Rebecca and the Sorceror's Stone - Chapter 5, Part 1:
Chapter 5: Quidditch and Nicholas Flamel:
Mantra: Oh, FANTASTIC. It’s this bitch again. Did you HAVE to pull me out of The Darkest Hour to throw me into THIS?
Nagare: Is it just me or does this fic have the most unimaginative chapter titles ever? It’s literally just a few keywords about what happens in the chapter. That…doesn’t rouse my interest very well.
Mantra: Especially when I KNOW all that’s going to happen is shameless copy-pasting of the movie transcript.
"Take a bit of toast, mate. Go on," Ron encouraged Harry, who was only picking at his food.
Mantra: What did I tell you?
"Ron's right Harry, you're going to need your strength today," I said
Mantra: You know, for all your claims of how you hate Hermione because she’s a bitch, you seem oddly eager to steal her roles, huh? Exactly what about her character made you hate her? Because you’ve written this story so that you do everything she did in canon…and yet, for some reason, we shouldn’t hate you?
Nagare: Look at the last chapter, bitch. None of them give a single shit about you, because you BAILED on them when they needed help. You have NO FUCKING RIGHT to be hovering over them and demanding that they eat.
Mantra: In fact, when Hermione did this, it was to show that they had overcome their differences after the Troll Incident and have become friends. She cares about them. When YOU do it, all you look like is a controlling BITCH.
though I knew it would do no good.
Mantra: Even when you steal her lines and actions, you have to demean Hermione, huh? Look at how stupid that bitch was, expecting that Harry would do as she said. Aren’t I so smart? I know he wouldn’t listen to me! Except for how, you know, I’m even more stupid than her because, despite knowing this action is futile, I didn’t try another way to press him into eating.
Nagare: You have NO RIGHT to get pissy about how the canon characters aren’t following your orders to the letter. You have NO RIGHT to be issuing those orders in the first place. You want to be a good enough friend that they’ll actually take your advice? Then DO SOMETHING FOR THEM IN RETURN. When danger comes, FIGHT WITH THEM, NOT SIT THERE WITH YOUR THUMB UP YOUR ASS!
"I'm not hungry," he insisted as Snape walked up.
Nagare: WHAT THE FUCK? What is UP with this transition? You are NOT allowed to do this! You can’t just randomly pull characters out of your ass! Scenes in fics actually have to FLOW smoothly!
Mantra: This is why it’s a bad idea to literally take a movie script and insert a few dialogue tags after it. You actually have to have description. Your readers don’t have images in front of them anymore, so if you want them to visualise something, you have to DESCRIBE it.
"Good luck today, Potter. Then again, now that you've proven yourself against a troll, a little game of Quidditch should be easy work for you.
Mantra: Oh, poor Snape. He would NOT be saying that if he knew HOW Harry had actually defeated a troll.
Nagare: I don’t know. The ability to break the laws of physics for the sake of awkward writing seems a pretty easily-exploited superpower to me…
Mantra: Especially when this Suethor has no originality, and therefore everything will be happening according to canon. So, you know, there’s no way Harry could possibly lose. Suethor, have you ever heard of the word SUSPENSE? No? I guessed not.
Even if it is against Slytherin,"
Mantra: (Snape) For Slytherin is the official bitch of all Sparklypoos.
"Have a nice day," I called after him,
Nagare: Hello, random character. Goodbye, random character. So nice of you to drop in and say a line that doesn’t mean anything.
Mantra: Oh great. Oh, fan-fucking-tastic. Now the Suethor is plagiarising AIRHEAD. Ooh~ Aren’t I SOOOOOO ~special~ and ~unique~ for being nice to Snape? Fawn at my feet, peons! Tell me how amazing I am!
Bitch, I’ll accept that you’re special and unique amongst Sues when you start being nice to someone WITHOUT an ulterior motive.
getting an odd look from everyone.
Mantra: Because NO ONE has anything better to do than watching what the Sue is doing.
Nagare: WHY is this so surprising? Some people are PERFECTLY capable of feigning politeness in front of someone they hate. All that would happen is that people was assuming she was being polite in an attempt to kiss up to Snape.
Mantra: Oh, but she’s a Sue, you see! So even her most mundane actions must be lauded as ~unique~ because she’s SPESHUL SNOWFLAKE~
"What? Just because he's mean doesn't mean we shouldn't encourage him to have a nice day.
