Hogwarts Exposed Chapter 24 part 9

[szaleniec1000]

It's results day! Also, a rare scene with no mention of sex, nudity or sexualised nudity.

Comments

[fly_buggy_fly]

Don't apologize for the delay. We could easily allll guess her results.

[szaleniec1000]

This chapter is just so long, and with something sporkable in just about every paragraph. I wasn't expecting it to run to quite so many parts. And yes, the descriptions of the exams made it quite clear what she expected to get and she was right on every one. Apart from Potions, which we expected her to get because obvious twist is obvious.

[sickbritkid2]

Damn. 9 parts...this is quite the chapter!

The cheers from the Gryffindor table were deafening. Everyone was hugging Jamie and patting her on the back as she looked toward the staff table where she saw two teary eyed professors watching her, extreme pride evident on their faces.

Heh. I've been waiting awhile to break this out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JODwetfioWA

[szaleniec1000]

Isn't it just. It's just shy of 19,000 words, half as long again as the next longest chapter and more than twice the length of the next longest after that! (23 and 20 respectively.) And it's the worst chapter content-wise. No wonder it's taking so much longer than the others to spork.

[amideadn0w]

Ugh, just kill me.

All of this could've been summed up in one or two sentences.

"Jamie was eagerly awaiting her O.W.L.S, expecting the worst of outcomes. When the day arrived, she was more than pleasantly surprised-she passed with amazing grades-everyone cheered."

...gghgggggghhh >_> We need details on how awesome Miss Jamie is.

[szaleniec1000]

Contrast it with the scene in HBP where Harry gets his own results. In 500 or so words, Harry gets his results, learns how Ron and Hermione did, is congratulated and gives congratulations in turn and reflects on his future. In 900 words, Jamie just gets her results and is congratulated. And certain people act like this monstrosity having 750,000 words is something to celebrate.

[amideadn0w]

Yes, because 900 words about her grades make a very entertaining read.

All I can say is, if Neil wrote the HP series, they'd be bigger than two Bibles on top of each other and would've all had bright pink covers.

[szaleniec1000]

LOL! So true. Takes forever to get to the point and then insists on making it several times. JKR can say more in 750 words than he managed in all 750,000.

[warlock_female]

I think this is also one of the worse chapters because hey, who hasn't worried about grades? Of course then Mz. I'm Sooooo Awesome! has to get a super high grade or bawl over getting the same grade range of the lesser beings she goes to school with.

[szaleniec1000]

Exactly. We know that Harry and Hermione will always love her and don't need the scholarship money anyway. There'll be people in her class who have a lot more at stake, whose entire futures depend on the results of those exams, but who cares about them? Even they don't, apparently, and care more about bowing before the almighty Sue.

[sith_droideka]

That plot hole is humongous.

So, is anyone reminded of the second movie and its cheering scene at the end?

[sickbritkid2]

Yes. It was the one part of the movie where I went "...huh?", because Chamber was really the best adaptation until Half-Blood Prince(the third movie sucked incredible amounts of spunk, the fourth movie was decent but not as good, and the fifth movie was a travesty, which is a damn shame because Order of the Phoenix was my favorite book of the series until Deathly Hallows).

That said, the franchise was still in its "innocent" days, so the use of the Slow Clap didn't put me off too much. In retrospect, however...what in the hell was Chris Columbus thinking? It just pisses me off that Harris' Dumbledore's(easily the better of the two, though Gambon did an admirable job from the fifth movie onward) last scene was him starting a Slow Clap...

[sith_droideka]

Even as a child, I was like "this sap is killing me!"

But apparently Neil didn't get the same impression... or the movie hadn't come out yet. Probably the latter, with me getting all the facts wrong as usual.