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mike_smith

It is the Year Chapter Five...

Jul 30, 2005 18:15

This weekend I bought a greatest hits CD of Electric Light Orchestra. The guy at the store congratulated me on what he considered the greatest music purchase of that day. I really gotta stop shopping at the Sam Goody ( Read more... )

halfbloodprince

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innerslytherin July 30 2005, 23:55:17 UTC

Don't forget about "Evil Woman" to go along with "Sweet Talkin Woman" - wasn't that ELO also? *giggles*

And your reviews are entertaining. Really. ^_^

exit_chrysalis July 30 2005, 23:58:31 UTC

This is quite humorous.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are generally referred to as "the Trio," (with or without caps) which does have canon basis somewhere.

Also, the story speeds wayyy up in the middle chapters in pretty much all these books. It's like, you go from Christmas to fucking April in approximately 2.4 chapters, and you're not quite sure what happened in between.

grapefruitzzz July 31 2005, 00:37:51 UTC

I like ELO!

Anyway, adore your review, especially the bit about the difference between Bitch Fleur and the Johnny/Orlando emo love.

I just want to clarify that the grades they are waiting for are fairly important and not just standard end-of-year results. In the UK system that this copies, people take a range of exams at 16 and then either leave school or go on to do a narrower range of higher courses. If the brats here didn't get decent marks they wouldn't be able to study what they wanted in the sixth form.

It is true that Harry going to a career counsellor about wanting to fight evil when he's been marked for it from birth is ridiculous, but I think that's done on purpose.

mike_smith July 31 2005, 18:38:07 UTC

I just want to clarify that the grades they are waiting for are fairly important and not just standard end-of-year results. In the UK system that this copies, people take a range of exams at 16 and then either leave school or go on to do a narrower range of higher courses. If the brats here didn't get decent marks they wouldn't be able to study what they wanted in the sixth form.

Well, yeah, that's my point. Certainly, I don't blame them for being anxious about their grades, since the rest of their academic career depends upon it. I just don't see the need for Rowling to spend a lot of time on this moment, because there's hardly any suspense for the reader. If Harry can't go on to Year 6, or if he can't attend the essential Year 6 classes he wants, then there's no Year 6, and that would mean this book wouldn't exist.

Having read this far, I'm beginning to wonder if all of this pre-Hogwarts stuff is part of some larger pattern, and every book starts out this way. A chapter where Harry leaves the Dursleys to go to the Burrow, a ( ... )

mindset July 31 2005, 19:00:18 UTC

if... every book starts out this way.

Yep, it does. Well, except for the grades, since last year was the only time they'd taken these special tests. But they generally do have a bit where they determine which classes they're going to take...

...such a loophole may well exist.

Yep, it does. :) You know the prophecy Harry was talking about? It was about a baby born at the end of July, to parents who had defied Voldemort. Harry's classmate Neville also meets these qualifications. I haven't read OOTP in a while, so I can't recall what made Voldemort pick the Potters to directly attack, now...

seraphwings July 31 2005, 00:50:44 UTC

Come now. The greatest of ELO songs throughout history has got to be Fire On High.

mike_smith July 31 2005, 01:33:33 UTC

Well, according to whoever put togehter "The Essential Electric Light Orchestra," it's not even in the top fifteen. Sorry.

jim_smith July 31 2005, 00:54:25 UTC

One shall stand, one shall fall.

...

"Why throw away your life so recklessly?"

"That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron."

"No! I'll destroy you with my bare hands!"

"I've got to help Prime!"

"Stay out of it, lad! That's Prime's fight!"

"I'll rip out your optics..."

I'm sorry, were you reviewing some book about flesh creatures?

mike_smith July 31 2005, 01:32:28 UTC

"Wait a moment. The Constructicons form Devastator, the most powerful robot! We should rule!"

"Soundwave: superior, Constructicons: inferior."

"No one would follow an uncharismatic boor like you!"

"Hey, no one calls Soundwave 'un-cras-imatic'!"

"Yeah, let's get 'em!"

"Constructicons, unite!"

"No way!"

jim_smith July 31 2005, 03:49:13 UTC

"Megatron...Megatron..."

"Who said that...?"

"I...am Unicron."

"Show yourself!"

"I have summoned you here...for a purpose."

"Nobody summons Megatron!"

"Then it pleases me to be the first!"