Mantra: ENCOURAGE? Don’t you DARE twist the meaning of a well-known phrase around to make it look like Snape is taking orders from you, you BITCH!
Nagare: What a lovely case of hypocrisy here. So, Snape is mean to you but you’re rising above him by being nice to him? Then I WONDER why you still bash Hermione and belittle her in your head, even though she’s doing everything she can to BE NICE TO YOU? What, is it just that she’s a female and therefore not one of your Lust Objects? Sue, if you want us to praise you for remaining kind in the face of provocation, you actually need to REMAIN KIND IN THE FACE OF PROVOCATION.
Mantra: And a lovely case of the lack of empathy, too. SHE wasn’t the one being insulted here. She used her Sue powers to make sure Snape gave her preferential treatment. And then she has the BALLS to insult other characters, who Snape DID bully, because they didn’t kiss up to Snape as much as she did. Bitch, I’ll believe you when Snape starting being as much of a bitch to you as other canon characters and you still manage not to throw a baby-fit.
Everyone is mean for a reason,"
Mantra: *Gears self* Oh, GREAT. Just GREAT. She’s going to give him a TWAGIC past and make him a goddamned Woobie and say how his actions were all because HIS FATHER BEAT HIM BOO HOO HOO. Bitch, Snape was a GREAT character precisely BECAUSE of how bitchy he was. And giving him a bullshit back story and making him a weepy little angst muffin is NOT going to make me like him over his canon counterpart.
Nagare: And you should start learning that having a REASON for something does not automatically make that action EXCUSABLE, much less JUSTIFIABLE.
Mantra: Precisely! Suethor, have you heard of this man?
That’s Griffith from Berserk. He was imprisoned by a King for seducing the princess and horrifically tortured, all the while believing that his friends abandoned him. That a VERY good reason for him to vow vengeance.
But when THIS happened:
Did we forgive him for it? HELL NO. That’s why he has an entry under Complete Monster on TV Tropes.
No matter how much torture he had been put under, no matter how valid his reason, it did NOT justify him RAPING HIS BEST FRIEND’S GIRLFRIEND AND PUTTING A MARK ON HIS HEAD SO THAT ALL THE DEMONS OF HELL WILL BE AFTER HIM.
I told like,
Nagare: like? Who’s THAT character and why have we never heard of him/her before? In fact, where did she/he come from?
taking a bite from my toast.
Mantra: Oh, how fascinating this fic is. I’m on the EDGE of my seat here. I can’t WAIT to know what she’ll eat next! Does she have cereal? Or will it be scrambled eggs? Ooh~~~~
"That explains the blood," Harry murmured to himself, staring after Snape.
Mantra: *Laughs* Oh, you STUPID little bitch. This is why you don’t copy-paste canon, you see. Because when you jam a new character into scenes we all know, the result is OBVIOUS. Your darling little Sue up there just gave a speech on how they must be nice to Snape because he’s secretly a snuggle bear underneath and just want some friends, and how do the canon characters react? By COMPLETELY ignoring her. She might as well not have spoken. Their intention is MORE than clear, ‘Fuck off, bitch, we have more important matters to think of than your quest to get into Snape’s pants.’
Nagare: Clearly, even they know that what the Sue said was so crammed full of bullshit, the only way to deal with it would be to ignore it.
"Blood?"
Mantra: Yes, blood. The thing that will flow out when I rip your jugular out.
Nagare: Is Hermione even in this scene anymore? Suethor, if you need to almost remove a central canon character from the story to make your Sue fit, it MIGHT be an indication that YOUR FUCKING SUE DOESN’T FIT. GET RID OF HER.
"Listen, last night, I'm guessing Snape let the troll in as diversion so he could get past that three headed dog. But, he got bit, that's why he's limping," Harry explained.
Mantra: *Gasps in exaggerated horror* Oh, but HARRY! How DARE you imply Snape might be bad in front of the Sue? Don’t you know that she owns your life now?
But seriously, this just makes the previous scene EVEN FUNNIER, because he IS completely ignoring her and her little diatribe about how Snape MUST be all fuzzy underneath because NO ONE can be mean to her!
"But why would anyone go near that dog?" Hermione asked.
Nagare: Erm…does anyone remember the trapdoor? You know, the trapdoor YOU pointed out? Did you guys already come to the conclusion that, you know, there must be something valuable there that has to be guarded? Really, the dots aren’t THAT hard to connect here.
