely involved; I agree that Grawp can't not figure large (haw haw) in this book. I'm a definite supporter of Mel's Crookshanks Theory, and have suspected it was true (I dimly recall) for a while. And I'm thinking either Wormtail or Snape will sacrifice/redeem himself for someone, very potentially Harry. I need to read the books again to firm up these ideas... I'm scrounging this up from memories of scenes from the time when HBP came out...

ladythana February 5 2007, 03:24:44 UTC

Hee! I imagine more of a guerilla-style war, but the mega-battle would be so cool. There has been some of that, with the battle at the Ministry in OotP and the battle in Hogwarts at the end of HBP. But still! Mega-battle! Rally the troops! ...or something like that.

I wonder what Hagrid will do. His entire world revolved around Dumbledore. Will he have some massive character shift now that Dumbledore's gone? Or is that where Grawp fits in? The more I think about this, the more ridiculous the theories get. Fun!

Haha, you really thought Mel's Crookshanks Theory was true? That's hilarious! You should add it to your interests! Then there will be three of us! Winners all of us! *pompoms*