I know we've been going back and forth and back again about JK's terrible math skills, but I think we can take a moment to note that THIS is the section where all the backwards math goes to hell. If JK hadn't put James and Lily's DOB in the book, or STRONGLY IMPLIED that Hogwarts is the only wizarding school in England (p.210), everything would have been
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Bullet points! Or rather, quotes and discussion because I took too. many. lit. classes.
"He did it instinctively, without any sort of plan, because he hated the sight of her walking alone into the dungeon: As the door began to swing closed, he slipped into the courtroom behind her."
This is who Harry is on the inside, why he's a Gryffindor, and why he's The Boy Who Lived. Of course, that all happens when he's not being THIS DOUCHEBAG:
"But it seemed that to Dumbledore, the fact that their families lay side by side in the same graveyard had been an unimportant coincidence, irrelevant, perhaps, to the job he wanted Harry to do."UGH HARRY. Why do you have to be so seventeen? (p.s. - props to my Mac for recognizing Dumbledore as a real word. Life imitating art, etc. etc.)
"The most recent of these, shining brightly over sixteen years' worth of magical graffitti, all said similar things."
And that, friends, is when Tika broke down and ugly-cried so hard she scared her cat out of the bedroom.
"He shared a damn sight more of what he was really thinking with Gellert Gridelwald than he ever shared with me."
This ship is in the bag. I'M NOT SORRY. |
Ron is back! Saving Harry from his own stupidity, which was a nice touch.
"She stopped right in front of him, her lips slightly parted, her eyes wide. Ron gave a weak, hopeful smile and half raised his arms."AGGGH JUST KIIIISSSSSSSS! But no. JK has learned restraint, to everyone's RAGING DISMAY.
*grumble*
Also, you guys? The HP 7+8 gifs? THE SADDEST. Do not want.