"The day I was at Gringotts, Hagrid took something out of one of the vaults.
Mantra: *Exaggerated surprise* No, REALLY? People make withdrawals at banks? I would never have guessed!
Okay, I KNOW it’s canon, but that doesn’t mean I can’t mock it! 98% of this fic is canon, so, you know, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Said it was Hogwarts business, very secret,"
Mantra: It was Dumbledore’s porn collection.
Nagare: *Horrified stare*
Mantra: WHAT? He clearly wasn’t getting any since Grindelwald, so he HAS to entertain himself SOMEHOW!
"So you're saying-"
Mantra: (Hermione) You know absolutely nothing about what is being guarded, why it is being guarded, why Snape would want it, and how Snape came to know about it? He must have done it because he just HAPPENED to be INJURED in a TROLL invasion, and that was just SO suspicious? Look, I’m not agreeing with that bitch Rebecca about how he’s a saint, but isn’t this stretching it JUST a little?
"That's what the dog's guarding-"
"And that's what Snape wants," I finished for them
Nagare: THEY DON’T NEED YOUR FUCKING HELP!
Mantra: Indeed. Dumbing down the characters to make yourself seem smarter here doesn’t even work because Harry has ALREADY arrived at a conclusion! You just repeated what he already SAID! And don’t you DARE pretend you figured this out before Harry, because you had NO IDEA what he was talking about when he mentioned the blood! YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT AND NO AMOUNT OF LINE-STEALING IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT!
as the sound of an owl drew our attention upward
Nagare: The SOUND of an owl? That sounds…incredibly awkward.
as Harry's owl dropped a package on the table,
Mantra: Wait, wait, wait, an owl flew overhead AS Hedwig dropped of a package? As in, there were TWO of them? What the fuck?
Nagare: Well, that came out of nowhere.
a package shaped like a broomstick.
Mantra: Yes, it’s only shaped like a broomstick. It’s actually Bob’s Dildos for Giants.
Nagare: *Splutters* WHAT.
Mantra: Oh, come ON. This is a Harry Potter fic! I’m obligated to make dirty jokes about broomsticks!
Nagare: That was still COMPLETELY uncalled for. Seriously, never, EVER mention such a thing again.
"A bit early for mail isn't it?" Hermione asked.
Mantra: Because, you know, you never get mail apart from the designated times…oh wait.
Nagare: Well, at least we know that the canon characters are still doing all they can to pretend the Sue isn’t even there. That counts as something, right?
"But, I never get mail," Harry said looking at us all, looking confused.
Mantra: *Applauds* And now you’ve degenerated to using the SAME FUCKING WORD two times in five words. And it’s the cliched ‘looking a looking look’ too! How FANTASTIC.
Nagare: Huh…this does make me wonder…how did Hedwig deliver the broomstick again? She’s Harry’s owl, right? So, it’s not like whoever sent him the gift can just…summon her. The only way this could have happened is if Harry just HAPPENED to have sent a letter to whoever sent the gift the night before or something. Or else, they’d have to use their own owl…This makes no sense.
Mantra: Well, it IS canon…
"Let's open it," Ron smiled.
Nagare: Um…what were you PLANNING to do? Burning it unopened? This is first-year, isn’t it? I don’t think the call for paranoia started in this fast.
Mantra: Well, given how much Harry and Hermione have been dumbed down? I wouldn’t be surprised if they were planning on staring at the package and drooling all morning until the Sue came down from on high and gave them an order.
We four all made short work on the wrappings
Nagare: It took FOUR of you to get rid of the wrappings? How complicated is that damned thing?
Mantra: Look, that was a VERY nice moment in the movie, okay? Because it showed how the three had become united after the Troll ordeal and are now working together as a team. You cramming your nose in there where it didn’t belong just destroyed ALL the significance of that scene, because YOU DIDN’T HELP THEM AT ALL DURING THE TROLL SCENE! IN FACT, YOU OUTRIGHT ROBBED THEM OF THEIR HONOUR BY SHOWING OFF JUST AS THE TEACHERS CAME IN! YOU WERE DISTINCTLY PORTRAYED AS AN USURPER UP UNTIL THIS POINT AND NO ONE FUCKING LIKES YOU! You butting in just made a nice piece of symbolism UTTERLY POINTLESS AND made the canon characters look like idiots…wait. That’s what you want, isn’t it?
to reveal a broomstick, though it was pretty obvious.
