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tenkai_kujaku May 22 2012, 20:30:56 UTC
TUESDAY!!!

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szaleniec1000 May 22 2012, 20:37:55 UTC
This reference to Harry bellowing the word "Tuesday" gave me this wonderful mental image. Maybe the only time a Hogwarts Exposed description has ever given me a mental image that's at all coherent, though that's probably a good thing. I don't know if today being Tuesday helped.

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tenkai_kujaku May 23 2012, 15:57:53 UTC
Just...IDK, but it made me laugh a lot. Probably out of relief the segment was ended?

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danel4d May 22 2012, 21:07:09 UTC
Did you cut the details of the letter, or is that seriously what we get - the 'hero' bellowing "Tuesday!" entirely untroubled by any kind of context?

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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szaleniec1000 May 22 2012, 21:14:11 UTC
The full line was:

“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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sickbritkid2 May 22 2012, 21:39:06 UTC
Hogwarts Exposed in a nutshell. You win the internet. Again.

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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duster May 22 2012, 21:24:06 UTC
“Not in the least. By the way, are you aware that the girls intend to keep a photographic record of the transformation of your body?" -cut- “They in fact expect me to pose naked for them? And what did you say?” concern slowly leaking into her voice.
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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szaleniec1000 May 22 2012, 21:30:55 UTC
Bleurgh, I did not know that. I thought it was just garden-variety Hogwarts Exposed WTFery. And the fact that they've just been completely going against the whole "nudity is completely nonsexual" thing makes what you've said a thousand times worse.

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duster May 22 2012, 23:09:57 UTC
I was just joking but I wouldn't be surprised. I don't think an 11 year old wanting to take naked pictures of her adoptive mother is normal. Like at all.

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zelda_queen May 23 2012, 03:48:01 UTC
Oh, they don't just want to take the pictures. They plead and beg and bully Hermione into letting her take them. And then, Caitlin bullies Hermione into letting her (Caitlin) give her (Hermione) naked full-body Empath massages, because having a baby makes women *damaged*, you see, and Caitlin is just ever so eager to rub every single part of her mother's body to stop that from happening.

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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sickbritkid2 May 22 2012, 21:38:18 UTC
“I was worried that you’d force me into another one of those all night sex sessions if you weren’t.”

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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sickbritkid2 May 22 2012, 21:44:14 UTC
Upon which my frustration changed quickly into exasperation.

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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