Cambot, Give Me Rocket #9!

[mike_smith]

WHO?

WHO?

WHO?

Who? Or what, is the newest, most breath-taking, most sensational super hero of all...?

IRON MANTHE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE! He lives! He walks! He conquers!

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[astralis_lumen]

Awesome review, once again

[merenwen_81]

Which is only one of the reasons why Minerva rules. I really enjoyed her verbally sweeping the floor with Dolores Umbridge in book 5.

I thought I had something to say when I was reading, but I can't remember it anymore so hopefully it wasn't anything intelligent or funny.

[mike_smith]

So when McG points out that his Grandmother was terrible at Charms but he is good at them, and that she should be more proud of everything he did in Book 5, it's kind fo a personal victory for him.

Fair enough, but unless Neville's getting more play in this book later on, then a moment like this probably should have been kept in Book 5, or save until Book 7 if Neville gets to do more stuff there. Really, I wouldn't have minded this diversion so much if she had just skipped the parts about buying school supplies and getting grade cards.

[astralis_lumen]

The bits and pieces about school shopping are really more of a tradition than anything (and adding snippets about their daily lives to give it a more complete, richer world feeling - these moments are so normal, yet they get you to care about the characters and the world much more than you'd think).

The OWLs was something that was necessary to be covered, as it determined what classes they'd be taking that year and it only happens once anyway.

And as far as I can remember, Neville doesn't really get a lot more action. He is important, though, as there was this whole Prophecy made about the person who would have to face Voldie and for a bit no one knew if it was Harry or Neville - if Voldemort had made a different choice, the books would all be about Neville. It's sort of a compare/contrast thing with Harry and Neville.

[ex_mightygo]

While all this is going on, Hermione's getting assigned fifteen inch essays in some other class. Uh, I call bullsh*t. Fifteen inches is like several thousand pages, I'm pretty sure.

It's scrolls. In the magical world of Rowling, where "wizard" is code for "uncurious intellectually", the frigging wizards never bothered with the printing press. Except, of course, for textbooks, everything in the library, and Hagrid's book that eats people or something.

[mindset]

According to brucha, the Goblet of Fire was simply the prize of a major sporting competition

Not the prize as such, more like the symbol of it. The actual prize was a heck of a lot of money, I think... yeah, it was. Harry gave it to the Weasley twins so they could start their joke shop.

Fifteen inches is like several thousand pages, I'm pretty sure.

"Inches" in this case refers to the length of the scroll, not to a stack of papers. So, uh, like a page and a half.

If you don't shout out the name of your attack, your opponent is much less likely to anticipate and guard against it. Obviously, Hermione doesn't realize that this doesn't apply to the Warp Kamehameha...

I don't know, would not shouting that have kept you from getting totally pwned by that big fluffy pink effeminate thing at WizardWorld? You tell me. :)

Anyway, I love these reviews. I especially like knowing that Snape is neither Batman, nor Baron Strucker, nor Big Bird. Got it. :)

[mike_smith]

Warp Kamehameha was what I was trying to do at Wizard World, but it's really hard to pull off on command. When executed properly, Goku gets high up in the air and begins to perform the plain old vanilla Kamehameha you saw me use about a billion times. Only THIS time, he uses Instant Transmission when he gets to the "me" syllable. While the opponent is still looking up, trying to figure out what to do, Goku reappears right in front of him, and unleashes the wave before he can defend himself. So it's kind of like the Picard Manuever, only without the afterimage.

It's an awesome move, and perhaps the only attack in DBZ that actually relies on everyone shouting the names of their attacks. You're so focused on the Kamehameha part he announces that you don't think about the teleportation part he's not.

[mindset]

Ah, sweet. Difficult series of button-pressing, or what?

[mike_smith]

Ah, sweet. Difficult series of button-pressing, or what?Strangely, no. Budokai 3 introduced a rather irritating feature called "Dragon Rush". Entering Dragon Rush mode is easy enough, but then it becomes a game of chance. You have a few seconds to push one of four buttons. If your opponent chooses the same button, then your attack is blocked. Otherwise, you get to do it again, only this time, since one of the buttons has already been used, your opponent has a one in three chance of matching your selection this time. If he still doesn't manage to block your attack, you go on to the third leg of Dragon Rush. Now, with only two buttons to pick, there's basically a fifty-fifty chance the attack will be blocked, but if you luck out, then... THEN, you get to do this really devastating attack. Most of the characters just do a generic energy bombardment, but the more popular ones have their own trademark moves. For Goku it's the Warp Kamehameha. With Vegeta, it's the Final Flash. Piccolo uses the Special Beam Cannon, and Gotenks

[jim_smith]

Snape then moves on to the topic of nonverbal spellcasting. He asks the class what the advantage is to a nonverbal spell, and Hermione's hand shoots up because she's gotta be the teacher's pet even when the teacher is a freaky-deaky goth wannabe.

How retarded does the rest of the class have to be that she's the only one who even has a good guess why nonverbal spellcasting would be useful? Cripes, I'm just some stupid repulsive anteater mudblood and I can figure this out.

He asks the class to identify it, and up goes Hermione's hand. Yeah, good hustle, Granger. Starting to piss me off, but good hustle.

Geez, I figured out to stop instantly raising my hand for every question when I was 12. Ron's welcome to this bitch.

Slughorn explains that if you took it all the time, you'd become reckless and careless to the point where you'd get yourself killed.

If it keeps you lucky, how are you supposed to get killed if you keep taking it?

[ex_mightygo]

If it keeps you lucky, how are you supposed to get killed if you keep taking it?

It's made from distilled crystal meth. You're not lucky - you just THINK you're really really lucky! Until you wake up in an alley with no clothes.

[cmzero]

If it keeps you lucky, how are you supposed to get killed if you keep taking it?

Well, sooner or later, you're going to lose track of exactly how much you took last dose, how long that means it lasts, and whether that means you need another dose any time soon. Or the dose wears off when you're in the middle of something and you (unluckily) don't have the opportunity to take another swig.

Ergo, you're fighting your way through that dungeon without a care in the world, not even bothering to draw your wand because all the monsters you encounter forgot to tie their shoelaces today and fall on their faces when they charge you. Then suddenly, goshdarnit, the potion wears off, that last dragon happened to wear velcro, and you're lunch, kid.

[jim_smith]

Well, sooner or later, you're going to lose track of exactly how much you took last dose, how long that means it lasts, and whether that means you need another dose any time soon.

Yeah, it'd sure be unlucky if I failed to notice my luck potion wearing off. It's a good think I took a luck potion to keep unlucky things from happening to me...

That is to say, if it's any kind of luck potion, wouldn't it magically cause me to luckily remember when it'll wear off, before it actually wears off?

[schtroumph_c]

So now Harry has transformed into the hero of dumbass mythology, the legendary Super Dumbass. Yes, it's said that once every thousand years, a dumbass arises to be far dumber than the rest of his kind. Such a dumbass is known as a Super Dumbass, and gets to spend Saturday night in Snape's office for detention.

*laugh* I like you. It's fun to see how a non-fan read the book.

Dude, you're not Batman,

Well, another prof describe him like 'so useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.'

There're always a description of his cloak which make this move, like every heroes with their cloak. And with the wind...sorry, english is not my first language, and I don't manage to find the word.

Billowing

[lasayla]

I couldn't tell you the French for 'cloak' let alone 'billowing', so I figure you're still ahead of the game.