Nagare: Oh, now that you’ve SEEN what’s inside the package, you start boasting about how you knew what it was all along? BULL-FUCKING-SHIT! If it was really that obvious, you wouldn’t have to wait until now to tell us about it! Gah, I’ve never seen anyone this goddamned PATHETIC.
Mantra: And the mystery wasn’t about what’s IN the package! That was pretty damned obvious! The mystery was WHY Harry had been sent a broomstick and HOW.
"It's a broomstick," Maybe not.
Nagare: And what the fuck is THAT supposed to mean?
Mantra: Did she say that it WASN’T a broomstick?
…Holy shit. My predictions were totally true.
Nagare: *Through gritted teeth* If they DO turn out to be true, I shall have no choice but stab out my own eyes.
"Thank you, Captain Obvious," I said,
Mantra: …
Nagare: Shall I do you a favour and go back and pull out every line where you’ve stated the obvious?
Mantra: You might as well copy-paste the entire fic here. There is not ONE line that can’t be construed as stating the obvious, because THIS SUE HAS NO BRAIN. MY GOD, WHAT AN UTTER BITCH.
Nagare: Really, I have no idea why these Sues think disparaging canon characters is going to make us like them more. They’re dreamed up by utterly obscure teenagers who don’t know how to spell simple, three-letter words. And they HONESTLY think we’ll take their side against a beloved canon character from a best-selling series by a woman who actually knew how to write?
Mantra: If anything, Suethors are VERY well-known for their arrogance.
making him roll his eyes at me.
Mantra: Ooh~ Ron! I LOVE you! Keep doing that, PLEASE!
Nagare: *Snorts* Even the brain-washed, idiotic versions of the canon characters think you’re an insufferable bitch. Know how you’re always talking about how Ron and Harry are BARELY tolerating Hermione? Well, I wonder why you never notice the kind of looks they direct at you…
Mantra: Well, it’s not like Suethors are famed for their humility and self-awareness…
"That's not just a broomstick Harry,
Mantra: *Gigglesnort*
Nagare: *Calmly sharpens knife in preparation for eye-stabbing*
that's a Nimbus 2000" Ron exclaimed.
Nagare: *Pauses* …Interesting name?
"Once again, thank you, Mr. Obvious," I said with a smile.
Mantra: Oh my GOD, you BITCH! Look here, I know you’re raised by a bloody pureblood family and shit, but really? You KNOW Harry had no idea about Wizarding culture from that train-ride! You KNOW he’s still learning things! WHAT THE FUCK MAKES YOU THINK HE KNOWS EVERY INTRICATED DETAIL ABOUT POPULAR BROOMSTICK DESIGNS? Ron isn’t fucking stating the obvious! He’s being CONSIDERATE and A GOOD FRIEND, concepts you obviously cannot comprehend! He KNOWS Harry is still learning about Wizarding culture, so he’s explaining things to him to HELP HIM! You might not need the information, but OTHER PEOPLE DO!
But of course, you don’t think about them, not even when they’re your future love interest. Oh no. Absolutely NO ONE is more important than you, and if you already know something, then GOD FORBID anyone else be educated on it, because YOU are bored by it, and all that matters is whether YOU approve of something or not. God, Harry is SUCH a dumbass for not knowing about Wizarding culture when he’s been living with the Dursleys. Obviously, he’s just such a PATHETIC WIMP for not being able to deal with neglect and indoctrinated ignorance.
"Oh shut up, Rebecca,"
Nagare: I think we’ve found our hero.
Mantra: *Still recovering from her rant* Ron? You…You’ve just officially made it onto the Frequently Abused Yet Awesome Canon Characters Council (pending a better name). Congratulations. Please, never EVER stop this stream of in-fic snarking. I have no doubt that our sanity will be entirely supported by you at the end of this fic.
"But who sent-" Harry stopped mid sentence
Nagare: In case, you know, the readers are too illiterate to notice that the dialogue is not a complete sentence and is followed by a dash. Because all readers are morons and you have to explain everything you do. After all, you’re a ~writer~, and makes you automatically superior to all non-writers.
looking at the teachers table before a small smile lit his face.
Nagare: What is UP with you? Can’t you just write a sentence and be DONE with it without fucking around with the tense? It’s not that hard to make it CONSISTENT!
