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[mike_smith]

Well, I've been gone for a while, so I should probably start out by explaining where I've been. Last week I volunteered to work third-shift at my job, partly for training purposes, partly to help everyone out at my job, and mainly so I could get a few brownie points at work. Most importantly, though, by working nights, I'd be able to take Friday

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[cindale]

Dude! We got a new character and we need you for a scene! Glad you're back!

[mike_smith]

Yeah, sorry I didn't get your e-mail last week. I was pretty much dead to the world.

[trishalynn]

[holy_whatever]

Nah, that's right, and that's coming from a recovering Potterhead. (I'm slightly less obsessed than I was in my youth. And by youth, I mean last year.)

Anyway, mike_smith, you are hilarious, and I'm adding you if it won't offend you horribly.

[mike_smith]

Now, see, THIS is the kind of evil teacher I could get behind. Reading out of the book, testing stuff that's not IN the book, that's the very picture of a crappy-ass teacher. And writing sentences in your own blood is EXACTLY what an evil teacher would make her students to. Maybe I'm on the wrong book, here.

[mmmdraco]

It wasn't just sentences in his own blood. He was banned from Quidditch (his first love) and made to serve detentions.
During those detentions, Umbridge made him write "I must not tell lies." with a special quill that carved the words into the back of his hand and transferred the blood to the paper. She also tried to have his soul taken out. Essentially, she was a real heartless bitch. But, because of her, Book 5 was essentially devoid of all happiness except for the moments with the DA which were cool in and of themselves just because it was Harry Potter rebelling against authority and starting to become a leader.

[xwingace]

Am adding you to my flist for the hilarious reviews.

Thanks for the laughs!

[jim_smith]

This leaves Harry to end up sitting with two of his B-team friends, Neville and Luna.

Start calling them "Vicious and Delicious."

If I were Draco, I would have used my wand to write "I UCK" on Harry's forehead, using the lighting bolt as the "S", but that's just me.

I need an icon of this.

[mindset]

[jim_smith]

Hoooray!!!!

[sirgarrett]

For what it's worth on the DA:

If you are involved in Education or know people who are, the 5th book is an interesting read in that it has MANY descriptions of what NOT to do as a teacher.

The DA was a study group that was formed to learn all the stuff that wasn't being properly taught in class. Basically the useless MoM Fudge and the Professor Umberage believed that the only way to learn chemistry was to read about it and never once, write a balanced equation, do a singly stoichometry (sp?) problem, or heaven forbid turn ona bunsen burner and blow something up.

So basically Harry got a group together and showed them how to blow stuff up in neat and interesting colors.

Well.. actually Umberage was supposed to teach magical self defense, but only let them read out of the book rather then.. well.. actually practicing self defense.

[mike_smith]

Wait, they actually teach chemistry at this school? None of that alchemy crap, now. That's different.

[sirgarrett]

Well no....

They teach Potions, which is supposed to be like chemistry.

But I was using that as an analogy to modern education. They way they teach Magical Self Defense aka Defense Agasint the Dark Arts, is to have the kids read it in a book. Or that's how they taught in in book 5 which is why Harry started a club called the DA to learn how to do it by doing it.