May 22, 2012 20:37
that's why commas matter,
what do you mean it's not awesome,
moustache twirling,
onion slicing convention,
om nom nom,
department of redundancy department,
completely nonsexual,
the nudist doth protest too much,
welsh railway,
pass the megaphone,
hogwarts roboticised,
priorities be damned,
puppy-punting patrol,
retcon yay,
how is babby formed,
nudity for everyone,
madam malkin's mugglewear,
harry potter,
dialogue is not narration,
badfic:hogwarts too exposed,
said bookism,
pronouns don't do that,
harry the pervert,
continuity isn't optional,
breast fixation
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Ron having a possibly dislocated shoulder is strange, because the first thing it makes me think of how even the cliched way to handle it - "By Jove, man!" said Harry, shocked. "Your shoulder appears to be dislocated!"
"Never mind that!" replied Ron, struggling manfully to ignore the almost overwhelming pain in his desperation. "What about Timmy and Sam?" -
would more usefully convey Ron's mental state that him weeping, given that HE!characters do that at the drop of a brassiere.
"I've just been molested by an evil lesbian!" wept Caitlin, sadly. "But the balance of people in the world understand that nudity is entirely nonsexual."
The extended conversation between Harry and Hermione at the opening makes my brain want to die.
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“Tuesday!” Harry bellowed after reading the letter. “The hearing is this Tuesday! That gives us no time at all to prepare.”
So no, I didn't cut the details of the letter. All we got was a one-line summation via dialogue, even though we're ostensibly still in his POV.
"I've just been molested by an evil lesbian!" wept Caitlin, sadly. "But the balance of people in the world understand that nudity is entirely nonsexual."
Hogwarts Exposed in a nutshell. You win the internet. Again.
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Like I said, mate, Danel's sporkings of HE were the best on Das-Mervin, next to the original sporking of chapter 1, of course.
So no, I didn't cut the details of the letter. All we got was a one-line summation via dialogue, even though we're ostensibly still in his POV.
To be fair, by this point in the story, the readers would probably be able to piece together what it would pertain to* using the setup scenes prior to the Puppy-Punting Patrol's entrance.
I wonder if a different author helped write that part, because this is the sole instance I can see in this series, so far, where Neil actually shows some respect for his reader's intelligence.
*Child taken away by order of the court on the concerns of his father.
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What the actual fuck WHY. This is the red flag psychologists on Law and Order: SVU look for when questioning children jfc.
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In short, I'd say it's Neil projecting/shifting blame. "Hey, they WANT to run around naked and do those things!"
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This is entirely out of character by HE!Hermione.
One second, she's prudish and thinks of sex in highly idealized and almost teenage terms, and the next, she's pulling all-nighters with her hubby.
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I get your point, but frustration and exasperation are two different emotions for me:
Frustration: http://media.photobucket.com/image/ffffffffuuuuuu/nerd_by_proxy/ffffffuuuuu.gif?o=1
Exasperation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdF5ZP4rJw
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