Mantra: Uh…so who sent the broomstick? In canon, we were shown a SHOT of McGonagall, and that established that she sent it VERY well, but…you never described that. I know all your readers would know canon already, but that doesn’t mean you can just brush details like that aside? You started this fucking story! Now you have to WRITE AN ACTUAL FUCKING STORY! Which means you have to describe things and answer the questions you’ve posed, especially basic ones like this! Especially ones which the plot depends on, like this! YOU CAN’T HANDWAVE THINGS JUST BECAUSE THE READERS KNOW THE MATERIAL! YOU ARE A FUCKING AUTHOR! THAT MEANS IT’S YOUR FUCKING JOB TO DESCRIBE AND FUCKING EXPLAIN!
About an hour later
Nagare: Hello, time skip. It says something that I’ve become inured to the bizarre time-jumps and non-existent transition.
Mantra: God, it’s just ONE FUCKING HOUR. You couldn’t write a few lines to smoothly transition here? The film got away with cutting because that’s what a film fucking does, by its very nature. A BOOK DOES NOT GET AWAY WITH SHIT LIKE THIS. If you really want to rely on movie Tropes that much, THEN GO AND MAKE A FLASH VIDEO OR SOMETHING. If you’re writing prose, THEN YOU HAVE TO FUCKING WRITE PROSE. ARGH, THIS MAKES ME SO GODDAMNED ANGRY!
Nagare: To the contrary, this just makes me extremely tired. I don’t even care anymore…about anything, really.
Mantra: Trust me, it’s worse after you’ve just anti-sporked something mind-blowing-ly awesome and then find yourself in front of shit like this.
it was time for the Quidditch game,
Mantra: Oh…Oh SHIT. Please tell me she is NOT going to try to describe a fucking QUIDDITCH match using her dry, laundry-listing prose? Look, Suebitch, I have NEVER seen anyone write a Quidditch match well, because that required SKILL. Those matches took a tonne of imagery, and YOU CANNOT FUCKING DELIVER. Why are you even trying?
Nagare: Like you said, they never have an accurate estimation of their own skill level.
Gryffindor against Slytherin,
Nagare: Um…yes. We were already told that, in the last scene, when Snape walked by. Do you remember that? I doubt you forgot because you seized the opportunity to make a disgusting speech about how he’s the secret identity of Mr. Snuggles.
Mantra: And the little speech Snape did was good in that it explained the following match well without resorting to info-dumping or sledgehammer-ing, and you just had to come along in your quaint little narration and RUIN EVERYTHING. Unlike you, Suethor, we are actually capable of absorbing information and RETAINING IT. Please do not think the whole world is as stupid as you.
an interesting game if you ask me.
Nagare: No one fucking asked you, so why don’t you keep your goddamned opinions to yourself, because NO ONE FUCKING CARES? Your opinions don’t matter, because YOU DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE STORY. You are NOT FUCKIN IMPORTANT.
Mantra: You might ESPECIALLY want to keep your mouth shut when the statement you make is THIS condescending. Oh, the iconic spork of your favourite childhood novel, the one that fascinated and awed you? Yeah, it’s interesting.
This is NOT a good attitude to take right after you’ve spent all your effort belittling all of the main characters…or at any time at all. STOP.
Harry left us to get ready with the team while Ron, Hermione and I met up with Hagrid at the stands to watch the game with the rest of Gryffindor.
Mantra: Oh, great. She’s ACTUALLY going to do this…let’s hope Ron is hiding a spork under his robe and is just waiting for the crowd to be suitably stirred to stab her under the cover of chaos.
Nagare: Or that the Suethor has a last-minute epiphany and skip over the match. I would even take her AWFUL transitions than having to read about the whole damned thing in her dry, emotionless prose.
"Hello! Welcome to Hogwart's first Quidditch game of the season! Today's game: Slytherin vs. Gryffindor!"
Nagare: This is HOW many times we’ve been reminded of who’s playing who, again? I don’t get why this point needs to be beaten into our heads. It’s just a simple piece of factual information. Why is she convinced that there’s no way we’ll remember it?
Mantra: You know what? I’m going to sit over here and watch the movie in my head. It’s a LOT better than this…ABOMINATION.
Everyone cheered loudly as the players flew onto the field,
Nagare: Am I supposed to be getting excited? Am I supposed to be anticipating something? Because I don’t feel a damned thing. You know why? Because technical instructions for how to fix your microwave has more emotional content than your prose.
my eyes stuck on Harry.
Nagare: Your eyes are STUCK on Harry? That sounds…painful.
Mantra: Oh, don’t worry. Even if they’re especially tenacious, we’ll be rid of them in no time if you could just get me a sharp enough knife…or large quantities of acid.
"The player take their positions as Madam Hooch steps onto the field to begin the game!"
Nagare: *Sighs* Even though this is a STORY, which is meant to be told through descriptive prose, she still relies on the canon dialogue of the characters to convey what’s going on. At this rate, I have a clearer mental image of what’s happening from reading the transcripts of the movie than reading this thing…
Mantra: That’s because this Suethor isn’t good enough to describe the action of someone walking onto a field of grass.
"Now, I want a nice clean game… from all of you," I heard Madame Hooch yell us to the players,
Nagare: *Baffled* She yelled the audience at the players? How does THAT work? What, does she have a form of telekinesis that’s voice-activated?
though I doubted she get a clean game with Slytherin on the field.
Mantra: *Snorts* Yeah, go ahead and make yourself look SOOOOOOOOOOO smart by deducing her intentions. I notice how you didn’t mention she gave a VERY pointed glare at the Slytherins, because including it would make your deduction look a lot less impressive. Or is this you dumbing down the canon characters again, making Madame Hooch look as if she was ACTUALLY expecting the Slytherins to obey her command? Even though it was QUITE clear in canon that she was EXPECTING them to try cheating? Just how shameless can you get?
Nagare: And…uh…how does she know this? Like the announcer said above, this is the FIRST GAME of the season and they’re all first-years. There’s no way she could know the Slytherins cheated unless she had an older sibling also at Hogwarts. And no, her parents don’t count, because they’re from decades ago and she CLEARLY doesn’t respect them enough to believe anything they said. So…what, she just pulled the knowledge that Slytherins always cheated from her ass? Or is this just the healthy Gryffindor prejudice that she so lovingly promotes?
"The Bludgers are up, followed by the Golden Snitch.
Mantra: Because the Suethor is too lazy to describe someone kicking over a trunk and balls flying. Honestly, given the choice of reading your fic or watching the movie, did you HONESTLY think people would choose the former?
The Voice: Well, this had 15 reviews, so at least that number of people did.
Mantra: *Heaves sigh* Well, I suppose it’s not as bad as it could be…Rose Potter was a hundred-thousand times worse than this bitch, and she had a whole Yahoo community devoted to her…
Remember the Snitch is worth 150 points. The Seeker who catches the Snitch ends the game," the announcer said over the speaker as everyone watched in anticipation.
Mantra: *Yawns and curls up* Wake me up when something happens…
Nagare: Oh, if anything should be cut, it’s drivel like this that everyone knows and DON’T CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING TO THE PLOT. You could have went on with the whole thing with a simple ‘he reminded everyone of the basic rules again’, but no. If a line was in the movie, it absolutely HAD to be in your fic, because YOU ARE A PLAGIARISING BITCH. But any significant body movement that was in the movie? Fuck those. Acting doesn’t matter in a movie, after all, right?
"The Quaffle is released and the game begins!"
Nagare: And already, I’m bored.
The game started out well with Gryffindor getting twenty easy points
Mantra: Yes, go right on diminishing the awesome of the canon characters, don’t you? It’s quite interesting that you were willing to include all that bullshit about the rules up there and yet won’t spare a single word’s description for Gryffindor’s first goals. But hey, we can’t POSSIBLY have someone be more awesome than you, right?
Nagare: And because condescending and patronising attitudes are just SO likeable. ‘Oh, it was EASY points. Anyone could have done it. Nothing to be surprised of.’
Mantra: *Rage*
when Slytherin started playing dirty and knocking out players. After a while we and Slytherin were tied.
Mantra: Uh-uh, Sue, you don’t get to say that! You are not on the team, you’re not interested in the team, you’re not friends with anyone on the team. You can’t use ‘we’.
Nagare: I’m torn. On the one hand, I want to rant at her for skimming over important actions and making a tense and awe-inspiring scene in the movie into flat drivel like this that can put an insomniac to sleep. On the other hand, I’m grateful that she’s skipping ahead so, since that means this scene will be shorter…
Mantra: Well, why not do both? You can rage and I can lie back and enjoy.
The Voice: And think of England?
Mantra: *Sly smirk* Actually, I prefer America. He has an awesome middle name.
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